Union Free High School - Viking Yearbook (Scandinavia, WI)

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SENIOR CLASS POEM Back in the fall of '44 We entered Scandy High, But now- in 1948 Itis time to say goodbye. Fran down in Elm Valley onn 913 Corky. every day4..H Schael W111 surely b.e. funny ..W11en he has gone away. David Deanu the mailman 8 son, Lives oVer by the .lakeq ........ ...... He really takes the cake. .. Now here is Doris Evensen, But we all call her 1Crash ,t She tried to move a great big tree And now her car is smashed. Helen of our senior class Was busy all the time, Also she's a scholar And has never committed a crime. EDavid Larson, the walking.man , With a smile upon his face, N -Is always ready for Jokes and fun And on the team played 2nd base. VScandy certainly was blessed When Eileen came to town, She led the girls in basketball And she really gets around. Harriet Neperud, known to all, Who lives by the Kettlehole, Toiled long and hard many a night And thus heads our honor roll. Dolores Nygaard is our girl, And never is she late, We think in maybe Just a year TShe will have a mate.

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY On May 21 the seniOrs presented their class play, Ted Drops In by Eugene Hafer. The play was a three act, comedy drama. The cast was as follows: ; Ted Lansing..;.........;.......;;.Russe11 AndeISix Lonnie Cramer.s.......a...........Leland Thompsoa Charlie Crowder......;.;s.........David Dean Joe Kane....i........;m..i......g.David Larson Betty Carltona......;..it.........June Thomander Winnie Carlton........;...........Connie Olson Sally Beltont.........i.w.........Helen Evenson Judy Jefferson.;;........s........Harriet Neperud The scene is a room in the Carlton home on Maple Po; Farm, The time is the present, a day in spring. A. highway is to be built either past Maple Point Farm or over the Handloy Road. Joe Kane, an influential man, works hard to have it built over the Handley Road. The Carltons want it to go past Maple Point Farm. Ted Lansing, who is the chief engineer of the highway, once worked for Kane. One night Ted left and the story came out that he had taken $5,000 with him. To keep his identity hidden, Ted hires out asv a' worker on Betty Carlton's dairy farm, al- though he knows nothing about farming. Lonnie Cramer, the assistant engineer, also helps Ted on the farm. Ted thinks a Jersey is a kind of sweater. He cannot milk a cow and he must ride a wild horse; Winnie Carlton is Betty's younger sister and Charlie Crowder, who loves Winnie, is a neighbor boy who works at Maple Point Farm. iJudy Jefferson is a mid- dle-aged, superstitous, but good-natured negro cook who ad- vises Ted about his duties on the farm. To decide where the highway should be laid, a race between Joe Kane and his horse, Madcap, and 'Betty and her horse, Flyaway, is run. Using the party line, the race is announced over ?t; tel- ephone. Sally Belton, a.neighbor girl, announces f;; aple Point Farm. Betty gets off to a bad start but she a -V ally gains on Joe Kane so that when they pass Maple P01 L Farm the two horses are neck to neck. Betty wins the race. Joe Kane is angry and wants to contest the race. It was he who had charged Ted with taking the $5,000. Ted now turns 1 :ables on Joe kane and proves to Betty that it was Joe r J Lad robbed her father of $5,000 and then had extractee iilegal. mortgage from him, the mortgage which is causinr much trouble for Betty. The new highway is to run past . ple Point Farm. Betty and Ted, and Sally and Lonnie plar -3 be married. '

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'And then there' 9 Connie Olson,. '.Clarinetist in the band, In carnivals, plays, and prominades She was a helping hand. From over at Peterson M111 Cemes Pete in his Chevrolet, He is a master farmer, And he really does make hay. We have another gal 1n the class, Petersen is her name, Scandy was awaiting Untiliuanita came. Mary Hegel of our class Was really on the ball. IsShe always lent a helping hand 'And she is liked by all. 1,Nancy Sannes came to school Most every day of the Iyear, She helped us .out in everything,v 'H ' We were giad to have her here. Kathy Staub, a farmer' s g1rl, '. Lives over in the West, When it comes to economics Kathy is the best. June Thomander is the one About whom we'll write a ryhme, She edited our school paper And was busy all the time. Leland Thompson is our man Who drove both far and near, That Plymouth sure got a workout Especially in his senior year. ,Now that it's time to bid farewell, We wish that we could stay, We leave behind us loads of fun And loads of work and play.