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

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''svrsrroi - i HrdrCRT 4' v y ■A-JLLvlng room in a home. Time is evenin';. Lights are turned on. Mother sits reading. Sonny Boy sits in a low chair near a floor lamp reading a story book. SONNY BOY-------Bending over book and spoiling, S-E-N-I-O-R. Say, mother what's a S-E-N-I-O-R? Is it something good to eat? Or maybe it's a bear.” MOTHER---------No, no, Sonny Boy, Seniors aren’t animals, they are people. People just like you and me. SONNY BOY-------People. Say, mother this story must be about S-E-N, sen, Seniors. Ho re's a picture of one on them. Mother, there must be some of them at school. They look just like this picture. Mother, read me about Seniors. (Sonny Bey takes book over to mother. Moves chair over near mother and listens to her road.) MOTHER: {Reading) Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, nearly twelve years ago, there were some little boys end girls. Thesd little boys and girls did not go to school as you and I do. They were not old enough to go to school. But they wanted to. So their papas and their mammas told them that vjhcn they were six years old they coul d. So one day all of them were six years old. When the school bell rang in the fall of the year, in September I think it was, all of these little boys and girls started off to school, with their books and tablets. The school they went tc was the Berrien Springs Grad School and the name of their teacher was Miss Roth. Maybe if you are not old enough to remember about their teacher your father and mother will remember. Of course those little boys and girls couldn’t read. They couldn’t write either. But their teacher told them If they would try hard and study well, that some day when they got bigger they would go to high school. The little boys and girls wanted to go to high school and play basket ball, and be in plays so they studied for eight long years. Then one day their teachers told them they wore ready for high school. But all of the little boys end girls who started to schoolweren’t ready for high school. Some of them had not studied as hard as they should. Some had moved away from town. And some ether little boys and girls had come to take their places. So of all the little boys and girls left to go to high school there were: Karl Kaiser, Dorothy Bruce, Eloise Staley, Donald Hoak, Jennie Harrington, Ethel Storick, C3.eon Stover, Bob Burke, Fred Dougan, Richard Christl, Harold Gray, Paul Davis, Mary Dean, Alicia Rows, Mara Woolley, and Marion Hogue. Well, when these boys and girls came to high school, they found a lot of other boys and girls who were older then they were. Some of them seemed to know so much more than others. They paraded around looking kignifiod, and sort of lordly like. Now the little boys and girls found out these people had been in high school a long time. Some of their teachers told them that if they would work four hard years they would know a lot too. When the boys and girls went to their classes they found some other boys and girls would be in their classes with them. T esc boys and girls had gone to school in the country. They said their names were: Ed Hass, Lawrence Stover, Helen Shafer, Evelyn Shafer, Donna Brohman, Fred Beveridge, Victor Beveridge, Leonard Kesterke, Gerald