Davison High School - Davisonian Yearbook (Davison, MI)

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It seams that DALE CLE!ENS and Rodney Collins are competing for the Mad Scientist of the Yea Award Good lubk fellows ' Two of the classmates a.re living on farms around Davison CAROLYN PRINE is making cider for McAvinchy's Cider Farm and AL DECUYPER is raising gernseys and little DeCu,yperes And then there is ANN BYRNE She school or to ,just go back One member of the class is trying working on television that ta1.ks back JANET IC CARTER is now sailing the in Africa PAT WILLIAMSON and MYRTLE BACLKMER back in 1952 Guess they couldn t make is still trying to decide whether to go back to Pontiac to to get himself into the invention field MERLE LINIBAY is seas with her Jack and JANE ADKINS has become a missionary are still trading boyfriends That was supposedly settled up their minds Leaving the school the angels floated back up State Street On the way they saw a door to door salesman or rather wman She was SUE YOUNGS She was selling Bouncing Bess1e's Baby Bubble Bath She told them about scme of their other classmates It seems that farmer BOB ELLSWORTH and his pet pig Oscar are now calling square dances at D H S He took over his father's Job After all these years ELFER CARYL is still in the Army He finally reached the rank of Private First Class The angels happened to think of the two short girls in the class So they asked about them It seems that DONNA BOISMIER has a basketball team entitled the Boismier Midgets and MARJORIE VAN CURA is playing on her team It looks as though PAT HIIGENDORF is still writing to Kansas on greene stationery Among the married group in Davison Gene and Joe found BARBARA RHODY singing ballads to the Ballards , and LENORE ELISWORTB still living in Davison raising little lhoaks They made Just one more stop in Davison It seems that JOANNE FAUST is secretary for a certain Davison Construction Ccmpaxry She says she works hard too, but Fran Davison the two decided to float on to Detroit They di.dn't find as many of their class mates as they expected On the way in they discovered that JANET TURNER is teaching the birds to sing at the Detroit Zoo The entire class thought that scme day she would put her tallent to work Going along Woodward Avenue a big sign board announced that DORIS GRISWOLD was just named the girl with the longest fingernails at the Michigan State Fair PAT O'LEARY 1188 also begun to 1188 her hidden talent She 1' now 3, tgrch ginger in 3 vgry wgll known Detroit Night Club Wanting to catch up on the news the angels stopped and bought a Detroit Free Press They read an original selection by IRENE HOFFMAN and CONNIE WILLEMTI' They are now professional love letter writers, writing for the Free Press From Detroit they decided to go on to New York As the cloud passed the celebrated Grass Rail they noticed Be Bop DEAN JAGGER and MAURICE MIDGLEY with DICK REINERTSON's Band playing Sweet Adeline They went further on 'till they came to the Empire State Building They got out, got on the elevator with ANN BUSH as operator They chatted with her until they landed on the ground floor As they hit Sth Avenue, who should be going by in her pink Cadillac but JOAN HOHN enroute to Hawaii with LUJELL GRUITO as her chauffer In front of the Empire State Building they heard NANCY BOLINGER giving her presidential can didacy speech With her was VERA GLASCO who is her press agent and SHIRLEY BIILYEU who is her sec retary While in New York they glanced into a television shop where they noticed that five of their 1952 classmates had made T V JEAN WILEY has taken Dagnar's place on the Broadway Open House and DELORES DIPZINSKI, SHIRLEY WHEELER, CAROLE KUULA, and ARLENE KOSBAR were taking the Cordet's place on Arthur Godfrey's show JIM SULLENGER is now taking Arthur Smoke 'em by the carton Godfrey's place advertising Chesterf ields As they ventured down the street they came to the Latin Quarters where CARRIE H2 ARTHUR is chief cook and BETH ALDRED is end girl in the chorus line Deciding that they would like to see the more serious side of music they floated to the Metro politan Opera Ccmpany and found MARGO FORSYTI singing the lead Waiting until after the performance they had a chance to talk to MBIBO She told them about many of their classmates who were also in New York City PAT THURAU is now an airline hostess for the Clyde Beatty 1-lying Box Cars, Inc She has sl ways hoped that she was tall enough to become an airline hostess Margo had taken an ocean trip last summer on the Queen Mary and found that MARGIE GREGOR was the bell girl Margie always did like lots of water The angels were very surprised to learn that CECILIA GUERRA is now in Spain making Eranco American Spsgetti Two of the members of the class had gone into business in New York DELORES MARTIN has a sweater shop and EUGENE BYERS is running the Defective Detective Agencies Meandering down to Madison Square Garden the angels found FRANK LA LONE and FRED FORTUNE are taking Billy Craham's place as the greatest Evangelists rv u . . . . . . . . 