Grand Ledge Academy - Ledge Lore Yearbook (Grand Ledge, MI)

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Phillip Clark I S1-niizr Class Prcside 1 .: ' '1 Presi 4 lVir'e Pres' len osirlen 4I : Dance Band 3, Orr ost 4' Little Symphony hoir l, , . , 4l'rL-sick-nt 41: li s u t 2, 3, 4: Latin Club l, 2, .. , Drama- Lir-s Club 3, 4 iT -as rer 3, 41: --Phil , ii - dent of .lunior,Clz My l. 2, 3. ll 1 2 4 Hi-Y l, 2, 3, 4 1Sec'r ary 2: Presi- dent 41 : Le-Lrislative Assembly 3: Annual Stall' 4: Monitor 4: Cami-ra Club 3, Marjorie Workinger Marne Secretary of Senior Class: Girl Re- serves 1, 2. 3. 4 1Scc-rotary 4r: Choir 2, 3, 4: Dramatirs Club 2. 3, 4 1l'rc-sirlent 4l: Treasurer of Junior Cla-49: Treasurer of Sopho- more Class: Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4 lSc-f'rc-tary 2h Ledpzv Staff 2, 4: An- nual St:-IH' 4: Thespian 3, 4. WN Lowell Barnes Barney F. F. A. 2, 3, 4. Annetta Bennett ..Netta,, Choir 2, 3, 4: Girls' Sextet 3: Librarian 3, 4 tHc-ad Librar'an 4b. it -,,,,gQ5ijgqQ joseph Boyer JUG Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4: Frenvh Club 3 4 Edward Carnell -'law' Latin Club l, 2: F. C, A. 2 iSer- rotary-Treasurvrr. Forty-two .. 'Y 5, ., ith Edgar '-Puri Vice President of Senior Class: President of Junior Class: Drama- tics Club 2, 3, 4: Home Economics Club 2, 4: Girl Reserves 2, 4: Girls' Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4: Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4: Libr an 4. . ifffylifgf - J if . Af If li YJ J fu All-,ff orothy leflae Watson Dort Treasurer of Senior Class: Girl Re- serves 2, 3, 4 1Vice President 3: President 43: Home Economics 1, 3, 4: Ledge Stat? 2, 3 4: Drama- tics Club 2, 3, 4: Annual Staff 4: Thespian 3, 4: Commercial Club 4 1Vice President 4l: Librarian 4: Coordinating Council 2, 3. Patrecia Baxter ..Pat,, Latin Club 1, 2, 3. 4: Home Econo- mics Club 3, 4 lVice President 411 Camera Club 4 1Secretaryl: Choir 3, 4: Dramatics Club 3: Band 3, 4. , X Lorna Jeanne Bills Jeannie Latin 1, 2, 3, 4 1Aerlile 2I: French Club 3, 4 1Vive President 3: Presi- dent 41: Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3, 4 1Viee President 3. Point Secretary 4l: Girl Reserves 2, 3, 4: Dramatics Club 3, 4: Thespian 3, 4: Annual Staff 4: Ledlle Staff 1. 4: Student Council 4 4Secretaryl I Danee Band 4: Ilibrj23.mLL Win Bradley Brad L e taff 4 lEditor-in-Chit-fl 3 A ual tail' 4 tliusiness Mana- : Dr matics 4. -iKennyu Kenneth Cheesmond Basketball 2, 3.

