Valier High School - Northern Lights Yearbook (Valier, MT)

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PROPHECY Seated in his private office of the Valerian, this 23rd day of May, 1969, is the editor in chief. Charles H. Kester. After pondering for many hours on his subject matter for the weekly news, he s reminded by the date on the calendar that 20 years ago he graduated from V. H. S. After searching for his information and looking over the items sent in by his star reporter and former debating partner. Bob Wenzel, he prints the current news of his classmates under the heading of THE CLASS OF '49. MAKES GOOD (?) Helen Orr, Ph.D. (Piled Higher and Deeper), is the head professor at the University of Montana. Janet Kingston is pounding, and I do mean pounding, science into the heads of the Class of '75. Better luck this timel Theresa Boumans is excavating for copper in Butte. Tom Bnden is busily mounting animals for fabulous sums —he needs it to keep Helen Pauli (nee), one of the ten best dressed women of the year, and kiddies clothed and fed. Dan Stokes and sons have purchased their tenth Cadillac after striking oil on their vast farm on the Reservation. Bob Slezak, after 20 years, is still working for that bachelor's degree. Never say die. Bob. Nancy Pulver is in Alaska—Glenn will never give up. The last gold rush was in 1849. Ruth Russell is busy raising coons and kids on the fa mous Nelson Coon Farms in Nebraska. CLASS We, the class of 1949, in departing from Valier High School leave these, our most cherished possessions, to the less fortunate who lack them: George Den Boer leaves a foot of his height and 40 pounds to Boyd Henneman in hopes he'll grow. Jim Tidyman leaves his good luck to Kim Nelson because he's had so much of it. Dan Stokes leaves his red hair to next year's football team to be used as a danger signal. Bob Wenzel leaves his black hair to Bev Eppe in hopes she won't bleach it. Ruth Culleton leaves her placid disposition and conduct to Ev Barendson to help him sit still. Bob Slezak leaves his mistakes in Bookkeeping to next year's class. Florence Habets leaves her 5 feet of height to Don Light-ner for next year's basketball season. Ruth Russell leaves her winning smile to Mr. Guthrie to be used in his assemblies. Bernice Van de Popelier leaves her name to anyone who can shorten it and still use it as she did. Helen Stoltz leaves her ability to draw to Chet Schendel for next year's tournaments. Tom Briden leaves old Valier High, taking his most prized possession with him. He says he can't leave her. Helen Pauli leaves her good looks and figure to the freshman class and there ought to be enough to go around. Pat Cronk leaves her chair in Chemistry to someone who likes to sit on tacks as well as she did. Connie Sheble, after using up 64 cameras and numerous films, has taken up portrait painting. George Den Boer, prominent rancher and farmer of the Dupuyer vicinity, has just become mayor of Rattlesnake Gulch, a suburb. Patsy Cronk is starring in the rodeo at Madison Square Garden with her trick horse. Cricket. Doris Yeager is head nurse of the Maternity ward at Havre. Ruth Culleton is still working hard to exceed her typing record of 160 words a minute. Darleen Embody and hex four children are still occupying the Pwere mansion on the heights. Betty Kibbee is teaching commercial at Valier High. She says she is learning a lot from some of the students. Florence Habets has just broken her 102nd consecutive engagement. Hasn't that ring wore out yet? Bernice Van De Popelier is now on tour throughout the U. S. in a new Roadmaster Buick. She owns the General Motors Company now. Jim Tidyman went back to V. H. S. for a post-graduate course 16 years ago. Alice W. certainly must be a good teacher. Betty Myhre has discovered a formula which has revolutionized auick reducing. Her new sensational product is called 2-Hour Reducing Tablets. Helen Stoltz :s now a quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams. She always was a quick thinker. WILL Theresa Boumans wills her position as business manager of everything that comes up to anyone who gets stuck with it. Betty Kibbee leaves her position as typist for the Panther to some poor Junior, with her blessings and gravest misgivings. Janet Kingston wills her ability to wage fierce rivalry to the sophomore girls. Betty Myhre leaves her pleasant disposition to Louis De-Boo to cheer him up a little. Connie Sheble wills her high place on the Kansas State tests to Clarence Wright, who wants up there so badly. Darleen Embody wills her magnetic personality to the entire student body and what's left over is for the faculty. Helen Orr leaves her place at the head of the honor roll to Jack Tidyman, who looks like a cinch to succeed her. Doris Yeager leaves her place as assistant editor of the Panther to someone else who likes to write the editor's editorials. Nancy Pulver leaves her freckles to Bob Bruner, who has a few already but believes in the old saying. You can't have too much of a good thing. Chuck Kester leaves, much to the relief of the faculty. The entire senior class leaves the good times, classes, troubles they've caused, and all that goes with high school behind, and with regrets. Read and approved this 23rd day of May, 1949, by the undersigned: (8)

