Thorp High School - Seniorian Yearbook (Thorp, WI)

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WHO'S WHO Dick Wagner was President of the Student Council, photographer for the yearbook, and old reliable in both football and basketball. Janice Moen was the President of the Senior Class and the D.A.R. winner of 1951. Delores Mamayek was the editor of the yearbook. Richard Navarre was a star lineman on the football team and won cornet honors at Eau Claire. Gerald Soderberg was football captain and Coach Northis jack-of-all-trades on the basketball team. Patricia Fisher was the 1950 Homecoming Queen and a Forensics winner. Pat Ciolkosz was the Valedictorian of the 1951 Senior Class besides being an artist for the yearbook. Duane Phillips was basketball captain, the running ace of the football team, and participant in the State Music Tournament at Wausau. Ione Van Ert was the drum majorette and the class Saluratorian. Geraldine Polnaszek was president of the F.H.A. and a member of che Student Council. James Grabon was manager during basketball season, a football star, and noon-hour referee. Elaine Cook was a homecoming attendant and S.A.F. Representative. Clarence Piwoni was the Polka King. Carol Papierniak was a cheerleader for four years and chairman of Anything Goes. Wally Kozlowski was the point-after-touchdown ace, a good end, and third baseman on the baseball team. Page Thirty-six

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STUDENT COUNCIL Standing: Allene Kenney, Richard Swienton, Mr. Backus, Dick Wag- ner, Charmaine Wolf. Seated: Geraldine Polnaszek, Armon Schmidt, Lorraine Skaleski, Rog- er Turenne, Dorothy Boardman. STUDENT COUNCIL For the first time in the history of Thorp High School a Student Council was formed. It consisted of three members from the Senior class and two from each of the other classes. The Council included Roger Turenne and Dorothy Board- man, freshmen, Allene Kenney and Armon Schmidt, sopho- mores, Charmaine Wolf and Richard Swienton, juniors, Lor- raine Slcaleslci, Geraldine Polnaszek, and Richard Wagner, seniors. Mr. Backus acted as advisor. The officers were as follows: Richard Wagner, president, Lorraine Slcaleslci, vice-president, and Charmaine Wolf, secretary Despite inexperience in the Council's pioneering stage, the Council accomplished much. It sponsored a benefit dance for the purpose of purchasing phonograph records. Library privi- leges were arranged for the freshmen who were on the honor- able mention or above. The 5th BL 6th grade hall was turned into a boys' cloak room for those taking eight ofcloclc classes. The Council also arranged to have school dances end at 11:30 instead of 11:00. Noonday dancing was also held about once every two weeks. There are many problems that the Council left in the blueprint stage, but the impetus provided by this year's Council should carry over into the next school year. Page Thirty- Eve

