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CLASS WILL-1943 We, of the Senior Class of Midland Senior High School, leaving three jumps ahead of the faculty, leave these various comments and suggestions in hopes that all will benefit thereof: With immense satisfaction we leave the faculty for better or for worse. We leave the Juniors our rusty jack-knives so they can leave their mark, too. To the Sophomores we leave our dignity and sophis- tication. To the Freshmen we leave our dusty dried-out hopes. Chuck Varga High wills his uncensored drawings to the Vic Tribune covers. Marilyn Hunter wills her wild manner to Peggy Browne. Karl Bird leaves his flirting ability to Gerald Best. Jack Lee leaves everything, including Rockie, to his brothers. Henry Carpenter leaves his smooth looks to Tom Glamour-Puss Sinclair. Helen Dudley leaves Fred Lee to whoever will have him. Rod Doc Towsley leaves to grow up. Dale Atchinson leaves his F.F.A. pin to the future tarmerettes. Jerry Bartosek wills his B card to Nancy Collings so she can still get around. Leta Harding leaves her debonair manner to Mimi and Catherine. Doug Lee leaves his wit to Frddie Blackout Black- hurst. Van Arsdale Demske leaves his blond tresses to Betty Arndt. Joyce Jerk Holser leaves to get a steady before '44. Helen Queenie Sampson wills her queen's crown to next year's able beauty. 'Bob Moe Hunt leaves his filibustering in the Union Board to Don Lee. . Eleanor Stewart wills Doug, Am I ever ettin out 9 Q of here? Bark her brains. Jean McPhillips wills her cheerie hellos to Ruth Winston. Hi Visger leaves his athletic ability to Jim Doolittle. Willobelle Lyons leaves the men-she's engaged. Dot Walker wills her dancing ability to Jim Kendall. Bill Murphy leaves Phyllis Lowry to either a Fresh- man or a 4F. Dale Why do they call me Dirty? Gerstacker leaves his gentleness and quiet manners to Gordon Allen. Edith Adams and Myrtle Haskins leave to ioin their men through matrimony. Donna Mine's Natural Metcalf wills her red hair to JoAnne Callan. Nate Noeske leaves his football shoes to Dick Wil- Iiarhs. Don Christone wills his little black book to Scotty McCandless. Barbara Browne does not leave Mike Sias. Ruth Stein leaves her trim figure to Elayne l lost two pounds yesterday Cookson. Barbara Smith wills her bashfulness around the boys to Putt I finally got him Smith. Donna Mathews leaves to be another Rosie the Riveter. And at lost, John FIippo Morris wills the Flippant to the biggest sucker. PROPHECY-CLASS OF '43 East side, west side. Man! Has Midland grown! They say that Ace High's big helicopter plant has brought the biggest percentage of people to Midland since the big fox-fur rush in l952. A word about this fox-fur business. Henry Bugs Carpenter started it- a rumor that faxes had dug into a radium mine and become coated with it. However, enough of such stuff. I was walking around the town, or rather, city, and marveling at the changes time had wrought. In the school I ran into some old friends. Imagine my surprise to find Doug Lee lthe boss of the familyl, the janitor, married to Red Bennett and both-not one, but both- down on their knees scrubbing the halls. Will wonders never cease? El Stewart is now girls' physical ed. teacher and her ol' pal lhicll Helen Dudley is dietitian in the cafe lschool cafeteria to youi. Donna Metcalf still doesn't know what the score is! Willy Lyons, who still.retains her maiden name after six unfortunate weddings, is Chemistry Professor now, as Doc Tweedy moved to Iceland. Frank 'Ears l?l Behr is the big noise lor smelll in the Dow perfume works, and doing very well, too. Charlie Whipple has isolated a new organism, Whip- pliteers--King Sized which he claims will completely change the corn situation. John The Mayor of Our City Lee, after his affair with that Rockwell kid in high school, has for some reason or other developed a strange interest in tall, slim females. And he's' still a wolf. In mentioning Mayor Lee one always thinks of Ross lDonl. Our man Donald now drives a Buick, vintage of l928. Too many girls l?i loved him for his car in high -school and his mind snapped. Dick Kohls still wakes up screaming when he dreams of the Vic Tribune. Poor boy! Don't know what would happen if Bobbie lnee Paddockl lain't that fate?I weren't there to comfort him. The elder of the Pad- dock girls, Emma Joy or something like that, has re- signed herself to her switchboard for the rest of her days. Senorita Sola and her doves are now playing at the Gayity, which is managed by Gracie Britton. Leo Dean and Ruth Stein, the famous stage lovers, are starring at the Frolic lyes, I said Frolicl Theatre in a revised edition of Hasty Pudding. Charles Ducky High lthat other High boyl is starving in a garret. lt seems that Ducky started drawing landscapes. Ron Carsen Lowry has g'one off his nut! He's been trying to solve that joke which shows the ski tracks, one on each side of a tree, for thirteen years now. Might l also say that Ron is bowlegged now? There was a little celebration today. Bob Hunt, with tears in his eyes, got his long-awaited job of county drain commissioner. Major General Dale D l D for Dirty l Gerstacker and Rear Admiral James DeWese stood by to congratulate Bob as he accepted the job from Mayor Lee. Ah, Time, thou ever present of all things, where are the members of the Class of '43 today? Only you know -some time our lsobll grandchildren will know. Until then we are, Obeediuntly yours, ROD TOWSLEY, DON CHRISTONE, DONNA METCALF, MARY JANE PADDOCK.
