Comstock Park High School - Hilite Yearbook (Comstock Park, MI)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY As I s1t 1n my 1solated cell awaltlng deportatlon to my natlve planet Mars I fondly remember the years I spent at C P H S I shall never forget the rouslng welcome accorded me by Nlhll Benuche and h1s famous all glrl Dr1ll Team at our class reun1on of 1968 Sen1or members of the team were Yvonne Berry Joyce Koon Pat CCurt1s1 Cordes and MaryAnn Fortuna Just then I happened to notlce Marljane Bergers and Judy Bellows rush 1nto the new gym bu1ld1ng carrylng a dlsplay of shrunken heads acqulred on a recent tr1p to the Amazon jungles Upon entermg the bu1ld1ng I saw that the Sen1or Carnlval of 1968 was 1n full swlng and well prepared by the Senlors Ken Gelderbloom the world s smallest glant and D1ck Howlett world s tallest mldget were on hand to add to the excltement Off 1n one corner I saw Cynthla CG1bsonJ Humphrey leadlng Larry fHumphreyD Jackle Peters and Dan VanSoest 1n a h1lar1ous verslon of Jallblrd Rock an old EIVIS tune Notlclng a Freshman sell1ng cop1es of the Tatler I1mmed1ately procured one by cleverly d1vert1ng h1s attentlon and then copp1ng one The front page of th1s lssue devoted to the old grads of 58 carr1ed a huge headhne statlng that Professor Patrlck Fletcher s Theory of Unrelatxvlty had made dehydratlon of water posslble Immed1ately below thls was a full color portralt of Pat Prltchard who was chosen Mlss Unlverse ln Parts last week I was almost astounded at the news that J1m McCullough J1m Zarbock and Clyde Peacock had successfully landed on the moon The flrst thlng they dlscovered was a weather ed copy of Jules Verne s From the Earth to the Moon The sports sectlon featured an artlcle about Rod Denhart the Llvls I resley of Comstock Park who recently made track hlstory by pole vaultmg 31 feet uslng a 20 foot pole Jlm McKellar cheered on by the Mrs Ruth COele7 McKellar had rneanwhlle set a new record for the 100 yard dash and broad Jump Also mentloned ln the feature artlcles was the run down of scores as Lynn Rosely had won the Davls Cup matches at Melbourne Com1ng to the classlfled sectlon I saw that many of my old classmates had gone far ln the buslness world Gerald Clapp s School of The Dance was featur mg lnstructxons 1n slow waltzes Dave Wler s Haberdashery was hav1ng a grand openlng Rosemary Bek1ns Judy Ranck and Dorothy Cook offered 6 week courses at thelr secretarlal school and J1m McFarland and Arn1e VanHorn advert1sed re duced prlces at the1r reduclng cl1n1c I f1n1shed the paper and carefully put It away for future readlng when I bumped 1nto Larry Rector talent scout for the Detro1t T1gers thls year s World Serles contenders Larry lnformed me that Lou1s Sab1n had perfected a new and mgemous method of removmg ut1l1ty poles for the power company but the exact process 1S st1ll a secret In the heart of downtown Comstockl ark wh1ch had grown cons1derably by Ih1S t1me I entered an auto accessorles store operated by M1ke Sldlauskas wherel notlced N1ck F1nk buymg parts for some of h1s ant1que cars wh1ch form the largest collectlon 1n the state Over ln a far corner a loud argument was ln progress and I was surprlsed to see that Ga1lVerslu1s saleswoman for the new 1968 Ka1ser was debatlng the merlts of dual carburetlon wlth Ro'1Verner who races motor scooters at Indlanapolls J1m K1tler IS h1s chlef mechamc I belleve After leavlng M1ke s place I was just crosslng the street when two cars 1968 Pontlac and a 1967 Olds shot by nearly removmg my humble person from the earth Seelng that lt was only Bob Mlller raclng the Drakes J1m and Joyce CHoff man! I contlnued across but was nearly run down agaln when a state pollce squad car drlven by Gary Hachrnuth roared by 1n pursu1t of the mad ones I later asked Loretta Slagel and Barbara Shlnn owners of a lad1es shop 1n the v1c1n1ty the outcome of the chase They mformed me that the offenders had been apprehended and would appear before Judge Larry Tlegema 1n the rnornmg My tlme was gettlng short so I wandered onto the new C P H S athletlc f1eld where Coach Bucky Cordes and h1s asslstant Larry Stow1tts were worklng out the track team Bucky d1rected me to the Relaxatlon Room a new snack bar operated by George Plerce and Dave Fuhrmann where Itensely watched the out come of the Powder Puff Derby on the televlslon d1rect from the Speedrome Judy Idzlak won th1s event wh1le Dennls Weaver took the 200 lap feature drxvmg a 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . . . . . w ' - ' 4: 1 - 1 ' 11 ' sa l - 11 1 1 . . . . . M . . 