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Class WIII We the Semor Class of 1955 school of Villard county of Pope state of Mlnne sota under the auspices of a profused knowledge do AR TIC LE ARTICLE AR TIC LE ARTICLE Section I Section Section Section Sectlon Section Section V Section VIII Section Section Sect1on Section Section Section Section X XIII XIV Sec tlon XVII XV III XIX Section Section X XXI Section Section ARTICLE V Sectwn I Section II Section III Section IV Section V ARTICLE Section I Section Section Section Section Section Section V Section VIII Section XIX AR TIC LE VII hereby declare this to be our last will and testament To the noteworthy Junior Class we will our abil1ty as a class to get along xn most matters To the Sophomores we leave our re served lunch table and nolsy home room and noon hours The Freshman Class may have our abundant knowledge so that they too may some day reach the goal of graduation We the twenty one Seniors leave the following ll ldlVldUa1 wills to be fully carried out after graduation I Rose Marie Gaffaney will my size nine f1gure to Gloria Adolphsen My ability to sleep anytime and any place I leave to Linnea Tolifson I Marilyn Hanson bequeath my long hair to Betty Kirckof To Harriet Kath Ileave my ability to catch a man and hold him I Karen Sorenson will my good times at Red s Lunch to Evelyn Walther and my clarinet and torn and tattered cheerleading outf1t to Harold Alcott I Ferdinand Hanson will my good times at Gene's barn to Gloria Adolphsen To Lawren Frederick goes my position as quarterback on the football team I Marlys Polzme will my sheet musmc and practices to Michael Hanke I Della Albers w1ll my wardrobe of blue Jeans to Mavxs Husmann I Erick Fischer will my roller skates to Dennis Weisgram He can also have all my Alexandria ac quaintances I Joyce Reichmann w1ll my ab1l1ty to get the fammly car whenever and wherever Iwish to Joyce Oeltjen so she will be able to go when she wants to go She can also have my nickname Joy I Richard Mertens leave my red hair to Delores Allen to go along with her temper My ability to cut classes goes to Howard Raydl or any other Junior w1sh1ng rt I Bernard Domke will my happy Journeys to Evansville to my cousin Edward Stalker My ability to steady Ileave to Donald Robxdeaux David Foner will my shorthand symbols to Michael Hanke Tom Walker, leave my good times at Westport to Joan Krook Marjorie Walter will my favorxte seat in the bus to Linnea Toliison and Edward Stalker Doris Springer will my height to Marianne Gerdes Marilyn Clasen bequeath my acquamntance to a Glenwood girl to Lawren Frederick My glft of gab I leave to Kathleen I-Iartin Alcott I Janice Peper, will all the Joke books I read during study hours to Margaret Wxnkel with the hopes she doe sn't get caught My ability to convince people Ileave to Betty K1rckof I Dick Oeltjen will my good penmanship to Edward Stalker I Lloyd Schnetzer leave my quietness to Harrlet Kath My ability to come to school once or twice a week goes to Kathleen Hartin I Dennis Nemmers will my ability at drawing cars to Evelyn Walther I Mary Ann Grussmg bequeath my seat as student council President to Margaret Hopkins My ability to mixed up at times Ileave to Joan Krook and Delores Allen e leave these our most prrzed possessions as groups to the following Juniors e Tom and Charlie will our Glenwood Theatre acquaintances to Donald Robideaux and Lawren Frederick, e the two Marxlyns will our summer Jobs and enloyable times at Peters' Hotel to Joyce Oeltjen and get Margaret Wmkel We Ferdy Dick and Charlie will our chemistry work books to Denms Wexsgram Jerry Jacobson and Edward Stalker We the twenty Semors leave our classmate Rose Marie Gaffaney for Jerry Jacobson We Marlys Marilyn and Marilyn leave our title The Three M s to Margaret Hopkins Michael I-lanke and Mavis Husmann We hereby do leave the following articles to our beloved faculty We the twenty one Seniors leave to Mlss Bechtel all our old English literature to take to England and dispose of there To Mr Vogland we leave all the cleats from our shoes the day after our graduation We would leave all the jokes we found so funny during her class to Miss Barber but they were just too interesting However she can have any leftover food from our dinner To Mr To Mr To Mr To Mr A s in the