Turtle Lake High School - Turtle Yearbook (Turtle Lake, WI)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Early in September, 1944, a large group of greenhorns mounted the escalators just inside the consolidated Institution of learning of Turtle Lake, to ride and climb from IGNORANCE to INTELLIGENCE. Many of us will have to admit that we weren't very well educated along some lines when we arrived thus far. So along with our teachers we began to climb the long, hard, but famous and worthwhile four -year period. This also brought along many happy and adventurous events which will aid us, and give us L pleasant thoughts in later life. Of these events we can begin in our very first year when the class of '47 so gracefully bestowed on us their type of initiation. Many of us had very embarrassing situations to undergo. Why I remember as plainly as though it were only several days ago, when l sat so gently on Mr. Gates' lap with a baby bonnet on my head, wrapped up in a baby blanket and drank out of a bottle. QThe bottle had only water in itj. When we began our career we were forty in number, but before the first semester was over, we had already lost Kenneth Krecker and Kenneth Steglich. The latter took up studies with Uncle Sam. After making some blundering errors we finally earned our first 3-month vacation. After being forced out of our homes and into school buses many of us returned to Turtle Lake to see if it were really possible to acquire an education. Although we failed to see.the'faces thatlwere missing, namely those of Russell Kittelson, Vincent Posey, and Martin Scheps, we did see some faces that were new to some of us. These were those of Gordon Anderson, and Joyce Henning. Later in the year Douglas Potvin began his climb at our great Turtle Lake. We then had an enrollment of 39 students. During this year, we had the enjoyment of initiating the class of '49. The magazine sale became an important eventin 'our climb and several of our greenhorns were playing on athletic teams. Others were taking part in forensics. At the close of our second year, we gaze around to see that Milton Ostermann, Gordon Anderson, and Calvin Peters were no longer with us. Mr. Gates finally decided that we had worked hard enough to deserve a vacation, so we went home to have three free meals a day with our parents for three months. In the fall of '46, we received a two -week extension of our vacation without even coming to school. This was due to the Polio epidemic. When we finally did begin our third year's climb, we noticed the not-too-familiar faces of Betty Buckley, J' oe Suennen, Arthur Feidt, and Pearl Eder among us. The latter three were formerly of the class of '47, but due to various reasons returned again to seek an education. Later in the year Keith Ott came here instead of going to Cumberland. Although we saw some new students, we missed Joyce Henning, James Klingelhoets, and Howard West. We were becoming very popular this year with our class play which broke all former records in gross income. Later in the year, we put across a'very successful prom, in which Billy Barnes was king and his queen was Eloise King. This year we also see Phyllis Orn taking active part in soloing vocally, and several others taking active part in band. Many of our boys took important parts on our athletic teams. Our not- too -large class of '48 was becoming important in its school career. At daily roll call, we were told to drop the names of Betty Buckley, Jerry Borowski, Faye Brunberg, and Alvin Ostermann because they had withdrawn. Before the year was up we also had put in a fairly large order for class rings. So the current was once again shut off on the escalators and we took another three -month vacation. When we returned again in the fall of '47, we were sorry to hear that one of our friends and classmates had had a serious accident and wouldn't be able to attend school this year. This was Ervin Nickell and we wish him-' all the luck inthe world. f