1 1 11 - , . 1 7 . . . . ,I . ,, ' . . ,, ,. , . 1 1 ' ' ' 1 ax - ' 11 , , 7 . . . . 1 1 . , ' 1 ra 11 ' ' fa ' J ,H J 1, 1 - 1 . I Y . , . , . -7 . . . . - 7 J .1 . . . , 7 1 - ' 1 tr 11 - . . . . 1 ,. , . 1 1 1 1 - , - . . v . 7 . M 1 . . . . , . 1 1 Y . . . . . . . . Y . 1 v I ' ' ' 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 . , . . . , . . 8 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 - 1 1 , . . . , . 1 , . , . . . . 1 1 ' 11 ' sv ' 1 I - 1 1 ri,

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VALEDICTORIAN GARY HACHMUTH Q, lr CLASS COL ORS Mlm green and wh1te FLOW ER Wm ROSE The past forever gone The future stlll our own SCHOOL MASCOT Alert and graceful and cunmng, too, Our panthers follow thls mascot so true. U1-'-' KE NNE TH GE LDE RB LOOM DAR ROSE M ARY BE KINS l958 for TEN Kenneth Gelderbloom Judy Ranck Barbara Shlnn 7 MaryAnn Fortuna 8 Gordon Sornsel O Ruth Oele Gary Hachmuth IVIar1Jane Bergers Larry T1eJe1na 9 Larry Rector I5 il 1 S Q55 1 1 nfa, 1 ET: : il' , .' ,aw 1 K , '- -xwiiff ' 5l.f'g, I - 0 O O ll . , , . ll E 1. 2. ' 3. ' ' ,4. 5. ' ' 5. '

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modified Jaguar. I was having alast drink lor the road when the police came in and arrested me. I can hear them coming for me now to return me to the arid wastes of my own planet. The sound of a key turned in its lock, and then I am rudely kicked into the I hall before Mr. Simons, who says quite cheerfully, All right, guard, He's all yours. The guard leers at me, and nowl suddenly realize the reason for his look of revenge. Gordon Somsel, guard, was no Freshman, but it was his Tatler that I stole, Good-bye, Earth People Aro Couch SENIOR CLASS WILL THE LAST WILL AIND TESTAMENT OF THE SENIOR CLASS OF NINIETEEN FIFTY EIGHT Item To the Freshmen weleave our ability to have a good excuse for all our wrong doing To the Sophomores our Sister Class we leave our ability to have fun and en Joy life at all times To the Juniors we leave our ability to do what we are supposed to do when we re supposed to do it co operating always Item To Mrs Champlin and Mr Vanderl aan we leave our deepest appreciation for the wonderful help and advice they have given us the two most important years of our high school careers To Mr Williams we leave our many happy memories of Comstock Park hoping that he too will have as many to remember To Mr Simons we leave our very mixed up schedules To Mrs Shew we leave our math books hoping that her future students will use them more often than we did To Mr Woodbridge we leave a peaceful and co operative Chemistry class To Mr Geiger besides the usual cigars we leave our locker shelves so he won t have to make new ones next year To Mr Steward we leave more hard working band members than our class supplied Mrs Vos we leave an automatic paper corrector so she won t have to spend so many vacations correcting papers To Mrs Snyder we leave a new putty knife as we have worn out her old ones Mr VanAndel and Mr Haadsma we leave our wishes for a happy teaching career at C P H S Miss Lamoreaux we leave a new piano that is always in tune Mr Hondorp and Mr Burcham we leave hopes for successful teams Mr Buth we leave a driver training car that is never on the blink Miss Holmes we leave some typing erasers to replace the ones we used Mr Videan we leave a year of quiet in the Junior High halls Mrs Geren we leave lots of spare time to use as she pleases Mr DeVL1tt we leave some enthusiastic English students Mr DeVoogd we leave oui wide awake faces so very early in the morning Mrs Steward and Mrs Curtiss we leave our many silly questions and some polite customers for the book store 1. , . . - 2- I , . , . . - 3. 1 , . . . 1. . ' . J ' ' 2. ' Y. - . . 1 - 3. .I ' J , ' - i . 4. . , ' 5. . ' , ' - ' ' . 6. i . , . . I v. . , l ' 8. To .i , ' ' 9. . , L ' . 10. To Mrs. Nickel, we leavealarge speech class and our ability to play charades. 11. To . . , ' ' 12. To ' L L L ' ' ' . 13. To . . , ' ' . 14. To . ' - ' ' ' ' . 15. To ' ' . 16. To . ' ' ' ' ' . 17. To . ' . 18. To I . ' ' ' . 19. To . 0 ' - ' ' . 20. To . . ' ' '