NORTH SANPETE HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM 1940 ~~~ From the Betty Gunderson Woodbury Collection

 

SOMEBODY'S BIRTHDAY ~~~ GUESS WHO ???

 

Home of Jacob Jacobsen and his wife Rosella Marie Porter ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Home of Ole Arilsen and wife Maria Dortte Jacobsen ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Hamilton Elementary ~~~ 1955-56 ~~~~Betty Dase, Teacher

Hamilton Faculty 1936-37 ~~~Hamilton Band 1933-34

Hamilton Elementary Band 1937

Lions Club Recreation Activity ~ Summer 1929

Recreational activity sponsored by the Lions Club summer 1929. Instructors, not pictured, were Vernal Christensen and Dee Keusseff


Picture taken by Arthur Childs on steps of Johns Gym, Wasatch Academy
First row lf to rt: Rex Matson, Buddy Christensen, Robert Christensen, Gordon Brunger, unk, Ray Freston, Phil Squires, Dale Christensen, Leon Holman, Dewey Fillis, Allen Olsen, Shirly Madsen
2nd row lf to rt: Jake Johnson, Bob Rasmussen, unk, R W Christensen, Ferd Nelson, Bry Christensen, unk, unk
3rd row lf to rt: unk, Doyle Draper, Don Anderson, Bry Jacobs (white shirt), Fred Rasmussen, Rex Syndergarrd, Arron Jones, Emil Lund, Joe Matson
4th row lf to rt: Jean Brunger, Ruth Christensen (blurred), Leone Larsen, Beth Lund, unk, Leslie Candland, unk, Beth Hansen, unk, unk
Top row lf to rt: Dr Holman, unk, unk, unk Camille Holman, Miriam Candland, unk, unk, Coach Brunger holding Tommie Brunger, LR Christensen, Joseph Matson,
(Sent to us by Lee R. Christensen)

Hub City Jubilee Pageant Thrills Over 1500 People ~~~~~~~~~~~ 1947-06-06 ~~~~ Mt. Pleasant Pyramid

1937 Hamilton School Band Submitted by Betty Gunderson Woodbury

Jacob Jacobsen and wife Rosella Marie Porter Home ~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Mrs. Niels Pihl (Peel) Jensen Celebrates Her 80th Birthday ~ 1952

Note:  The middle name should be Pihl, the Danish rendition for Peel.

Hamilton Elementary 1956-57 Mrs Dase 5th Grade

Hamilton Elementary 1957-58 Fifth Grade

Hamilton Elementary Sixth Grade 1958-59

POLLY WITH A PAST ~ A Comedy With Three Acts and Ads of that Era ~ NSH 1929 ~ Alice Hafen Collection

Choir Party and Ward Social ~Benefit of Dewey Scow

from Carrie Hafen's Saved Clippings

Hamilton Band 1937- Marsden Allred Director

double click to enlarge.  Names and their positions are approximate.

taken from Betty Gunderson Woodbury Collection

Lee's Memory of A.E. Jones

Like all of my activities then and now I started clarinet playing with great enthusiasm.  Reached quickly a very modest plateau which I maintained through eighth grade and then dropped off freshman year high school.  I was never better than last chair clarinet section and in 6th had 4th graders ahead of me.

I played away from the band in public twice.  First in a 5th grade class program I played a solo, "There's an Old Spinning Wheel." There was no encore. Second, Wayne and I played  a duet before his mother's social club.  Why me?  When it could have been Phil Squires.  Even Wayne is wondering that today.  I was so bad at keeping time that Wayne put his foot on mine to tap the beat.  Again, there was no encore.  But as I remember, we finished together.

By eighth grade, Junior High I was an accomplished faker.  Or maybe Paul Webb, the band leader, didn't care.  I wasn't ruining the performance for the rest of the band.  Then, even today as I write this I'm starting to squirm in my chair.  A.E. Jones, the district Superintenant , a former music teacher visited the band practice.  He immediately notice the lack of so much as a twang from the faker in the clarinet section.  The rest of the band hour was devoted to the musical education of Lee Christensen.  Paul Webb's contract was not renewed and the rumor around town was that the faker in the clarinet section was responsible.  A.E.'s son, Kenneth was one of the 4th graders ahead of me in the section.

I was never much of a performer.  As a sophomore seven of us danced as Snow White's dwarfs in  Margaret Nielson's dance revue.  We were so out of step, everyone thought it burlesque.  Newel, Billy Beck and Lyn Poulsen were three of the hoffers.  Because I wore glasses, I was Dumbo of the group. 

And then in an all male senior year, one act play, performed but once at assembly I forgot my lines.  Because I couldn't hear the prompter, I pulled the script from my pocket; looked up the forgotten line and read it.  Haberbosch still remembered forty years later when he saw me at our 40th (Class Reunion at Wasatch).  Told me he gave up directing after that.

Years earlier after one of my on-stage performances, A.E. Jones corrected my presentation.  This was at an Armistice Day Assembly, probably  eighth grade, where L.R. Christensen Jr. dressed as a WW1 soldier was telling the audience how the war started.  I kept confusing Serbia with Siberia.  After my presentation A.E. took me aside and explained the difference.  I doubt that I wrote the script so we must have had a confused teacher.  A.E. probably wondered why with about eighty teachers in the District he had to be the one to straighten out the Christensen kid.

I don't know what happened to A.E. and his family after they left Mt. Pleasant.  He was at one time president of Carbon Junior College.  He died in San Luis Obispo, California so may have been affiliated with Cal-Poly the university there.  He was an outstanding educator, but good as he was he couldn't make a clarinet player out of me.  L.R.

1958 First Ward Sunday School Class - Tom Brotherson, Teacher

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