Edwardsburg High School - Yearling Yearbook (Edwardsburg, MI)

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Class History On September 5, 1944 the doors of opportunity opened to the following people, Sandra Click, Dick Ellis, Jim Freeman, Norma Gauvreau, Judith Gibbons, Judy Kehoe, Janet Kinzie, Kenneth Maxwell, Dean Mohney, Richard Myers, Vee Radebaugh, Sandra Ward and Elizabeth Westfall. This was the starting of the 1956 graduating class of Edwardsburg High School. We were a proud and ambitious group setting out to put the world at our door-step. Proud because we were old enough to start to school, ambitious because it was our first chance to prove to the world that we were going to be a success. FIRST GRADE Imagine the feeling of anxiety that confronted Miss Mary Westfall our first grade teacher, when her beloved niece took it upon herself to hit Kenny Maxwell over the head with her lunch-box. This was a very eventful year having a rhythm band, parties, and chicken poxs. SECOND GRADE In second grade with Miss Hazel Westfall at the helm the class of 1956 started to sail over the rough and choppy sea of education. That was the year when we obtained another member to our crew, George Gibbs. lt also gave us our first mutiny. Jerry Hasty having a very rebellious spirit toward his mother when she failed to kiss him good-bye at school. Jerry stated and we quote, 1 want to kiss my mommy and I'm gonna with this he proceeded to stick his fist through the glass in the door. The blood on the floor from his drip- ping fist was the first strokes of the painters brush in our motto. THIRD GRADE Miss Mary Westfall again had the pleasure of advancing our education plus our new initiates into the class Pat Frodocy, Ted Jones, Deanna Swanson, and Dennis Otto. Dennis was the founder of the now popular saying Dennis the Menace for the antics that he introduced his first day of school. FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADES These were the sedate years with nothing much happening to the class except the blissful addition of Jean Ann Robinson our fourth year and Sally Bolton, Marlene Higley, Pat Radecki, and Gayla Pontious, the fifth year. Mrs. Padbury was content with our angelic actions. Poor'Mrs. Eggert in the fifth earned her wages largely by chasing Maynard Fetter around the room trying to find out who was cracking the bubble gum. Oh, yes, the wrath of Gods hit us this year with the installation of Mike Stephens. SIXTH GRADE Oh, the sixth grade. The year we got educated not only by our teachers Mrs. Van Duson and Mr. Harcourt but also by the fellow members of the class in our make-out sessions behind the garage. This also probably was our first touch of larceny with the theft of apples from the Home Ec. department. The sign of things to come was the acquiring of two girls and only one boy. In the form of Virginia Landis, Joyce Minix as the girls with Marshall Phillips bringing in enough ideas to our class to make up for the unbalanced col- lection of males and females on our enrollment. SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADES Now we are impressive! We're on the High School side of the building. In fact we're so impressed with ourselves that we didn't do anything in the seventh grade and little more in the eighth. While we made the deceased Metropolitan Opera turn over in their graves with our production of Streamlined Cinder- ella , Dick Akin and Nancy Lieser volunteered their services to our parade of progress . 20 rlmri'

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ELIZABETH ANN WESTF ALL F.H.A. 1, 2, 3, 4 F.T.A. 1, 2, 4 Girls' Basketball 2, 3 Play , 3, 4 Pep Club , 4 Annual Staff 4 Bus Patrol 1, 2, 3 Library Club 1, 2 BEVERLY WILSEY Schoolcraft Girls' Basketball 1 Escanaba 2 Port Huron and Midland Latin Guild 3 Edwardsburg Senior Play 4 Pep Club 4 Annual Staff 4 'P' Compliments of Harlie Long Garage. I Clan Motto: m J 0' Yo Gllxl W Clan' Color: 19 2 l Clan Flower: I Life is like a pictureg paint it well Carnation Mint Green and Silver

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NINTH GRADE Gad!! what a year!! all we accomplished this year was to get acquainted to the new silhouettes on our picture of, life. It seems the girls really liked physical education even though they had to skip last hour and have it without a teacher. Most of us can remember Mr. Long chasing us inside day after day. Oh, yes, the new students this year were Phyllis Christner, Mary Condon, John Cox, Ray Hunsberger, Ruth Ann Kline, Doris Mechling, Lonnie Schmidtendorff, and Garry Sweitzer. TENTH GRADE This was the year we had Miss Lardner for our English teacher. The boys with their crazy pin-ups and the girls continuously playing musical chairs and singing, kept us in a continual whirl. Miss Lardner if you remember always wanted to rewrite the dictionary and some of us found a few new words to put in ourselves. This year Frank Connor and Mike Gaunder joined us. ELEVENTH GRADE This was another year where we didn't know where we stood with the essence of Paris floating around the room in the form of Mrs. Schuler and the aroma of Hillbilly Weddin seeping over the edge of the stage. We decided to call it quits and skipped out for the week of the play to a place unknown,'. The Junior candidates, Deanna Swanson and Mike Dass were crowned King and Queen of the 1955 SnoBall. Amid the mass confusion we admitted Mike Dass, Janet Souders, and Diana Stock to our class. TWELFTH GRADE Finally arriving at the doorstep of graduation after our long journey down the road of success we are a happy class of forty-seven members. This our last year Kent Gage, Buddy Lindgren, Tom Rickey, Harry Smith and Beverly Wilsey joined us. We will long remember our Senior play Father Was a Housewife , our paper drives, wood cutting days and other projects to raise money. Now we are looking forward to the J unior-Senior Prom, the Senior trip to New York City and at last graduation. Judy, Dean, Vee, and Elizabeth 12 21