Winifred High School - Red Raider Yearbook (Winifred, MT)

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 In the year 1952, early in September, there set sail over the Sea of Knowledge a Magnificent Ship, proudly bearing the banner of the red and the white. This ship was undertaking a long, difficult, and somewhat dangerous and uncertain journey. There were four ports on its charted route; its original crew was composed of seven boys and one girl. The names of these were Larry Arthur, Boyd Bergum, Martin Mendel, Mary Mendel, Jerry Osburnsen, Eugene Erlandson, Glenn Scoville and Bobbie Simac. The first port was on Freshman Isle. The ship tied up for a year at this point and many voyages were made upon the river of the unexplored island. The members of the crew learned much from these ventures that proved helpful and useful at later stops. When the fall of 1953 came around the captain and his crew shoved off for new lands of adventure. This time they came to Sophomore Isle, a shining land of make- believe, it seemed. The atmosphere was light and the knowledge gained here seemed to swell the heads of the crew. This isle of make-believe was too much for this valiant crew and early in the fall of 1954 they set forth on a stormy sea to ports unknown. Out from port but a few days a signal of distress was sighted starboard on a choppy sea. A rescue was made and four cold and wet people were dragged aboard. Their names were Donald Letz, Leroy Barritt, Henry Jones and Shirley Reppe. With this added roster the Magnificent Ship made way to Junior Isle. A lovely place it was. Knowledge, enter- tainment and activities of all kinds prevailed. Disaster also struck; as first mate, Don Letz set out to sea one day in search of knowledge and never returned to port. Time went fast and soon it was time to sail. Again disaster hit the gallant crew as when the captain shouted, Anchors aweigh Henry Jones and LeRoy Barritt were missing. They had decided to stop at Junior Isle and make their own plans for the future. On a bright and shiny September morning in the year of 1955 the ship and its added crew member, Sam Willis, came in sight of Senior Isle. Its glowing shore line, its shining mountains foretold of what seemed to be promised land. Our skipper shortly in- formed his crew that the stay here would be but nine very short and busy months and that there was much to do and much to learn. In view of the glorious scenery before them that early September morning it was impossible for some to heed the skipper's warning. The stay on Senior Isle was short. The skipper's prediction came true. Most of the gallant crew attained new heights of knowledge, wisdom and courage. A few learned their lessons in harder manner. At the end of this year they found that Senior Isle was not a promised land but a stepping place into the vast territory called My Future. The skipper also advised his crew that this voyage was to be made each on his own. So ended the short and active journey through high school for the members of the Class of 1956. Best of luck to each and every one of you. Our Junior Year: Play: Arsenic and Old Lace Prom: Evening in Paris Orchestra: The Four Scholars Twelve-Year Students: Boyd Bergum Martin Mendel Mary Mendel

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 The Year Nineteen Hundred and Eighty A peer into the future, via an old crystal ball, gave the writer some very interesting facts about the members of the famous class of Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-six. From the very depths of the crystal ball one could see an air force man who was rec- ognized as being Jerry Osburnsen. Jerry had joined the air force shortly after graduating from college and was well on his way to becoming a big wheel. Aside from his career the wife and four children were definitely his pride and joy. The crystal momentarily clouded over and then cleared and there sat Martin Mendel, as big as you please, behind an editor's desk in some distant city. He had made good in the field of journalism but not so good in the field of matrimony. Now the scene changes from cow country to city and--no it can't be--yes, it is--the former Mary Mendel is stepping out of one of the busy elevators of a large office building. Mary had found employment as a secretary for a law firm, married the president's son, and is now an active member of the law firm, Ketchum and Sockum. After a moment or two of intense gazing there came into view a very, very bald man. Upon turning around the writer noted that this very bald head belonged to a wealthy Wini- fred rancner named Robert K. Simac. Bob, as he was known in school, had married a secretly-loved schoolmate and was considered a very successful rancher. The crystal ball fogged over again and it took a bit of concentration to bring it back into focus, then plain as day one could see Glenn Scoville at an engineer's desk; busy at the task of designing and drawing plans for an ultra-modem school building. Glenn was undecided about his future during his high school days, but found his gifted talents in col- lege. Glenn had married a shy little girl from across the river and his four future engineers are keeping him on his toes. Now there is something that looks familiar. It’sgoodold Winifred High School. But something has been added--in place of the old grade school building there is a new one and to the west is a new school gym with classrooms all around it. With the scene changing to the gymnasium floor one sees a tall slender man with a receding hairline coaching the Red Raiders of Nineteen Eighty. Sure enough the lad had followed his father's footsteps and had gone into teaching and coaching. The man is Boyd Bergum and by the looks of the trophy case things have gone well for the coach and his teams. What’s this the mystic ball is bringing forth? There stands a man on a street corner yelling Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour, — See the pretty picture on the box. ” As we look closer we see that in place of Aunt Jemima’s picture there is Eugene Erlandson's picture with a white hat on and mixing pancakes with a big scoop shovel. It seems as though Gene had done very well in the musical profession and had bought out the pancake company. Now one sees Larry Arthur and notes that he has given up rodeo bull riding and has gone to Mexico where he is trying to find out what the horsefly will be doing ten years from now if the horse keeps going out and the automobiles keep coming in. Larry had married a senorita from down Mexico way. The crystal ball now brings into view an arid section of land on this side of the Rio Grande. There sitting in the noontime shade holding a comic book in his hand and saying to himself: I wonder if Mutt will ever be as tall as Jeff,” is Sam. Poor Sam, that Arizona heat must have gotten him after leaving cool Montana.