Beecher High School - Clipper Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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Slllllllt IILHSS HISTUHU On September 5 l946 we freshmen began our nrst year of hugh school with many mtsglvlngs We were sure the four years would go very slowly but now that we fund ourselves senlors, we realize how qulclcly the tame has passed Durtng our freshman year, we chose the followlng as our officers presldent, Gerald Davidson, secretar Marllyn Hamrlton treasurers, Barbara Salgat and Bob Towns, reporters, Joy Newberry and Bull Barnum, student councul Valerne Vlclm and Tom Spence, class councll, Bonnae Flsher and .lack Clary We had our freshman lnlttatson In October and after that, we were very eager to become sophomores so w could have the pleasure of lnltlatung the next year s freshmen Cur class play that year was, A Date With Judy and Mrs Darly and Mr Cllfford were our sponsors our class offlcers president, Jaclc Clary vtce presrdent Gerald Davidson, secretary Marilyn l-lamrlton, treasurers Barbara Salgat and Bob Towns, student council Dorxs Sauber and Torn Spence, reporter, MGYIOVIE Keith point secretary, Mary Beaver Under the dlrectlon and guldance of our same spon sors, we presented the play Fathers Favorrte Family written by our prlncupal Mr Vrncent Darley As luntors we chose the followrng offtcers pres: dent, Gene Goode vcce presrdent, Shlrrel Schaefer secretary Barbara Moore treasurers Jeanette pray and Bob Towns, ponnt secretary, Mary Beaver Cur play We Shoolc The Family Tree, was very successful Nrs Dalley was unable to continue as one of our sponsors, so Mrs Declcer very ably toolc over, wlth Mr Clifford again asslstung That year, we received our class rings and plns shortly after Christmas The social events we remember best were the Junlor Senior Prom and the Banquet We were well repaad for our hard worlc by the admurlng enthusiasm of all our guests Now, at last, the long anticipated year of our llfe has come' We are Seniors' We selected for thus, our last year, the followrng officers presldent, Bryan March, vlce presrdent, Bob Towns, secretary MGTIOFIC Kelth reporter, Jeanette Pray point secretary, Mary Beaver, treasurers Marllyn Anderson and Joe Hooper, student councnl, Duane Brown Bob Bennett We have added to our bank account for our sensor boat trlp to Niagara Falls by selling Christmas cards magazlnes, stationery and by presentung our pay whrch thas year was The Hugh School Mystery, an G great success Our class colors are gray and maroon our motto, Today we follow tomorrow we lead, and our flower rs the darlc red Carnation We leave Beecher where we have learned to fallow drrecttons and advrce bow we feet ready to assume on! share of leadership r' today s world , , f' . 1 ' - I : V A I yi l I ' Z . I , f 4 I ' e . . . ' , A ' ' Q ll ' IY I ' , ' I I I ln our sophomore year, we elected the following as and Doris Sauber, class council, Marilyn Hamilton and : 4 J A ' , . ' I . I 4 1 f I ' I I ' l V I I - , , . 2 . , . I . I I ' ' lf ' Y' d ll I ' ' 'I . I I I . . . . . ,, ,, I ' . I , , 1 '- ' A . Q ' ' ' Q T t ' 1 I I L . . , - , , A , , , t . t t . nn ' I ZZ

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VHLEDICTUHU Faculty Members Parents, and Fruends On this Commencerrent nrght we welcome you Thus as an Important event In ou' llves For twelve years we have straved to attaln thus goal Through the years we have workedto acqulre knowl edge Now we are ready to test that know ledgebyapplylng ut to lifes problems Much mcre has been gunned durmg these years at Beecher We have learned to work and co operate wlth people, thus moldung us unto useful citizens an this world We gatefully gvve thanks to our parents teachers and fr lends who have so patiently helped us these years They have traveled the road to this success wlth us Now, we have reached the cross roads Each of us wnll be turnlng In a dlfferent dlrectlon Although physlcally we shall be far apart IH our hearts wlll remam the memories of the happy days spent at Beecher To the faculty members, we glve grateful thanks for the knowledge we have gained tlrough their efforts To ou parents who have sacrufnced for us so that we may have greater opportunltues we express a heartfelt thanks for the love and guidance they have glven us To you, our fruends, our deep apprecuatuon for your encouragement and companlonshlp which have made our way happler for tonight we begun a new era ofour llves Guided God s loving hand we wlll enter ol! llfe s work with the faith and determination that you have lnstllled In us On behalf of my fellow classmates, l bud each of you a fond farewell Darts Sauber Tom t, another class leaves the halls of Beecher H School We have reached the goal toward which we have been strlvmg fcr twelve years that of gaduatnon Ou goal could never have been attained had at not been for the love and self sacrlfuce d our parents the help and guidance of our teachers and the dllugent work of the Board of Educatuon We can never fully express our gratitude to you who have furnished us the oppcrtunutles to bulld a better llfe Memories of