WHS Championship Basketball team that went to
Madison in 1935
From L. to R.: Coach, John Hanson, #9 Bill Brekke, #6
Henry Zelinski, #10 Bud Norton, #3 Ed Zelinski, #8
Kenny McGrath, #4 Lawrence Monthey, #7 Paul Suski,
#5 Wayne Sherwood.

Though the town was named for Frederick
Weyerhaeuser, founder of our company, an "e"
has been dropped from the last name.
On Labor Day weekend, the small community
celebrated the 60th anniversary of its high school
and held its annual Booster Days parade. In the
parade, a man on stilts carried a placard saying
"It's high  time we put the 'E' back in
Weyerhaeuser!" as one expression of the town's
concern about name correctness.
Through the efforts of this Alumni Association
the "e" was officially put back in WeyerhaEuser.
Julia Tomczak, Jeanette Plascz, and their
helpers put out a delicious banquet, and the music
for all 3 Alumni events was furnished by "Billy
Jasicki and the Country Cousins" orchestra.
Submitted by Gen Olson and Irene Kocik

The first officers of WHS Alumni Assoc.  July 6, 1957

WHS Seniors - 1938

WEYERHAEUSER HIGH
SCHOOL ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION
In the year of 1956 Gen Koehler Olson and
Irene Jasicki Kocik decided that Weyerhaeuser
needed an Alumni Association. They formed a
committee with Gen Olson, President; Lewis
Gillett, Vice President; Della Anderson, Treasurer;
Marilyn Vorce, Kisling, Secretary; and Irene
Kocik, Secretary.
After many hours of trying to find addresses,
which seemed an endless task, we called on Ethel
Garbacz, Helen Jessick, Peter Kozak, Mitch
Oleskow, Chester Bush, Gerald Checkalski, Tony
Daniels, Bernice Susens, and Irene Bogdonowicz,
who all helped to get our file in order.
All the business places and many outsiders
helped with donations, and bought ads for our
booklet.
Thus our first Alumni of the entire school's 44
years, 1913 to 1957, was set for July 6, 1957, with
about 700 people attending this great event. One of
the highlights was having John Hanson, our prin-
cipal from 1930 to 1938, as Master of Ceremonies.
The 50th anniversary of Weyerhaeuser High
School was held July 6, 1963. Two new officers
were elected, Patricia Czekalski and Shirley
Bjerke. Gordon Heuer, a former administrator of
Weyerhaeuser High    School was Master of
Ceremonies. We had as our guest of honor, Helen
Anderson Beerend, only living graduate of the
class of 1913. A short program ended with "The
Halls of Ivy" sung by the Senior Choir of the St.
Peter and Paul Catholic Church. The rest of the
evening was spent dancing and reminiscing.
The 60th reunion was held September 1, 1973.
The officers were: President, Gen Olson; Vice
President, Donald Szozda; Treasurer, Virginia
Szozda; Secretaries, Irene Kocik, Hazel Bush,
Lorraine Biedron. Dick Koehler was Master of
Ceremonies, and our guest speaker was George
Meyers, a former administrator in Weyerhaeuser.
Our president, Gen Olson, contacted the
Weyerhaeuser Company in Tacoma, Washington
about souvenirs for the Alumni. They responded
by  sending   700   coffee  mugs   with   the
Weyerhaeuser emblem on them. The following ar-
ticle was sent to Gen Olson by the Weyerhaeuser
Company in October, 1973:
To "e" or not to "e"?
That was the question raised in a September
festival at Weyerhauser, Wis.
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WHS- 1916

WHS Addition - 1956

MOUNT SENARIO COLLEGE
Mount Senario College in Ladysmith, Wiscon-
sin, opened as a four-year co-educational college in
September of 1962.
After the closing of the Rusk County Normal
School in 1946, it was necessary for the teaching
community, Sisters, Servants of Mary, to find
another school in which to educate their young
Sisters. Thus, in 1952, Our Lady of Sorrows Junior
College was started at the Convent and was af-
filiated with the College of St. Scholastica,
Duluth, Minnesota.
In December of 1961, when it became evident
that this program was becoming too limited, plans
were made for a four-year liberal arts college. The
name was changed to Mount Senario College,
after the birthplace of the Servite Order in
Florence, Italy, the Order to which the Sisters in
Ladysmith belong.
While originally, Mount Senario College was in-
tended for the education of the Sisters, it im-
mediately opened its doors to the lay people of
Ladysmith and the surrounding vicinity.
In announcing the opening of Mount Senario
College, the Ladysmith News wrote on July 26,
1962: "It is news of tremendous importance to our
area."
Orientation took place on September 5 and 6
with placement testing also on the 5th. Registra-
tion was on Friday, September 7.
On Monday, the 10th, a pleasant September
day, the college opened with thirty-three men and
women, lay and religious. The first two lay
students to register were Mollie Rayment of Bruce
who graduated from Mount Senario in 1965, and
Dave Bruha from Ladysmith who completed his
degree in 1966.
Classes were held in St. Ann's, a large white
frame building that had originally been purchased
and remodeled to serve as a nurses' residence for
St. Mary's School of Nursing (1919-1934). Addi-
tional classrooms were added as well as a recrea-
tion room for the students. The library was in the
Convent and some of the classes were held in the
classrooms at the hospital and in the new Servite
High School building, a school for girls which was
closed in 1967 and is now the Fine Arts Building of
the college. A large frame building, erected in
1921, the first motherhouse of the Sisters, served
as a residence hall for the men. The women lived
on the second floor of St. Ann's and later in
Marian Hall, a large house across the highway
which was acquired in 1963. It is presently owned
by Vernon Canfield.
Degrees were offered with a Bachelor of Arts or
Science, in elementary education, English and
History. Since some of the students were teachers
during the day, classes were also offered on
Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings.
The first college administrative officers were
Sister Mary Hyacinth Gullan, dean and registrar,
Sister Mary    Barbara  McManus, business
manager, Sister May Joan LeBlanc, director of

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