University of Minnesota School of Agriculture - Agrarian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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As we go on the Ditlevson Liner we are happy to find on deck Esther Peters and Gertrude Esteros. They tell us they are going back to their school in Paris. Gertrude is Dean of Girls. We are encountered by a porter, who takes us to our stateroom. XVe ask him many questions, and we are rewarded when he tells us that the captain of the ship is Francis Moris, also that Willard Hanson is the wireless and television operator. When we land at Havre we are just in time to have our goods examined. When our turn comes, we hand over our bags. They are immediately returned with the words, I can trust you. We look up to meet the smiling face of Donovan Kerr. In our Paris hotel we pick up a National Mission Paper edited by Bruce Leonard, Inc. We read that the Keller girls are earnest missionaries in Africa. In Rio de Janeiro, Lambert Erickson, with the aid of Arne Anderson, is desperately trying to teach Nor- wegian to the Brazilians. While shopping in a fashionable Women's Shop, we are encountered by a well dressed man, who asks us if we have been waited on. Suddenly his face lights up as he recog- nizes us. He is Henry Langenfeld, manager of the ladies ready-to-wear department. We have a pleasant visit with him in which he tells that Hazel Markuson owns three such shops, that Mae Otterness is modeling in the gown shop, and that Walter Clausen is the head of the shoe department. Our travels in Europe were very interesting and educational. The only other person we knew in all Europe was Allan Hansen. He was driving his Cadillac in Venice. We were alarmed at the fact that he was alone. We are back in the States again only on the opposite coast from the one we saw last. While in Seattle, we encounter Charles Howard, directing traflic out in the sticks.', He tells us that Martin Dankers is in the hospital, critically hurt, the result of an auto accident. We recall that Martin always did go fast. Ole Sanness and Karl Sailand have one of the biggest Fish Markets on the Coast. Oren Shelley is deep sea diving and William Ridley is a settlement worker among the poor fisher folk. After a happy visit in Seattle, we travel down the coast, arriving at last in Los Angeles. The first thing we see makes us hungry, so to satisfy our hunger we go into the hamburger shop to satisfy our appetites and receive a shock when we are met by Gerrit Douwsma. He likes his work very much. The billboards tell us that Volney Olson and Arden Nel- son are playing in a picture called Spring Flowers and Rain. The leading lady is Melba Burrows. Frederick Bjornstad is advertising the perfect cigarette, No Ashes. Leaving Los Angeles, we go northward. Arriving at Denver, we are met by the station agent who is none other than Olaf Anexstad. We stay only a few minutes to change trains. Our new conductor's smile is the familiar one belonging to John Gran. John tells us that Hilda Bartelt has charge of the Beauty Salon on the train, also that Oswald Myhre has a cactus plantation in Arizona. ' At Hot Springs, South Dakota, we are surprised to meet Elbert Kindseth on the street in a doctor's attire. He is a doctor in the popular Mud Bath Hospital. His dietician is Anne Schubring. We surmise from his talk that she is over half the cure. In Devils Lake, North Dakota, we are surprised to learn that Milton Johnson is pastor of the Republican Church. The janitor of this church is Harold Lightly. Pagc One Himdrnl Tbirly-uint'

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j1,iaf,w 1 P C , i' ' XV, The Senior Class Prophecy AVING amassed millions since our graduation from the Agricultural School in '31, we two members of that class have decided to go on an extended tour of the world. We are to leave New York June 1, 1951. In our travels we are going to try to learn the whereabout of all our Aggie classmates. We leave Kansas City May 7, traveling directly to Chicago. Here we spend three days. A young lady alights from the McMurray-Jondahl Rapid Transit Car. It is Mildred Falk, president of the Forget-Me-Not Club, whose purpose is to provide hus- bands for every member. Hopeful members are Irene Whitman, Lily Drews, and Elenora Wagenknecht. Olga Fruechte is demonstrating Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour in Wesley Sellnow's Grocery Store. Hanna Miller and Clara Wyrowski are carefully watching each step demonstrated. Hanna tells us that John Dunnwald and Edgar Deters have a very successful celery and onion farm in Wisconsin. She also says that Clyde Stone and Fred Sprenger are operating a bachelors' hotel on the shores of Lake Michigan. Allen Baugh- man, Vernon Anderson, and Otto Jensen are living there, very much contented with life and its prospects. In the Chicago Tribune advertising section, we are surprised to find Hakon Holm and Hans Sethre in the dog business, selling dog biscuits. Edward Hoover is in the wholesale meat business. Who would have imagined the Fresk boys owning a large Packard and Lincoln sales garage. Gordon, we see, is the president. We wonder what Goodwin's job is. We wanted to see the Bachelors' Hotel owned by two former Aggies. Hanna, we discover, has forgotten some very important news. Next to this splendid hotel is another beautiful building, with these words on the glass door, Home for Old Maids, private. We go closer and are surprised to see in black letters, Elizabeth Isaksen, President. On the directory inside the door, we find two more names, Esther Anderson and Barbara Hallquist. We arrive at our New York hotel in time to hear a newsboy yelling, Extree, Ex- tree. Looking at the paper to find what the excitement is about, we find two things that are of interest to ourselves. Stanley Lind has broken Lindy's record for a hop to Europe by twenty hours, and Paul Smith, policeman, has captured the head gangster of Chicago. He is being kept in jail for protection. When we had gotten settled in our room I turned as usual to the comic section. Immediately I was greeted by another familiar name. Loris Nelsen headed the strip called Remembered: School Days. We turn our radio on and are greeted by, a well known face ftelevisionj and name. Einar Saarela is the manager of the World's Greatest Newspaper and therefore does all the an- nouncing over station E. S. Charles Lockwood is a motorman on the famous New York subway. He tells us he enjoys his work, also that Elizabeth Flueger is a regular paying customer. On the billboards we find the name of Darling Hall jr., the Jackie Coogan of 1951. His famous daddy, we learn, owns the largest showhouse in the World, located in Alaska. Louis Schmiesing is head usher of this playhouse. Tomorrow we leave the United States. ,fi ir- 7. 4. . .fl XM A-X ,l fr 15311 yi ,dl . , .1 D H523 sf! llf if 1 ' 1 1 , A fi' 1, - .Q -- '- . .,-- . ff'-Q.. .ii ,,, J, iw 1 1 i 1, ll ll 1'7 'w ll l fl 'z U l A fl i l ln , 11 4, Nl :rg I '11 wi, QU 1 , 3 tg! ill ,rg , fl E gall all .-1 X I fix all A., i wx fi 1 E 'TCI , . , ,l EI i li. R v' l ,L Page Om' H undrerf Tlairly-riglal

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