Central High School - Centralia Yearbook (Bay City, MI)

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Co-op Proqram Now operating in Central is an educational plan that allows students of employable age to attend school for part of the day and to work on some job related to their school training the other part. More than 75 students have adopted the earn-as-you-learn plan under the co-operative program. This program, which was started in the fall of 1944 by Mr. Gustin on an experimental basis, is subsidized and promoted by the State Department of Vocational Education. The purpose is two-fold. First, it enables the student to put into use in an actual job situation the skills which he is acquiring in school. He can thus see the practical use and application of his learning. Second, it gives the student a small income that is beneficial to him in pursuing a higher education. For this work the co-op students receive five hours credit each semester. All Michigan colleges and universities will accept this credit, as an elective, for college entrance. A student must be sixteen years old to be eligible for this program. Mr. Stringer and Mr. Van Wezel are in charge of the program with Mr. Stringer the co-ordinator for business education and Mr. Van Wezel for trade and industry. Three students working under the Co-op program are pictured above. Top: Barbara Wilson at the glove counter at Knepp's. Center: Carl Doan shown in Sears' stockroom. Bottom: Carolyn Palmer selling at Kresge's. 12

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Glen Preston Wallace Reid Eldon Reynolds Phyllis Roberts Lois Robinson Margie Raeske S of 1946 Paul Voqtmnnn Marinda Wilcox Beulah Williams Patricia Williamson Barbara Woodman Vernon Monne 11

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s j 4 i ii. s 4 A '4 '4 J J J 4 V VV4 ’d V W V VUUV J V J J January Class Play Thin Ice was presented by the January graduating class Friday night December 14. 1945. The plot of the play centers around the Edwards family during a Christmas vacation. Fifteen-year-old Daffy is bent on breaking up her older brother's romance with a Cleopatra who can't skate. Daffy sends out an SOS to Cousin Mathilda, who answers with her husband and her gremlin daughter, Juanita. The rest of the Edwards family, being somewhat more sane than Daffy, try to dissuade her. Even Daffy is finally convinced when lawsuits, automobile accidents, and wrecked plans in general begin to rain down upon her head. The play was directed by Miss Griffiths and student director Maryalice Michaelis. The cast included Frances Bublitz, Jeannine Masterson, Jack Wirth, Robert Richardson, Robert Colbert, Eugene Selden, Marion Hine. Joan Richardson, Nancy Couts, Marilyn Workman, Eldon Reynolds. Marjorie Kirk, Ruth Taylor, and Irwin Robinson. Daffy (Frances Bublitz) is on the sofa and has the situation well in hand at the moment. Jerry Burns (Robert Richardson) is Daffy's heart-throb and seems confused by her change of character. Ellen, the maid. (Ruth Taylor) and Daffy's best friend (Joan Richardson) are silently observing. Mathilda Brooks (Jeannine Masterson) is telling off Millicent Russel (Nancy Couts). Fred Edwards (Jack Wirth) is trying to stop her while Juanita Brooks (Marjorie Kirk), Mathilda's little tattler is listening. 13