Edwardsburg High School - Yearling Yearbook (Edwardsburg, MI)

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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

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nose, that it almost seemed unnatural if she wasn't there. Reading was our most difficult subject this year. and also the most strenuous. .Lois Ann fainted from read- ing too much. Mary Lou was drafted in her place and fainted also. Being a brave man to the end, Burt Blanchard carried on until he felt a trifle whoozy and the teacher decided we'd gotten enough out of reading for one day. SIXTH GRADE This year we gained the Morris twins, Joyce Swanson, Joan Kerr, Dick Cates, and Jackie Mitra. We'll always remember the excellent acting of Duane Muff when he used to gaily smile after being thoroughly pounded with a razor strap almost daily. One day we noticed Faye looking rather pale up by the pencil-sharpener. After all, Duane had only sharpened a grasshopper in it before. If anyone ever wanted to find Jim Hanson, all they had to do was to glance up at the front of the room. and locate him perched on Mrs. Van Dusen's cheesebox. SEVENTH GRADE This year, Frank Bickel, Leonard Kmitta, Stanley Weiler, Toby Osler, Richard Mackling, Truman Potts, Ray Langguth, Laverle Hatch, Barbara Sturges, and Ada Hole entered our class. We lost only one of our other classmates, Janet Bailey. We had gained the reputation of the largest class Edwardsburg ever had. We organized the Junior High Youth Council this year and everyone in the high school realized we were there, too. This year, we learned square-dancing in addition to our other studies. EIGHTH GRADE In this grade, we gained Nina Armstrong, Pat Canty, Barbara Long, Brownie Bottom, Chester .Kqmitta and Joan Riddarsporre. We lost Toby Osler and Duane Butrick. This year we were superior over the seventh grade and received the pleasure of initiating them for Youth Council. NINTH GRADE To enter our class this year were: Janice Johnson, Delores Reinoehl, Genevieve Persing, Delores Valentine, Pat Poling, and Colleen Phillips. We lost Joann Kerr, Bill Neff, Joe Jones, and Lois Beckman. The beginning of the year started off rather badly as the boys and girls had different home-rooms. We protested loudly Cas usuall without any success. Our ability in sports began to show this year. We were very proud of Ray Minix, when he got to play on the Varsity team as a reg- ular, much to the upper classmen's envy. Our girl's Freshman basketball team won every game they played, while the regular girl's team lost some of their games. Our boys got to go to their first track meet and came back red as beets from the sun, and happy over making a good showing. This year we had a high, school minstrel show, consisting mostly of freshmen. We'll never forget Mary Lou's part: Stay out of the garden, boys. There were two freshmen cheerleaders this year-Marge Gunn and Virginia Leach. TENTH GRADE This year Lois Beckman returned and we lost Joyce Swanson and Stanley Weiler. VVe began pairing off in twos this year. There was Marge and Jim, Ada and Wayne, Frank and Nina, and Mary and Ray. Most of these couples are still together. We'll always remember the line-up of the couples at noons and between classes. The football team was rapidly depending on the sophomores. Our first I-Iayride' was after a victorious football game, with Frank Bickel as the hero. This is the year that our class was best united. We had a lot of good times and consider it our best year in High School. ELEVENTI-I GRADE The ones to enter this year were Chuck Reinks, Beverly Barkley, and Ed Daniels.