German Club Expands With Interest

The German Club welcomed the year of ‘54-’55 with an initiation picnic at which typical German costumes were sported by the new students. The second year "deutsch" students found themselves enlarging the bonfire in order to accommodate the growing organization. The members of this industrious group elected their officers for the year to be: Marlene Kleinschmidt, president; Dick Theriault, vice-president; Judy Lyonais, treasurer; and Jean Sargeant, secretory. Proving themselves to be very efficient, these officers led the many noon hour meetings, at which entertainment was provided by different guest speakers. The Christmas season was a very busy one for the German Club. They showed appreciation to their able adviser, Miss Mary Tornstrom, by honoring her at the annual Christmas banquet. Max Droll, an exchange student from Germany, was the guest speaker at this banquet, which was acclaimed as one of the most successful banquets held. The members helped color the halls by placing a Christmas tree on one of the landings. In addition to this Christmas spirit, German Christmas carols could be heard throughout the halls and into the open door classrooms of W.H.S. Enriching the German Club's treasury were the proceeds from a one-act play entitled "Be Home By Midnight", presented to the student body January 20. Band members in the group helped make this play successful by forming a German band. After a year's indication of growing interest in the German language, the members of the German Club bid the year "Auf Wiedersehen" with a spring picnic.

BACK ROW:
M. Fullerton, D. Hanson, K. Drake, M. Droll, D. Johnson, K. Jacobs, J. Guin, R. Fezler, D. Gartner, D. Blank, M. Kleinschmidt,G. Kukko, V. Horn
THIRD ROW:
A. Bell, B. Cowman, V. Curtis, P. Jordan, J. Johnson, P. Gayou, L. Anderson, M. Haux, M. Harjes, C. Halvorson, C. Hansen, L. Davis, T. Carlson.
SECOND ROW:
D. Krueger, M. Jensen, B. Haux, J. Brown, M. Anderson, M. Gruenhagen, Y. Hanson, C. Havnes, K. Bender, J. Hedlund, D. Crandall, J. Gendron, T. Fruth.
FIRST ROW:
T. Horigan, J. Berg, B. Barstow, D. Kline, K. Esser, A. Anderson, J. Bock, D. Baysinger, M. Dullum, E. Kleven, P. Britton, J. Hardy, M. Herzog

BACK ROW:
R. Swearingen, D. Wilson, R. Larson, D. Theriault, N. Miller, M. Wareing, B. Page, B. Madden, J. Minor, L. Sundquest, T. Erickson, D. Shiel
THIRD ROW:
Miss Tornstrom, D. Wager, B. Sanderson, B. Smith, L. Lee, J. Madden, J. Larson, J. Nutting, R. Lien, J. Zander, P. Madsen
SECOND ROW:
D. Molin, E. Veit, P. Wicklund, P. Niska, K. Peterson, M. LaCourse, D. Swearingen, D. Presttun, C. Shanks, J. Lyonais, J. Sargent.
FIRST ROW:
G. Leese, H. Paine, B. Swearingen, B. Raymond, M. Mraz, C. Larson, D. Peters, C. Sollid, M. Sandburg, S. Rogers