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EIGHTH GRADE
First Row—Esther Sonnemaker, Velma Schilling, Florence Horn, Bernice Fictor, Berneice Toerber, Margaret Robinson, Mildred Patton, Leona Meyer. Middle Row—Charles Hodgden, Roscoe Schilling, James Crittenden, Norman Bergman, Harlan Goldsmith, Lawrence Kline, Harold Bachman, William Banks, Arnold Kahler. Lower Row—Norman Techau, Robert Spille, Andrew Cook, Howard Britcher, Douglas Cashman, Raymond Techau, Woodrow Stock, Huber Meier. Those not present when picture was taken—June Banks, Mildred Dean, Kathryn Moore, Melvin Hasselbusch, Arlo Hasselbusch.
| President | Robert Spille |
| Sec’y-Treas. | Andrew Cook |
| Class Sponsor | Miss Jenna E. Beadle |
| Class Colors | Purple and White |
| Class Flower | Lily of the Valley |
CLASS HISTORY
Those of the aforementioned group who entered in the first grade eight years ago and are still with us are: June and William Banks, Douglas Cashman, James Crittenden, Bernice Fictor, Harlan Goldsmith, Florence Horn, Arnold Kahler, Hubert Meier, Mildred Patton, Margaret Robinson, Roscoe Schilling, Velma Schilling, Esther Sonnemaker, Robert Spille, Norman and Raymond Techau. Mildred Dean was with us until this year when she moved to Davenport.
Those who entered with us in the grades are: Second grade: Andrew Cook and Lawrence Kline; Third grade: Leona Meyer; Fourth grade: Harold Bachman. In the Fifth grade no one entered. Sixth: Kathryn Moore, who left again this year, and Howard Britcher; Seventh: Berneice Toerber, Woodrow Stock, and Charles Hogden; this year: Norman Bergman and later Melvin and Arlo Hasselbusch.
Three of our members: James Crittenden, Robert Spille, and Harlan Goldsmith are in the high school orchestra.
Bernice Fictor, through her extraordinary work in spelling contests, has made us very proud of her.
The subjects taken by the class are: Spelling, Reading, and History, each half year subjects. Physiology and Civics are the last half year subjects. We also take Arithmetic and English which are whole year subjects.
OUR HALLOWEEN PARTY
On Hallowe’en night our class met for their annual Hallowe’en Party. The entertainment during the evening consisted of making cats out of gum, the boys going on a treasure hunt, the telling of jokes and ducking for apples.
We then chose partners by bidding, the third bidder getting the bid. Refreshments were then served consisting of lemonade, popcorn balls, fudge and apples. We were carrying away our own dishes when Woodrow Stock dropped a glass of water. Mr. Kidder then showed us how to pin a glass of water to the wall. After a little more fun, we departed for home.
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SEVENTH GRADE
Back Row (left to right)—Owen Merritt, Donald Patton, LeRoy Kemman, Erwin Hartig, Robert Bixler, Edward Albert, Robert Fauth, Elwood Techau, George Hoffner, Harold Stange. Middle Row—Irene Oberholsen, Clarence Drake, Durwood Greig, Melvin Steffins, Alfred Hoffner, Freeman Frahm, Billie Engleking, Robert Elijah, Chester Waicik, Leona Horn. Bottom Row—Elizabeth Cosgriff, Ruth Robinson, Helen Kelly, Edith Tittle, Marion Claney, Bernice Ibsen, Kathryn MacGowan, Letitia Reaugh, Edith Leinbaugh, Gwendolyn Spille, Norma Doerman, Velma Hartig.
Our enrollment when school started last fall was thirty-two pupils. Although there has been a change, Margaret Macauley moved to Lisbon and Clarence Drake entered our class, the number of pupils enrolled remains the same.
Those having perfect attendance for the past year are Ruth Robinson and Edith Tittle.
More of us would doubtless have been able to share this honor had it not been for illness.
Our social activities for this year have consisted of a play given by some of us to other members of the class at Thanksgiving, a Christmas party, a Valentine party and others.
We are busy now getting ready for the Operetta, the school exhibit and last but not least our semester exams.
Although we have been in the same room for two years we have enjoyed the year’s work together and feel that we have accomplished much.
EIGHTH GRADE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY PARTY
On Tuesday evening, the twenty-first of February, our class met at the school house to have a party. The games played during the evening were: “Spin the Bottle,” “Buzz,” making hatchets out of gum, picking an apple off the floor. Jokes and riddles were also told.
