Algonac High School - Algonquin Yearbook (Algonac, MI)

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(beaior FRESHMAN YEAR Home Room- -Study Hall Class Officers: Pres ident- -Butch Rreig Vice President- -Fred Hill Secretary- -Vera Bunn T reas urer - -Bob Hagedon Student Council Members: Frank Day Chuck Gonyaw Advisors : Miss Cardew Mr. Piziali SOPHOMORE YEAR Class Officers : P res ident - -Ha rold DeBoyer Vice Pres ident - -Frank Day Seer et ary- -Loi s Colling Treasurer - -Barba ra Melchers Student Council Members: Get r y Will iams Fred Hill Chuck Gonyaw Adv i sor s : Miss Cardew Mr. Pisiali November 21st--Class par ty- -Scavenge r hunt and potluck. Everyone dressed up to resemble small kids. Proved to be a very gay party. Home Room Chemistry room. Picked out our class colors and flower from a number of suggestions. Our decision: Pearl gray 8a gold- -Flower- - ye 1 low tea rose Miss Cardew--Our class advisor from the 7th grade through our Sophomore year, left us to go to another school. We all missed her help in guiding our class. JUNIOR YEAR Home Room--305 Class Of f icers : Pres ident- -Harry Wilde Vice Pres ident - -Bruce Highstreet Secretary-Mary Biland Treasurer - -El len Martin Student Council Members: Gerry Wi 1 1 iams Dick Baker Mary Ann Smith Advisors : Mr. and Mrs. Piziali September 6--The first day of school we had $120 in the treasury which was increased to $787.28 by March 18, 1947. Junior dues for the year were $2.00. September 24--Sold magazines. Net profit was $165.53. We had a contest in the sale of magazines between the boys and girls. The girls won. October--We received notice in home room that our class rings were finally here. March 14, 1947--Our Junior-Senior Banquet was held on this date. The Senior Class of ' 47 presented us with a silver horseshoe with both class colors on it. This horse- shoe is to be handed down by each Senior class to the Junior class at the annual banquet. It symbolizes good luck. May 9- - 1947- -The J-Hop The gym was decorated to resemble a garden scene with both paper and real flowers. Semi-formal. The Queen of the J-Hop was Alice Rzeppa , King--Harold DeBoyer. May 29--At the annual awards assembly the fol- lowing Seniors received special awards: Poetry Award 1st place- -Russel 1 Rose--800 lines 2nd place--Joan Raymond--600 lines 3rd place--Charlene Austin--400 lines Spelling Contest Gerry Williams stood in second place At the end of our Junior year, Mr. Piziali, our class advisor from the eighth grade, and Mrs. Piziali, our advisor for one year, left us. Both of them were greatly missed. Junior boys won the intramural basketball championship. SENIOR YEAR Home Room- -Comme re i a 1 Room Class Officers: Pres ident- -Roy Lauritsen Vice Pres ident - -Norman Schultz Secretary- -Lois Colling Treasurer- -Ma r lene Rzeppa Student Council Members: Gerry Willi ams Dick Baker Bruce Highstreet Frank Day Adv i sor s : Mrs. Pippel Miss Jablinski Senior dues- -The news was gently broken that our Senior dues would amount to the sum of $10. October 8--Mabel Van Volkenburgh ' s Honor So- ciety pin, which is to be presented each year to a Senior member of the Honor Society, was awarded to Marlene Rzeppa. October 10 -Jack Biscorner, a member of our class until that date, left for the Army. Octobe r - - 24 - -Seni o r Carnival --Great success-- net profit- $566.64. Queen- Mary Biland. King- Tom Haggberg. November 19--Sold Christmas Cards. December 17--Senior pictures arrived, and were distributed in Home Room. Everyone seemed very pleased with the results. February 4--Russell Rose, Norman Schultz, and Ellen Martin were chosen to represent our school for the Pepsi-Cola Scholarship. Russell and Norman placed in the highest 10%, and Ellen in the middle 20% among both the State and National Contestants December 3 - -Trea s u r e r s report was $1489.24. January 24--Marlene Rzeppa was chosen to repre- sent our school in the D.A.R. contest. April 16--We presented our class play. It was a big success . May 24- -Junior- Sen i o r banquet took place at the Colonial Hotel, in Mount Clemens. May 30--June 2--Senior trip to Mackinac Island and Whitefish Bay. June 6--Baccalaureate June 10- -Commencement- -caps and gowns in class color s - -pea r 1 grey and gold. Class Motto: • Chart your course, and sail it true. M SPORTS HISTORY — class of ’48 Very seldom has one class been so fortunate as to have such a group of athletes as the class of 48. Almost every boy earned at least one letter, if not more, during his high school career. About every four or five years a class turns up with a group that are all athletes in one way or another. The class of 48 was one of those classes. Each excelled in some sport. Cooperation, sportsmanship and teamwork were a part of every member. In years to come the fellows will look back on their athletic careers at Algonac High School as one of the happiest times of their lives. During four years of high school, there were more letters awarded to the athletes of the class of 48 than to any other class in the history of Algonac High School. Members of the class of 48 who were letter winners: Charles Clark Frank Day Harold DeBoyer Charles Gonyaw Robert Hagedon Paul Hemenger Bruce Highstreet Fred Hill Albert Kreig Roy Lauritsen Stan Lupenski Donald Meyers Charles Polito Fred Tremblay Jim Wiseman Harry Wi lde

