Bad Axe High School - Bad Axian Yearbook (Bad Axe, MI)

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We , ueath We, the Seniors of B. A. H. S., being adjudged sound of mind and body, do hereby de- clare this to be our last will and testament, effective on the 16th day of June, 1949. To the Faculty, we leave-- To the Juniors, we leave our shoes, so they can follow in our footsteps. To the Sophomores, we leave our mad methods for money-making. To the Freshmen, we leave our excess knowledge and our three years of experience and happy times. In addition, we bequeath individually as follows: Shirley Anderson wills her baby-sitting ability to Gloria Long. Myrtle Bowman wills her job at the theater to anyone who wants to overcome bash- fulness. Jean Brown wills her ability to do nothing and say everything to Helen Jias. Sally Clark wills her convertible of happy times to anyone who can fit fifteen people in it. Gloria Cole wills her jolly laughter to Carolyn Stiefel. Judy Davies wills her popularity with out-of-town boys to Marilyn Flannery. Leila Dobson wills her quiet ways to anyone who can keep a straight face when she says, “I don’t want to go to the Senior Prom. Elaine Dunlap wills her confused times in geometry to anyone who likes puzzles. Betty Forbes wills her majorette part to anyone who can stand the sore feet. Lena Fritz wills her virtue of silence to Jim Reehl. Wesley Gebauer wills his trigonometry ability to anyone who has a long pencil and plenty of paper (brains help, too). James Gilbert wills his ability to tell “impractical jokes” to Duane Poole. Peggy Gingrich wills her job for Mr. Logan to anyone who can find a ten cent mistake and still hold his temper. Dick Glass wills his ability to stand up for his rights to Jim Arnott. MaryLee Gravelle wills her ability in advanced algebra to anyone who can build a rock- et to the moon in the next ten days. Clair Guza wills his deep voice to anyone with laryngitis. Gerald Harbin wills his ability to stay away from girls to Jack Greyerbiehl. Ann Harder leaves her position as bass drummer to Joe Lasky. Fred Hass wills his ability to talk a lot and say nothing to Charlotte Haller. John Horetzke wills his ability to ignore the girls and concentrate on studies to “Buzz. Williston. Marilyn Jurgess wills her dancing talents to June Kennedy. Jeanne Kavanaugh refused to leave her newly found romance to anyone. Joyce Keillor wills her good nature to anyone who can get up at 6:00 in the morning after the Senior Prom and say, “I’m not a bit sleepy. Marjorie Kelly wills her height to no one; after all, good things come in small pack- ages. Jim Kerr wills his ability to drive a car to Bob Crandall. Dave Krist wills his well built body to Pete Capling. Naomi Krist wills her debating ability to Mary Ellen McKnight. Dolly Krohn wills her good times to any girl who can make a pair of shoes last longer than one week of dancing. Chuck LaBelle wills his popularity with the “fairer sex” to Kirk Rogers. Billie Lasky wills her determination to go to Washington on the Senior trip to the Freshmen who will have three years to earn the money. Doris Little wills her ability to chew gum in class to anyone who can get away with it. Janet Marks bequeaths her one shoe to whoever has the mate. Jack Marsa wills his F. F. A. good times to any boy who can raise a calf without feed-

