Comstock High School - Corral Yearbook (Comstock, MI)

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Name Best boy athlete Best girl athlete Boy most likely to succeed Girl most likely to succeed Best looking boy Best looking girl Most studious Best singer Tallest bov Tallest girl Best natural boy Best matured girl Most serious Least serious Most dependable Least dependable Biggest Smallest Most important (in own estimation) Most energetic Mouth iest Runner-up Quietest Runner-up Best fisherman Longest mane Most shy Quickest temper Most poetic Sweetest Most expressive eyes Most mischievous Most ambitious George Moberg Lucille Kline Everett Fahey Emma Mathews Howard Dean No preference shown Howard Montague Duane Bellislc Cornelius Smith Alice VandeStreek Richard Boven Maxine Wagner Virginia Shellman Colin Miller Richard Whipple John Draper Gerald Gallagher Raylester Stroll Clarence Winterburn Anita Palmer Robert Skelton Herbert Willett Minnie Devries Frances Miller Ralph Allen Francis Real Ruth Van Meter Richard Heystek Armon Cuddington Margaret Bell Dick VanOosterum Kenneth Whipple Edwin Pollard HOROSCOPE Nickname Weakness Outcome Oley Lucy Flimsy Emma Howdy Beautiful Sunny-boy Duke Corny Streeka Speck Max .1 inny Cod' Rich Johnny Tuffy Ray Ruth John 15c shows Radio broadcasting I kie Cod Miller Tennis Women and song Celery Corny Football Chuck Ray Arriving at 9:01 Pulling curtains Man- Skipping school Blonds Jazz Orchestra Leader Pianist in Moberg’s Orch Prize-fighter School teacher Movie actor Old maid Great scientist Blues singer Cow-boy Temperence speaker Drunkard Walkathoner Huey Long’s secretary Knife thrower Movie director Floor walker Butler Lone-ranger Porky Anita Skippy Herb Minnie Fran Goof Bill Ruth Dick- Chink Marg Dick K en Ed Orating Singing Arguing Ruth Harlem Mystery man Trout Elaine Unknown Basketball Writing poetry Dawgs Malted milks Practical jokes Viv Insurance salesman ran dancer Radio announcer Big League pitcher Mind reader Nurse Hen-picked husband Taxi-driv r Hotel hostess Jockey Big-game hunter I louse-wife Bark.r in circus Clown Garbage-man

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HOWARD MONTAGUE .}rcat thoughts like great deeds need no trumpet. VALEDICTORY Howard Montague “Good Work Brings the Greatest Happiness. Ladies and Gentlemen: Finishing high school at the present time, we are very fortunate to have had the benefit of a good system of education. Every city. town, or community in America has good schools placing within the reach of all the advantages of public school education. The world’s progress is accomplished, not by steady, stately strides, but by leaps and bounds, separated by periods of comparative quiet and apparent retrogression. In the same manner development of our educational system has taken place. Periods of greatest business activity usually have been followed, only several years later, by educational progress. It is our good fortune to have gone through high school during one of these periods of educational progress. As the result of modern ideas of education our time in school has been well adapted to the things that will best enable us to advance along lines which will ultimately bring happiness into the work we find ourselves doing. Instead of making the pupils fit the courses, the courses have been made to fit the pupils. Because we have been permitted to select in part our studies, we have spent part of our time working at things in which we have had a vital personal interest entirely apart from their educational value. Everywhere today there are people who apparently have the idea that the world owes them a living, and they are out to collect it. They have no notion to carry on any useful occupation while they are going through life. Properly planned education should stimulate every person in doing some kind of work which is of the most interest to that individual. Happiness through work is the creed of our time. Everyone wants work now. The more work, the more happiness; the better work, the more happiness. Our present system of education has taught us that in position there is wealth and that in work there is dignity; furthermore, the better work people do the happier they are while doing it. In the Atlantic Ocean there is a stream flowing from the Gulf of Mexico northward. If we cast a bottle into that stream near the coast of Florida it would probably eventually reach England; but several years would have passed before it got there, and no one could tell what part of the British Isles it would reach. A steamer, directed by the intelligence of a trained mind, can make the same voyage in a week. The steamer is like the man who knows definitely what he wants in life and goes steadily in that direction, something the drifting bottle or a man of indecision could never do. With the closing of this occasion today we cease to exist as a high school class and it becomes my duty to say farewell. We say farewell to the Board of Education which has so ably directed the school system. To the members of the faculty we say farewell. They have been our good friends as well as our instructors. To our parents we do not say farewell, but we wish to thank them for making possible for us a good public school education. Classmates, we may say farewell, but there is no farewell among us. As we go our different ways in our lives to come, we will always be held together by the common pos- session of the principles ami ideals taught in this school. (HI

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Top Row—Wilma Slager. Dorothy Bclclen. Omer Dean. George Ray, Wayne Roc, Donald Burkhead, Denman Smith, L. G. Morrison, David Parsons, Charles Sutton, Gyrarda Brennan. Middle Row—Harriet House. Gertrude Rice, Dorothy Keeler, June Giddings, Pauline Kakabaker, Angelinc De Haan, Helen Dunlap, Alta Brooks, Elaine Savage. Virginia ilson. Front row—Vernon Terrell, Lawrence Watts, Lynn Schearer. Russell Noble, Kenneth Robb, William Orr, Ray Anderson. JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY In the fall of 1932. fifty very frightened freshies ascended the steps of the greatly re- nowned Comstock High School and decorated the assembly with bright-colored dresses and shirts, and fifty very white faces. The first thing this great class did was to elect its class officers. They were as fol- lows. President. David Parsons; Vice-president, L. G. Morrison; Secretary and Treasurer, Leone Logsdon. The second Friday after the beginning of school our very confident freshmen boys pulled the over-confident sophomores through the cool waters of tlie pond. At the end of the week during which the freside girls suffered through their initiation, the sophomores gave us a reception at which we were decidedly the under-dogs. After coming through our first year with very few scratches, we ascended the golden ladder of educatkm with a much smaller class than when we started. Again we were successful winners of the great annual tug-of-war, giving the freshics a cool though unappreciated ducking in the pond. This year our class officers were: Presklent, Helen Dunlap; Vice-President, Wilma Slager; Secretary and Treasurer, June Giddings. One of our girls. Pauline Kakabaker, was crowned Carnival Queen at the annual School Carnival. In the year 1934, a worldly-wise class of dignified Juniors seated themselves in a very self-satisfied manner among the upper-classmen. Our class officers this year were: President, Denman Smith; Vice-President, David Parsons; Secretary and Treasurer, Pauline Kakabaker. Again one of our girls. Helen Dunlap, became Carnival Queen. Our Junior Play, “Romance A I-a Mode,” went over with a big bang. During our three years in high school we have been well represented in athletics by the following: L. G. Morrison. Denman Smith, Russell Noble, Kenneth Robb, Pauline Kakabaker, Helen Dunlap, Virginia Wilson. David Parsons, Harriet House, and Charles Sutton. Now we are looking forward to our last year in good old Comstock High. We feel that we have done our share so far, but perhaps, we can do better next year, when we seat ourselves in “Loafers Row’ and rule over our inferior under-classmen. [13]