Grand Rapids High School - Pirate Yearbook (Grand Rapids, OH)

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V ALLDILTIIIIY FRFI-DOXI THROI C H le DI CVXTION Lrzd1ev and Gentlemen Fdue'1t1on IS rleflnerl as the lenoxxleelge anel 'lhlllflli gnnerl through tr nmne Our lI1fll.Vlflll'1l f ee om h 15 tome to relx on thorough ee tel tlonal tr11n1ng The pe rpetuztlon of Amerie IH If ea s Ind lY'l9flfllll0I1S de pe nels on In eelue 1 ee and tntelhge nt voting, publle kmerxe 1 is eng1geel ln 1 xx 1r of ldeologles In the mlnds of men 19 xxagerl the struggle betxxeen the -Xmerlean 1rle1l of lllfllxlflllll freeelom anel opportunxtx ln 1 free land anel the forelgn notlon th xt the lI'lfllVlClll1l 19 onlx a spoke ln the xx heel of ehplomatlc affalrs In thxs erttlctl perloel of our lnstorx, xxe must gtrls 1 deeper lppreelatlon of de moer1cx that form of goxe rnme nt xx llltxll en Ible s m In to thtnle xx orle 1nd aet xxlth freer om to folloxx c1ll1ng of his eholee and to enjox the fruits of hls labor It ts 1 shoelI1ng flet that xvhlle the feeler1l government Ipproprlates lJlll10llS of dollars for foretgn anel of Ill lelnels to help further the cause of demoeraex lt has so far re fused to spend exen a fexx mllhon dollars to help public ele mentarx md seconelarx sehools CIIITIIHZIIC the lgnoranee xxlnch IHVIILS xceeptance of allen 1ele1s 1t home In hxs message on the Stxte of the Umon elehxered to the Congress on lanuarx Sth of thlS xear, Pres Truman spud Another fundamental um of our demoeracv IS to provxele an adequate eelucatlon for ewerx person Our eelucatxonal sxstems face 1 HHZHICIZII crlsls It ts eleplorable th xt nn a nttlon as rich as ours there are mllhons of ehlldren xxho elo not haxe adequate schoolhouses or enough teachers for a good eelucltlon If there are edu catxonal inadequacies IU anx St1te, the xxhole ILIIIOH suffers Ihe federll goxernment has a responslblhtx for proxxdlng hn Inetxl a1el t meet thls erms In lflfllllflll xxe must m 1lIe posslble greater equlhtx of opportumtx to Ill our eltlfens or xx so elolng e Ill xxe 1llSl ll me e Ipxble of unelerst. mg anel shartng the re SDUIISIIJIIIIILH of elemoe raex We the Sentor elass of l94Q are 1bout to enter Into soexetx Xle Ire about to mingle xvtth the xotlng populaee of our nation xx here xxe xxlll be e1lleel upon to expre ss our oplmons ln matters of xxorlel lmportanee Ile too xxlll soon be qual lf11LKl to xote for our representatlves IH the feel eral government But shall our votes be neutralwed hx some unquallfieel electors who elo not exen lenoxx for xxhnt thev are votmga Vle have xx uteel 1 long time for this oppor tumtx and hope th1t our votes shall help elect the OHILIIIIS for our nation A dlvteleel countrv, engrossed bx strllees racial dlscrlmlnatlon, and IT'llSL1l'lflLI'Sfd.Utl1IlgS IS an easx target for Com mumstlc propaganda The forees of llltOl6I'lI'lCC 1nd evll are alreadx elommatlng the govern ments of l:urope Are we to suffer the same fate? Slnce the Rexolutxonarx xxar anel the Declar ation of Independence, the Ilmteel St1tes has been a free and democratic countrx wlth equalltx anel 1IICl1VlClllell ODDOFIUHIIQ as the baslc fund1 mentals of our bel1efs If these qualltles are shattered bx educatlonal eleflclencles, xve vxtll soon be overrun bx evlls anel oppresston To prevent 1 dlsaster such 1s thls a system should be 'adopted xxhlch xxxll draw competent young people lnto the teachtng, sclentxfxc, meelxcal anel laxx professlons In thls crnsls, everxone has a Job to do Edu catlon must become the number one factor xxhlch goxerns our lxxes because a thorough education IS essential to the COHtlIlL1lI1g freedom of our great natlon Thank xou Don Whzle 1 Y I F H ' ' ' - Y vv , ' I . - ' ' . I . I 1 I I 1 f 4 1 . I 4 , A ' ' ' I , Q 1' ' 1 1: o A C . -.4 I ' 7 -1 A , I ' U r . . ' I 4 7 V I 1 -. i If I . I g . I I 4 Q n 1 ' I 'L ' . 