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CLASS MOTTO-To Strive, To Seek, To Find, and Not To Yield CLASS FLOWER-Violet CLASS COLORS-Green and White A History of the Senior Class When you pick up this year book in fifteen years or so, even if the dates aren't too authen- tic, if it makes you remember those high school days-class picnics. Junior-Senior banquet, skip day, May Breakfast,-and all the other things that you have mentally slid aside , then perhaps it is a good history and will have served its purpose. I'll bet the class of '4l couldn't be sure any longer whether that fall picnic we had way back in '37 came in September or October. Something that everyone does remember though-it rained! Not little tiny drops but just as if you were standing under the middle of Niagara Falls. Then right in the middle of those semi-raw burgers , the class of '4l CI IOP strong, moved into the pavilion where those umeaniesn, Miss Fuller and Miss Blyth, insisted upon giving us the first in a series of ten easy lessons in How to step properly on your partner's feet while dancing ! Our class president that year was none other than Wally l-lolmesg the little man who started with a presidency and ended with a valedictory. Under the leadership of Dick Hodge, our sophomore year opened with the traditional picnic at the park followed later by a Christ- mas party in the gym. Financially that party was a flop , but for the tiny group present fl think there were fifteen of usj we had a grand time. As sometimes happens, out of a poor idea springs a good one so the next thing proved to be a real brain-wave . We re- vived the old tradition of a Freshman-Sophm more party which in recent years has turned out to be quite an affair. Yes sir, smart class! The great moment of our lives arrived when we elected Ardith Edgar president of the Junior class. She, and her carefully selected committees, led us through that Junior-Senior banquet. We fought the Civil War that night of May l 7, l940 with Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler in a Gone With the Wind theme. The decorations were beautifully done, as everyone present knows. The exquisite little water-fall, the old wishing well, the white picket fence, the stately old portals of Tara, everything down to the dainty umbrella favors were in keeping with the occasion. The vari-colored formals of the girls and the smart- ly tailored suits of the fellows as they left the gym that night truly looked like the l940 Scarletts and Rhetts. Every Senior year, I suppose, is different to every Senior class. There is something singu- lar about one's own last year-a certain spring twist given to the Senior Prom,-im vited guests. at the junior-Senior Banquet 1 gathering eggs for the May Breakfast-a new place to go for skip day. Then the Baccalaur- eate address,-and class night with the class play, will and prophecy. Finally, that very special night when the class of '4l stood to- gether for a final instant and heard those con- gratulatory words of lVlr. Sawdon and were given those long-sought diplomas .... Thus ends the class of '4 I, but for the people in that class it is only a beginning. -GERALDINE. CONNER. Forty-one

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Gayla Clarke Gail Band 3: Choir 2, 3, 4: Glee Club 2: Latin Club 1. 2. 3, 4. ' Geraldine Conner ..Gerry-. Girl Reserves 2, 3, 4: Band 1, 2, 3, 4: Latin Club 1. 2. 3. 4: French Club 3, 4: Dance Band 3, 4: Stu- dent Council 2. 3: Ledge Staff 2, 3, 4: Annual StaH' 4: Dramatic-s Club 2. 3 4. X yn Duane Crossette 1 'ACur1y Choir 3. 4: Baseball 3: Hi-Y 2. 3, 4: French Club 3. 4: Latin Club 1, 2, 3. 4: Dramatics Club 3. 41 Amateur Club 3, 4 lProsident 4l: M4'hitfVT 3. 4: Annual Staff 4: Ledge Staff 3. 4. Lois Mae Dean t'Deanie Orchestra 1. Q .77'z.-1' Dorothy Dick Richard Home Economies Club 1, 2: Orch- estra 1, 3, 4: Band 2: Choir 1, 2. 4: Girls' Sextet 2, 3. 4: Girlz' Basketball 1. 2: Dramatics 2. 3. 4. W 1 Betty Evans Betty K Harolcl Cody nstubn Legislative Assembly 4. . J , Q Q! Margaret Cramer Mardie f Glee Club 1, 2: Latin Club 1. 2 3, 4: Legislative Assembly 3, 4 1Presi- dent 3l: Ledge- Staff 4: Librarian 4: Annual Staff 4 lEdiwr-in- Chit-fl: Dance Band 4. Madeline Cudney 1Did not finish schoolj Vergean Dexter Ikie Chcir 4: Girls' Sextet Accompan- ist 4: Annual Staff 4: Glee Club 2: Latin Club 3, 4: Orchestra I, 2, 3, 4 4Vice Presidentb. 1 M! I f ' L Margie -Doyvning , 'llie Latin Cl b , , 3, 3 Home Econo- mics C 1,' t Reporter 4: 5 Orc? s l: ce Band 4: An- ' nua S333 4. Betty Ann Felzke nnet-. Secretary of Freshman Class: Ledlre Staff 13 Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3, 4 1Secretary 4v: Girl Re- serves 2. 3. 4 l'l'reasurer 4l: Dra- matics 2, 3, 4: Latin Club 3: Lei:- islative Assembly 3, 4 1Secretary 33: Librarian 2. 3, 4. Fotry-three