We also had a potato race which was very entertaining. Two chairs were placed in opposite corner of the room and five potatoes were placed on one chair and carried to the other with a spoon. One member did fairly well and someone remarked that she was used to “spooning”.
It was then time to choose partners. We chose them by having the boys march around a circle of girls and stop at a given command. The girl behind which the boy stopped became the partner.
Refreshments were then served consisting of lemonade, fruit salad with whipped cream and cookies. After a bit of conversation we all departed for home declaring that we had had a good time.
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SIXTH GRADE
Back Row—Ronald Harness, Richard Meyer, Otto Hanson, Lloyd Phillips, John Kembel, Thomas Clemmens, Albert Fisher, Frederick Koch, Miss Smith. Front Row—Pearl Wright, Esther Goldsmith, Phyllis Bixler, Eloise Sonnemaker, Leona Meier, Helen Sonnemaker.
We began the year with fourteen pupils, seven boys and seven girls; but our present enrollment is sixteen. One of our girls, Joyce Tuggle, left us in March and moved to Wyoming, Iowa. Our new pupils are: Pearl Wright and John Kembel who came from Stanwood, and Otto Hanson who came from a rural school.
Two of our pupils, Cornelia Frubois and Harry Wendt, were absent the day the picture for the Annual was taken.
Helen Sonnemaker, Eloise Sonnemaker and Lloyd Phillips have not been absent this year, and Helen has not been absent nor tardy.
At the first of the year we were in the main building, but because of the lack of room in the High School, we were moved to the Third grade room. We have gotten along very well in our new quarters if you omit the day our stove blew up. We had a great deal of excitement that morning, and found out what good housekeepers some of our boys would make.
Our entertainment for the year has consisted of a Hallowe’en party, a Christmas tree and a Valentine Box. Our part of the Christmas program was a short play entitled “Christmas in Naughty Land,” which portrayed the reformation of all the bad children. We are planning an all day picnic during the first week of vacation instead of a weiner roast this spring, because of having so many other things to do at this time.
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FIFTH GRADE
Top Row—William Meier, Marvin Horn, Bruce MacGowan, Dean Spille, James Clemmens, Edwin Decker, Lloyd Hasselbusch. Middle Row—Henry Otte, Merwin Engelking, Alvin Otte, Norman Frahm, Leonard Conrad, Melvin Long, Charles Harness, Elmer Stock, Miss Ramsey. Front Row—Selma Kline, Dorothy Kelly, Hilda Behrens, Liberta Long, Velma Baltisberger, Bernice Meier, Alyce Kelley, William Tittle.
Last fall we started out with an enrollment of twenty-seven scholars and we are closing the year with twenty-three scholars, two of whom are new in our school. They are Bernice Meier, who entered in January from the Mechanicsville school, and Henry Otte, Jr., who entered in March and who had previously attended rural school.
In December, Alberta Young moved to Colorado and Elmer Martin to Tipton. Later we lost four pupils who moved away, namely: Calvin Moore, Carol McAfee, LeRoy McAfee and Velma Baltisberger.
Up to this time those having perfect attendance records are Edwin Decker, Liberta Long and Elmer Stock.
On Hallowe’en and also at Christmas time we had a party in our room. Our Christmas tree was loaded with gifts for everyone, and we had a jolly time.
The last couple weeks of school are spent in reviewing for semester examinations which fall the last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the school year. We are working diligently to keep our grades above the ninety mark so that we will escape having to take them.
This year has been very quiet and harmonious and although we are looking forward with pleasure to next year, we are also anticipating with joy our summer vacation which commences May 11th.
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FOURTH GRADE
Top Row (left to right)—Honora Sonnemaker, Lester Wright, Frederick Decker, Wayne Hodgden, Kathleen Barnes. Middle Row—Kenneth Crist, Raymond Schlichting, Emerson Reaugh, Lawrence Hartig, Marvin Tacker, Erwin Frahm, Richard Goldsmith, Melvin Drake, Vernie Hansen, Robert Long. Front Row—Ada Mae Harmon, La Vonne Baltisberger, June MacGowan, Dorothy Fisher, Pauline Edler, Irma Wulff, Irene Wenndt, Evelyn Steffens, Thelma Harness, Eva Robinson, Miss Ruther.
The Fourth Grade of the Clarence Public School boasts many interesting events that have happened during the past school year of 1927 and 1928. Among these interesting things was a subscription campaign to the Farmer’s Wife Magazine in which the Fourth grade pupils showed their good salesmanship ability. As a result of their extensive campaign they were awarded two large framed pictures, “Old Ironsides” and “The Birth of the Flag,” which they presented to the school.