shorthand dictionary The boys in bookkeeping class leave him all the accounts which didn t Holmes we leave our vacated home room lh hopes that the next class won t be quite so rowdy Solsten we leave our quiet study halls and we the band and choir members leave all sour notes Wenner the chemistry class leaves all leftovers from exploszons Raeker the shorthand girls leave all discussions held to get out of taking dictation and all the balance To Mr Aaberg we leave all unwritten reports The boys leave all sprained ankles and other injuries a chieved durmg football and basketball seasons To Mrs Baldwin we bequeath all unlearned speeches and unclaimed properties from our class play We the Senior Class of 1955 appoint Mr Raeker our annual adviser to be administrator and executor of thxs our last w1ll and testament Any articles we have failed to mention he may sell keep or dispose of in any manner he sees fit I I . . . . . . II ' . III , , IV . - . , . . , . . . , . . H n . I . , . . , . . . In , , . . , . . IV I . , . . . - . . V I . ' . . . . l . VI , ' . . . . ' Il , ' ' , ' ' ' . ' - . IX , . . . - . . . . . X ' ' . . . . I ' . . go ' XI I, ' , ' ' . ' II I, ' . . I' . . ' . . . . . . , I, . . ' . . . . ' XV I, ' , ' ' ' . H ' .- Section XVI I, Charles Hopkins, leave my heinie haircut for Marianne Gerdes and my athletic ability goes to Harold . X ' . ' . . . . . W , ' ' ' ' . . W I . ' . . . . . W ' ' . ' . . . . . VI ' ' . ' II . . , ' . . In . , . ' . ' IV . , ' ' ' . ' V . ' , ' . ' VI . , ' ' . . H ' I . . . , . , ll I Il ' ' ' . ' ' ' ' ' I
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Senior Class Prophecy One summer evemng as the sun was slowly smkmg lh the west a m1st seemed to form over the earth Txme flew swxftly by and the calendar on the wall saxd May 1996 We declded to take a trxp across the contment to see what all our former classmates were dolng We unrolled our maglc carpet opened the wmdow and floated away through the stratosphere Our frrst stop was Hollywood Calxforma Whrle tourlng the mght spots we heard that JANICE PEPER was ap pearxng at the Coconut Grove After the show we went back stage to see mf Janxce knew where any of her former class mates were She told us BERNARD DOMKE was the head mxmster at the Hollywood Open Arr Church We heard one of hrs very mspxrxng sermons on the evxls of tobacco and lxquor We could see that Bernard had changed smce we last saw hrm Bernard directed us to FERDINAND HANSON who IB professor of physrcs at the Unxversnty of Mexxco W arrxved at the umversxty just mn tlme to hear one of Ferdy's spectacular lectures Ferdy had lost track of hls former classmates Flymg over Texas we spotted a lone cowboy rxdmg the range He was havmg quite a hard txme keeping from draggxng hrs feet We stopped to see lf we could help The stranger turned out to be none other than ERICK FISCHER Erxck had just come back from wmmng the World's Champxonshxp Rodeo Contest He too had lost track of h1s former classmates So we contmued on to Louxsxana and stopped for the Mardx gras To our surprlse and bewxlderment JOYCE REICHMANN was chosen the queen to rergn over the se gay festxvxtnes Joyce told us she had been modeung batmng suxts for a large fxrm nn the south After the parade we decxded to contxnue our tr1p to New York At the Emprre State Blllldlhs we see MARILYN HANSON moppxng the steps Manlyn told us that she was stxll sxngle Kwaxtxng patrentlyl After a nxce chat about prospectxve males we went to see Llberache at the Madxson Square Gardens Who do you suppose was lxghtmg L1berache's candles 7 None other than KAREN SORENSON So many people were flockxng around Karen we d1dn't get a chance to talk wxth her but Lxberache told us Karen also shmes hxs teeth wxth her suede shoe brush After drrectmg our carpet through New York traffxc we headed toward Marne On one of the Marne farms we notxced an unusual crop We set our carpet down to explore We heard loud sobs so we went to fmd the reason What dxd we flnd? None other than MARJORIE WALTER weedmg her acres of omons and garllc We hurriedly moved on We headed north mto Canada and stopped for a brte to eat at a quamt French restaurant Bexng fussy as to what we ate we asked to mspect the kltchen Much to our surprrse RICHARD MERTENS was the head chef We lost our appetxte after learmng DELLA