Avondale High School - Avonian Yearbook (Avondale, MI)

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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

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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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HOOL SEVENTH GRADE Our class president, Larry Herron, opened class each day with a fifteen minute business discussion. The secretary, Duane Stewart, took notes on articles of im- portance. We discussed ways of making money for class trips, furnishings for the room, etc. Our main proiect for earning money was selling magazines. Billy Patterson won the citation and honor for selling more magazines than anyone else in Elmwood School. The Seventh Grade had their regular room Spelling Bee of the year, March l6. The winner was Nancy Lowery and the runner-up was Lenora Lutz. The last ten spellers standing had the privilege of competing in the final School Spelling Bee. We used part of the money in the treasury for a visit to Greenfield Village, where we saw the many interesting things that we have studied throughout the year. The highlight of the year was our school picnic which we had on the last day of school. Back row, left to right: Mr. Robert Finnie, Arnold Kuerbitz, Ralph Moore, Cordell Tompkins, Joseph Junglas, Patricia Albrecht, Frances Gisse, Joyce Fralick, Ronald Turner. Fourth row: Gerald McReynolds, Douglas Hahn, Ronnie Bauder, Keith Barnhart, Twilah Arnold, Shirley Wyrick, Carol Dodman, Nance Lee Lowery, Bill Brewer, Leon White, Glendolia White. Third row: Merle Cox, William Patterson, Clare Carlstein, Robert Dibble, Lynn Wright, Charles Kenworthy, Jimmy Kuerbitz, Barbara Hall. Second row: Lenora Lutz, Gerald Denton, Ernest Romer, Maynard Sherman, Bobby Mauro, Raymond Boyl, Larry Parker, Jackie McHaney. Front row: Norma Hutchinson, Jack Pankey, Leland Ballard, Larry Herron, Duane Stewart, Denis Arft, Muriel Tate, Billie Jean Willis, Betty Goodell.