East Lansing High School - Ceniad Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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P. W. A. MARCHES CDN On March eighth, with the opening of the new building , East Lansing faculty, students, and citizens enjoyed the high point of this year in ELHS his- tory. At last the long-anticipated plan for a junior-senior high school organiza- tion in East Lansing was established, and those of us who walked through the new annex were aware that the seemingly long period spent in its construction was not at all wasted. To comprehend fully just what the new addition means, one must go back to the time the project was begun. One day last year our first period teachers read us an announcement to the effect that contracts had been let for a new addition to our building, Being students, we were wary of false alarms and of visions of an Eldorado to be. Water passed under the bridge, and one day, those of you in sixth period French class will remember, a diabolical noise came from nearby, getting closer and closer. No, it wasn't any of the boys playing tag in cars, it proved to be a chugging truck pulling a very large trailer and on the very large trailer re- posed a steam shovel-not a toy one like you used to play with, but the real McCoy. Well, some one building a house, thought many. One morning, some time later, the building suddenly rocked and shook throughout. Those of us who were burning the midnight oil just recently would say it resembled that earthquake. However, it was not recorded over at the University of Michigang so we investigated further. Why, they had knocked off our back steps! Finally the realization dawned that we really were to have an addition to our school. All scandal gave precedence to the more exciting topic, the new building. However, those in the cynical side surmised it would be only a dinky affair. The steam shovel broke the ground and dug and dug and dug. It was more interesting to listen to than the dull drone of the flies which wann weather had brought, decided the majority of the school. Where there is noise and action, there is a crowd of loafers-straw bosses. And so it proved in this case, Up on the third floor they hung out of the windows like grass turns green in spring, and the more sophisticated and solemn, taking a quick look when they thought no one would see them, were really surprised when they saw the size of the hole the new building was to occupy. Even the flies fell asleep and were caught and put to death. This was a sign that vacation was coming, and sure enough, it did! Many of us went away for the summer: some traveled to and from cottage, farm or what-have-you to East Lansing. ln this way they were able to keep track of the progress made. During the summer a brick shell was completed and the little neighborhood boys had a grand time playing around it. Such was the condition that existed when we retumed to school in the fall. Rat-a-tat-tat! Rat-a-tat-tat!-One Chicago girl, who had joined us, felt tContinued on Page 30 I6

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ws. CLASS OFFICERS PRZISIDE N T ....... ........ E LDON FOLTZ 91 CRI T IRI' ..... ..... I XULISNIS SIQGER IRIJSLRLR ................. DORA GOWISR CLASS MOTTO 1 ' The elevator to success is out of orderg Use the , stairs A ,. cuss coroizs 059-'W Blue and Gold f ciixss rrowieu 1 Iris Mn Ill NX LQ E Q l lCE-PRISSIDENT ...... CHARLES LEIGIITON I I .. 1. ,. '. X I tl' T l 4.55 p . I N X SENIOR CLASS HISTGRY ..-..-l'!ear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! froll of clrumsl. The Senior class, chuck full of pep and enthusiasm, Croll of drums! presents the Town Crier of ELHS froll of drumsl. I ----This is Foltz speaking. lVlay I impose upon your kindness so much as to tell you briefly of the highlights in the travels of this class of 1937? With high hopes and colors flying, the class, in the eighth grade, led by Charles Leighton, approached high school much as Admiral George Dewey in Manilla Bay approached the Philippine Islands, if you will. They started their trip off with a bang by giving a rollicking party for themselves. They showed that they were willing to pay their own way when the conductor collected ninety- nine percent of the fares owed but even then they were forced to bow to the class of '36, I can see again the disappointment on those earnest faces. As freshmen their originality took firm root and sprouted when they called the annual freshman party the 'Trosh Frolicn. At this event the whole school became acquainted with the class whose colors were blue and gold. This part of the trip was traveled with Raymond Smith as guide. The halfway-place , if you please, was reached on this happy-go-lucky journey in the year I935 and, staying here as sophomores, they took a pleasure cruise on the S. S. '37 with Captain Stafseth and invited the school. Everyone who went agreed that the time was well spent. I think a fighting spirit much like that of Dewey's eager men was shown when the class in their Junior year, under the competent guidance of Andy Hays, kept up with the year's calender events so admirably. They stopped long enough to present a fascinating melodrama The Streets of New York to an enthusiastic audience, and I think these travelers never before seemed so gay as when, in a Japanese Garden, they gave a colorful and beautiful l-Hop. To the departing Seniors they extended a sincere and regretful good-bye at a crowded Junior-Senior banouet in june, thereby ending a year more eventful and happy than any before had seen. The Senior Mixer was a joyous beginning for the school year of I936-37 for everyone, showing that these class members had lost no pep along the way. And. by the wav, they exhibited their civic alertness, too, by making it a Political Rally to reflect the national election campaign at that time. The iContinued on Page 3-U 18