The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-04-19
THE FIRST JUNIOR BALL EVER

THE FIRST JUNIOR BALL EVER
given by any class of the Sank Centre
high school was danced on Friday eve
ming, April thirteenth, in the Junior
High auditorium. Previous to this
time the Juniors have always invited
the Seniors to ten or twelve course
banquet. at which these honorable ell
ders were always dined and toasted,
in manner befitting their
rank. But, believing that the
present Seniors, Notwithstanding their
dignity, would rather dance than eat
the ingenious Juniors, the class OF
nineteen eighteen, issued invitations
for a real Junior Prom.
These little pieces of white card
board with the simple announcement,
"Junior Prom Junior Auditorium,
aroused the curiosity of the ordinar-
lily bored-with-life Seniors. They piled
the Juniors with questions, "What's it
going to be like?" "Any fun ?" To all
of which the Junior nodded wise heads
and said ,"Wait and see. Better dress
your prettiest."
- And therefore, with one accord, the
Senior class to a boy-and girl
dressed their prettiest and came to the
party. The first glimpse was most
encouraging. Instead of the bleak,
barren gymnasium, the scene of so
many hard fought basket ball battles,
they saw a room sparkling in its soft
lights, cozy with its ferns and potted
plants, and gay with its colors of the
two classes, blue and gold for the Sen
iors and purple and white for the Jun
iors. These colors were everywhere,
festoons of it stretched across the hall,
between and around the pillars. At
one end of the gymnasium was the
Junior 1918 banner and at the other
was the 1917 Senior one. The frappe
booth, in one corner of the hall, in
vited thirsty terpsichorians to drink
and be refreshed.
Then when the Mandolin club pick
ed off slow one-step, the grand
march, led by Mr.. and Mrs. Aygarn
and Mr.. and Mrs. McGibbon, began,
Then indeed did the Seniors smile
broadly and for that reason the Jun
iors began to breath easily. This
grand march was different from most
for although, it started out slowly and
sedately, giving each girl chance to
show off her dress and yet inspect the
dresses of all her friends, it ended in
a romp. Mr.. and Mrs. Aygarn wound
the marchers up to such an extent in
one figure that they couldn't find theil
partners and while looking for them
each person lost his cohstraint. "On
with the dance, let joy be unconfined.'
There was everything to make q
memorable Prom. "Peppy" music
nice, clean, waxed floor, favor dances
at which flags and horns were given
away, and last, but not least, "gooe
eats"
Just as the Seniors were beginning
to think that a little food at least
would not be amiss, ten Freshmen
girls threw open the doors of the
lunch room adjoining the gymnasium
and invited the guests to have ice
cream and cake. Then toasts, a rem
nant of the banqueting years, were re-
sponded to by members of both class
es, Mr.. Aygarn acting as POSTMASTER.
Even these reflected the blithesome,
airy spirit characteristic of the Prom.
The following were the toasts: Carol
Pangburn, pres. Senior class, "ThesIr-
responsibilities of the Prom. as Con-
trasted with those of Last Year,"
Aloysius Diebel, president of Junior
class, "Trials of Giving Prom; Lii
liam Schaub, 1.-THE Prom. from the
Girls Point of View" Charles Allen,
Basket Ball Versus Proms."; Mr..
Stephl, advising the Giving of a
Prom; Dewey O'Gara, song, "What
We Think of Seniors"