Thorp High School - Seniorian Yearbook (Thorp, WI)

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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

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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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THE CLASS OF '26 From 1943 to 1946 she was a Lt. with the U. S. Navy. She is now supervising nurse in the neuro-psychiatric department of the same hospital. Not content with general duty, she just got her B. S. in nursing education from Loyola this spring. This gives her the privilege of teaching nurses if she chooses. Bertha is really in business. She lives in Oak Park and is secretary to the firm of the Boyd-Wagner Co. She drives her own car and has her name on the company's letter head! But if you are surprised at those two, 1 am not. Both of those girls were quiet, but even then we suspected what they were capable of. We have two business women here in town too. Clara Roytek took a business course at Miss Brown's in Milwaukee, but then followed her sister at St. Luke's nursing school in Chicago. After she had her R.N. degree, she took a post-grad- uate course at Passavant' Hospital and worked as an industrial nurse. She married Orville McGinnis there in 1932 and they came to Thorp in 1935. When Orville died in 1943 she went into the office of the Thorp Finance Corporation, where she still is working. She has one son, Jack, a junior in high school. Her old chum Ardis Verritt, also went to Miss Brown's, but married before she began her business career. She married Chris Larson and they came to Thorp where Chris. has the Ford garage. Ardis says she has no ofiicial title but she does keep books. During the summer she manages their resort, Comfort Cove, at Chetek. They have one daughter, Donna, at the University of Wisconsni. The other two girls fl use the term looselyj in our class who live here are Frances Kolasinski and Dorothy Tolford. These two, incidentally, each had one graduate in this years, graduating class. Frances clerked in the Farmers, Store until she married Ray Smigaj who still has the Red Arrow Garage. She keeps books for him, helps in our florist shop, and still manages to keep up her home and bring up Virginia, johnny, and Ruth. Dorothy is definitely not editing the Tribune. She started journalism at Marquette but got her Ph. D. in liberal arts, and taught school instead. She married John Harycki, who has the local jewelry Stote. She helps there but says there is some doubt as to her exact capacity. Their children are John, Tasia, and Susan. Two men from our class are now business men in our town. Ray Izydorek still sings, but not for a living. He had a furniture store for some time, but after a course in embalming, he bought the Thorp Funeral Home. Come to think of it, he married his high school sweetheart too, Ted Keideth. They have three children - that must be our quota - Donray, Karen and Rayline. Charlie Schmidt is another quiet eHicient one, he took a business course in Wausau and worked there for a while. He was the first bookkeeper for the Thorp Finance Corpora- tion. From there he went to our Post Office. He is now assistant Postmaster. He married Juanita Meyers of Stanley, and has two husky boys, Rex and Neil. 1 guess Pauline Borowick came from the longest distance. She took teachers' training at Eau Claire, taught at Elk Mound. and then went out to Oregon where she married Anthony Herbst. She has a boy and girl, Marian and Paul. This spring she wrote to the Courier and offered a home-cooked meal to any boys from here who were stationed in service out in that vicinity - an offer many boys will be glad to accept, 1 imagine. Closer to Thorp are Margaret Keideth and George Brun- ner. Margaret took nurses' training at St. Josephs in Marshfield, and has three children, Marlene, Jon, and Jare. One of her daughter's teachers is our old friend of Latin and history, Vera Olbertl We were glad to have her and Miss Parent at' the re- union to represent our faculty. George Brunner stayed true to the railroad and is now section foreman at Chippewa Falls and has four children. Roland Heideman has been busy too. He went through the Okinawa campaign - once cooked a meal for General Stillwell himself. Now he is a special delivery carrier at Appleton. His wife died last year and he has one six-year-old daughter. Three of our class came back from Milwaukee. Well, Tom Oakes isn't exactly one of our class but since he started with us and wrote the school song, we still think of him as one of us. He stayed with music, of course, earned a master of music in composition from the University of Michigan, and has been cellist and scoring director in the Music Under the Stars orchestra. He is also musical director at Boys' Tech High School. He is married, but has no children. He boasts of having all his black hair - could it be because he has no children? But then Matildais - or Pat's - is still the same and she has two. Pat went with Rose to Bflilwaukee County Nurses' Train- ing and she also took post-graduate training. She was director of the Medical Social Service Department in Milwaukee until 1943. In 1936 she married Dr. Ralph F. Roensch, an oral sur- geon of Milwaukee. She got off to a late start with her family. The third one from there is Dorothy Plecity. She took a busi- ness course there and then married Herman Warner. We hardly expected her because her husband has been in a cast as a result of an accident and Dorothy has been working. However, they were able to come and bring their daughter, Germanine. The last two are the two strong silent men, Stanley jaskot and Jim Kenney. Not that Jim was always so silent. And he got bravely over being so shy around girls! He married Laverne Chimelewske from Lublin and they went directly to Chicago. They have been in business there ever since except for the three years jim was a radar man on the S. S. Bataan during the last war. Guess he and Harriet and Roland were the only ones in service. Maybe ours was the lucky generation - the one be- tween warsl Now the James Kenney Co. makes household novelties and presumably keeps Jim and Laverne busy even without a family. Stanley stays true to type - can't get much from him. He is a machinist', also in Chicago, is married and has two sons, Jerry and Eugene. Well, Vic, that is our class. We seem to be the typical middle-class, Midwest Americans of our time. No one very rich nor very poor, no one has yet made the Hall of Fame or seems likely tor. None of us appears to have attained or even aspired to the ministry, but then none of us appears to be a disgrace to the others either. Our families are smaller than they should be, but we all seem to be taking good care of those we have. We'll do I guessg we make up part of the backbone of the nation I presume. V My best tovyou, Muriel. Page Thirty-eight