Clio High School - Mustang Yearbook (Clio, MI)

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Vzzlcdictvry Address by Barbara Crnolatic Parents, Faculty, and Friends: Tonight marks the beginning of new lives for us graduates, No longer will we rely on our parents to make the majority of our vital decisions. For thirteen years we have been preparing for this point. Now we have reached it. The question of what to do has to be answered, College, marriage, trade schools and the armed forces are all solutions, Or are they? Each of them brings up more questions and presents greater problems than we've had to face, We must adjust ourselves to new ways of life. We must pre- pare to meet the demands society will pose to us as adults. Our country will place many burdens on us. There is a drastic need for teachers. We must try to meet the need. Since Russia launched her Sputniks there has been a cry for more scientists. Our gen- eration will be expected to keep the United States in the lead scientifically. The threat of Communism and tyranny grows nearer every day as was shown by the stoning of Vice-President Nixon on his good- will trip to South America in May, It is our duty to help lead our country and keep it free for posterity. As we face the problems before us they seem to be insurmountable, The fact that there are prob- lems to be solved should be an incentive to us, We should face our problems, but yet we must look be- yond them, for, as Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, When there is no vision the people perish, James Bryant Conant has said Behold the turtle, He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. Like the turtle we must stick our necks out, As we face our problems we will know the fear of failure. Fear is not a new emotion to man, but it does play too great a part in his life at times. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt is often quoted as saying, The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Fear and panic drove our country into the depths of a strangling depression in the 1930's, The 1930 depression was the fourteenth major economic depression in the history of our country, The first one was in 1836, Because of the present economic recession it will be hard for many of us to find jobs, We are not the first graduating class to be in this predicament, and we will not be the last. World peace is on dangerous ground today. The prospect of a third world war looms darkly in the future. None of us wants this war to come about for we have good reason to believe it would be our last. The United States has taken part in 8 wars and the Korean conflict. So, we are not the first graduating class to face the prospect of war. As we face them our problems seem unique, Each of us feels that he is the only one with troubles, The problems we face are not new. They are merely the same old ones under a new disguise. We will never be completely free of trouble, and we would not Want to be, for, as Arnold Toynbee said in his essay, Can We Live In Peace? Trouble, after all, is the necessary salt of life without which life loses its savor. Tonight we bid farewell to Clio High and the happy times we've had here, As we say our goodbyes, we realize that we are Not finished, just begun. Jim