1 a 1 - 7 z Af. . , I - Y. - , I .- K f lf ,' '. xr , 111- an e-eluexatton. Unlx' lv' 5 ' 'e '- Q lrc . ' , 1 , ' ' ' ' th: our extize-ns will l f 'Q e - ' J 'mel- I I 2 b sf I I if 1 I -2 t ,I . I Q I . I x A Q. . . . it A x- . h . I . T i V H A .xi 1 x .4 ,I .I ,' N,hh M, X1 - I . I I I h - ' K I 1 - 2 , 4' . - ' - - ' II. 'I -' I 1 , I 4 K I. ' l ' l l Ek h ' i . - I . . . ' H 4 1 ' y ' 1 ' 1nst1ll ln the mxnels anel he-arts of our boys anel x U Q v V I X v . v I I - ' I f I 1 f I ' - X I IZ H C I - I ' K I ' v I I I I ' ', . ' ' 'fl -- ' the- - . ' . . . Q ,I T I i I I X ,Q . I o u I . ' ' , K. . N., , ,. I- , - x x ' -' I I I ' Y. I ' 1' ' . . l h - I - I v. 1 I I y 1 T x x Vi l 1 , , . - I - f X - ' I I I ' 1 v I I v ' I - I ' I - . ' L ' , , I I I v v 1 I I , , - . , , - , I I I I 1 I L K I , . I I I , ll I lu Q 4 n Q Y s ' , , , K - ', - 1 f fz 1- - -- ' X ' . 1 - ' ' ' X l , x x X Xe I I v ' ' I I ' X I 1 V. - Q X , ' I T - if ' . 'A I l . i x ' l 1 . ' x ' X L 1 ' ' '. X ' V X 5 I u n u H ' I 'I ' I ' ' e ' ' I x x . . ' . ' . x x X I v , , . S K I Y ' V, ' I V f I I - I I ' I , ' ' I - I ' I ' ' I ' ' ' ' 'f ' ' .T . ' , ' f ' . ' 1' .-

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SALL TATIIIIY TONICHT OI R DREANI9 COXIF TRUE Lad1es and Gentlemen Vle the Semors of 1948 he'1rt1lx xx elcome you to our Commencement Fspeclallx we xxel come our parents xx hose kmdnesses 'md untlrmg efforts have made th1s graduatlon possxble Also to our teachers whose guldances has afforded us th1s opportumtx xxe extend a welcome hand We haxe been dreammg for txxelxe xears of tomght It xx as to be 1 gala occasxon xx hen xxe could all sax good bye to our hlgh school and s cxxng anl go he me eontent md 1 t hearted But IS ll, I dlre slx thlt three fourths of us ire sorrx to be le lxlllg lngh school Vxe dreamed of lL'1NlI'lQ school gettlng 1 good Job and settlmg doxxn to peaceful hxes We success and a hlgh standard of hvmg Tomght there IS a great challenge for each and everx one of us A fexx xx eeles ago the RUSSl1H dommated commumsts overran C7eCh oslovakla and are threatemng others qtlll more recently the communlsts infiltrated mto Co lumbla and at the present tlme a revolutlon IS raglng ln this country to the south As the com mumsts get closer and closer to our own countrv we get more conscious of the danger we face as the result of the communlstlc mflltratlon mto our own countrv But what IS communism? Lan any of you here define communlsmp The answer whlch has entered the mlnds of each of you probablv IS no for no one can accurately define com mumsm There are no trlals trvmg persons for a communlsm whlch IS defined as an acknoxvl edged sympathy w1th the Russlan Government and nts prmcxples But no one can dehne Com mumsm and the commumstlc pl lIlClpl6S VVho would do xt? All we know IS that communlsm IS a threat to our American xvay of lxfe In many countrles whlch the communlsts have overtaken a low standard of llvmg 0XlStS In fact ln these countrles people dont llve they merelx exlst There IS fear want and hardly anx freedoms xxhatsoexer COmmUHlStS believe that a strong natlon can be hllllt bx dlssolvlng marrlage and famllx llfe In Russla boxs between the ages of flve and twelve are taken from their homes and put m gox ernment operated box s schools Here they are taught communlsm Vx hen they grow old enough to work they are put to work for the government and equal d1v1s1on of produce IS made Publlc sp1r1t IS depended upon to keep the men xxorkmg It doesn t do anv good for someone to work hard to get ahead The straggler gets as much as the ambitious worklng man Th1s greatlx contrasts wlth our American wax of l1fe Here m the U S we are entitled to l1ve wlth our