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THE CLASS OF '26 The class of 1926 wishes to be remembered for two con- tributions to Thorp High School, the founding of the Seniorian and the school song, Thorp High. The first issue of this now handsome yearbook was in newspaper form, was comprised of ten pages, was sold for 25c, and was important mainly for being Vol. 1, No. 1, but it was our creation and we were proud of it. The staff was: Editor-in-Chief ,.,, .....,. . . ..,,..,i,,,,,,, DO'ROTHY TOLEORD . , MURIEL HEAGLE PAULINE BOROWICK MARGARET KEIDETH HARRIET WOJTKIEWICZ WILLIAM PARKS CHARLES KLOUDA -. HAROLD HANSEN RAYMOND IZYDOREK RosELLA I-IERMAN MATILDA PAWELEK GEORGE BRUNNER Associate Editors ..., .. Business Manager .,,.,. Assistants ,... .,,.......... Subscription M anager .... Assistants .. , ,,..... ,....,. . Facuity Advisor ..............,,..,,,,,..,...,...... MR. FROSTAD The words and music to Thorp High were written and composed by Tom Oakes who started high school with. us in the fall of 1923 but finished in Milwaukee. As their parting gift our class hnanced the publication of this song. fEDITOR,S NOTE! Unfortunately, the Seniorian Staff was informed, too late to make this a Silver Anniver- sary issue, that this Seniorian is the twenty-fifth edition. Nevertheless, the following communication from Mur- iel Heagle Bivans to Victoria Cibilinski Schonlan, is presented as a belated attempt to give credit to the Class of '26 for blazing a trail for later Seniorian Staffs.j june 15, 1951 Dear Vic, The reverberations from our reunion must have reached you way down there in Arizona! It was really a production. We were sorry you and Lee couldn't get back in time, and as I promised you, I will try to give you the high-lights of a quarter century of progress of the class of 1926. As of course you know, Loran Bivans and I were married that same year, and have spent most of our lives here on our farm. 1 do have hopes of dragging him off on a trip this summer to celebrate our personal anniversary. We lost one daughter, Phyllis, who would be twenty-one now. Our other daughter, Laurel, will be married next month. I do lots of school and church work. One of my friends always refers to me as The Funeral Singer! - although Laurel sings with me. But we weren't the only couple married that summer, nor the only high school sweethearts to make their romance per- manent. Lillian Butterfield married Lavern Zell right after graduation, which accounts for the fact that she is the only grandmother of our class. She has seven children-the only respectable sized family in our group. They are still living in Zanesfield, Ohio. Then Emily Swinton and john Stroinski were married in 1927 and are living on a big farm north of here. Their only child, Roman, works with them. We said once that you and Emily would run a beauty shop-well, I can't see you, but Emily always looks as nice as though she had just come from one and not much older than her big sonl . Two years after graduation Cecelia Kurowski married Bill Parks - to no one's surprise. They have four children, Billy, Jr. is married and in service, Beverly, Delores and Gretchen, their three very blonde daughters, are home. Bill is maintenance man at Blue Moon, and Celia is -- well, I can't find just one word to fit Ceclia's activities, she has so many irons in the fire - caters, for one thing. 1 think she sews, tool The last couple from our class to marry was Rosella Her- man and Eugene Brunner. They were married in 1935. Rose took nurses' training, at Milwaukee County Hospital, and did some public health nursing. Gene was a barber at that time. They lived in Medford first, later he had a shop here in Thorp. Rose and her baby died in 1939. Gene is now with the shipping department of Blue Moon. The rest of the marriages were just flgments of the imagi- nation, I guess. Although all but four of us married, I must exclude Roderick Kocher because we weren't able to find out where he is or what he is doing. None of the other cases went according to our prophecy. Trend of the times? Speaking of marriage, we thought Charlie Klouda wouldn't-marry, 1 mean. We thought he'd be a politician and a bachelor and he's neither, he is an engineer -maintenance man for the city of Sheboygan. He is married but has no children. Another one we missed on was Harold Hansen, but I can't think why we expected him to stay single unless we saw him still playing hard-to-get. He married a girl from Westby, Wisconsin in 1929, and has two boys, Mark and Scott. Harold has had what he calls a varied career, a term which can be applied to fit quite a number of us. He went to the University for a while, then had a hardware store up at Winter. He now owns a tavern at Mazomanie. Our only bachelor, by the way, is Joe Glowacki, who is a crane operator in Chicago. When we wrote him about the re- union, he asked for an all clay picnic and a dance in the even- ing at the high school gymnasium. That would have been the best, I guess, even though our old gym just isn't any more. The old gym is divided into class rooms and the auditorium is needed now to accommodate the larger enrollment. Since I appear to be taking the class according to our marital status, 1'll tell you about the three girls who have not married yet. You know, I think those career gals have some- thing. Certainly they get around more than we do. Everytime we hear from Stellamae Lockbaum she is out in California or traveling up and down the west coast. During the summer she helps her sister and brother-in-law who own a large motel in Mobridge, South Dakota. Bunny never was one to live the quiet life. But Harriet Wojtkiewicz and Bertha Mikolanis are really our big business women - that' is city women. Harriet took nurses' training at Belmont Hospital in Chicago, then a post-graduate course there. She then was a psychiatric nurse in the Illinois Research and Educational Hospital in Chicago. Page Thirty-seven