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

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SENIOR CLASS POEM It was on a bright September morn That a Freshman class was newly born, We stepped inside the high school doors And gazed upon the shiny floors. How soon we came to see the fact, That we didn't know just how to act! Now there were youths with village pride, And then some more from the country side. But when by upper classman seen, They referred to us as being green. And we so small and frail and shy Would nearly stop and start to cry. But then that freshman year went fast, And soon we looked into the past. How glad we were when vacation came, 'Cause from our studies we were lame. The summer months had come and gone. Our sophomore year seemed very long. We studied hard from beginning to end, Increased our knowledge and made more friends. Our Junior year, more important seemed And you should have seen our faces beam, When we helped at the prom, with the senior class And the teachers told us that we would pass! Now the senior year, most important of all When compared with the freshmen, we look so tall, And it seemed but a very short time ago Since we started from that class four years below. But now those years have quickly fled, And through the studies we have quickly sped, For the guidance and help that they have shown, How thankful everyone should be That we have had this opportunity!

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ROYAL VERNON WASRUD Royal Vernon Wasrud was born to Mr. and Mrs. Royal Wasrud,Sr. on July 16, 1931 ' 1n Dane County nesr New Glsrus, Wisconsin. Royal enrolled in Wallace Elementary -Soh001, but before he hsd finished his first ye r he moved to a farm near 101a and fin sand grade school st Torgcrson. All four ye rs of his high school educstiQn werq Spent 1n the Scandinavia High Schooi'vhere he played the snare drum for tthe ye? rs 1n the bonds Roy 1 S faVQr1te SpQrt 1s skiing, favorite sctor is Ssm Gaude, ferritc eqtrcas 13 Shirley Temple, favarite food is mince meat p1e with coconut, fo vorite toschcr is Mr. Lee, 9nd his favorite subject 1s gcogrsphy. His pet peeve 18 school. Royal is very determined to be 9 farmer.

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY The Senior Class P1ay, Aunt Bessie Beats the.Band, was presented at the Community Hall May 19, 1950. The cast was as follows: Barbara Nottleson----v-Alice Morley, who has loved and; lost. Sally Anderson --------- Bessie Bonner. her housekeeper. Lulu Thompson ---------- Betsy Blotter. her maid. Gene Gudmanson -------- uSimon Trotter, her man-of-v-all work. Eileen Erickson -------- May Ketchum, a hopeful Spinster William Gjertson ------- Hezekiah Hawkeye, a lawyer. Kermit Taylor-. --------- Paul Vernon, a victim of cir- cumstanoes. Royal Wasrud ----------- Fredrick Frost, a disappointed man. The seene: The living room of the Morley home in a small town. The Etory of the Play The chief laugh ingredient in this mirthquake plot was how.the women got the better of the men in the matrimonial market. Man was declared and the conquest for masculine heerts Was on in dead earnest. The opposing forces lined up as follows: Alice Morley with loads of cash, takes unto her.- self a husband on salary, just to get even with Freddy Frost, who had earlier left her waiting at the church. There's a touch of pathos in the scene, overbalanoed with an aValanohe of good natured fooling. Then there is .3essic Bonner tAunt Bessiei who plays successful sieo;e to the heart end pocketbook;of Old Hezekiah Hawkeye, the Village Lawyer. She then blossoms forth to beat the band, running up enormous bills for millinery and clothes and generally making her crabby old man very uncom- forteble. May Ketchum, a hopeful spinster, has her innings, -in some of Which she fans out, but at the end she whaoks a home run into green pastures and she's set for life. But the funniest couple of all are Simon Trotter, Al- ioesi mensof-all-work, and Betsy Blotter, her maid. Everytime Simon starts to make love to Betsy his hay fever comes on and thatis some handicap. As Aunt Bessie finally remarks, Some- times loves a little slow gettin' started, but once it gets goinT it suio does Qeet tho be?.1d.