The last time a graduating class walked across the stage at the school in Trent, it was 1966, and in the quiet little town on the southern edge of the county, it’s been awhile since the alumni have gotten together.
Someone thought Marlene Husaboe might do something about it.
She did.
This past weekend, Husaboe helped organize a small gathering of students that still consider themselves Warriors. There were a few dozen in attendance in the gymnasium that now is community gathering space versus a school.

And for as long as people come, she’ll keep doing it, she said. She just hopes more from the community might start attending so that neighbors stay close in the tiny town of just over 200
“Today, everyone is kind of into their own thing and I just don’t feel we get together enough. My mom used to live in the house we do now and she used to have a block party, I’m not that ambitious,” said Husaboe.
“But I would love to see more people come from the community so that we get to know each other. I work on the election board and people come in that live across the street and I don’t even know them.”
Five graduates were in attendance that attended the Trent School building the first year it opened in 1959. Yearbooks sat on a table in the entryway to remind them of other classmates, many of whom have passed. All the more reason, attendees say, to stay connected and getting together.
“Trent is such a nice little community,” said Bernie Scherff, who moved to Trent when she married her husband, Alvin, 58 years ago.
“We’ve a whole bunch of the original Trent people since then, but it’s always been a nice small community, and it stays small, which is good. People are just so friendly, nice, and they are good people. We hope more start to come to these kinds of events.”