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

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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.

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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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aaa nop ec? June 9th, 1963. Dear Mr. Shaw: Finally, we of the Alumni Committee have found your missing class of '53, Our se-arch took us over a good part of the world, but we did manage to contact all eleven members. Here is our report on '53. We didn't have to look too far to find Arthur Bady. After giving up his engineering aspirations due to trouble with solid ge-ometry, he took his' accordion and organized the Hamtramck Polka Band. He may be seen every evening on television advertising Scyzwytzki's Polish Sausage. Jerry Bringard, under the guise of a mimic is the F.B.I. expert on forge-ry. He is also Mr. Springer's personal secretary. He adjusvts his bifocals and tells us that-: Brewster Campbell has found his transcendent desrtiny as an itinerant preacher. We find him garbed in sack cloth and ashes, singing, Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb? He grabs us by the lapels, and asks us if we are saved. We depart in haste. We go to the Davies' slaughter house only to find the meat market mag- nate' is in Washington, debating before the Supreme Court. As we wipe the tears: from our eyes after Hearing Jerry defend the American institutions against civilian military conscription, we run to him to shake pork chops. We are told that we may find Ed Gurdjian at Yankee Stadium. As we file into the stadium we hear a peanut vendor yelling kill the umpire! On a second look we find the peddler to be Eddie, himself. He is watching the D.C.D. Class F league tournament. Back in Detroit on lower Michigan Avenue we see the sign, Isbrandt's Used Clothing Emporium. Izzy tries to sell us a triple breasted bird cloth suit with canvas lapels. We declined his generous offer. We then leap aboard a plane for Hollywood, where we find Bill Smith. Bill tells uso that after the failure of his Smith Institute of Lower Learning, fwhich offered only the degree, B.S.J he came to Hollywood. He is now the chief sound effects engineer for M.G.M. Our travels take us' to that patch of Seven Mile Road in front of Country Day. Here we find Bob Whitney. We find that the Spanish teachers are on strike, and Bob, out of a job, is polishing the apples on his apple stand. Bob tells us that we will have to sfee his old friend, Mrs. Foss, to find the where- abouts of Bob Wozniak. Upon our plane's arrival at Palermo, we are greeted by a dark giant. This is none other than Bob Wozniak. He tells us that his vineyard is doing well and that his malaga grape crop totaled 4,376,079 vintage grapes. After a healthy sample we board our plane and head back to Detroit. tContinued on following pagej thirteen