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Clan froplzecy The year 1962 the place a floating cloud, where two class angels, BALWIN and SHUMAKER are looking over the situation of their 1952 classmates As they peered upon tne world below, the town of Chicago was casing into view An A1 CBPOHC Poker Club was located there with BARNEY MADIEZN as president and RAY CARTER as his right hand man Since they weren't too far from Soldler's Field they saw the Chicago White Sox and the Boston Dirty Sox game Third baseban and Captain for the White Sox was DON BEMIS As they went on to Benton Harbor, Michigan they saw BILL LAMB playing center for the House of David basketball team After the game they put their cloud in gear and floated to the No Sag Spring Company where PAULINE SMITH is making sure that no springs are put out with saga in them In Lansing DARWIN JAMES, a state representative, was busily yelling It's unconstitutional Looking over the city of Lansing they discovered two of their classmates hard at work in a chemistry laboratory They were ELSIE JOHNSTON, who is trying to invent a new kind of proxide that looks natural, and MATTIE BALIUS, who is trying to perfect a natural looking red dye At Michigan State College in East Lansing TOM SWENOR is busy coaching his little Swenors to be national champions Following M 78 they soon came upon the city of' Flint, Michigan Here the first person for them to see was WALTER JOHNSON who is now mattress tester for the Pearless Mattress Company At the Flint Arena they found 'Muscles NATHALIE HAYTON SAYERS is still recovering from his wrestling match with her They discovered that a new establishment had grown up Shoe Polish Compaxw owned by none other than DON GRIFFIN is BARBARA BERNSON Barb even takes dictation while sitting shoe shine girl She is CAMIULA LUJTHIAN pinning the best on the mats VERNON in Flint It is that of the Griffin Just guess who his secretary is? She on Don's lap The company also has a The angels floated out over the new General Motors Testing Area and found that TOM Roll 'em over MURPHY is now head car tester and is thinking of starting a l'1!'lk ya-rd of his own Being only eight miles from their home town of Davison they decided to visit there and see if any of their classmates had stayed after graduation The first person they saw was SHIRLEY FRAZEE buying six very small pairs of rollar skates so her troop could go skating Herron's grocery store is now owned by LOUISE TRIPLEPT She deals exclusively with hams Up the street a bit they found SUE DANIELS working late at the Union Telephone Company hand Finding that they were running a little short of money the angels dropped into the Davison Bank to find NORMA DAVIS as bank teller They made sure that she didn t short change them that V88 certain Viola sold out her beauty shop to AUGUST SCHANICK His speciality is Toni Home Permanents AL THOMPSON is working for him giving finger waves Around the corner they found that RUSS FOERSTER is fire chief He got plenty of practice driving fast back in the good ole days at D H S On the next street they saw a sign on a door which read PAT TORR's Dancing School, Polish Polkas and Jitterbugging What a surprise they received when they looked across the street BEVERLY COUSINS is happihl married to a horn honker with a bunch of little toots' running around Two blocks over they found a little gm with GERALD ANDERSEN as manager He's teaching young ,juniors to became athlets As Joe and Gene floated on they noticed four quite plump girls PAT COOK, BELT! NEAIS, JOAN WITTER, and RITA PITPENGER doing the bends while coming out of ARLENE SCHULTZ s Reducing School, where you can lose pounds in six easy years At the same time they noticed a foot race in progress Uhy it was MARY LILLIBRIDGE still chasing the underclassmen At this point they decided that they should check on the alma mater to see if Mr Thanpson and Mr Mitchell were still hanging around the school And they were They just can't seem to drsy themselves away They also found that MAXINE CARPENTER is coaching basketball CMiss Dorrlan had to leavej and LLOYD VOGEL is waterboy for the g1rl's team, ball team nanagfd by DON HAMIKJND Looking the faculty over they found two teach these students something MARGIE READ teach the students to polish furniture with teacher while they looked around they decided to while MARY LOU STGJERS is water girl for a pro foot of their classmates returned to see if they couldn is Home Economics teacher Her main purpose is to Johnson's wax And BILL POLLARD is the English see just what was going on in sales class were they ever surprised when they found that JOANNE HENGY was still there and was siting in the front row They decided to wait for class to let out so that they could talk to Joanne and ask her about some of their classmates She had lots of interesting bits of information for them She was able to tell them about eight of the members and one faculty member , . I, ,.. ll . ing the switchboard a line for a change.

