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The Class of 1957-Past and Present To the tune of Pomp and Circumstance the senior class of 1957 marches down the aisle on their graduation day, following in a pattern which seems to be the natural look of caps and flowing gowns of seniors every- where. Just as fashion styles and periods have been known to change over the years, the Class of 1957 has changed greatly also since its small beginnings in kindergarten through thirteen years of school During these years they not only grew and gained in inches but also in personality, character, knowledge, and wisdom. The Carefree Look. Maypole dances, handprints of clay, toy ranches, and doll houses were all the rage in the morning and afternoon classes, composed of 27 students of the present class at Bay High School. If anyone stepped out of the set style, Mrs. Ranney provided equipment for the person to mop up his own accidents and a red table to sit under instead of the proverbial dunce cor- ner Hobby horse was a popular item this year. The Modified-Carefree Look. During this year everything occurred as the year before except that everyone felt more mature now that they had graduated from the sandbox set. Noel Cham- berlain and Barbara Brown nearly burst with pride when their Little Black Sambo portraits were chosen to adorn the bulletin board for the Parents' Open House night. At last the class learned two useful things—how to read and how to paint. The Angelic Look. Second grade was composed mainly of good behavior awards and prizes. Consequently, the class was always seen with halos perched above their freckle - faced, black - eyed heads Brownie promises and the two - finger salute were practices now performed by the girls who joined their first outside activity — Brownies. Playground fa- vorites were the monkey bars where the boys played firemen, and the woods where anyone who could portray a deer was in the Bambi Herd. There were many amazed and some- what dubious parents the day their little angels pranced home to report, The art lady has purple hair, and she makes us draw Ama- zon pictures! It still remains a mystery as to whom it was that took Ciccie Hockett's lunch money off of Miss McKenney's desk. The Gamin Look. By this time the third graders had just about enough of good be- havior awards, and they began to grow horns and tails and to carry pitchforks. Some lit- tle elf started the antics off when he—or was it she?—ac- cidently tripped Miss Bonar, the substitute teacher with the old, crank-up model Ford, on her way back from one of her many trips to the drinking fountain with a glassful of water. Mrs. Klemm used to prom- ise the class that they could go outside when they were reading Poddle-to-the-Seo on warm days — if only they would behave! Barb Brown was made a child bride when she was married by The Rev. Bill Burson to Tom Adams (now a Riverite). In the summer most of the girls attended Harkness Camp. While 16
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there, they formed the Laughing Hyena Club for anyone who could giggle their way through any situation. The Experienced Look. When the fourth graders at Forestview graduated to the south side of the playground, they took on on experienced air. After all, they had gone through four years of school, and they deserved the swings instead of the monkey bars. The fact that measles is a contagious disease didn't seem to bother Nan Harris and Barb Spangle dur- ing the Great Measle Epidemic thot year. They had quite a time running back and forth to each others houses during both of their quarantine periods. Out of the classes' experience blossomed a sort of kindness for other people too. Sue Smith and Di Wiese arranged and directed a play called Win- nie the Pooh, and they raised $20 with which they purchased a radio and records for a polio ward Many in the class turned musical when they tested their abilities on block and pink symphonettes. The Energetic Era. The class in their fifth year put aside their work and also, what seemed to them, their innum- lerable responsibilities in order to really enjoy themselves. The girls had great times to- gether preparing for the va- rious badges under the able Girl Scout leadership of Mrs. were three famous girls this year, each noted for a different thing: Nan Harris was the best girl football player; Nan Burr, besides being widely known as a pianist, became famous for her tan; and Jill Suther- land will always be pictured as the girl with the waist-length, blond pigtails. The Sophisticated Look. As seniors of grammar school, the sixth graders had come a long way up the ladder of knowledge, wisdom, and ex- perience, and they were deter- mined that they would show the under - classmen who was boss. How boring it was the day they visited the kin- dergarten to view their May- Burr. There pole Dance! How could we have been that young and immature3 was the thought of the once carefree era. In the days when one just had to be a famous animal like Lassie in order to be in the society at Glenview, Penny Kyle must have been last in line; for she was Gunga Din, king of the jungle apes' The two schools decided that starting with this year's class, the traditional Army-Navy baseball game, between Forestview and their vicious rival Glenview, would cease because of the increasing number of students. The Deflated Look. When the two school rivals finally gathered together to form one seventh grade class, they real- ized they should stick together if only for the reason to pro- tect themselves from those horrible upperclassmen! Of all the things the class learned this year, these were the most important: 1. They weren't the big wheels any- more. 2. There was something new which the teachers called homework. 3. Three minutes is not enough time be- tween classes. 4 An eighth grader's word and command is one to be heeded. 5. That aprons hang like burlap sacks and cream soup can taste like library paste if Mrs. Chandler's directions aren't followed exactly. 6 Tim Burt makes a good captain of the Pinafore, and some of his crew's voices were undergoing a serious change. 7. Exams are long, difficult quizzes that you have to take at the end of the year in order to get out of geography class. The Green Look. Eighth graders were still rather green around the gills in their ways in high school life. Being superior over the new seventh grade seemed to lose its charm. A new pastime blossomed, however, and this was boy- girl parties. Bonnie Atkin was probably the first girl in the class to turn traitor and go steady. Sharon Sheets held the first slumber party
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