News: Abbotsford (2 Sep 1954)

Contact: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Barker, Kramer, Linehan, Laurent, Lindberg, Oehler, Schueler, Schumacher, Stelzel, Vircks

----Source: The Tribune - Phonograph (Abbotsford, WI) 9/16/2015

Originally published in the Abbotsford Tribune, September 2, 1954

School now in progress

School registration and beginning classes made up the schedule on Monday at the Abbotsford grade and high school. Regular classes were conducted Tuesday.

Enrollment for the graded were 171 and for the high school 167.

Mrs. Ann Schumacher has 22 pupils in the first grade; Mrs. Vivian Kramer, second grade, 29 pupils; Mrs. Genevieve Linehan, third grade, 15; Miss Minna Schueler, fifth grade, 20; Mrs. Erma Vircks, sixth grade, 25; Mr. Edith Laurent, seventh grade, 29; and Mrs. Louise Stelzel, eighth grade, 16 pupils.

In the high school, the total enrollment is 167 with the freshman and senior classes each numbering 46, the sophomores, 39, and the juniors, 36. The freshman class is the second largest in the history of the school. When the present senior class started out as freshmen, they numbered the all-time high of 53.

At the hot lunch program which started Tuesday, there were 78 from the high school and 22 from the grades, This number will increase as the weather gets colder. Mrs. Cecil Oehler, who is in charge, is again being assisted by Mrs. John Lindberg. Mrs. George Barker is also helping in this department.