Willmar High School - Senior Yearbook (Willmar, MN)

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THE AS CHILDREN the seniors had the usual carefree existence characteristic of American childhood. Four-year-old Art Eide tupper leftt appears to have been shy, well-behaved. Among the promising young actors in a Lin- coln School playlet were Everett Anderson, Marcella Van Buren, Alice Adams, and Ber- nyce Sletten. The picture tupper centert was taken after the show was over. Garfield sixth graders during the spring of 1932, looked very much like . . . sixth grad- ers. Today they are seniors Mary Carlson, Marjorie Shamp, Marcella Van Buren, Marie SENIORS HAVE WEATHERED Johnson, Deloris Wacker, Irene Strommen. Back in 1922 Senior Winifred Ney was just beginning to sit up alone. Both she and her cousin 2must have been beautiful babies? Members of the Whittier School in Kandi- yohi whom destiny was later to shift to Will- mar were Ethel Gundberg, Delores Erick- son, Joyce Butler, Harry Anderson, and Lenore Lindgren. Once todayts cagesters were the sixth grade basketball champions from Lincoln School. They are Stanley Nelson, Edmund Nichol- son, Mahlon Thunstedt, Aldrich Bloomquist. Page

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THE WIHISEAN - 1939 TABLE OF CONTENTS PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY The seniors: 164 tigrads and how they grew 7 The seniors: Their valedictories ADMINISTRATION The faculty: Its work and its ways The Board of Education ORGANIZATIONS Everybody ujoins up,, SPORTS Football Basketball Girls Activities Track, Tennis, Baseball CLASSES The invariable routine: Five days a week . OTHER DEPARTMENTS Speaking of Pictures The Wihisean Goes to a Party The Senior Class Play Pictures to the Editor 12 26 29 31 42 44 46 48 52 54 79 WIHISEANTS PHOTOGRAPHER Robert Hultgren, the junior who took most of the pictures in this book, first became interested in photogra- phy when he joined the Camera Kraft Club in his sophomore year. Winner in last year's C.K.C. contest, Robert was offered the assignment of the 1939 Wihisean pictures. Work- ing under a severe handicap when the 01d Central Building was de- molished and all the photographic equipment moved from place to place, Robert met his most serious prob- lem when he took the individual pic- tures of the teachers. During this period of readjustment he had inade- quate lighting equipment, a circum- stance, which. under the conditions, could not be helped. For his shots on school life Bob used a Recomar u33 .

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age 9 AND WON MANY BATTLES THE AVERAGE STUDENT in Willmar doesn,t dom- inate school activities until he approaches his junior and senior years. Then in a relatively short time things uhappen to him . SOCIETY plays a very small part in school life; in reality there is only one important party each year--- :1 x. the junior-senior prom. At the upper right you see F i V Violette Melby, Jean Halvorson, and Dorothy Jacob- son, transformed into prom girlsh and ready to attend the schooPs number one social event. MOST F RESHMEN girls still retain something of a ttlittle girl quality. The picture at right center shows Eunice Rusten, Lois Wolfe, and Esther Fostervold as they were back in the long-skirt era of ,35. JUNIORS are definitely ttgrown upii. At the lower right Phyllis N ewberg, Doris Morman, and J ean Leffler show you three types of school attire, popular last year. SENIORS have always liked to experiment. Once Senior Delores Erickson persuaded La Vone Kroona to co-operate in this ttWhen Paw Was Courtint Maw tra- vesty. Look at the result. tLower middlei LOOK AT ME. Pm a handsome ladf, Melvin Kvam seemed to say as an admirer took his picture. With him are Edmund Nicholson and Kurth Tomervik. When this was taken, all were juniors serving titheir public?