ALBERS was ln the Yukon Trackxng down Della was qu1te a problem Fmally we hu-ed an Eskxmo to help us fmd her After many hours of close trackmg we found Della drwxng her dog team We had a long vrsxt wxth Della and then moved on to fxnd DORIS SPRINGER The last thmg we heard of Della was mush We dxdn t have to go far to fmd Dons What do you suppose she was domg? She was chxppmg xce off an xceberg and shxppmg the xce back to Glenwood for the Saturday mght dances We left Dons merrrly chxppmg her 1ce Shwer mg aboard our magzc carpet we headed for Alaska The gold mmes were to be our frrst lmportant stop We stopped to ask one of the mmers to drrect us around We were aghast to dxscover that our guxde was MARLYS POLZINE After a brxef chat we left Marlys to fxnxsh her shxft We headed for Reno Nevada As we were tourxng the sxtes of Reno we bumped mto CHARLES HOPKINS He was sellmg shoe strmgs to pay alxmony for hxs three wrves Charles was thnnklng of marryxng agam but thxs trme was gozng to take his txme about He couldn't afford another faxlure Charles told us Tom was ln Arkansas Before we contrnued to Arkansas we stopped at Las Vegas to take Ih the sxghts Passing a nxght club we saw sxgn Come nn and see old poker face ' We decxded to mve strgate At the head of the gamblmg tables was ROSE MARIE GAFFANEY Rose Marte told us that she got her name because she had worked so long at the gambllng tables We had seen enough of Nevada so left for Arkansas Flymg low over Arkansas we saw someone prckmg cotton Knowmg that our eyes couldn't decerve us we drop ped down to see the Cotton Pxckxng Kmg lof course THOMAS WALKER! After learnrng how to pxck cotton we headed homeward to Mxnne sota We landed m Mxnneapolxs Someone told us that there was a good stage show at the audltorxum The Three Ink Blots were appearxng there In the audxtorxum we learned that the Ink Blots were LLOYD SCHNETZER DENNIS NEMMERS and DAVID FONER our former classmates We had to go back stage to talk to them They told us that MARY ANN GRUSSING was workrng at the capxtol Full of curxosrty we floated over to the capitol to see her W asked the Governor where to fund our frxend, Mary He dxrected us to the dome and sure 'nuff there was Mary polxshmg the dome Mary told us that Marllyn Clasen was workmg at Hzbbmg We couldn't fxmsh our tour wxthout vxsttxng Marxlyn We xnquxred all over the town but no one seemed to know MARILYN CLASEN Whale drwmg to see the mones a truck almost ran mto us We stopped to teach the drrver a few pomts on drxvmg The drxver was Marxlyn N wonder we almost had an accxdentl' Manlyn told us that she had been drxvmg a truck ever smce she left school What we couldn t understand was 1f she had been drxvmg for so long why hadn't she learned to drxve 7 ? Maybe the other drxvers had something to do wxth tt We left before Marxlyn had a chance to run mto us agatn but stayed above traffxc just rn case We notlced a man tryxng to hztch hnke We felt sorry for hxm so we dropped down to see xf we could gwe hxm a lxft We were shocked to see DICK OELTJEN standlng there Dxck was on hxs way to see the world at another' expenses We left Dxck off at the Junctxon near Sauk Center We salled on to Vxllard The mxst began to ruse and suddenly the year xs agaxn 1955 As the sky clears and the moon shxnes brxghtly down on us we wonder where our classmates really wxll be m 1996 We can only hope they wrll be happy and prosperous Q , . , . . . . . I . .. . . . , - , - . . .. ,, . . H . '. ' , ' ' ' ' '. e . . . . . . , .. . . . . ' . . . . . ' . . 3 . . . . , . . . I I I 0 tl s . . . . . . - ., .. c ' ' ' ll Il . . a 0 ' I . ' o A U I . , .. ,. , ' u . . I . . . . . . .D .. . .' .. . .. it. . I . . . . . Y a ' ll ' I ' ' ' ' , . . O I I n . ' . A I I. 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A Z 3 1 1 . K f x 5. Marilyn Hanson, Dick Oeltjen, Thomas Walker, Charles Hopkins, Rose Marie Gaffaney, Marllyn Clasen, Karen Sorenson, Joyce Reichmann, Janice Peper. No! pictured: Erick Flscher. i..k.1 xckO Marx n 3 Lloy Marjorxe 5 Marlys 6. Tommy 7. Ross Marie 8. Marilyn Erxc 10 .Ianxce 11 I-'erdy 12 Dorxs 13 Mary Ann 14. Bernard 15. Joyce l6. Karen I 1. D . Z. ly C. . d 4. ' ' . H. 9. k .... 18 17. Rxchard M. 18. David 19. Charles Z0. Dennxs 21. Della. ,, S 5 S 4 5 6 7
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