Askov American., 1943-12-16
Mirror Staff
The Students

Among The Students
Senior News.
The senior class officers are as
follows: President, Muriel Koed; vice
president, Dolores Simonsen; secre-
tary, Norma Miltersen; treasurer,
Shirley Calvin; reporter, Evelyn
Sorensen.
Our class enrolment has dropped
from Is to 6. Lloyd Johnson is in the
navy and is stationed at Farragut,
Idaho. Carl Linge is also in the navy
and stationed at Farragut. Albert
Degerstrom is in the army at Fort
Knox, Kentucky Albin Degerstrom
and Robert Linge are doing their bit
for the war effort by working on the
farm. Richard Frahs and Arvid ELL
son are attending agricultural school
at Grand Rapids. Carl Nielsen, our
southern boy, went back to Virginia
where he was inducted to the armed
forces. Leota Thomson is employed at
the Madison Inn at Sandstone. That
leaves Norma NJ, Dolores S., Muriel
K, Shirley G., Richard H., and Eve
lyn S. as the survivors.
EVELYN S.
Junior News.
The junior class this year is small
compared to the rest of the school.
Class elections were held and the
following people were elected: Presi-
dent, Raymond Olesen; vice president,
Werner Mikkelsen; secretary, Doris
Nielsen, and treasurer, Folmer Fred
eriksen.
In our physics class of nine, there
was a test recently where most Of
us got about so out of possible 100.
We're doing little better on our
second and third tries and might get
by eventually. We hope!
The constitution of the U. S. A.
is the main topic in the junior his
tory class.
In our English class, the matter of
tests confronts and completely baf-
files most of us students, and there
fore, we take the same test again
and again.
BUD P.
Sophomore News.
Our class is very proud of the fact
that one of our classmates got to be
captain of our basketball team. We
hope they will have lots of luck. So
far they've done very well. We also
have three very good cheer leaders
so we're ready for the basketball sea-
son.
Last week we spent two days di-
secting earthworms and frogs. It
wasn't very pleasant job, but it
really was very interesting.
In English we have been reading
narrative and lyric poetry. We have
been studying the meaning of various
other kinds of poetry also.
We have been studying about the
French Revolution in history class.
It seemed quite complicated at first
but now that we are getting some of
the dates untangled it really isn't
so bad.
This week we are busy reviewing
for our six-week tests which are COM
ing up later this week.
GLADYS ].
Freshman News.
In English we have just finished
Lady of the Lake., and are starting
on ballads.
Our algebra class is multiplying
polynomials by polynomials.
In our junior business class we
started to study banking and the diff
ferent kinds of banks.
For science, each pupil of the class
takes his turn at explaining and do
ing experiments before the rest of
us. Donna Chicos was the first one
to do an experiment.
A short while ago, we elected class
officers. They are: President, Otto
Jensen; vice president, John Nelson;
treasurer, Gilbert Clausen; secretary,
Peter Hansen; and reporter, Gladys
Ellison.
GLADYS E.
Grades Z and 8.
The seventh and eighth graders
have organized club which is called
the Victory club. We meet every Fri
day afternoon. For the past two
weeks we have taken out library
books, and are now making reports
on them.
In art, the boys and girls are max
ing Christmas presents for their par
entS.
In eighth grade general science We
have made a weather chart on which
we mark winds, clouds, and the tenn
perature every day.
There are 16 pupils in grade eight,
nine boys and seven girls; in the
seventh grade there are 18 pupils,
nine boys and nine girls.
The people having perfect attend
ance the past nine weeks are Char
lotte Calvin, Ejvind Rasmussen, Lois