Another worthy cause that the pupils took part in was the Christmas Seal campaign in which one member sold the second highest number of stamps among the grade pupils.
Various members of this class took part in many of the school activities, such as the selection of two members for leading parts in the “Tom Thumb Wedding.” Twelve members took part in the operetta, “Brownie’s Whispers,” as roses, sweet peas and brownies. In the Christmas program that was put on by the grades, Fourth grade presented the “Christmas Star Drill” and sang “Choosing the Yule Tree”.
To make the school year more interesting, the pupils took part in several competitive educational events, such as health crusades, spelling contests, and arithmetic contests to develop accuracy and speed.
The total number of students enrolled at the beginning of the year was twenty-two. Of this number one, La Vonne Baltisberger, moved to Washington, Iowa. To the number remaining were added Vernie Hansen, Lester Wright, and Raymond Schlichting.
The class feels proud of some of their classmates, Kathleen Barnes, Kenneth Crist, and Irma Wulff, because of the fact that they have been neither absent nor tardy.
The school calendar for the year recalls to memory many happy and pleasant entertainments:
| October 28—Hallowe’en Party. |
| November 23—Thanksgiving Party. |
| December 23—Christmas Tree and Program. |
| February 14—Valentine Box. |
| February 22—Lincoln and Washington program. |
| April 6—Party of Bunnies |
| May 8—Weiner Roast. |
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THIRD GRADE
Back Row—Francis Kembel, George Shearer, Wilfred Meier, Orville Meyer, Charles Hoffner, George Lane, Leonard Behrend, Robert Fisher. Middle Row—Milton Behrens, Henry Klatt, Harold Doerman, Melvin Clemmens, Melvin Koth, Henry Hunwardsen, Clarence Miller. Front Row—Vera Severin, Donna Kelly, Betty Kidder, Mildred Stock, Myrtle Stock, Ruth Leinbaugh, Emma Otte, Edna Schlichting.
SECOND GRADE
Back Row—Kenneth Hart, James Sawyer, Keith Bixler, Carl Otte, Orlo Baltisberger, Ray Robinson, Raymond Wendt. Front Row—Elaine Klatt, Dorothy Bachman, Kathleen Luikart, Lois Workman, Emma Jean Sonnemaker, Lizabeth Ann Tacker, Lois Bearse.
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FIRST GRADE
Front Row—Gale Sawyer, John Clemmets, Howard MacGowan, Clarence York, Truman Kidder. Second Row—Maxine Juehring, Margaret Meyer, Sarah Wendt, Miriam Russell, Alberta Backman, Verda Bell Miller, Maxine Dettman, Hazel Larick, Kathleen Shear, Evelyn Bradly. Third Row—Virginia Phillips, Richard Meyers, Everette Frink, Ralph Phillips, Duane Klatt, Ralph Stock, Glen Pruess, Everette Bixler, Lydia Wright. Back Row—Darrell Shriver, Roy Behrens, Neil Hoffner, Elroy Long, Howard Fisher, Milford Pruess, Edwin Otte, Edward Clemmets, Raymond.
School opened August 29th with an enrollment of thirty-one in First grade; since this time five of our members have transferred to other schools and six new ones have been added to our list.
The following social activities have taken place during the year:
| September 2—Our get acquainted party. |
| September 23—Nature trip. |
| October 14—Girls’ Doll Day. |
| October 16—Boys’ Ball Day. |
| October 28—Hallowe’en Party. |
| November 10—Nature trip. |
| November 11—Armistice Day |
| November 23—Thanksgiving Party. Dramatization of The First Thanksgiving. |
| December 22—Our trip down town to visit the stores. |
| December 23—Christmas Program followed by Christmas Party and Tree. |
| January 3—Bible Story, Rev. Bearse. |
| January 6—Bible Story, Mr. Krumboltz. |
| January we spent on a visit to Eskimo land, ending January 20th with an Eskimo party. |
| February 3—Bible Story, Rev. Fauth. |
| February 9—Birthday Party. |
| February 10—Observation of Lincoln’s Birthday. |
| February 14—Valentine Party. |
| February 15—Birthday Party. |
| February 21—Tom Thumb Wedding. |
| February 22—Observation of Washington’s Birthday, also a Birthday Party |
| March 1—Birthday Party. |
| March 16—Kite Day. |
| April 6—Easter Party. |
| April 13—Birthday Party. |
| May 1—May Basket Day. |
| May 2—Visiting day for next year beginners. Picnic Day. |
| May 4—Operetta. |
| May 10—Open House Day. Exhibit. |
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