May 13, 1926 Contracts Are Let for Completion of the Brookings High School Building When the high school was originally built in 1921, the board evidently lacked enough money to complete the structure. This contract "provides for the completion of the entire second floor of the building. The new auditorium will be the chief feature, as it will provide a place for all the school activities--band work, music, debates, public performances, and the like. It will be strictly up to date and will seat approximately 500. Seven new class rooms will be aailable, and the domestic science, normal training and physics equipment will all be moved to the new building."
June 3, 1926 Class of 38 Receive First Holy Communion--Statue of St. Therese also unveiled at Catholic Ceremony
First Holy Communion is a milestone for a young Catholic.One of those young Catholics was James V. Connelly. Would this be an uncle to Robyn? One of the two girls who unveiled the statue of St. Therese "The Little Flower" was Mary Connelly. Would this be Robyn's aunt? The pastor at that time was Fr. Francis Xavier Dooley. He was also the pastor when many of us received First Holy Communion. Below is our First Holy Communion picture. Can you identify them?
Summer 1929 (forgot to write the exact date) Several School Houses Reported as the Oldest.
One of those listed is District 79, located south of Volga. It was erected in 1884.
Nov. 14, 1929 Loses Two Toes "Milton Moxon, 18-year-old son of Geo. Moxon, is minus two toes on one of his feet, the result of a hunting accident on Sunday. He was carrying his gun under his arm and is not sure how it happened, but believes that in some way the trigger caught on his jacket and was discharged. The load struck the two middle toes, and lacerated them so badly they had be be amputated. He has a mighty sore foot foot, but otherwise is getting along all right." It just so happened that a couple of days after I had come across this article, there was a couple in the library looking for some historical data on their family. After we exchanged pleasantries, I found out they were cousins of Tom Moxon.
July 31, 1930 Brookings School Had Very Humble Beginning Back in Winter of 1979-80. Two of the early teachers were Mrs. Horace Fishback and her sister Miss Leona Van Dusen.
May 10, 1934 Some of State's Grid Hopes For Next Season One of the players pictured is "Arndt, Tackle." This would be Al Arndt, father of Jim (class of 1968), and owner of Al's Sport Shop, where many of us purchased our baseball gloves, bats, basketball,s footballs, etc.
May 9, 1935 Wm. Connelly Dies at Elkton, Aged81: Was Early Pioneer This is Robyn's great- grandfather. Grandson Morrell Connelly ( Robyn's father) was a pallbearer.
May 23, 1935 Local Boys Named on Freshman Crack Platoon at College Harvey Schroeder (Nanette's father) of Bruce was selected to be a member of the "freshman crack drill platoon of State College...The crack drill platoon is constantly in demand to give exhibitions of their pleasing show at different occasions of the year such as Armistice and Memorial Days, the Military ball and other occasions of the like."
Mal(sic) 14, 1935 (Should this be May 14?) New Chief of Police, City Attorney Appointed--Jas. J. Collenny to Head Police, E. A. Berke City Counsel (sic) James J. Connelly is Robyn's grandfather. He was chief of police for a long time (til early 60's perhaps?)
April 10, 1935 Estelle Dickson Is Captured at Kansas City, Bullets End Career of Husband-Bank Robber 16- year old Estelle Dickson and her 27-year old husband Benny were the pair who robbed the Northwest Security National Bank in Brookings and the Corn Exchange Bank in Elkton. "Benny's abrupt killing and Estelle's capture elicited little comment in Brookings." The vice-president and manager of the Security bank stated that "he was glad they got Benny and the capture of Estelle seemed to be the next logical step."
April 13, 1939 Lenore Bork Becomes Bride of Virgil Braley Would Lenore Bork be a relative of Carol Bork of our class? One of Virgil Braley sons is Steve Braley, who was a year ahead of us in school. My recollection of Steve is from Little League baseball. He was a pretty good ballplayer. The family moved to Huron around 1963.
April 10, 1930 Why Study Halls Should Be Abolished This item by a Gordon Olson is an unsolicited editorial from the high school newspaper The Broboca. It seems appropriate to quote the letter in full (mistakes are as they appeared in the original):
"Study halls in certain and frequent instances are abstructive to the idea that if the teacher is not in the room, they can raise whoopee! These tactics do more harm than good. This condition discourages the studious pupils that want to study.
Study halls are merely places to study; therefore why should person who do not want to study be required to remain there.
In the morning before homeroom period the best conditions in regard to quiet and the amount of studying that can be done, exist.
The elimination of compulsory study halls would also benefit the teachers. Instead of being required to parole a study hall, they would be able to work with and advise students who need additional instruction.
Not only would the faculty benefit, but students would be able to go home, play, work, study in comfort or do many other things more interesting than sleeping in study halls. This arrangement was successfully tried three years ago. Why wouldn't it succeed again?
The abolition of study halls would shift more responsibility to the students. This would undoubtedly contribute toward a more successful post--high life, wherein he will be forced to exercise initiative.
If we look at the problem solely from the viewpoint of how the presence or absence of study halls affects the students studies, we again find evidence to indicate that these study periods should not be required.
In that only a few can take advantage of the library at one time and no one can leave the building to seek information, a student sometimes sits and does nothing. For these reasons as well as others unenumerated, study halls should be abolished."
April 17, 1939 Letters To The Editor (From the Broboca) Open Letter to Gordon Olson:
Will all due appreciation to the editorial on "Why We Should Abolish Study Halls," this is being written to show the one and only disadvantage.
The big catch would be sleep! Where would we of the student body catch up on our sleep if it were not the nice soft, well cushioned seats of the study halls (Oh, yeah!). Can you think of anything nicer than, after a hard night, to go into study hall and sleep? No! We plead with Mr. Lynott and the school board not to do away with our one and only means of getting a bare two hours sleep a day! Spare us this one meager pleasure that we have from 8:30 a. m. to 4 p. m. If this is done you will have our hearty and sincere thanks.
(Signed) Study Hall Snoozer.
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