Galesburg Augusta High School - Rambler Yearbook (Galesburg, MI)

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The class of 19i;6 began on September 7 1953 at the Congregational Church. There were 13 members who enrolled in Kindergarten. They were, Patricia Beck, Richard Bently, Brian Conor, Clare Freer, Al¬ bert Knetsch, Janet Maxson, Alberta Oudshoorn, Keith Shedd, Barbara Schreiber, Donald Schrackangast, Bev¬ erly Tibbitts, Violet Wayne and Louise Yoemon. Our Teacher was Miss Flag. This being our first year in school we certainly learned a lot of things, includ¬ ing the killing of mice. Before the year was half over it had become a popular sport. The next year we remained at the church with Miss Densmore as our leader and adding a few new members; Bill Rogers, Jim Carlton, Ivan Richards, Vera Lowe, Robert Rhodes, and Madeline Bresson. In 1935 we w ®re promoted to the school building, adding with us Franklin BeLeew, and Winona Borne. Miss Jenkins acted as leader. This year Louise Yoe- man, Patricia Beck, Richard Bently and Alberta Oud¬ shoorn all moved away. It was nothing unusual for someone to go after their lunch and find half of it gone. Mice get hungry too you know, so they just seemed to help themselves. In •56 we entered the third garde room adding Bet¬ ty Bush, Romona Grier, Marvin Mertz and Helen Kibby, to the class roll, wiiss Anderson served as our tea¬ cher this year. Regardless of how much we hated leaving her, we had to be promoted to Miss Snow’s room, the fourth garde. V ' e had all heard rumors ab¬ out her but when we got there we found she wasn ' t so bad, for we got along very nicely with her. This year we lost Helen Kibby, Dick Brockway and Arlene Coffing came to take her place. This was the year B. Schreiber fell in love with D. Brockway. She thought at the time he was a pretty nifty guy because he had a huge watch that ran---when he did. In ' 37 we were all promoted to the fifth garde having Miss Brown at the head of us. Our enrollment for this year included, Dick Brockway, Margaret Bren¬ nan, Madeline Bresson, Betty Bush, Brian Conor, Jim Carlton, Jack Baker, Bob Christler, Barbara Cutler, Arlene Coffing, Clare Freer, Romona Grier, Maxine Haist, Martha Hendricks, Albert Knetsch, Shirley Kim¬ ball, Janet Maxson, Alberta Oudshoorn, Vera Lowe, Barbara Schreiber, Keith Shedd, Violet Smith, Bill Rogers, Robert Rhodes, Beverly Tibbitts, Violet Wayne,

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Bruce Witsaman and Richard VanAvery. Miss Brown did not quite know what she was undertaking when we all entered her room, but we managed to last out the yea We are all nor glad that we did because each member at the close of the year received a gold medal for good citizenship. Albert Knetsch found his one and only heart throb this year when Margaret Brennan en¬ tered the roor». The rurtn war found us under the supervision of Miss Currier Those new in the class were Emma J. Brown, ies Sx« Mdelburg, Jin Harley, Donald Wolf and Jackie v all y. Those who left Ma r 1 vi n Me r t •«’, Frank 1 in De Leew was the year we found Alberta Bill Rogers and the Cassonova In 39 we were beginning to making greater headway and it be entering Junior High, Miss getting us used to that fact, ly underway. She even had to were Ivan Richards, and Winona Borne. This Oudshoorn torn between Lewis Preston, believe that we were was an honor to us to Garmon had a hard time but we were soon smooth have a part time helper who was Miss Ward, but we’ll all agree we got along jnuch better with Miss Gannan. Those who were not here at the beginning of the seventh grade were Bruce Witsaman, Arlene Coffing, Donald Wdlf and Jim Carlton Their places ' were filled by Arlan Banghart, Robert Rowlson, Peggy Rowlson, Katherine Webber, Doris Gard¬ ner and Marilyn Corwin. This was the year we saw Bill Rogers escorting V. Wayne to the show every Sunday afternoon. The eighth grade found us under the leadership of Mr. Beardslee. Tom Upham, Gloria McGuire and Maxine Inman were our new students, Gloria leaving at the end of the year. When Tom Upham came this year we could see D.Brockway flying out of Barb’s life as her time was now devoted to Tom. Janet Maxson soon began to take over Barb’s place with Dick, and she swore she would never live without him. This was our first experience with a man as our teacher but resulting with a few minor cuts and bruises, we finally made our way into the Freshman class. Our class enrollment in our first high school year was thirty seven members. They consisted of Dick Brockway, Margaret crennan, Betty Bush, Brian Conor, Jack Baker, Albert Knetsch, Shirley Kimball, Alberta Oudshoorn, Janet Maxson, Jim Harley, Doris Gardner, Richard Gregg, Maxine Inman, Harlan Rohm, Lewis Pres¬ ton, Lucille Slack, Bob Newton, Barbara Schreiber, r