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Picking up a magazine along the the Hussy Russv gossip colu in the JOHT ROSTER and DICK ROBINSON finally about Before leaving New York City Joe way they discovered that LILA BENCH CK s the originator of Ladies Home Journal At the same tlme they found out that went to Rosemary Clooney s house to find out what it is all suggested that they stop at Radio City They arrived just in time to learn that Pasquali has finally persuaded Luigi Basko, who is played by DON BENEDICT, to marry Rosa, who is played by EVELYN nAMB Well, at least two of their classmates had become radio players Erom New York they decided to hop to Washington, D C PAUL WALTON is now head bookkeeper in the Pentagon Building Confus on for the confused they always say In the Department of Agriculture they found GUY ROSTER making surveys of 53 women He had been pr moted fr m the position of a chicken inspector As they spun across the country again they came to Texas where singing could be heard for miles There on the back of their favorite p1ntos RAY JUNE was playing his uke and BOB SIETTERS was singing All of a was LOTS CORP Gene and to a h1tching They took him WRYR? 7 sudden they discovered something in the iistance that looked a little familiar It some poor s'eer would like to take a horseback ride so they hitched the cloud but tragedy came Gene fell off his horse and broke his 'eg and much to their surprise they found NILA SCHMIDT was the her knives branding the Hyde of Joe decided that they post and galloped away to the Bar X hospital nurse and DICK CRAFTS was sharpening After Gene's leg was healed they decided to float in the direction of Hollywood On the way they stopped in Phoenix, Arizona to have a doctor look at Gene s leg The first hospital they came to was a veternarian hospital where the Class of '55 was keeplng DELORES BIRLEY, Psycholo gist, in business Across the street from the hospital was the well known Rortner s Bakery where SHIRLEY DOWNEY was all rolled up Deciding to recently moved in Applying the a piece of bubble in her Rodney's Sdought leave Arizona they finally reached Hollywood Here they found EMERY BENNETT has and is flashing his baby blue eyes at Judy HDOVB air brakes, the angels floated gently down to earth to a lit+le candy store for gum On the wrapper they found cartoons by JANET MAYNEY Stopping in at M G M they found GEORGE CHIZMADIA trying to get into Romeo leads and MARGIE ADAMS as private secretary for David Horton Having seen all of their classmates the two angels then floated back to Heaven to 11ve peacefully for the next ten years when they will again look over the situation of their 1952 classmates CLASS SONF Thanks for the memories The fun we've had together we know will last forever Skipping school to break the rlle Our t1es will never sever Thanks for the teachers too They helped us through the fight They taught us what was right we ve taken Math and Latin too, And now we know iust what to do We thank you so mxch Many s the time we've had parties we ve had football and basketball too Oh, well it was fun while it lasted No harm done so why be glum Thanks for the memories The Junior Play and Pro , The Senior Play our voyage gay We ve worked together for this day We thank you so much ITune Thanks Por The Memory D , , T Y . Y I 1 4 V T . . . I - . . . . , -------, , 7 ' P 0 ll ll t . ' , J. 1 Y I U H , . . . . . I 7 . kv ' -, , f. I I I T . I H T H