Teenage Scrapbook Images 1952-53 8th Grade-Part 5

 

Teenage Scrapbook Images 1952-53 

8th Grade-Part 5

The cover of the booklet we each got for our 8th grade graduation

There was a page with the Class Motto, Flower, Colors, and Class Officers - very much like my Dad’s eighth grade program 28 years earlier…

The Class Roll.        [Click on image to get a larger image.]

 

The program from graduation, slightly abbreviated, came next . It lists who read which thing at the time.

After Larry did the Welcome, it appears I read the Class History next, after the snare drum solo by Jon. This is my copy showing where we found errors in the mimeographed sheets, so that I could read it correctly. The one in the Booklet was uncorrected... ;-)

After the Girl’s Sextet sang, Larry read the Class Will, followed by the Boy’s Chorus.

Doug read the Class Prophecy…

There was a page, a handwritten poem, of “our song” sung to the tune of “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”

Signatures in upper left of first sheet are teachers...
The last two pages had all of our signatures, and notes from a few! ;-)

See you down the road...  ;-)

 

Teenage Scrapbook Images 1952-53 8th Grade-Part 4

 

Teenage Scrapbook Images 1952-53 

8th Grade-Part 4

Yes, in the fall of 1952 I won/earned a stuffed elephant, but not a Steiff like in this photo. It was about this size, I still have it in a box somewhere… it was for selling magazines for Curtis Circulation during the Presidential campaign… top salespersons in Practical Sales Week had choice of Donkey or Elephant. Since I was supporting Gen. Eisenhower, I chose an Elephant. We did see the man who would become President later on at a whistle stop in Perry, as I recall. My elephant was not this fancy!! ;-)

 

When I first saw this certificate in the scrapbook, I thought it was the eighth grade diploma… no, just the achievement award for good sales….. but…

The Diploma was there… earned at the end of the year.

Here is the graduation program cover, and the cover of a congratulatory card I got from my Aunt Irene, Dad’s sister. Much appreciated.

The interior of the card, with signature.

The interior of the program with the list of events and all the class members.

Next time I will share the Red Cover Booklet we all made for each of us. It has the History, Will, Prophesy, etc. and more…


See you down the road… ;-)

Teenage Photos 1952-53 8th Grade-Part 1

 

Teenage Photos 1952-53 8th Grade-Part 1

26 8th-Grade Students at Coon Rapids (IA) Community School with teacher Patricia Kennedy.

Back Row: (John) Andy Kretzinger, Roland McGee, Charles Remele, Dennis Ford, Bill Smith
Next Row: Jerry Scott, Gerald Palmer, Doug Drake, Gary Webber, Larry Turner, Ms. Kennedy
Next Row: Dick Whitfield, Jim Knudsen, Arlene Herron, Gary Hoover, Jon Crimson, Norman Arrowsmith, Wayne Grim
Front Row: Jane Smith, Juanita Pierce, Marcia Textor, Norma Wagner, Ramona Palmer, Nancy Bolger, Charlotte Shirbroun, Marilyn Peterson, Marilyn Andersen

This was the only photo I had, until recently, when I had taken Mom’s camera to school. That is me sitting at my desk. I think that is Nancy in dark (red) sweater standing by window behind me, talking to Doug, it appears. She was a mature class leader. I was still the newcomer… ;-)

In a later post here (next Tues and Thurs, part 2 and part 3, of 8th Grade), we’ll see more photos from that day that were in the scrapbook…

My class picture, in fall, just turned 13 on July 1. A teenager. Bill. No more Billie, Billy… ;-)

I got my slide camera the summer of 1953... much better!!
This is that following summer… with brothers… we’d all grown up quite a bit!! ;-)
Barry had arrived eighteen months earlier. Jim on left, with Tom (later to become T.K.)

I loved that bike!! ;-)

See you down the road…  ;-)