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

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AT CLASS HISTORY Early one sunny fall morning several young hopefuls hopped out of the wrong side of their respective beds and were soon rushing towards their first Real Adventure—Kindergarten. They soon decided that this going to school stuff was Just one big circus, so with Miss Stern as their ring-master they began to organize. LaVerne Krieger, being the most outstanding wolf, became barker. Frances Rapp, Harry Bolton, Billy Beck, and Mary Ellen Kootz became clowns. Ellis McConnohle wa¬ tered the elephants. Brenda Burgess and Miriam Bates stood around and watched Ellis, but Ana Pike, with her outstanding athletic ability, started training to be a trapese artist. (Because her legs look so well In tights?) In the first grade Roberta Densmore took us In hand, and in more ways than one. Several of us can still feel the imprint of her hand laid smartly where the good Lord constructed us with ounlshment in mind. Could LaVerne and Ellis help it if they were too busy being nice to Brenda and Miriam to hear the bell? New this year were Gertrude Lockwood (undoubtedly our fat lady), Charlotte Wagner, Bud Franz, and Theo Davis, our midget. Charlotte thought up a swell act where she could throw knives at Miriam. Brenda threw a wild oarty and LaVerne laughed so hard he split his trousers up the back. To begin our second grade we moved into the new building and pro¬ ceeded to do our best to wreck it . New performers were Lewis Preston, Bob Perkins, Winifred Gregg and Beverly Bush. Bev made a wonderful fortune teller. We held our first perfbrmance this year. What a per¬ formance! Were we good? Frankly—not very! (Isn ' t it queer that Miss Ripley tore the answer sheet out of our math pads? We were always 6uch an honest class!) Miss Anderson was our ringmaster In the third grade. New perfor¬ mers were Jacqueline Fraley, Ruth Ann Rice, Don Srachengast, Ardis Ras¬ mussen, and Donna Guthrie. Donna and Brenda soon became lnseperable (they even liked the same men ), so we naturally came to regard them as Siameze Twins. This year we decided that we were big enough to stop eating chunks of tar which we found near the road. Taated swell though. Mlss Snow took over as our fourth grade director. During the year we gained Pat Cartwright, snake charmer, Delores Campbelle, and Bob Wermouth. Don 9. had a crush on Miss Anderson so he stayed in the third grade to admire her beautiful blonde hair. In the fifth grade we gained Wayne Olmstead and Emily Gillespie, and lost Jacqueline Frailey. Miss Brown tried her hand at making angels of us by the Gold Book system. (Joke)—Several of us earned our wings. Miss Currier let us listen to the World Series the year we were In the sixth grade. Did we feel big! Even the high school didn ' t get to listen. Joyce Sanford and Minnie Dowling came new this year. Remem¬ ber the times we sat In the hall because we were naughty? I guess Wayne and Pat C. couldn ' t take it, because they left us. Mrs. LaPlne, our seventh grade ringmaster, also had definite ideas of punishment. Her favorite was to nut the culprit in the corner and make him stand on one block of tile for half an hour. We used to stand up there and make faces at the class when the teacher ' s back was turned. Weren ' t we devils? We had an Ink Spot Authors ' Club this year. We had no literary genius, but we had a lot of fun pretending that we did. Newcomers this year were Joanne Thomas, Alice Elliot, Ed Lis- kovec, and Gordon Haas. Ed Joined us as the wild man from Borneo, and I ' m sure that anyone who has heard him laugh can readily understand. Joanne ' s later performance in debate assured us that we made no mistake in labeling Joanne as our fire-eater. Pat Cartwright couldn ' t stand it to be without us, so in the eighth grade she unexpectedly rejoined us, along with Vera Lowe, our second fortune teller, and Bob Christler. Harry Bolton, Theo Davis, Joyce Sanford, and Bob Wermouth did not start back with us. Lewis ■■ ■■■■■■Hi u£ZZZ Mjg.Jt.Jf. ' JLMJZJL, JTJiJ