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

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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

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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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Cfaad prophecy - konfinuezl! Our next stop is New York City, where We find Bill Stanley. Bill is presenting his own composition, a concerto for trumpet, at Carnegie Hall. He says' that he has really gone to the top since he dropped that blonde. As a servant ushers us into a teakwood paneled room at Wellswood Manor, we are greeted by a thin, wild-eyed man. Can this be Fred Wells? Fred tells us that he would rather be a science teacher than a multi-millionaire, b-ut . . . He tells us that he still believes that vanadium tetra-stearate is I-LO. We exit, shaking our heads. nehcf Zgoaral First row: Gooel, Bringard, Campbell, Bady. Second row: Budd, MCGUTUGPI., Poole, Montgomery fourteen This year the Board of Prefects has consisted of Jerry Bringard, Arthur Bady, and Brewster Campbell as its senior representatives, Dick Gooel as the junior representativeg Earle McGarvah as the sophomore representative, Lynn Poole as the freshman representative, Carl Budd as eighth grade representa- tive, and Clark Montgomery as the seventh grade representative. Jerry Brin- gard was the president and Brewster Campbell the vice president. Art Bady and Jerry Bringard were the League council representatives. Dick Gooel was: the secretary. In the course of events, the prefects have made one amendment to the student council constitution: that of measures for the impeachment of a pre- fect. The prefects had charge of the school election and several other school functions. The prefects directed the disbursement of the bazaar profits. The results of this were new football uniforms and a backstop for the athletic field facing Griggs' St, In the prefects capacity of intercessors between the student body and the faculty much was accomplished in this student experiment in democracy.