Blissfield High School - Elysium Yearbook (Blissfield, MI)

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JOHN RICHARD STRAYER Dedication We the Elysium staff of 1957 wash to dedicate our book to the memory of John R Strayer wholosthlsllfe lnanautomoblle accident August I8 i956 John our classmate was a member of the science club the varsity basketball team andtheband Hewasatauthful mem ber of the Methodist Church and Sunday School He partlc lpated In all the activities of the Methodist Youth Fellowshnpand rep resented his church on the Youth Committee of the Bl ussfleld Council of Churches. John willalways beremembered in the hearts of those who knew him for his quiet ways and his great scientific mind. His death was truly a great loss to his family, his church, his school, and his community. . . 45 'Slit ?i',Q'1,'- . . I I . . . . . ' I . , . I I . . I - . I ' - . . . . . . . . . . - . . 159'

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Gonewond W if Bllssfneld High School from the comer of Jeffforson and Glles worked untlrmgly to prepare the I957 Elyslum wlth the hope that nn years to come It wall help In your remnmscmg It IS our hope that the stu dents whose actlvltles are portrayed In this book will In the future be successful Whether the suc cess comes as a statesman as an educator as a businessman as a housewlfe or an whatever other capacity It may be IS not SIQHIIIICGDI' More lm South Entrance . to one s bellefs as an the words of Shakespeare This above all to thnne own self be true And It must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any manl 'Table of Contents INTRODUCTORY PAGES SENIORS SCHOOL LIFE SPORTS 45 56 CLASSES INDEX ADVERTISING 73 76 ifxxrx I I ez Hands--capable, willing, busy hands--have portant, however, than fame or fortune is sincerity G I- 8 9-20 I 21-44 A 57-71 72

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I Secretary. . Trustee . . President, , Trustee . Treasurer. new 'l-lrqh School Burldrnq Plano flppnoued The past year was a very eventful one for the Blnssfleld Community Schools The Board of Educatnon gave theur ap proval to the plans for the new hugh school and made arrangements to Insure that a supplyofsteel would be avallable when the tame came to begun constructlon on the school The constructlon of the bulldmg IS expected to be started In May of thus year and at as hoped that utwxll be completed by September l958, If not completed by then It wlll be ready by January of l959 On September 7 l956 the people of the school dlstrlct approved the bond Issue The bond was sold December l3 1956, at a very satrsfactory Interest rate F J Strayer, Superintendent, and Burclett Peebles, Prmclpal, contmued as admmlstratlve heads of the school M Strayer was assisted ID has offlce by Mnss Vada Luke and Mrs Marlorue Lewis, the latter replacing Mass Margaret Slaker Mr Peebles was agam asslsted In hrs offnce by Mnss Thelma Sheldon A F I STRAYER Supermtendent Offrce Secretarres MISS VADA LUKE BURDETT PEEBLES Prmcrpal MRS MAIUORIE LEWIS AND MISS THELMA SHELDON BOARD OF EDUCATION QLEFI' TO RIGHT, Carl Knapp William Thompson H I Hoemg Robert Stutzman Howard Drrggs