Wellsburg High School - Warrior Yearbook (Wellsburg, IA)

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and sew, Miss Haack, who taught Engl1sh,and Miss Neilsen, music teacher, and Mr Luwe, who were our sponsors The new coach this year was Mr Bergendahl At the end of the first six weeks, Vernon Jurgens left to move to Minnesota and at the end of the semester Wendell Venenga left because of illness As sophomores we had finally adjusted ourselves to the high school sur roundlngs Arden Terfehn was no longer with us but we were happy to see a pretty blue eyed blonde girl ln our class,Delah Harms we alsohadseveral new teachers Our new English teacher was Mr Nicklaus and the new Home Economics teacher was Miss Wentzein Other teachers who had been at Wellsburg the year before were Mr Bergendahl, who taught world history and drivers training and Mr Freitag, who was our geometry and boys' shop teacher Our class sponsors were Mr Bergendahl and the new commercial teacher, Miss Fowler As our Junior year began we had one member missing, namely, Vlncel Melnts Almost everyone was glad to have school begin again the next fall because this was the first time we would get into the new school building Besides trying to get used to our new surroundings, we also had to get acquainted with some nel teachers Dhey were Mr Kragel, who taught American History and biology, Mr Stout, the Vocational Agriculture teacher, and Miss Shlmel the vocal music American and English Literature, Miss Fowler, Commercial subjects, and Mrs Bergendahl, chemistry In October the class presented their play, 'Betty Jane from Punkln' Lane' and enjoyed having the largest crowd to ever watch a class play up to that time The most fun was had getting ready for the Junior Senior Banquet, which was held in the new gym The theme was 'Garden in the Moonlight ' Our class party was held on the evening of the last day of school We ate at the Convalr Boom in Waterloo and attended a show afterwards In the fall of 1956 we, as seniors, had only one thing in mind, that being to make the most ofour last year Our first important task was to get acquainted with the many new teachers Mr Sohantz took cha ge of the superintendents office The new commercial teacher was Mr Maiers, and Mr Kuhens became the head of the science department Mrs Cerney, who taught speech and literatur the new math teacher, took over many of the duties of the junior boys' basketball and baseball coach was Mr Peter, who led the team into the district tournament Although we lost Kay welchers we gained Roger Aukes, who gone to Apllngton In October we journeyed to Hollet studios have our senior pictures taken Our first semester class party S , and Mr Block, high The new boys basketball had previously at Waterloo to was a dinner at Lloyd's followed by a movie This year the seniors, both bovs and girls, won the class tournaments On April 5th, we presented our class play, 'Shy Guy ' These are just a few of the memories which stand out in our minds And now in bidding farewell,we wish the best of luck to the teachers and fellow students, who will continue to make history at dear old WHS CLASS FLOWER! PINK BABY ROSE CLASS COLORS NAVY AND ICE BLUE CLASS MOTTO BEFORE US LIES THE TIMBER, LET US BUILD . 5 . ! teacher. As usual, we knew the rest of the teachers. These were: Mr. Nicklaus, I