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

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June Class of 1946 Theodore Urban John Warner Dorothy Caris President Vice-President Secretary Joan Richardson Patricia Beckett Richard Learman Senator Senator Senator Virqinia Snider Treasurer 14 Margaret Sloan B. A. Alexandra Johnston B. A., B. S.. M. A.

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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

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June Class History A group of some 500 students, our class, enrolled in Central High School in the autumn of 1943. Some of us had come here from T. L. Handy Junior High and the rest from Eastern Junior. Members of our class who attended Eastern were in the last class that completed its ninth grade year in that school before the building burned. Central, a school so new to us, and so much larger than those we had been accustomed to. seemed at first very strange and confusing, but we soon fell in line with the upper classmen, who teased and tormented us freshies to no end. Nevertheless, to make us feel more welcome and at home in our new surroundings, the Student Union Senate gave the Freshman Mixer in our honor October 1. As class officers we chose Jack Wirth. President; Don DeRusha, Vice-President; Joan Richardson. Secretary; and Doug Gordon. Treasurer. Dick Learman. James Tarter, and Morgan Ramsay became our Senators. We became a part of all that we met. joining clubs, going out for sports, and engaging in numerous other activities. The first important event of our Junior year was the B-class elections held on October 10. Allen Levine was elected President; Don Morse. Vice-President; Marjorie Taylor. Secretary; Paul Sayles, Treasurer; and Joan Richardson. Morgan Ramsay, and Dick Learman. Senators. When Mr. Hood left Central. Miss Johnston filled his place as class sponsor along with Miss Sloan. To add to the amount in a rather empty treasury, coke sales, under the chairmanship of Allen Levine, were sponsored at many of the basketball games. A gratifying increase in the treasury figures was the result of a number of successful sales. Under the leadership of our newly elected officers, our first class meeting was held in the auditorium for the purpose of nominating candidates for co-chairmen of the semi-annual J-Hop which we were to sponsor in the spring. At a later date. Marian Smith and John Warner were elected to take charge of the affair. Since the dance was to be held Friday. April 13, the theme of Friday the 13th was especially appropriate. The decorations progressed under the chairmanship of Jim Porter and by the night before the dance, all the traditional black cats, ladders to walk under, and number 13's were in readiness. • The dance was postponed, however, until April 27. due to the death of the late President Roosevelt. Packy Cooke was co-chairman of the annual Ribbon Prom which the Girls' League gave May 18. As the result of an impressive campaign. Morgan Ramsay and Lynn Conway were elected Student Union President and Vice-president by the student body. President Ramsay appointed the following members of our class to the Student Union Cabinet: Jack Wirth. Secretary of Student Affairs; Jim Tarter. Secretary of Finance; Walter Vogtmann. Secretary of Student Publications; Frances Bublitz. Secretary of Inter-School Relations; Ted Urban. Senate Parliamentarian; Jeannine Masterson. Senate Secretary; Frank Zagelmeyer, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; and Packy Cooke. Associate Justice. Entering the 12th grade in 1945. we became the traditional proud seniors , expecting all sorts of privileges from our new grade-principal. Mrs. Carver. Together with the January graduating class, we got off to a good start by 98 per cent participation in the Activity Ticket drive. (Continued on Page 69)