events that can never be rellved fleet by In this moment that IS ours We realnze, with regret, that our days of adolescence have ended and that tomorrow, we must venture Into the unknown world of adulthood One door IS closed behlnd us but many remam to be opened Wrth us rests the decrslon We do not know what the world holds In store for us but we face the future wnth confidence What ever fame or success we shall attann through our efforts In college, lndustry or other fields our hugh school tralnlng will have been the foundatlon Now we must bud farewell to Beecher Hugh Once agam, we express our thanks to you who have made this night possible We wall strrve to make you proud of us so that you efforts wlll not have been un valn Our motto wall be Today We Follow Tomorrow We Lead Marlorse Keeth SHLUTHTUHU Teachers Parents, Members of the School Board and Friends Cnce agam the tlme has come for another class of Beecher graduates to welcome you to our hugh school commencerrent For a few, It IS a happy time as they leave behind the regular routme of classes and homework, but to most of us IH the class of 50 rt IS with regret we leave thas fune school and all nt stands for Perhaps In the early days of our school life we could not understand the many advantages and P'IVIlegeS which we of Beecher enloy But as the years passed and the tnrre drew nearer for departure It was and us luke leavung a dear mother for Indeed, It as much the same Here, we spent seven hours o' longer of our wakmg peruod of the day Where else do we put In so much of our time under one supervision? lt has been our founda tlon, our present and ou future There IS not one pupll wlthm nts walls who has not been given a shmmg star as a goal toward which to strrve And at us up to us of we grasp the opportunities whlch ut gives, or fall by the way Perhaps,we dnd not allhave the same abulnty envuron ments or advantages but wedoallhavethesame oppor tunsty to make the most of that whvch IS so freely given education To you, our frnends and neu bcrs, who provlded our wonderful school, to the school board and trustees, who have so graciously given of then' tame to see that we re cerved the best of rnaterna ls, to our teachers, who have worked so diligently and wlth unturlng effort to impart thus knowledge, to all of you, I am more than pleased to have thus opportunity on behalf of the class of l950 to say, Thank you The day rmy yet cone, when we re feeble and old And rubles and money cannot earn, But the man s yet to lnve who can truthfully say, l m scrry l m too old to learn' Marilyn Hamrlton ' ' ' . , id1 . ' . . . . u I . I A , , . I -. . I . I . . . . Now, we must part.The occasion is both sadand happy, fulfilled: ' ' ' I ' by ' il - - ll ' I ' . . . . I . - ' ' I 1 . l . . 1 e 1 ' ' 'I' I ll ll ' ll I I . 1 . . - , . ' . ' ' I P U Ul Z1

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CLASS PROPHECY The tume us 'l965, the place, Beecher Hugh School, and the occasuon, a teachers' meetung Bob Towns, hus father s successor un the hugh school, and Margue Smeage and Jeanette Harmon, both teachung un the Beecher unuts, were gathered wautung for Mr Buell To pass the tume, they talked of the success and fame that has come to theur former classmates Dorus Sauber, another Madame Curue, duscovered the cure for leprosy Dorus Pullow and Bonnue Fusher are the managers of Kewpee Hotel where Jack Clary, our second puano playung presudent from Nussouru once stayed when he came to Flunt to campaign Last week Muckey Swartz, a news commentator, mentuoned that he was havung Evelyn Langley carve hus statue to put un a natuonal park Jeanette remarked that whule un Ann Arbor to vusut Joe Hooper, laud up un the hosputal there after an excutung hot rod race, she saw Norma Martun, a Doctor of Phuloso phy un the Unuversuty of Muchugan Norma told her that Gene Goode wrote to Barbara Tort, ambassador to ltaly, to ask If a bout mught be staged there for hus traunee, Bob Pulon, now at Maduson Square Garden Margue unterrupted to tell them of Bull Barnum s race track un Calufornua Ken Poma us a bookue there And speakung of money, Don Andrews and Wesley Carter, are guardung the munt at Fort Knox, Kentucky Jurnmue James, In the Secret Servuce, secured the posutuon for them Bob, not wantung the gurls to out-do hum wuth gossup, saud that Frank Pufher has taken over FrankueRhemley s place un Phul Harrus band and Shurley Tanner us playung the puano un Phul Sputalney s all-gurl orchestra Margie chumed un wuth the unformatuon that Ruth Smuth has her own raduo program on whuch she sungs request numbers Erwun Hoseth us a raduo technucuan at W F D F the statuon on whuch Ruth appears Betty Gullett, cham puon speed typust, s tourung the country showung begunners what a breeze typmg us As they sat talkung un walked Dorus Frownfelter, Beecher s truant offucer When she heard what they were talkung about, she could hardly contaun herself and began headlong Jeanette Pray and Delores McGunnls sketch ex clusuve desugns for Vogue Pattern Co Roberta Sears has recently been appounted sales manager at Montgomery Ward s Clufford Jensen, the