Dowagiac Central High School - Wahoo Yearbook (Dowagiac, MI)

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y 1 Prmcrpal Positron No matter if you re a Freshman lost on the first day of school or a worldly Senior fthey have their problems tool a visit to Skipper and youll be on the road to recovery Mr Dorgan or Sk pper is a principal part of our school life A day of absence and we trot up to his office to get his treasured initials on our excuse slip this also applies to tard :ness Hes a regular pal of ours prov ding we havent committed some offense Sk p is always on guard for students on the loose dsrlng school hours and tries to rectify their ways Seniors prepar ng for college turn their applications into him for the final touches A watchful eye is kept on all students in second and third hour study hall by Mr Dorgan His lokes which are often flavored with a certain amount of wisdom tend to quiet us down for an hour of studying He is often seen In the role of a sub for absent teachers That noon day rush for the court is calmed down and kept from growing too boisterous under his guiding eye Edward Dorgan Summer again and Skipper is on his way out to Cable Lake to supervise the little Cable Lakers from town This is an annual summertime lob for Skip Sought Secretary 'IO 'IO br rr A hush falls over the school and the announcements are read The daily dellverer of these messages is Eleanor Sklbbe who reads them over the P A system Eleanor is Sknppers secretary and experienced enough to serve in his capacity when hes called out on business Friday nights immediately after school students dash down to the office for their game tickets while Eleanor graciously dishes them out from behmd the counter It s a great day for her as well as the Juniors when the class rings arrive for that means the end of endless inquiries concerning their arrival which Eleanor always reveals As the end of every six weeks approaches she launches on a grade recording drive At the end of this drive we receive our report cards Oh happy days Eleanor s chores seem boundless and there s never an idle moment in her daily schedule Totes Our Troubles As the key IS turned to open the front doors of the high school for the fall semester another key is turned to open a brand new Student Council The electrons that were held last sprung do away with the confusion as the eager officers take office Those at the helm are Carl Stevens president Walt Rigterink vice president Dolores Cooper secretary Ralph Raiford treasurer and Mary Jaburek faculty advisor To help an almost starving treasury advertisements are sold to the merchants and are printed on the programs for sports events This puts enough moola in the treasury so that a new phonograph for third floor may be bought Our Student Council belongs to the SWMA S C This is an organization of all Councils In southwestern Michigan Meetings take place at different schools and various school problems are hashed over Through these discussions our representatives hope to better the spirit of our school Pep meetings under the clamps of Council are discontinued near the end of the year as the students fail to cooperate Things seem to puck up as they sponsor a dance featuring Gordon Cole s Starlnghters Its a great day as D H S ers take over the town Council works out the entire program appointing tne students who become honorary officials taking over the duties of their particular office Student Council members are standing Carl Stevens president IDI Dove Gillette Al Patzer Bob Bray Charles Dew Pat Carpenter IDI Don Stephenson Kate Heumstra Everette Stevens IDI Frank Lagerborg Second row Bll Gravit Kent Robinson Don Hunt Irene Olelnlczak IDD Susan Ralford Virginia Sopher Richard Symonowsku Jim Blek Jim Cooper Lester Peterson Front row Dolores Cooper ecretary CDI Walt Rigterink vice president Ralph Ralford tre surer Not pf tured Joe Scot Gloria Bowman DJ 1 7 Eleanor Sklbbe 1 1 1 . . , . 1 1 ' ' ' ll ' ll I 11 I 11 - 11 - - 11 - , , , , , . I . . , . . , . ,, . ,, . . : . I ,, ,, l . . . . . 1 . ' ' ' ll Il - 11 - 11 - - - - 11 II ' ' ' ' ll ' ll . . - . I - 11 - I 11 - . . . , . . . . . . . . ,, . ,, I I . , . . . ' I , . , , . . . 1 - . 1 1 i 1 ' I 1 I 1 I , . ll ' H ' ' . 1 . II II ' ' ' ' II II ' ' . . . . ,, ,, . . . , 1 1 ' I II ' II I 1 1 Y 1 1 ': 1 1 - 1 ' I I r I - 1 S 1 1 - : 1 1. -1 Y 4 ' 1 ., . . 1 1 1 - ? 1 1 I 1