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To JUDY HALLIGAN we give this fine map so geography class she won't forget. To KAREN SHELLY, a girlfriend of Denny's, we give these two nickels worth ten pennies. To LORNA GLASSBURN, who has trouble with her hair, I'm afraid, we give this red coloring to make it just the right shade To DIANE BON, so she won't feel grave, we give these wings so she can't catch Dave. Since you're murder with the girls, LARRY ROTH, here's a hack saw in case you're caught, To BARBARA GRACE who's shy in class we give a vitamin to give her more brass. To HUBERT HALLIGAN we give this sheet of paper, Now you can put down in black and white every wild caper. To PAULETTA CROW this potion we brung to take away the crow and make you Young. To EDDIE KORUNES, who does his schoolwork fine, we give a little halo -- come on, Ed, make it shine. To PAT PALMER who gets to school with Flash we give this ray-gun, Don't do anything rash. To DAN LAUGAVITZ we give this speeding ticket, for every one he got we hope this will save the trouble of a cop. To BETTY PACE, an ardent reader, we give this novel, Now don't read it in haste. To VAUGHN JONES, who's good at running races, we give this car to save his paces. To MARILY LOSEE, who seldom speaks, we give these teeth now at least you can squeak. To ORRIN WOODWARD, we give at last, this certificate entitling you to no more in Miss Boyse's class. To JANICE GILES we give these pins to help you when your family begins. To HOWARD STORMS we give this scratch pad. Now practice writing larger like a good lad. To ALPHA SMITH who's quite new we give a Clio map so you'll remember this isn't Timbucktoo. To ALBERT THOMAS, who has hopes of growing taller, we give this ruler -- Now, Al, don't get smaller! There's nothing like home soil, so, to CONNIE HUBER, who will probably travel, we give this piece of Clio gravel. To JANET INSCHO, who needs this Air Mail stamp, to make it stick, it must be damp. Though her Great Dane hasn't any fleas, we give BARBARA KERN this flea powder. Use it sparingly, please. To ROGER LA ROCK we give these glasses, so he can see the clock in Mr. Reed's classes. To DON LEE our great athlete we give this potion for your tired aching feet. To ELAINE OLDHAM who plans to teach little kids we give this bridal bouquet in case your plans go on the skids. To DUANE ALLISON whose drawings all look MAD we give this pencil with an eraser so he can make them look glad. To MARGARET NEMETH, the silent type, we give this whistle to make noise when the time is ripe. To DENNY NICHOLS who goes with our queen we give a king's crown to put on his bean. To LEE ACKERMAN our graduating V-P we give this hanky in case she feels weepy. TO JUDY SCHULTZ, to us known as Schultzie, here's a light bulb to make your dark room less cozy. To JULIUS THOMAS, known as Ace, we give this deck of cards so he won't feel out of place. To ALLEN SKINNER we give this A in English just for fun, so you can't say you never had none. To SANDY McLEES we give these anti-scream pills. Don't be angry we just want to tease. Because we hope she'll always sing, to DOROTHY MEAD, we give with our blessing this fine bird seed. To SANDY ANDERSON so you'll remember this year we give you this to reflect back -- a mirror. To CHUCK SCHMAN always found at Harris' Drug Store we give this bubble gum so he can stay home more, To BARBARA CRNOLATIC, whose mind is so grand, let's all get together and give her a hand, To LENNIE BABCOCK, another quiet one, we give this noise pill, now have fun, To GLENDA GALBRAITH so she won't get another childhood disease, we give this mask, now be at ease. For JUDY HAYNES, who's always gay and bonny, to make her happier, here's a horse to go riding with Ronny. To DAVID SCOTT who plays trombone we give another -- here's a dog bone. To BARBARA PETH a library permit although book reports she'd like to forget, To KAYE ROGERS whose Trig class consists mostly of rings made by Dale, we give these squares drawn by some other male To VIOLET SCHEUNEMAN who drives Chuck's Chevrolet we give these weights so on the ground she must stay. For your headache with Dave, MARY JEAN MILLS, we give you this little box of pills, To GAYLE SETTERINGTON who rips up the town in an Impala we give this cure for thin tires, payola. We give this pacifier to NANCY HUGHES so with Miss Boyse she can call a truce. To CECILIA DION who likes to write a letter we give this pencil so she can write better. To SHARON MOREY, who scrapes up cars, we give this paint to cover the scars. For FAITH MICHEL when she goes Kachoo she'll need this -- some Kleenex for you, To JONELL ROBBINS, of the gifted pen, we give this assignment to write about men. To CARL STROOPE our golden voiced friend we give this note so it'll never end. To GLENNA QUINN we give this badge to catch her men.

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Salufafv y ,4ddrcss by Wayne Sedlow Members of the Board of Education, faculty, parents, and friends, I am privileged to welcome you to Commencement night on behalf of the graduating class of 1958, There is a question in my mind tonight about our educational system in the United States, Are stu- dents in Europe receiving a more advanced education than students in the United States? I feel this is a very important question and after looking into the matter I fear we are falling behind, In this new scientific era we cannot afford to let this happen. I had the privilege of attending a Clio Rotary meeting this past year and listen to an exchange stu- dent from Germany, He compared our two countries educationally, I was amazed when I learned he had taken all the mathematical courses offered in our high schools and was only classified as a junior in our schools, The most impressive fact was that he was not majoring in mathematics, but he was taking a language course, This was composed of seven years of Latin, English, and French, He said the reason the German student is ahead of us is because they attend school twelve months a year with only a two weeks vacation. After listening to his speech I began to wonder about the other countries in Europe and began to do some research, Because Russia is our most important rival, I selected her, Here are a few facts that I found. ' When a Russian student graduates from high school he has had five years of physics, four years of chemistry, a year of astronomy, five years of biology, ten years of mathematics, and five years of a foreign language. Now the question before us is how can America compete with Europe and especially Russia? A good way to do this would be to extend our educational system into a twelve month program with two weeks off during the summer, This system would serve more than one purpose, First of all it would give to each student a more intensified education enabling him to secure more knowledge and graduate at the same time. The more knowledge secured in high school would enable a student to enter college with more ease and assurance, Secondly, it would provide teachers with a year around employment, Thirdly, it would prepare a student more fully for earning his own livlihood. This system should put us at par with Russia, It would be difficult at first, but we must be able to compete with Communism or lose our world leadership and maybe our freedom, In closing, I would like to thank the parents, on behalf of the graduating class of 1958, for the sac- rifices they have made for us to make this Commencement night possible, f maui