Edwardsburg High School - Yearling Yearbook (Edwardsburg, MI)

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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

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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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Prophecy of The Class of 1956 The date is June 10, 1981, 25 years after we were graduated from E.H.S. The scene opens at the re- union of the class of 1956, following the Groucho Marx tformerly Dennis Ottol TV program, This Was Your Life. The party is being held at Sally Boltons' SB Circle Ranch in Texas, tn honor of Dick Akin who has just designed a hot jet which clips along at l8Q,000 miles per hour. Mary Condon, police woman, is patrolling the party because of the many valuable jewels the guests are wearing. A group of guests are now arriving. We see Joyce Minix, Judy Kehoe, Marlene Higley, and Gayla Pontius. Joyce is the founder of the N.C.A. tNational Cheerleaders Associationl. Judy is a famous movie actress in Hollywood, who has finished the film at the North Pole called, The Ice-Cold Babyn. Marlene is the owner of a string of fashion shops along the Milky Way, while Gayla is the head of the W.W.W.A.A. tWorld Wide Women's Athletic Associationl. Now arriving on a Ford Rocket is Ted Jones and John Cox, co-owners of a rocket plant on the moon. We see that they have a couple of passengers with them from other planets, Kenneth Maxwell, who is the president of a world wide commercial granary, and Tom Rickey, a well known actor on Venus. Richard Myers is the general manager of the Duncan Hines Restaurants. Following Rich is his head Dietitian Elizabeth Westfall, who was the only waitress in the universe who could carry six trays at one time. Whoops, someone just slipped in the back door. It's Lonnie Schmidtendorff and Mike Gaunder. Lonnie is the General Manager and Coach of the Martian Robot football team, while Mike is the No. 1 water boy for the club. Along with them is Mike Stephens and Mike Dass. Stephens is the president of a universally known Organization of Loafers, while Mike Dass is a food expert, having just invented a new formula called, Tweet Tweet Bird Seed . Buddy Lindgren has just arrived on his jet-propelled motorcycle, with Beverly Wilsey, his top designer for the Lindgren Motorcycle Factory in Indo-China. The crowd grows solemn as Pat Radecki enters. She has been a missionary in Upper Mongolia, well known for her 7,000 conversions. The' quietness subsides as Virginia Landis walks in. Mousie is now a prominent gossip columnist on Jupiter. Over on the divan we see Doris Mechling, head of the Bacteriology department of Neptune, along with Jean Ann Robinson Doris' top bacteriologist. The doorman, Marshall Phillips, now introduces the famous dignitaries President of the United States Dean Mohney and Vice President Vee Radebaugh. We understand that Judy Gibbons is now the Presidents personal secretary. Sitting around Deanna Swanson in the cocktail lounge we find Janet Kinzie, Norma Gauvreau, and Diana Stock. Janet has developed into a professional model instructor for the famous Powers Models. Norma has come up with an ingenious device, the original space ship to Mars. Diana is a well known singer in the Metropolitan Opera. We notice coming out of the powder room is Sandra Ward. Talking to her is Nancy Leiser and Janet Souders. Janet is a famous dress designer on Jupiter and seems to be trying to et Nanc to di l h I i . g y sc ose t e secret of how to make broiled muckle berries. Nancy IS now a Home Economics teacher at the University of Paris. Now making an unexpected visit is Dr Kent Gage the head of the Atomic Radiation Pl t U ' - , an on , to ia, and his chief assistant, Ruth Ann Kline. Attending with them are Pat Fodrocy, head waitress of Schliaol C f t . I l . . .. . . a e eria nc and Ray Hunsburger, water boy on the Big Dipper. Ray has a close affiliation with the man in the moon. Among the last guests to arrive are Jim Freeman, Phyllis Christner, and Frank Connor. Jim is owner of a large string of gas stations tStandard, of coursej. Frank is the top mechanic at Freeman's station on the planet Earth, while Phyllis is the most prominent librarian in history. The last two to arrive are George Gibbs and Gary Swietzer. George is a professor of the Unknown, and Gary owns the largest farm on Pluto. It seems that someone is missing. Sure enough, who should walk in but Dick Ellis, Sandra Click and Harry Smith We hear D' k ' ' i . - ic. is expecting to open up a new Super Sonic Petrol Station in England, while Sandra is a noted Music teacher in Germany. Last but not least is Harry, a retired Captain of the Salvation Army. We all had a very nice time at the reunion and hope that we may progress as well in the next 25 years. The Class of '56 22 1 A? Y -A 'Wi ..4.-.g.......