Berrien Springs High School - Canoe Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY It was one lonely evening in that dreadful winter of 1970, as i sat gazing into the fire, that memories came rushing back like shells in a bombardment. I went into the library and took from its honorary place on the table that little book which I had learned to treasure. 1 turned the well-worn pages upon which the History of the Class of twenty-four wras written and read once more the familiar passages: “The Freshman Class of 1920 had the names of thirty-five very green but auspicious looking youths and maidens on its class-roll. A very odd thing happened that particular fall. The leaves fell before they had turned, but the mystery was solved the first day of school, for they all came tumbling up the walk toward the school building. With hesitant steps they mounted the stairs and filed into the front seats in the assembly room. It was soon discovered that this green mass was composed of thirty-five would-be-educated Freshmen. Before the year was over, however, many of these parts wrenched themselves loose from the mass and were lost by the way-side. The school year, which was uneventful, but happy, flew by on out-spread wings. Parties and other activities dotted the horizon from time to time; then summer came and the mass took on the appearance of wise and jolly Sophomores. The Sophomore year began with a smaller number on the class roll. The first activity of the class was to extend to the Freshmen a hearty welcome in form of a weenie roast at Smith Lake. Later in the year other parties were enjoyed and with spring came the entrance into the events of the Track Meet, and then the close of another year. The first school day of 1922 brought back to the old school-house eighteen lively and ready-to-work Juniors. Mildred Lein, assisted by Francis Housam, Ethel Shafer and Walter Ewalt, together with Miss Beach, the class advisor, were chosen to guide the class of 1924. A few of the class’ contributions to the high school activities were a Hallow’een party; the first B. S. H. S. Football captain; two members of the girls’ basketball team; and a most successful farce, “Daddy Long-Legs.” The last duty of the class of 1924 as Juniors was to help the worthy Seniors to graduate, and this accomplished, we proclaimed ourselves, “Dignified Seniors.” As 1 replaced the book in the library and returned to my seat by the fire-place, happy youthful faces danced before my vision, and 1 dwelt once more in the Day of Used-To-Be. —Loraine Sattler

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JUNIOR CLASS Top Row — Marguerite Kinney Ethel Shafer Frances Housam Florence Williams Loraine Sattler Middle Row — Forrest Parketon Lavelle Sherburn Frank Willis Agnes Yore Fern Parketon Mildred Shafer Bottom Row-Carl Erlandson Lloyd Minnich Walter Ewalt Mildred Lein Marjory Murphy Mildred Dubert Mary Handy

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