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DELORES SEARS V-Teens ALFRED TREMBLAY Spor t s Varsity Club BEVERLY SEIBERT Glee Club JOAN SMITH Y-Teens G. A. A. Paper Staff MARY ANN SMITH Honor Society V-Teens Paper Staff HARRY WILDE Varsity Club Hi-Y Paper Staff GERRY WILLIAMS Student Council Pres. Honor Society Cheer leader JAMES WISEMAN Chorus Band Footba 1 1 In Memoriam Mabel Van Volkenburgh who died March 14, 1947, was one of our most outstanding classmates. Though she isn’t here to graduate with us, she has left a lasting mark by her spirit of friendli- ness, splendid leadership, and high scholastic standards. BERNARD ZAVITZ

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ass We, the Senior Class of Algonac High School, in the year of our graduation, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, being of sound mind and body, and in the presence of reliable witnesses, do leave and bequeath our most prized possessions to our beloved high school, our beloved teacher, and the undergraduates. May we ever be remembered as almost the largest (if not the smartest) class that has ever thundered through the halls of Algonac High High School. It must be known here that we write the following under no pressure (or regret) whatso- ever. 1, Chuck Clark, leave my pitching arm to Jim DeBoyer. I, Stan Lupenski, leave my ability to sleep in Government to Berny Campbe 1 1 . I, Harold DeBoyer, leave all my love to all the girls of Algonac High School . I, Frank Day, leave my red hair to ” Rabbit” (Bobby Bauman). I, Marlene Rzeppa, leave my calm disposition to George Highstreet. I, Elvene Norton, leave my promptness in getting to class to Charles Van Slambrouch. I, Jim Wiseman, leave my love of football to Charles Eckfield. I, Dick Baker, leave my ability to play the sax to Jean Ann Sim- ons. I, Gerry Martin, leave my interest in school to Elaine Edwards. I, Mary Biland, leave my nickname, ' Gump”, to my brother Wesley. I, Alice Rzeppa, leave my basketball knowledge to my brother Ed. I, Lois Colling, leave my being the only girl with all those men in Trig and Solid Geometry, to some deserving girl. I, Bob Hagedon, leave my build to Tony Harvey. I, Russell Rose, leave All my ” A s ” to Dorothy Krebs. I, Doc Meyers, leave all of my 6 ’ 3 to Donnie Rondeau. I, Charlie Polito. leave my wolfish technique to Rit Lozen. I, Norman Schultz, leave my massive” intellect to be distributed equally among the 9th grade. I, Dolores Sears, leave my height to Bob Baker. I, Joan Smith, leave my ambition to be a nurse to Lois Johnson. I, Mary Ann Smith, leave my sense of humor to Pitty Pin (my sister) I, Gerry Williams, leave my big blue eyes to Jack Peters. I, Bernard Zavitz, leave my 44 limousine” to Chuck Gilbert. I, Ellen Martin, leave my curly hair to Evelyn Bates. I, Fred Tremblay, leave all my knowledge of Latin to Roland Johnson. I, Beverly Seibert, leave my ability to go steady to Ruth Krause. I, Barbara Melchers, leave my ambition to Don Overton. I, Virginia Highstreet, leave my knowledge of the effects of peroxide to Elaine Kerr. Will I, Joan Montney, leave my gift of gab to Betty Goetz. I, Sally Ann Avers, leave my natural golden hair to Barbara Deckard. I, Roy Lauritsen, leave my ability to laugh to Mickey Isaacs. I, Butch Kreig, leave my line of complaining to Willie Stephenson. I , Fred Hill, leave my curly locks to Coach Greenstein. I, Don Charlebois, leave my place in Government to any Junior. I, Bob Coulter, leave my unruly brush cut to Jim Edmond. I, Betty Fournier, leave my graduation picture to the halls of good old Algonac High School. I, Chuck Gonyaw, leave my upper bunk on the Noronic to anyone who wants it. I, Eileen Highstreet, leave a quiet and peaceful school to all the tea- chers from now on. I, Bruce Highstreet, leave my address book to Charles Eck f i e Id- -may he put it to good use. I, Harry Wilde, leave my Dick Tracy two-way wrist radio to Bob Baker and Sharon Smith, so they can talk, no matter where they are. I, Paul Hemenger, leave my fiddle case to anyone with an overabund- ance of hair like mine. I, Betty Kelly, leave to Leland Ritz, my unyielding yearning for learning, and my unceasing drool for school. I, Charlene Austin, leave my squeaky chair in Shorthand II to Emma Krause, so she can make all the noise she wants! I, Verna Halsey, leave my ambition to Frenchy (Alfred Berube) so that he can carry his own books to school next year. I, Edgar Ouimet, leave my beautiful pictures of the Varga girls to Jimmy Martin. I, Joan Raymond, leave my wonderful way of getting along with Mr. Johnson and Mr. King to David Vigliotti. As a class, we also leave to the Seniors of ” 49” a Senior Carnival that was as successful as ours. to the Seniors of ” 50” a detailed booklet on How to make a success of a J-Hop” to the Seniors of “ 51” a copy of the famous book ” How to Win Friends and Influence Teachers.” to the Seniors of ” 52” a good example of what laziness did to us. Don’t let this happen to you! Lastly: We hereby nominate and appoint the readers of the Year Book (The Algonquin) as individual executors of this, our last will and testament. We have hereunto scrawled our John Henrys and set our seal (X) this tenth day of June, in the year of our graduation, one thousand, nine hundred, and forty eight. CLASS OF 48 15