Wylie E Groves High School - Talon Yearbook (Beverly Hills, MI)

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Dances Leave Us With Many Memories The Paragons are really ustompin' it up during the sock-hop held on February 3 sponsored by the Esprit d'E'cole. ' Also sponsored by a class was. the seventh grade Valentines party. To the horror of all, especially the girls, it was discovered that the boys couldn't or wouldn't dance. Sponsored by the student government and various organizations, our dances this year have been quite successful. Since our student body is made up of seventh through eleventh graders, a ,wide variety of dances were held this year. For the younger set an after school sock-hop was the order of the day, while the older set held semiformal dances and sock-hops after home games. The enthusiastic clubs have held at least four dances with more on the way. From the pictures on these pages it's easy to see that everyone enjoys a dance. Whether we come just to dance or to hear the music of a new band, we all seem to agree that a dance provides the most pleasure and enjoyment of any school activity. Next year when our school gets into full swing with its senior class, we'll be looking forward to some of the biggest and best dances yet. This sock-hop, held after the basketball game with Riverside, was sponsored by the sophomore class. Even our cheerleaders had some pep left after the exciting game. Later during the seventh grade Valentine's dance the boys got into the act. Here we see a few getting acquainted with the girls.

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Winter means plenty snow, ice, sleet As autumn wore on leaving us with more evening hours than we knew what to do with, we began look- ing forward to the first snowfall and the winter sports. Of course we never thought of the icy roads, stalled cars and half frozen toes, but who cared - we all had fun. To most of us there just didn't seem to be enough snow this year. The large number of cancelled ski club events was testimony to this fact. However, when the snow fell it seemed that everyone was talking of Grayl- ing, Boyne Mountain and many of the other ski areas up north. One thing was missed by everyone this vear - a day of school missed because of weather. We had plenty of snowy or icy weather during the weekends just bad enough that our plans had to be postponed. However, when the weekends were over, so was that winter weather, and it was back to school again on Monday morning. All in all we really had no spectacular winter storms as did all of our neighboring states. As Febru- ary passed with no results and March came in with its traditional windy weather, our hopes of having some truly winter weather passed as we began look- forward to spring vacation and the last few months of school. Winter has its way of making the most commonplace scenes the most beautiful ones. Here the winding Franklin River gets a new look as we receive the first evidence that wlnter has come. Ice, though it has treacheous characteristics when it is found on highways and sidewalks, easily adds beauty to a bleak winter. Glittering in the sunlight, this tree will be a place of refuge from the sun's rays for many a student in the seasons to come. After the first few snowfalls we didn't see much more of winter except for some occasional light snow with an abundance of ice. This poor pine tree probably likes ice the least of anything. You can almost hear it say, Oh, my achin' branches. 5 Z

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