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Things They Said: 1927 Senior Class of Madison High School, Madison, South Dakota
Voices from the Senior of 1927 Madison High School in South Dakota.
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Eulalia Blewitt, “Lala”.
Myron Cole
Myrta “Stringer” Webb. Had eyes for L.C. Webb
Henry J. Richter, “I crave an argrument.”
Thelma C. Nelson
Glen L. Granflaten, “Red”. “My hair sets me off.”
Edith Nerdahl
Anna Gjermundson, “I don’t care how you spell my name, I’ll change it some day anyway.”
Bernard C. Westby, Poet Laureate of the Madison H.S.
Julia C.A. Mosher
Walter H. Wagner, “Wally” “I may be tall; but I’m not long winded.”
Theresa W. Conley “Tes” “I must go where you go.”
N. Fern Keller “Fuz”
Elmer G. Raschdorf “Girls don’t appeal to me much.”
Inez L. Bennett, “Some day I’ll be famous, and then-“
Leonard Brown “Browny”, “My favorite flower was a rose.”
Viola W. Bleeker
Gladys M. McDonald
Glen O. Granflaten, “It’s not good for man to be alone.”
Doretta Rath
Harold Thurow, “I may lose my purse and my knife, but I still have my heart.”
Mabel Lincoln
Gertrude A. Watznauer (spelling?) “Gert”
Fredereck Johansen
Clara Moose
Harold McGillivray
Carol Dockendorf “Cud”
Pearl Erickson, “That’s not the way it’s done in Sinai.’
Pete Mork
Clara Elgethun
“Gene” Case, December 6, 1926 evicted from chemistry. Profanity, thy name is Gene. 3:40 P.M. Gene rudely awakened from profound slumbers, in Civics, to go to office.
Nellie E. Behrens
Wilma Hoisington
Charles C. Myers, “I’m after the man who invented work.’
Marjorie Mae Darr
Ben Heiss, “Don’t contradict me, I know.”
Maude A. McGrath, “Mud”, “I love my work, I love the sunshine-and the Irish, too.”
Lula M. Haufle, “Lu”
Eugene Steele
Alice Fisher
Myron Willard, “Willard,” “I am indespensible to M.H. Seniors.”
Myrtle Pulford
Myrtle A. Gray, “Tillie” “I’m a gay girl from Norway, but I don’t like English.”
Irene A. Stordahl, “I love, Oh! I love-dancing.”
Clifford Simonson, “Simy”
Josephine Hageman, “Joe”
Esther Bennett
Bob Larson “All great men are dying, and I don’t feel very well myself.’
Authur Starks
Grace Arms, “Bud”
Orville Anderson, “Andy”, “I awoke one morning to find myself famous.”
Maebelle Davis
Laura G. Hicks
Wayne McGowan, “Mickey”
Arvilla Hollister, “I’ve read everything-even red hair.”
Robert Hallenbeck, “Bob” “My hardest work is to keep from working.”
Loretta Hart
Margaret Hart, “Marje” “Enjoy life ere it’s fled, when you die you’re a long time dead.”
Iola Luela Bailey, “Ole” “I don’t let studies interfere with my education.”
Lola Geraldine Shipton, “Ole”
Berton Root, “Berty” January 17, 1927: Bertie Root while applying for excuse: “My father went to Minneapolis and didn’t wake me up this morning.”
Lawrence Tuor, “Jimmy”
Karleen Keith “Dost thou not know I am a woman? When I think I must speak.”
Pat Connolly “It’s the Irish that’s in me that asks which way the wind blows.”
Bob Hemly “If you think I’m not tough, just hit me.”
January 22, 1927 Mr. Reynolds-“Which one of you good-looking fellows wants to go after my mail? Ivan Ligett: “Suppose that means me.”