Journal

The second journal for 1945 covers March 1 to April 30 and is written in a Scotch spiral notebook. Topics include school, where Lundquist continues to do well academically. After scoring in the top 100 of 3,319 students who take a test sent out by the University of South Dakota, he takes a second test in Aberdeen. School activities include service as Student Council vice president, chair of the Camera Club, master of ceremonies at a party given by the club, and co-chairman of the Junior-Senior Prom. He continues to run the school’s movie projector. He covers basketball tournaments, in which Webster wins the regional tournament and loses to Madison in “the most exciting game I have ever seen” at the state tournament in the Mitchell Corn Palace. Lundquist explores options for his future, considering finishing high school at Northern Normal in Aberdeen during the summer and then entering a radar program offered by the Navy. He continues to write articles for the “Websterian” and participates in pastimes that include volleyball, hiking, bowling, camping, building a raft, the Boy Scouts paper drive, listening to the radio, going to movies (“The Sign of the Cross,” ”Fleck and Fantasy,” “Ghost Catchers,” “Winged Victory,” and “Circumstantial Evidence,” “Blondie and Dagwood,” and a “lousy” cowboy film). He notes on April 16 that Webster received 3-4 inches of snow. Lundquist allocates much space to World War II news. He reports on April 4: “The war in Europe is going very well now. The Ruhr has been surrounded and better than 100,000 Germany troops have been trapped. The American first Army swept around the east side of the Ruhr and met Monty’s army that was going west of the Ruhr. In the Pacific, the Americans have a firm beach head on Okinawa, 300 miles from Japan.” On April 12, he writes about President Roosevelt’s death.

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