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Englush Especually Entucung Small but mughty typufles an eftervescent and energetuc Mrs Jaburek Thus but of human dynamo us un her ftrst year of teachung at D H S Thus us no hundrance to her as she succeeds Mr Telfer as Student Councul advusor She has a class each of Junuor and Senuor Englush plus one helpung of Speech The presentatuon of the Barrets of Wumpole Street at John Adams H S attracts Nrs Jaburek and Senuor Englush students who see a hughly pleasung performance As sprung approaches thoughts agaun are toyung wuth the udea of attendung another play preferably a mystery Mrs Jaburek serves as an advusor to the class of 50 helpung them get unto the groove wuth all theur new responsubulutues The sole proprueter of 305 us our own Margaret Swutzer Much of Muss Swutzer s tume us spent preparung Senuors for college We encounter a wuder vcruety of knowledge concernung Englush classes un her own college Englush class Her wunnung ways and personaluty entuce students to see her perhaps lust for a vusut Progressung unto the day 305 overflows wuth luttle Freshues gaunung a wuder knowledge of Englush and cuvucs Muss Swutzer also conducts classes of begunnung and advanced uournalusm Students may contrubute and become a part of the Hu Sheet staff whuch Muss Swutzer advuses Also lusted on her actuvutues us the task of co operatung wuth three other senuor advusors to keep the 49 ers out of ruts A vuvacuous muss new on the faculty thus year us Lous Patterson Muss Patterson s haven us 3'll to whuch flocks of Sophs and Frosh rush for the betterment of theur Englush The Sophomores also receuve unstructuon on world hustory from thus popular personaluty The core classes embark on several trups tourung the Hall of Scuence 8. lndustry Museum of Natural Hustory and Benton Harbor radno statuon Pats udeas and avud unterests are an asset un advusung the Soph class along wuth three other teachers Along wuth the new year Wahoo has a new advusor Muss Patterson who replaces Zoe Mulvenan Coping Current Condlfuons Mr Clark a famuluar west wunger delves unto the field of economucs tryung to guve us a broader knowledge of these subuects and problems exustung concernung them In the fall hus govt students plan and hold a mock electuon All hugh school students are allowed to vote who have regustered usung 312 as the polls Dewey emerges the vuctor although not to our surpruse The second semester a current affaurs class us launched wuth Rex as overseer Plus hus regular dutues Mr Clark durects a follow up study of the class of 45 a prouect un keepung wuth the College Agreement Plan He also capably assusts the 49 ers to hurdle theur hurdles throughout the year Swutchung Saddles A uob worth doung us worth doung well Thus quotatuon us famuluar to students taught by Alma ReShore Mrs ReShore us best known to us as a Latun teacher but she also has classes of world government cuvucs Englush 10 and eughth grade hustory Mrs ReShore leaves D H S soon after Chrustmas because of ullness Mrs Naomu Carpenter then steps unto the role of Latun teacher also teachung her other classes Another teacher who leaves us at Chrustmas tume us Zoe Mulvenan Mrs Mulvenan specualuzes un Englush wuth her lubrary work also occupyung a great deal of tume A lot of us won t forget those fruendly chats we had wuth Zoe back un the lubrary office She also was Wahoo s advusor The fruendly shy guy that takes over Mrs Mulvenan s tenth grade Hustory and Englush classes us Leon Muner He also steps unto her shoes as Soph advusor Teachung three classes of Jr Englush constutut s the rest of Mr Muner s agenda 9 Margaret Swutzer u 'V' exiitld Co I Lous Patterson s-1 Alma ReShore Mary Jeburek