Mother was an accomplice

A partner in crime

Jennifer Burklund (Youngman), Class of 1951 tells a funny story.

She and a friend planned to stay overnight in Stadium after an Opera rehearsal. They slipped into one of the bathrooms and hid till everyone left the school, and spent the night staying one or two steps ahead of the custodians.

About midnight one of their moms drove to the back of the school, the girls dropped a long rope, and the mother fastened a basket of food to it and they hauled it up.

In the morning they walked out of the school (no alarms then) and discovered it had snowed the night before. As they walked towards Ranko's Drugstore they passed a teacher on her way to the school. They were scared to death that she would get down there and seeing the footprints, discover what had happened.

To their relief, no one ever said a word.

From Chellis Smith Swenson '53.

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