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Mystery almost solved

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Identity of one debate team member unknown
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Mavis Fodness

A former Luverne High School student revealed the identities of 15 classmates recently depicted in a book about high school sports and activities in Minnesota.
Helen Probst, a LHS Class of ’39 graduate, wrote the Star Herald from her Oroville, California, home with the student names.
“I knew most of them,” Probst said in a phone interview Monday. She, after all, attended classes with the girls more than 80 years ago.
Probst thinks most, if not all, have already died.
The two pictures ­— one of the 1937 LHS girls’ basketball team and the other of the 1932 LHS debate team — appeared in the book, “Minnesota State High School League 100 Years of Memories.”
The story about the book and its Luverne connections appeared in the March 10 edition of the Star Herald.
The book didn’t identify the 16 girls by name in the two photographs but the article hoped someone locally could.
Probst’s note pointed to her brother Helmer Haakenson of Luverne, who could also help identify the students.
“I have a good memory for faces,” the 97-year-old Haakenson said.
Both, however, were stumped by one student’s identity on the debate team.
Names on the accompanying pictures are the ones Probst knew in high school.
“I don’t remember their married names,” she wrote in her note.

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