famllles and affectlon for one another IS very great A man s greatest enjoy evenmg and spend It w1th hxs famllv Thls IS one of our greatest prlvlleges Also we are entltled to work as much as we l1ke but the hard working man gets the best returns If a man IS a good workmg man doctor or lawyer he w1ll make more money and consequently lead a happler llfe Thls competltlve labor adds to our natlons prosperlty and success Also ln America every one 21 or over IS entltled to vote provlded he IS not an mmate of some lnstltutlon In thls way everyone has a hand ln runnmg the Government of our Amerlca We have hve freedoms 1n the U S We are entltled to worship the wax we please speak whatever we please Cto a certaln extentl the presses are entltled to wr1te what they please and fear and want are not to be found m our countrv Th1s IS our challenge Vle l1ve ln a trulv great country the greatest 1n the world but can we keep It this xvax 7 I belleve we can 1f we all do our part and don t sx mpathlze w1th the prln clples of whlch xxe know nothmg and mav we sax at the end of our llves that we have succeeded ln applxmg our lessons of preparatlon 1n makmg lxfe s dream come true Albert Thomas Y ' ' ' 1 ' A 1 1 1 A L . 4 , , ' ' ' ' ' ' 1 - ' . . ' Y h D F ' - I ' I ' I . V. . I . . . V v' 1 e A . . ' , l , I 4 1 . ' Y ' -I, ' I I A. . . . , Y I I C v x . x xt - 1 r x I' 1 I ' . 3 ' . Y r ' I 4 c I' ' ' . 1 1 . tu lj' , . r 1 1 - ' - 1 l gh - . '. - . 5 . z ' .1 I' 1 H- . . Y V. . L 2 x ' x xl r' I K . A - I . ' 7 V' ' ' a n ' .I a u a - Yi V ' 1 A , e . 1 ' . . . - were to face a peaceful world, one of progress, ment C0meS when he can come home ln the , . . y . I . . ' I I ' ' e - ' , . . , E It 'A ' K y n 7 I , A C - . . . . . Y . . . 7 . - . , . . 7 , I 'I - I . . 1 . 7 . 1 I 1 I I ' I . ' ' .x v ' , J, Y . V I ' Y u 11 m 1 v ' , 4 u - A u ' . Y . . ' K - I ' 1 I u Q n o - I I. ld . , . , ' . . ' . rr 1 ' . ' , . . . V . I . ' , - , I I , , ' T ' u n 1 . I . , - . - 1 ' 1 . 1 ' I I 1' . 4 , I , 1'

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PBOP IIECY Isn t lt funnv how a town wall grow when owl has been d'scovered at town or near by? Well that rs exactly what happened to Grand apld In the spnng of 1949 as men were dnllmg wells for water orl ap peared Instead of the water As soon as the news reached the ears of the townsmen they rmmedtately set out to test therr land and all pf them found oll after dnllmg only 20 feet all that IS except me I am stall ln the hopes of Funding some and I refuse to sell my home untrl they have tested every square meh on the lot There rs onlv a small pnrtlon yet untested Skyscrapers have sprung up all around me but I stall won t sell Grand Rapids now covers a 35 mule radius which Includes the once Weston McClure Tontoganv Bowlmg Green Maumee Perrvsburg If has Toledo for a suburb The first vear of its growth Grand Rapids Increased to an even 10000 ln populatmon and thls classvhed rt as a cxty It has contmued to mcrease and now has a populatron of 4 000 000 I have kept ln close Contact with everyone ln my graduatlng class Iust before graduation everyone was plannmg exther to go somewhere to college or to Toledo to get a yob but with all the professions open mg here they have all returned Don Whlte has made a name for hnmself around town for he rs the man who hullt the Buckeye State Bulldmg the hxghest buuldmg an the world It has 120 stones and rs 1400 feet rn heught Don s profes sron as a contractor keeps hvm here nn Grand Rapxds bunldmg factones and other such places of busmess Helen Ludwrg and Marilyn Muller although both married are co operators of a candy shop known as the Bon Bon Shoppe Each have an apartment ln the same hulldmg Helen and her family llve ln the apartment ln the hack of the shop and Marllyn