Thorp High School - Seniorian Yearbook (Thorp, WI)

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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

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FOOTBALL Top Row: Robert VVojtalewicz, Iames Haas, Dale Glasshof, David Dobrzynski, James Grabon, Wally Kozlowski, Ed Dorbrzynslu, Leonard Zukowski, Coach North. Second Row: 'Robert Badzinski, Tom Qualle, Richard Navarre, John Harycki, Roger Turenne, Byron Bogumill, Dick Plansky, Don Rubisch. First Row: Jerry Phillips, Dick Wagner, Richard Swienton, Gerald Soderberg, Duane Phillips, Ed Ciolkosz, John Dallas. FOOTBALL Because of the return of several outstanding letter- men, Thorp followers early envisioned a successful season. The boys lived up to this expectation by winning the Cloverbelt championship, losing only to Medford in a non-conference game. just before the opening game with Augusta, the team suffered a serious blow to its hopes when Coach North became bedridden as a result of being struclc in the head by a baseball during the summer. Meanwhile, Assistant Coach Gray wore a path to Coach North's bed- side to map out the strategy for the first game. The Cardinals ground out a 12-6 victory at Augusta -a victory they simply had to win for their coach. Page Forty 'lCarp Grabon slashed over the goal line for the first Thorp touchdown. After Augusta tied the game at 6-6, the Cards smashed to the three-yard line only to be stymied by the half-time whistle. Neither team scored in a see-saw third quarter, but Thorp exploded in the last quarter. Duane Phillips and Dick Wagner led the ground attack thus setting up two jump passes to Tom Qualle who made a fine catch on the last one to score standing up. Thorp next went to Medford and for the first two quarters played a listless brand of ball, falling behind 18-0. Between halves Coach North must have applied the hypo because they came out fighting and rocked Medford off its feet. A costly fumble in the third quarter