most eloquent defense lawyer un Ameruca, has won hus latest case Hus cllent, Jerry Merrull, a tree surgeon, was sued by a woman who claumed he had kulled her trees Dorothy Dreuth and Jerry Davud son, now marrued,were runnung for the tutle of Mr and Mrs ldeal Ameruca Joe Stuevenart has opened a new branch of hus motuary because busuness us so good Bob Interrupted then to make known that Ruth Henry has a barber shop un whuch Darlene Meacham us manucurust Bob Clary us an admural un the U S Navy Pat Wood us doung a serues of artucles un the Flunt Journal about hus advancement Bryan March a bone specualust, us gettung hus wufe a munk coat, the pelts havung been grown on the munk farm owned by Elmer Ruhstorfer and Bob Erdman Jeanette spoke up saying that Jean Nucholson was voted one of the ten best dressed women of the year Paulune Hayes, an unteruor decorator, us doing over the swanky home of Betty Taylor who marrued a mllluonaure and us known for her charutable works Don Horton us the manufacturer of the popular Kuddy Toys now on sale In every department store Tom Spence IS hus star salesman The duscussuon became very anumated and all four of them tossed un buts of unformatuon as they thought of them Elluott Hoover us a well known archutect and May Bunn us hus secretary Ken Frazuer us an emunent physucust and has become almost as famous as Albert Eunsteun Pat McGrlff Glwdys a glamour gurl has taken over the place of Ann Delofueld un the New York offuce of RuchardHudnut Harold Soper us travelung all over the natuon tryung to clean up the slum areas Fred Bowen IS testung cars on the Buuck test ung grounds Nancy Hunsaker has made f- name for herself as a lady luon tamer at Runglung Bros Delores Hammerleun and Pat Damoth are Power s models Joyce Rauch county school Commussuoner, stepped unto the room exclaumungthat she was sure she had seen Benny Henderson druvung a truck They fold her she probably had because that was hus occupatuon Cn the way over she had stopped at the daury bar owned by Juanuta Tugner and La Veuta Stanfull hey told her they had bought the property from Jerry Shuelds saud Pat Evans had stopped at the store lt seems that she has put her talent to work and organuzed the Evans School of the dance Thelma Carpenter us her competent secretary Joyce told them that she passed the hack shop owned by Bob Graham Next to ut us Eddue Bell s used car lot She had stopped to talk to Eddue who seemed to have a store of unformatuon Joycelyn Newberry has anelute Parus fashuon shop un whuch Jackue Moored sells outlandush hats Jackue Newberry us tourung the country wuth her rodeo Ray Mannor us chuef chef at Fanny s Hollywood Grull, operated by Mary Beaver Jack Emerson us nettung huge profuts from hus duamond mune, one of the largest un South Afruca Claude Carpenter us a fure fughter at Yellowstone Natuonal Park Morgue when she heard trees mentuoned, saud that Ella Mae Treece owns a huge apple orchard un the country Bob contunued wuth more unformatuon Lous Stamnutz and Marulyn Anderson run a date bureau Jay Anspach ut seems, us un the Department of lnternal Revenue Jane Downum us happuly marrued supportung her husband on the royaltues from her bestsellers Monte Sums IS a custom s real-estate broker The other day they offucer at the New York puer Duane Brown us Commussuoner of Sanutatuon As he stopped to catch hus breath Dorus took advantage of the lull and plunged un Bonnue Blake who luves un the South, took her chuldren toMary Boucher, leadung psycholo gust and emunent authoruty on luvenule behavuor She was worrued about them because they were actung un on unusual manner after seeung one of Jack Hoffman s puctures At present he us makunga serualcalled Superman and the Men from Mars Another member of the class who heard Holly wood callung us George McKenzue, who appears un the Pete Smuth Specaaltues Pat Vuolette teaches rhumba at Arthur Murray s Gale Gruswold has a photography shop un downtown Flint Maruorue Keuth,edutor ofthe natuonally known woman s magazune, Calorues and You, us backung Marulyn Hamilton who us runnung for reefectuon un the House of Representa tuves CraJean Craug has made fueld hockey a favorute sport all over the nation Jeanette, feelung she had been sulent long enough, ven tured to say that Betty Argue had a travel bureau un the back of Shurley Burd s florust shop Wanda Tobuas was appounted head of personnel at Bell Telephone Bonrue Harvey us a haurdresser un a rutzy New York beauty salon Mary Aluce Downum goes there often She wrutes ulngles for the Burma Shave Co Betty Jones had an unterestung lab as aurlune hostess Dale Wellman us wowung the elute on Broadway Bull Deloney has enlarged hus father s busuness and has opened an offuce on Sagunaw Street Shurrell Schaefer us on the luquor commussuon and Shurley Schaefer us teachung youngsters to be professuonal malorettes Faye Russell us a receptuonust at Craune Studuos They decuded that after the teachers meetung, thet would all go over to Bob Bennett s drug store and talk ove old tnmes wuth hum 1 - . , . . , I ' . , v I ' 1 . . . 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