Avondale High School - Avonian Yearbook (Avondale, MI)

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HOOI. SEVENTH GRADE Mrs. Price helped the class in starting a well organized club, called the Seventh Grade Club. The officers of the club are: President, Sharon Moss, Vice-president, May Han, Secretary, Jerry Paul, and Treasurer, Phyllis Upchurch. The class has a fine library. The books are well chosen by Mrs. Price while many of the students donated books themselves. The librarians are Daretha Parker and Agatha Husted. The grades wanted a school paper, the seventh and eighth grades voted for editor, reporters, business managers, and all necessary staff members. The paper was named The Grade School Journal. The fifth through to the eighth grade contributed ten dollars toward the purchase of a piano which is used ,on special occasions. The seventh grade has a Washington D. C. proiect. All of the buildings are carved out of soap and the streets and streams are painted on a large piece of cardboard. Barbara Smeltz won the spelling bee in our class and she received a dictionary with her name engraved in gold letters on the front. Back row, left to right: Dale Henderson, Donald Ledger, Monie Funck, Jerry Campbell, David Titherage, Kenneth Keller, Jerry Paul, Louis Shovels. Fourth row: Norman Camp, Wesley Parker, Shelby Burton, Glen Sedan, Roscoe Harden, Jim Lewis, Lyle lsanhart, John Cameron. Third row: Douglas Sparks, Hershal Colbert, Jackie Pohl, Audrey Stephens, Shirley Sedan, Daretha Parker, Onalee Horten, Douglas Mutter, Gary Thorpe. Second row: Mrs. Price, Joye Gooch, Mary Van Gilder, Wilma Schwerin, Patsy Yarger, May Han, Sharon Moss, Jo Ann Mabry, Jacqueline Rowe, Phyllis Upchurch. Front row: Karon Smith, Judy Reese, Nancy Killian, Barbara Sauvage, Barbara Smeltz, June Doan, Darlene Douglas, Agatha Husted.

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Back row, left to right: James Hutchinson, Wayne Fraser, Bill Van Orman, Sam Sheehy, Bill Davis, Robert Bledsoe, Mearl VanGilder. Fourth row: Bernard Spencer, Jack Greenless, Kenny Douglas, Charles Francisco, Jim Fraser, Ira Harden. Third row: Merridell Harden, Janice Chamberlain, Esther Thompson, Patricia Crabtree, Shirley Thorpe, Carol Borsvold, Sharon Bradley, Betty Tom. Second row: Beverly Hewett, Sondra Zellers, Margaret Melling, Kay Saunders, Carol Wahl, Wanda Holland, Connie Ferguson, Ann Jones, Mr. Hallman. Front row: Nancy Skosich, Luella Maitrott, Wilma Fisher, Yvonne Penrod, Kay Ferguson, Alice Barrett, Vivian Evon. AUBURN HEIGH The eighth grade class of Avondale began the year of 1950 by electing class officers as follows: President, Jack Greenless, Vice-president, Sam Sheehy, Secretary, Alice Basset, and Treasurer, Carol Wahl. The class together with the seventh grade printed a bi-weekly paper entitled The Grade School Journal. The students of the class purchased and framed two Japanese black prints which they will donate to the school at the end of the term. The class was very sorry to see Mr. Hallman resign as class advisor but are sure that their new advisor, Mrs. Grabman, will be very popular. EIGHTH GRADE 34

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' 1 1 Back row, left to right: Miss Bohlinger, Barry Dibble, Gerald Cox, Don Moshier, James Schlink, Jim Fulk, Ribert Bowen. Third row: Garnet Gregg, Delores Parker, Joyce Davis, Roselle Close, Gwendolyn Frankowski, Pot Daughtery, Larry Crystal, Robert Gisse, Eudell White. Second row: Jack Kenzie, Helen Lutz, Joanne King, Henry Priess, Bill Harvey, Lewis Patrick, Signe Blomberg, Velma McKee, Melvin Sherman. Front row: Gaynell Fulk, Betty Slingland, Delbert Gregg, Donald KrumPP, Bob Kuhfeldt, Larry Farnham, Diane Hartwick, Barbara King. The Eighth Grade in Elmwood School enrolled on September 6, i950 with Miss Martha Bohlinger as our teacher. We started the school year with thirty-seven students. We were very happy to be in the eighth grade, but before long we realized the work was rather difficult. There was little time left for parties and entertainment. Being faithful to our assignments and home-work made our work easier and finally we found a little time for skating parties and other school parties on Hallo- ween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Then came reviews for our semester examina- tions. Our marks were very revealing so we renewed our resolutions to dig in. lt wasn't long until our grades improved and things looked brighter. Severe winter weather kept us indoors much of the time. We turned to our phonograph and records. Before long several of our group learned to dance. Mr. and Mrs. Swarthout taught us folk dancing. We raised class funds with a Fall Festival, and by selling iello, baked goods, and magazines. We also sold popcorn. We charged five cents per week class dues, and, with the money, we had a boat trip and dinner party at the close of school. EIGHTH GRADE 36