Edwardsburg High School - Yearling Yearbook (Edwardsburg, MI)

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MAINTENANCE - BUS DRIVERS It takes a number of people to have a well run school, administration, school board, maintenance, bus drivers, teachers, and of course students. Our school has often been complimented by visitors and inspectors on the well kept appearance of our buildings. We have our maintenance force to thank for this. Mr. Harry Olson is the member that has worked for the school the longest, having started in 1927. Besides helping with the buildings, and driving a bus, he has been re- sponsible for the mechanical work on our busses for a number of years. He seems to have that mechanical touch that can fix things for us. Mr. Merle Wyland is in his 10th year here and besides helping with the mainten- ance of the high school building has charge of the heating of the high school building. The fact that we get through the school year with the minimum of discomliture speaks well for his work. Merle is always willing to help with the little things we ask and never refuses to look for boxes of things we have tucked away in the stock room. Mr. James has been with the school for about three years as bus driver, custodian and official locker-up-er after meetings. He is always pleasant in spite of the fact that we often linger in the halls talking after our meetings. Mr. Onstott has charge of the care of the new building and he certainly takes a lot of pride in making it look nice. You can see his car parked outside the building late almost every evening. Our bus drivers: Irvin Bame, Henry Bonebright, Nathan Metcalf, Rollo Click, Virgil Swaim, William Babcock, John Overholt, George Stack, Thurman James, and Jesse Onstott have done a very good job of transporting our children safely to and from school. It is really a job with the buses so crowded. Mr. Stack and Mr. James also help in carrying our athletic teams to events in the evenings. So, to all the people that make our school a success, we give a big vote of thanks for their splendid co-operation.

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, HISTORY FIRST GRADE The year was nineteen hundred and forty-one, A. D. It was a very special day for the citizens of Edwardsburg, Michigang as it was enrollment day at Edwardsburg's Consolidated School. We were all standing real close to our mothers as this experience of school was entirely a new one and not exactly to our liking. The class-roll that year was: Marge Gunn, Faye Standiford, Burt Blanchard, Kent Claire, Inez Harwood, Bob Beopple, Jim Griffen, Chuck Fox, Lois Akin, Laverne Ward, Zane Torrence, Louis Huffman, Robert Fisher, Joyce Bonebright, Ronnie Gordon, Dick Shanahan, Virginia Parker, Martha Geiger, Benny Starkweather, Gordon Swinehart, Janet Baily, Mary Johnson, Lois Beckman, Bion Carpenter, Gloria Shetterly, and Barry O'Neil. Everything was pretty much routine this year. We'll never forget the daily occur- rences of Bob Beopple skipping down the hall clutching his rompers for Mary Westfall to button-up. Our favorite song this year was I Am A Monkey. If we practiced real hard and sang the song all the way through, we received the honor of standing up in front of the class and singing a solo. Marge had long curls that were very tempting for little boys to pull. More than one of the boys stayed in a week of noons regretting his hasty action. SECOND GRADE Our teacher this year was Hazel Westfall. We lost three classmates and gained Marilyn Van Epps, Donna Leist, John Molnar, Virginia Leach and Bette Davis. Being exceptionally well-behaved children, nothing very serious happened during the year. That is if you don't count the time Dick Shanahan was paddled and the one small misunderstanding when Chuck Fox had to stay in for swearing. Our favorite su-bject was arithmetic with Jo-Jo, the Monkey, a little character that held the balls we had to count. Our favorite sport was Boy chase Girls. It's very odd how that was to continue to be our favorite sport for ten more years. THIRD GRADE Mary Montgomery, Inez Harwood's aunt, was our teacher this year. Inez per- sisted in calling her 'Aunt Mary, so in order to form a more homey atmosphere, we did likewise. However, we were dreadfully misunderstood and along with Inez, we were firmly reproved for our efforts. This year was rather uneventful as we discovered there was more to school than just play. FOURTH GRADE Inez Harwood, in order to break the monotony, told Mrs. Padbury she had gone to Paris. A very convincing yarn that had to be corrected a bit forcibly by Mrs. Harwood. Shirley Sokock was in our class for a while. Jim Hanson, Joe Jones, and Jeanne Fetters entered, but otherwise it was a rather quiet year. FIFTH GRADE This year our teacher was Fleata Cornwall. We lost Virginia Parker and gained Patsy Spenner. This was the year that Virginia Leach received boxes of candy and loads of Valentines from the male section of our class. The top contenders for fair Ginny's attentions were Burt Blanchard, Kent Claire, Jim Hanson and Ronnie Gordon. As for the girls, they were more or less concerned with the gallant Stanley Weiler of the sixth grade. Especially Jeanne Fetters and Donna Leist. We'll never forget the time Jim Hanson stood in front of the room making like an airplane, with wide swooping gestures and a motor sound. He had to do this as punishment as he had been doing it quite cheerfully before then to impress his classmates. Strange how airplanes lost their charms to Jim after that! We were so accustomed to seeing Lois Ann Beckman stand in front of the room with a wad of gum on the end of her