Buchanan High School - Pines Yearbook (Buchanan, MI)

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. -. is 'Wi-+ fa 'ka 51' ., . A . -. .. 1.-my V, . Appr' A. - . ,,.:w.:- - -- , it CLASS HISTORY Janet Kelley Sprouts of the Class of '35 were first noticed in September, 1922, as they found their way to the kindergarten and opened their eyes to the big world of education. After they had passed through the kindergarten, there was a great increase in the class. Many of the little ones of '23 did not need to go to the kindergarteng thus they were put in with the all ready school-experienced children. These students grew heallthily through the seemingly long years. Some were separated from their friends who were in another division, but they all met to make merry and noisy crowds during recess and noon periods. The sprouts grew into stems, which were the foundation of the finished flower. Leaf buds of knowledge began to appear, and showers of report cards freshened some but beat too hard upon others, making them look sick. At last that long looked-for year had come. In 1929, they experienced their last year in the grades. They looked forward with eagerness to their days of junior high. Then the bud was visible, as proud little seventh graders paraded the school corri- dors. Everyone .but the upper classmen admitted that they were promising looking junior high students, and hoew proudly they elected class officers. They had a party just like the senior high, and they had fun in spite of the fact that they were com- pelled to stay in the shop and had to go home at 9:30. Eighth grade passed by so quickly that they hardly knew what it was all about. They did learn, however, that they were altogether -too hilarious, and that it wasn't good for one's marks. In 1931 they became high school students. There was a decided increase in the class as the country students came in to further their education. The buds began to open, and the colors could be seen. As some opened their petals to see the high school world, they closed them again. It was too much for them. They would wait. Besides seeing what high school education was like, they were also happy to be at high school parties I although the dignified seniors hardly approved.J They were laughed at by the upper classmen, but they stayed fresh and trim just the same. In 1932 it was their turn to laugh at the next group. I-Iapny sophomores-they attended to their little business and had plenty of time for outside entertainment. They took a greater part in school activities. Boys and girls alike were indulged in athletics. Some took up music, and others stuck to their studies. Some were cut from their education stem before they had finished growing. In 1933 a more important year in their lives was beginning to take place. They were successful in giving a junior play, Seventeen, and also gave the seniors a de- lightful prom in May, 1934. They played an important part in the graduation exercises. Their time finally came in 1934-35. Experience and a famous United We Stand, Divided We Fall speech given by one of the members of the class made them ready to commence a new life. They were the making of the athletic teams, and they were a great help to the orchestra and band. They formed several organizations. The senior play. and the prom given by the thoughtful juniors, helped to complete a happy year, and finally that long looked for graduation came. They formed a procession of fine looking, finished senio-rs, and novw the mature flowers lift their faces of know- ledge Waiting to be plucked by the outside world of experience. Fifteen

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iw iff' A sl. ' . i 1 . Q--Q .,.A . Q ,... ' .- F ' if df? - . CLASS PROPI-IECY Albert Webb Fifteen years, to the day, since the class of '35 graduated from Buchanan High School. It is 1950, and I live in a little Atlantic coast fishing town. I am the only one on the pier tonightg and as the clouds drift slowly across the moon above, they remind me of the time I spent in the library today. I found there the accomplishments of all my classmates in their volumes. It does not seem possible that the things the students intended to do then could have changed so. I never expected to find that Ray Juhl would claim membership in the only one man union in America. He is complete controller and does all the work for the Flag Pole Putter Uppers on Top of Tall Buildings Union. He travels from San Francisco to New York weekly to take care of his sky high business. September rye, 283 October corn, 52, July wheat, 86. I must have gotten into the wrong office. The next one down to the right is the managing editor's office. Margaret George is head of the Prairie Farmer Magazine, with weekly comments on the political situation as a new attraction. And here is Marguerite Babcock. Would you ever have believed it? She has become Amer- ica's Sweetheart Sensation of the Saxaphonef' Incidentally, she is the first girl to hold the honor of being a saxaphone attraction. The only two of the class to reach the stage are Alice Ruth and Shirley Howard. They are putting on quite a successful song and dance act around the country. Television has ruined the movies but these girls still hold their cvwn as popular entertainers. Audrey Wilcox is now working in the hospital that is the goal of every nurse in the world. The hospital bears the name of the Dewey Memorial Hospital, 'but it is the Naval Officers' Hospital at Washington, D. C. ' Frances DiGiacomo has gone high society. She managed to marry a Count fa real one, tool! His full name is Count Giovanni Dominick de Tagliere Pignatelli, but she calls him Ducky, If fate is good, they may succeed in getting an income with the title. Two 'books have recently been puiblished, Indian Legends and Histories of American Indians, by Pauline Topash. These books are meeting with immediate success in all parts of the country because of their interesting details of real Indian life. They are filling a great need, for up to this time little has been written about the true Indian. Feet on the desk, a derby on the hat rack, a box of El Ropo cigars on the desk, and Junior Morris back of the desk. He is now circulation manager of the Record and from his efforts they print five thousand papers weekly. The Latin phrase, Pax vobiscum, has made friends with all the natives she has met in her long journey into Africa. Beatrice Neal is now a. missionary in a small town in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. She finds the people there very interested in learning a few new ceremonial dance steps. Mary Jane Zerbe is a teacher, as everyone suspected she would be. She is teaching in the English department at Fairview High School.. In case some of the old students have forgotten the Morton children in the English exercise books, Mary Jane tells us that they are still attending classes there. Since the Ford plant went into bankruptcy, the old Ford show room has been used as the office building, bus station, and repair shop for the J. R. Bus Service. Junior Reinke recently announced the new schedule between Niles and Buchanan. Every hour on the hour until six p. m. After that my busses will run every fifteen minutes for the evening trade with Niles. From the twenty-second story of a down town building there come shrieks of pain. Police rush up the stairs to rescue the person, they break down the door and find Dr. Robert Strayer, the painless dentist, doing a little work extracting. The O. K. Bakery has established a reputation for itself by the astounding discovery of a recipe for soak-proof dunking doughnuts. Anna Yurkovic recently published her discovery in Good House- keeping Magazine, and the ingredients are as follows, if you want to make any: 2 cups flour, 3 eggs, 1 pound paraffin. Mayida Myers is one of the few students who stayed close to Buchanan. She is now a perma- nent partner in a lunch room on the Red Bud Trail. The shop is located where, as kids, the sand hills were. Only one man from Buchanan would be tough enough to carry a bullet proof vest and two auto- matics all day. No! he isn't a member of any gang, but the personal body guard to the president of the Chicago National Bank. A crook a. day is Claude Denno's diet at this new, thrill-a-minute job. A calm, sweetly serious face: a voice that contains just the right amount of condolence. It is Janet Kelley speaking over the telephone to the family of a deceased. She is gathering informa- tion for her column Obituary Bits for her paper, The Undertakers Daily Trade Journal. Number 628 Topinabee Road, Niles, Michigan. Why, this must be the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin I. Donley! I hear he has been doing quite well as president of the Ajax Utility Company. According to the census there are four in the family, not counting relatives. Sixteen