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CLASS HISTORY For nine members of the great class of '49 the history began when these charter members trod the path to good old Valier Grade school to enter the first grade in September of '37. The 49-ers. on entering the seventh grade, were the first to be moved to the high school, where a new system of education was tried. At this time we took only four subjects. However, this experiment was not satisfactory, and when we continued on to the eighth grade we were entirely under the supervision of H. H. Hartley. Many joined our worthy class and some left us, but we endured the trials and tribulations of grade school to graduate from the eighth grade in 45. The brave class of '49 was found walking barefooted on the road to town from the dike in September of 45. They were dressed in strange attire, the boys being half-dressed. You guessed it—we were being initiated into high school. We took it like the hardy prospectors we were. This year Florence Habets and Pat Cronk joined us from the Bullhead, and Constance Sheble came from Dupuyer. Darleen Embody was the student body representative. Betty Myhre was chosen Carnival Queen. Although we were only freshmen, the class was represented on the football team by Tom Briden and Bob Wenzel, earninq letters in this sport. In basketball. Bob Wenzel. Dan Stokes and Tom Briden played on the team. Helen Stoltz was one of three girls selected by the faculty to be a cheer leader. When we were sassy sophomores. Janet Kingston was sent to Bozeman High School Week, where she won a ribbon for being in the upper third of Spanish. Bernice Van De Popelier came from Great Falls this year. We gave a skit, Six Who Pass, for an assembly program. Darleen Embody was voted to be a cheer leader, an honor that she has received every year since. Charles Kester was secretary-treasurer of the student council. The highlight of the junior year was the extraordinary Junior Prom which had as its theme. Blue Hawaii. It was decorated enchantingly with blue streamers and on one side a large chalk scene of an Hawaiian sunset. Our play was. We Shook the Family Tree, with Ruth Russell capably filling the lead of Hildegarde, the high school wallflower who couldn't stay out of trouble. Tom Briden. Bernice Van De Popelier, and Ruth Russell received Heisey Awards this year. Ruth Russell was chosen cheer leader. George Den Boer of Dupuyer joined our class to help out the boys who are badly outnumbered. Charles Kester. for the school paper. Janet Kingston and Helen Orr in declamation, were delegates to the Missoula Interscholastic Track Meet. Helen Orr was candidate for Girls State, and Tom Briden for Boys State. Tom was captain of the football team, which won the subdistrict championship for the ihird consecutive year. He also took over the duties of president of the student council. After journeying through eleven years of school, our class finally came into their rights as the upper-classmen of V. H. S. James Tidyman joined our class to boost its total number to twenty-three. He was elected president of the student council. Tom Briden, Charles Kester. and Bob Wenzel received letters in basketball and football. Our play. Seven Chances. under the direction of Mrs. J. A. Tidyman. was a farce comedy. Jim Tidyman played well the lead of a man who received much education in proposing. This year our class, which has always been rated high scholastically, had more members continuously on the honor roll than the other three classes. We. the '49-ers, after May 23 our commencement, go out into the world to try to make it a better place. (7)

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Juniors R. E. Fitschen, Sponsor J. OLSON, Pres. B. BILBRO, Vico Pres. C. VAN DE KOP. Soc.-Treas. T. TIDYMAN D. BROPHY M. CHRISTIAENS R. BROPHY W. CRONK W. CAMPBELL L. DoBOO N. KOVATCH C. LEET A. WOLSTAD B. NEWGARD D. WENTWORTH D. CHRISTIAENS D. HALE K. NELSON M. WOLSTAD (9)