Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
The WHS alumni and guests here include (left side): Betty Chase, Jim Hansen, Ivan Keve, Dorne Hall, Velma Mock Sickles and Rena Hansen; (right side from right) Jane Butler, Irma Crall Gilbertson, Spike Gilbertson and Wade Wolfe.
WAITSBURG - The 107th Waitsburg Alumni Banquet was held Saturday night in the Multi-purpose room AT Waitsburg Elementary. One hundred twentytwo turned out for the dinner. The meeting was conducted by Jim Leid, President.
Sally Chase Baker, ('61) from Austin, Minn., traveled the farthest. She and her husband Glen ('59) were in Waitsburg with Sally's mother ('38), Bettie Chase. Bettie is celebrating her 72nd year. She was the only one present from her Class of 1938.
Jim Hanson and Ivan Keve were from the Class of 1939. Alumni of Class of 1940 were not there. Members of the Class of 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 58, 59, 62, 63, 65, 66, 69, 70, 71, 74, 80, 95, 2002, and 2010 were among the 101 graduates who signed the entry slip given to them. Twenty-one spouses or friends accompanied alumni to the banquet.
It was noted that at least 1/3 of the 2010 class were away to four different sports tournaments.
Margie Gagnon pointed out that five generations of Gagnons graduated from Waitsburg schools, starting with the Waitsburg Academy in the early 1900's.
Jim Wood said that in 1944, when Dan Wood started school, there had always been a Wood in the school system. Such a continuous prodigy from his parents, Mabel and Francis Wood, Jim and Denise Woods' grandson, Tyler, son of Todd, is now in the 6th grade and their granddaughter, Rhiannon Chapman, is a freshman at WHS.
Jace is the ninth generation in the Zuger line to graduate from Waitsburg. The son of Greg ('76) and Kelly Branson-Zuger ('81), his grandfather H.V. "Bill" Zuger graduated in'49 and his grandmother, Janice Roberts Zuger, in 1946. Great-grandmother Florence Buroker-Zuger graced the halls of WHS in 1928, as did great grandparents Henry and Adda Beckley-Roberts in 1925.Great-great grandparent Armeda Holloway-Zuger donned her gown in 1929.
The alumni were reminded of the Lloyd Memorial Loan Fund available to graduates planning to attend college, community colleges or technical school for 1 year or for the first year at a 4-year college. The fund has grown to $32,000.
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