Detroit Country Day School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Birmingham, MI)

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FREDERICK JOHN WELLS Football reserve-3 Basketball reserve-3 Honor Society-1, 2, 3, 4 Class Vice-President-2 Class Secretary-Treasurer-3 Debate-1, 2 Blue and Gold editor-4 Yellow Jacket-4 Fred Wells is an excellent example of the Emersonian idea of compensation. He not only lives it up with the class, but also maintains the highest scholastic average in the school. He does superior work in science, and yet does not have the proper scientific attitude. Fred plarticipates in many of the school activities. His build makes im a good basketball player, his personality makes him a good mixer in class projects, and his ability to solve problems makes him well qualified to be manager of the Blue and Gold. Fred is a reporter on the Yellow Jacket and has written up things like the new locker room. This September will see Fred off to Middlebury College in Vermont to study liberal arts for a while. He has the choice of going into physics or taking over his father's lumber com- pany, and we sincerely feel that whatever choice this wonder boy makes he cannot help being a success with these outstand- ing qualities. 5 ROBERT EDWIN WHITNEY Class Secretary-2 Class Secretary-Treasurer-4 Debate-2, 3 school-2 Blue and Gold rewrite-4 Dramatics-4 Robert is the reliable one in the class. If you want an assign- ment or the number of days until graduation, ask Bob. Further evidence of his reliability is his attendance record, which was perfect in the tenth grade. The class has recognized this quality in Bob and elected him secretary in the tenth grade and secre- tary-treasurer in the twelfth grade. A surprising note is Bob's dress, where he leads the class in flashiness. His disposition fits him well to our particular class. This year Bob acted in our school play. It was perhaps this sunny nature that took him through all the rigors of the play to a successful end. Bob's specialty is Spanish, which he will major in at Albion College. He will then utilize this subject as a Spanish teacher or as a member of the foreign service. eleven

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WILLIAM FREDERICK STANLEY Lincoln High School-1 Cranbrook-2 Track-3 captain-4 Cheerleader-4 Dramatics-4 WILLIAM KIRBY SMITH Football4, 4 Basketball-4 Baseball-3, 4 Class Secretary-1 Class Treasurer-2 Blue and Gold-4 Dramatics-3, 4 Whenever one cranes his neck to the back of the room to find the source of that peal of laughter one is sure to meet the beaming face of Bill Smith. Bill has come up from the ranks of Country Day. He started in the kindergarten and this year he finishes in the twelfth grade. All through his long stay at D.C.D. Bill has been an outstanding athlete. In football and in baseball he has been valuable as a player and as a manager. Bill is also noted his custom restyling of his car. Who can forget his oral races with Don Isbrandt . . . during a govern- ment recitation? Bill hopes to continue his illustrious career at Denison College. Here he hopes to take up political science. We are sure that Bill, with his wonderful sense of humor and his athletic talents, make a place for himself at Denison equal to the place left in the hearts at Country Day. While talking quietly outside the door of the school in the morning, we are suddenly interrupted from our conversation by the roar of twin pipes. Looking up we see a blue Ford hardtop come whizzing into the parking lot. A crowd quickly gathers, and from out of their midst comes the owner of this fine car. We observe that it is Bill Stanley, arriving to take on the toils of the day's work at Country Day. Bill was the last person to join the Class of '53 and since he has been here, he has contributed much to the life of this institution. Bill has been a member of the track team for the past two years and this year has been elected captain. Bill will probably choose Denison College as his next stop on his route to gain more education. We feel that he should go far.

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twelve ROBERT ERWIN WOZNIAK Football-1, 2, 3, 4 Basketball-1, 2 Baseball-1, 2 Golf-3 Captain-4 Athletic Association vice-president-4 Honor Society-4 Woz is that quiet, conservative, well-dressed gentleman who sits next to the window in government class. Bob will probably be ibest remembered by D.C.D. as a kindly father to his new car, as a genial host at many a party, and as an all-around athlete. Bob's best record, as an athlete, is his D.C.D. career as a golfer. Bob is the one who keeps the strokes well down in the eighties. He is also probably one of the best athletes that the school has ever produced-in football, baseball, and basketball. Bobls occasional membership to the honor society marks him as one of the better than average students of the class. This versatile lad has been seen around school behind the wheel of a Ford of untold speeds, a M.G. sports-car, and his new Ford, the last being his pride, which he pilots with the care of a sea captain. Bob plans to continue his studies at the University of Michigan. We are all sure that wherever Bob goes and whatever he does he will be a long remembered asset to Country Day. CAM 'DM Campbell leaves Country Day. Gurdjian leaves his 22 to Bagley. Smith leaves his B.S. degree to Bob Tann. Wells leaves his car washing equipment to VanderKloot. Campbell leaves his attitutdes to L. Fallis. Whitney leaves' his address book to McCoy. Stanley leaves his tone quality to Dempsey. Bringard leaves his athletic ability to Poole. Wozniak leaves his quiet nature to M. Sandler. Davies leaves his diplomacy to VanderKloot. Smith leaves his 38 Ford to Mrs. Parker. Davies leaves his passive resistance to B. Tann. Bringard leaves his undercover talents to Mr. R. Wells- leaves his salt supply to D. Bady. Whitney leaves his lack of curiosity to Dick Gooel. Stanley leaves his Hollywoods to VanderKloot. Isbrandt leaves his Kaisers and Henry J is to whoever will keep them going Wozniak leaves: his hub caps to Brownell. Bady leaves his orchestra music to whoever will have it Wells leaves his healthy respect to the junior class. Wozniak leaves his ability to say nothing to McCoy. Bady leaves his brush and can of brown paint to Marshal Sandler lsbrandt leaves his tough situations to Dickman.