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CLASS HISTORY Starting off our four-year fling in this new high school was rather stunning at first. After about a week, though, we came out of the daze and swung into politics. As a result, Tom Nehil was elected President, Dick Kohls, Vice-President, Joyce Holser, Secretary-Treasurer, Barb Murch, girl representative, and Jim Hayden, boy repre- sentative. The following November 3, we entered an Armistice Day float contest, sponsored by the Varsity Club as part of the Homecoming events. Our float, with the theme Men in Helmets as represented by boys at one end of the float dressed as football players and boys at the otherend sitting in,a machine-gun nest, won first prize of 55, which was, at that time, very helpful to the Class Treasury. A On February l6th of the next year, we sponsored our class party, called Astronomy Strut. For this festive oc- casion we imported The Stardusters from Clare. lNo doubt you all have heard of this great orch.l After this, we ambled along until the end of the year, at which time we feverishly crammed for the finals, and then- No longer green little' Freshmen .we entered our Sophomore year bold and unafraid. l??l We started the year off right with Dave Nicholas as President, Jack lsonl Lee, Vice-President, Lennis Britton, Secretary- Treasurerg Tom Nehil, Boy-representative, and Aileen Manwell, Girl-representative. The distinguished Sophomore class had the distin- guished distinction of giving the first party of l94l and the last one before school ended in June of that year. The former was a record dance with the fantastical title of Surrealist Nightmare . Prizes were given to Buzz Bennett and Angeline Commora for wearing the loudest colors that night. The latter party was a creation of the well-known High Boys and was named appropriately after its theme, The Plantation Ramble Thus we ended another year of advancement. Oh happy day! At last we are being recognized by the younger classmen and have only one stronger race above us. Bob Shoemaker was chosen as the leader of our class, assisted by Dale Gerstacker as Vice-President. Aileen Manwell took over the responsibilities of Secre- tary-Treasurer. Barb Murch was elected Girl-representa- tive and Rod' Towseley was elected to the Boy-repre- sentative post. Due to Aileen ManweIl's moving from our fair city to live in another town Jean McPhillips was chosen to fill her vacancy. Annual Homecoming Events again were popular. Helen Red Bennett was chosen as a representative from our class to serve in the Queen's Court. A float was entered in the Homecoming Parade in the form of' Pres. Bob Shoemaker's stationwagon cleverlyl?l dec- orated. The best party of our career and certainly the most outstanding party of the year was the Junior dance, better' known as Kris Kringle Kopers, with music furnished by the popular band, Eddie Shay, and based on the Christmas theme. Another event sponsored by the illustrious class of '43 was proved successful in the form of a class play, Spring Fever . Eleanor Stewart and Bob Shoemaker were the two lucky students chosen for the Annual Honor Award sponsored by the University of Michigan Alumni group. They spent a glorious weekend at the college. Finally, exams and the Junior-Senior Banquet crept up on us. The traditional banquet was held at the Country Club with a college band sufficing the music. Jack Lee as general chairman of the affair achieved some grand results. Smoky really covered himself with glory with his super speech! Once more we felt triumphant over a party given by Our Class. As we close our class books and prepare for a peaceful summer to come back as proud seniors we have a touch of sadness in our hearts ii' ' Our last year in high school. An even tie for the capacity of President between Nate Noeske and Jim Bandeen was the result of the senior elections. Nate won after a re-election. Dale Gerstacker was elected Vice-President, Iris Bywater, Secretary, l'-li Visger, Treasurer, and Mike Sias and Loretta Zondolak, Union Board Representatives. Because of his job Mike found it- impossible to attend the board meeting, thus Don Christone was elected to take his place. Helen Sampson and M. J. Paddock were chosen by our class to represent us as candidates for the position of Homecoming Queen. By vote of the entire school Helen was elected Queen and reigned over the Homecoming football game and dance. Two succeeding Friday nights were occasions for events sponsored by the illustrious senior class. The first event was the play Hasty Pudding whose cast was made up wholly of senior class members. A week later a Christmas dance entitled Holiday Hop was our handiwork. ln spite of the fact that there was a poor crowd, a good time was had by all. Lennis Britton was given the D.A.R. Award for outstanding rating in all activities, including scholarship and leadership ability. All graduation events went off as usual with com- mencement exercises being ably arranged by Don Clarey. There were many sighs when we took off our caps and gowns, still we faced the problem of building the world with courage and confidence. BARB ARGYLE, JEAN McPHlLLIPS, JOHN MORRIS, ROD TOWSLEY, BARB MURCH, Chairman.
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