Allegan High School - Echo Yearbook (Allegan, MI)

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O . . 5 ucvew uve vw musspc The Orchestra organized with six returning students. To round out the group, several members, who were recruited from the community expressed a willingness to ioin. Mr. Priebe conducted rehearsals regularly and produced a well-balanced unit. Major engagements for which entertainment was provided were the senior play, two community plays, junior play, Presbyterian Men's Club, and Parents' Day. The Junior High group of the Orchestra play- ed for the matinee performances. Mr. Priebe merits considerable praise for his success in preser- ving interest and participation in instrumental music. The adults whose assistance is appreciated are Clarence Vander Vere, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Duncan, Charles Faek, Donna Olson, and Eliza- beth Smith. L. to R.: Niel Schweikert, Buster Duncan, James Fairfield, Mr. Priebe, Director, Dorothy Pomeroy, Ross Schwei- kert, Lois Duncan, Dolores Nowaczyk.

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e,ff ' A Of' V 'R' ' Q C1 Q7 ,S 4 fy, TC b Q ' ! Ill ,ff 4- VI 4 x7 - ge .5 rf x OS I 7' :D ECHO 'REELS' 5 Q 'U It was summer . . . July. . . . hot July . . . and the editors, 9 7U swinging backward and forward on the swing on Co-editor B's front porch, had begun work on the biggest project of their high school r' careers. While they munched life-savers and pored through 'foreign' X X 4 annuals, they formulated the policy for the year to come. KN 'One large picture is better than a hundred words, so let's enlarge our pictures and reduce written copy.' N- qf' Let's have plastic binding, shell we'?' , OG YN 'Since the high school and junior high will eventually be 'O merged, let's include them. NK 'We could arrange the clubs, activities, and events ln the order of their most important achlevement. 1 ' Yes, and because production costs will be higher this year, E x maybe we could have some advertising . . . just a page . . . we don't want to clutter it up, do we'?' 1 Oh no! And, say! You know what we could do? 'Dedicete it B to the motion picture industry, because of the big, delightful, part lt plays in our lives. We could carry it out in the theme . . give the stories movie titles, cell the teachers directors, the administration 'producers, the calendar a 'production schedule.' JX 'See what I mean? Q6 'Swell! How about a page of newspaper clippings entitled 0 'press notices ? 'And one about the.fa1r?' f b A And on it went . . . summer, fall, winter, and spring. In the I4 Xffbfew fall, the business manager, a staff of editors, and the faculty ad- ,WL visor Joined the editors in their work. xml The feature, sport, and club editors assigned stories to their writers, the typists were put to changing typewriter ribbons, a room and furniture acquired . . . production had begun. ,I I 'f A J Mr. Van Melle spent several afternoons taking pictures, to Y X ' b say nothing of how long it required him to take senior pictures. ff ff f CDO you have yours, yet?l ,J m X While the copyreaders struggled with nouns and gerunds, the V ', subscription manager ecurried about selling subscriptions, the Q advertising staff whisked from business establishments to stores MN, collecting dollars by the mitten-full, and others were assigned to g NN mount miniature pictures. , The art editor dug out her india ink and pens and started to 3 fix her ideas on paper, to practice the lettering, and to design e Pg 4, cover. C -fb The work whirled faster and faster around the Echo right up until the deadline. Problems of reduction, layout, and the like . insisted on coming, but, with urging, left again in due time. ff cy In exiting, the seniors on the staff would like to wish the 0 VZ? staff of the 'L6 Echo immeasurable success in their efforts. We If X F hope, too, that in the years to come this book will recall pleasant f memories of your days in Allegan Wool. X , ff? 4 QV 11' N K 6 A 65.49 45 , O ...Y-C' Q01 Of tbeugna X OT

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