Looking Back

News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts

25 Years Ago

May 3, 2000

Bertha-Hewitt Teacher of the Year is Band Director Ken Nelson. He has served in the band director position at the Bertha-Hewitt School for 23 years. Mr. Nelson was in the band room finishing a band lesson when he heard David Adams, student council president, announce that Nelson was Teacher of the Year over the PA system.

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Amanda Kneisl and Emily Rach, fifth graders at Bertha-Hewitt School, were winners of a poster contest which was the final activity of a presentation called Tar Wars. Tar Wars is an anti-tobacco use program developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians and sponsored locally by the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians.

75 Years Ago

May 4, 1950

Bertha High School music students will be heard during the annual spring concert to be held Friday evening. Musical groups taking part will include the boys’ glee club, girls’ triple trio, mixed chorus, mixed quartet and the band. In solo roles are Joann Maine and Maxine Heuer and instrumentalists Delmar Kotz on the cornet and Charles Bottemiller on the clarinet.

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Bill Fraune is on his way to Germany. The proprietor of the Bertha Cafe left Wednesday afternoon for Minneapolis with Mr. and Mrs. L.H. Cary. He was scheduled to leave Minneapolis by plane at 10:20 a.m. with a stop in New York. Bill has probably been the most excited person in Bertha the past few days as he prepared for the trip. It will be his first time in 14 years that he has seen his 80-year-old mother and four brothers.

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