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 traveling salesman, and Peggy Gingrich, traveling sales- woman, on their way to a party in Senator James Kerr’s room. Bill then learned that Senator Kerr was planning to filibuster for repassage of the eighteenth amendment. Just as Bill stepped out of the elevator, Chuck La Bell (e) Hop offered his services. Bill decided since Senator Kerr was an old classmate, there would be nothing wrong in crashing the party. Among those at the party were Doris Little and MaryLee Gravelle, who were head pro- moters of the Civic Opera in which Joyce Keillor and Nancy Slack were the ballet stars. Lee Truax, Senator Kerr’s campaign manager, greeted the guests. Mr. Lamb, having found out all he could from this group, ambled back toward the door, just in time to meet Jim Gilbert and his wife, the former Pauline Temple, who are two mis- sionaires from Africa. Pauline asked, “Who is that sitting over there in the corner?” Jim and Mr. Lamb noticed a quiet figure in horn-rimmed glasses reading a book. It turned out to be Joan Shoemaker, a spinster librarian from Chicago. Joan said that she was waiting for her friends, Annabelle Scott and Marilyn Jurgess, who, at the moment, were co-owners of the Skinner store in Bad Axe. Just then Judy Davies and Gloria Cole, both carrying briefcases, came into the gym. Judy said that her briefcase contained the plans for a new school for Bad Axe. Citizens of Bad Axe had just agreed on a school site and had engaged Judy as architect. Gloria said her briefcase contained “Bills” which she has been collecting. Betty Forbes, Janet Marks, and Jean Brown came into the gym carrying their roller skates. They still are residents of Bad Axe. Ann Harder and Elaine Dunlap, who are drum majorettes in the Drum and Bugle Corps, followed them into the gym. There was then a slight pause as Jack Marsa, the lion tamer, and Myrtle Bowman, the tightrope walker, who were working in a circus owned by Kenneth Miller and John Micek, came marching into the gym. While everyone was talking about the good old days way back in '49, in came two local farmers, Eugene Pitcher and Frank Rifenbark. They were tardy because the cows had broken out of the pasture. Wesley Gebauer, who is a scientist in the atomic bomb research, was not able to attend the reunion, but Betty Robarts, his assistant, came anyway. Just then, Donelda Smith, local telephone operator, called to say she was unable to at- tend the great reunion because she had to work. Fred Hass and Faith Wakefield, co-owners in a photography firm, carried all their equipment into the gym so that they could record the event in pictures. While everyone was conversing with everyone else, a loud commotion was heard outside. One could hear someone yelling and a dog barking. As everyone stood there looking question- ingly at each other, they learned that Don Youngs, the city dog-catcher, was chasing after a stray dog. Incidentally, Don lost. After the commotion died down, the conversation shifted back to “the good ole school days.” Soon there was a patter of feet running down the hall toward the gym door. Who is it? None other than Sally Clark, late as usual, with her secretary, Barbara Raymond, close be- hind her. Sally was merely three hours late, so she went over to Mr. Lamb and said,“But, Mr. Lamb, I----------.

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Kenneth Mayberry wills his way with women to Harold Whear. Patricia McBride wills her once happy times with Dick Glass to no one. Elaine McNeil wills her ability to stay home and study to Dave Reichelt. Virginia McNeil wills her band ability to any girl who can keep warm on those cold nights while playing for football games. Harold McTaggart wills his size to Bob Miller. John Micek wills his trigonometry book to any ambitious Junior. Wayne Miller wills his musical talents to Doug Steadman. Kenneth Miller leaves his marks to anyone who wants to work as hard as he did. Joan Murray leaves her ability to talk fast to Beth Stark. Phil Neeb wills his variety of nicknames to his kid brother “Stinky. Marilyn Pariseau wills her witty tongue to Grace Leppek. Betty Jean Pettit wills her innocent ways to Rita Osentoski. Eugene Pitcher wills his journeys on the school bus to Bob Hanson. Virginia Rapson wills her “peppy” ways to Marjorie Kuntz. Barbara Raymond wills her claim on a certain Junior to no one. How foolish do you think she is? Frank Rifenbark wills his blush to Jack Rochefort. Betty Robarts wills her poor marks in school to someone who actually gets them. Eileen Sageman refuses to leave the reason for her thoughts being miles away. Edwin Sams wills his wise cracks and fresh corn to anyone who can stand the strain. Annabelle Scott leaves her ability to study “Morse code to no one. Ardene Scott wills her ability to hitch-hike home after school to anyone who can get the rides. Pat Scott wills her humorous story telling abilities to all who enjoy a good hearty laugh. Joan Shoemaker wills her cave woman technique to Marilyn Sams. Nancy Slack refuses to will Paul to any Junior girl. Donelda Smith wills her ability to date with tall men to Martha Powell. Arlene Smukala wills her domestic ways to Joyce Merrill. Bill Soini wills his liking for sports to any Joe Lewis fan. Margaret Stark wills her text books and perserverance to Alger Glaza. Earl Steadman leaves his I. Q. (que) to Phil Capling. Pauline Temple happily leaves her giggle to any soberfaced Freshman. Lee Truax leaves his pool shooting ability to Joe Grimes. Faith Wakefield wills her title as editor of the annual to anyone who canhandle the work. Don Young wills his silly ways to Wallace McCarty. Bill Zulauf wills his alphabetical position to Shirley Zehr. Signed, sealed, and delivered by— The Class of ’49. THE COMMITTEE Billie Lasky, Mar- gie Kelly, Jerry Harbin, Pat Mc- Bride, Sally Clark.