Looking Back
News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts
25 Years Ago
September 5, 2001
It’s a big jump from playing trumpet in the Bertha Grade School Band to being first-chair trumpet player in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Adolph “Bud” Herseth did just that! According to a news story in the Chicago Tribune, in 1988 Herseth had performed on the stage of the Chicago Orchestra Hall for 40 years. Bud came to Bertha in the fall of 1929 when his father, Adolph Herseth, Senior, became superintendent of the Bertha School. Bud was in the third grade at that time.
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The Bertha-Hewitt Bears volleyball team began their season last week with two wins. The Bears defeated Browerville Tuesday 3-0. Trista Kneisl was perfect from the serving line with 24 good serves and mustering up 21 points. Courtney Stach and Nichole Haase led the Bears in the hitting and blocking departments.
75 Years Ago
September 6, 1951
An increase of 16 in the junior and senior high school enrollment helped to set a new record enrollment at the Bertha School. The total enrollment in school has now reached 390.
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A former Bertha girl returned Monday after spending three years in a country “where life is still in the 16th century.” Valera Harris, daughter of Mrs. Annabelle Harris and a graduate of Bertha High School in 1938, has been employed the past three years by the Ethiopian government as a missionary teacher.
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