and her famlly hve ln the apartment above Nancv Swartz rs a teacher of Physlcal Education rn the Bank Street School and she says that she emovs everv mmute of her tnme there Nancy rs mamed and although she has three chnldren thus doesnt handncap herl Lung for sports Albert Thomas ns the leadmg mortxcran of Grand Rapxds jake as everyone stlll calls hrm has hrs funeral home on 169th Street It rs Indeed a beautlful place and everyone rs anxrous to go there Joanne Avery rs a Some Specralust and has her ollice In the Buckeye State Burldmg She told me that she gets many long sufferxng patients and wrthm one week after begmmng treatments they are well and happy Bert Davts rs now a permanent actor xn the Lrttle Theater off East Second Street After completing hlgh school Bert went to Hollywood Wrthm a vear he was one of the more popular of the male actors Last year he came back to Grand Ramds after turing of the screen When the manager of the Lxttle Theater heard that Bert was m town he asked for an mtervxew Now Bert ns employed as a permanent actor there When the cltv first started to grow Bob Lerner who was always lookmg for excitement read an ad xn the paper statmg that they wanted to employ someone to paint smoke stacks and other Jobs that renuxred you to he far above the earth Bob accepted and retamed thus vob for several vears but m 1956 he founded an agency to hvre people who hked hugh ln the alr Jobs Thus agency was called the Qteeple lacks Agency Bob located yobs for these men for a small fee but on the sxde he stall does that sort of work Ioan Altwres entered nurses trammg ln Toledo after graduation After three years had passed Ioan became a reglstered nurse and It was her wlsh to become a Red Cross Nurse At that trme there was one hospital In Grand Ramds and she was transferred here Ioan ns today sarhng up and down the Maumee Rnver In a beautxful yacht attendmg a nch man s wrfe When the Moon Orl Rehnenes moved Into town to take care of the oxl Bully Baumbarger went to work there as an office bov He grad ually worked hlmself up the ladder and now rs pres-dent of the con cem Phvllvs Snyder works m the laboratortes rn the Moon O11 Rehnerv She Ends dlderent uses for ml One day she mrxed tozether the wrong formula and hlew up the lahoratnrv It has been recentlv rehuxlt She was very serxously myured but ns now back on the Job Phylhs has always been mterested m f'h6lYllSlfW 'md other SFIEDIIGI' subvects so when!! heard that she was doing laboratory work ll dmdnt surprise mea It lvhen Donna Huffman graduated from school she got a Job as a stenographer In one of the offices nn town One day Robert John Lon trol the head of the model agency came Into her ollice When he saw Donna he asked her rf she ever thought about bemg a model and asked her to come down to his studnos the next mormng She was In the business for ten years Donna was marrred In the begrnnmg of her modeling days and when she became too old to be a model she settled down In a little cottage along the Maumee Rxver Vlrgxma Lrpp ns now ln the doctor s profession She has an offrce xn the Medical Bulldmg and can send her patients to any of the 10 hos pltals xn Grand Raplds Vlrglma began tramlng In the former Bowling Green bmverslty but transferred to the Umverslty of Grand Rap'ds when rt was buxlt She SDCCIHIIZES ln surgery and has been very suc cessful In that field Always Interested m sports Blll Shepard turned to that Held upon graduation He also started at Bowlmg Green and transferred on the completlon of the umverslty here He mayored ln Physlcal Educatron and took Mathematics as his mmor course YVhen Bxll finished college he accepted a job as an asslstant coach and one day to his surprxse he recelved an application as coach at the Unlversxty of Grand Rapids He has been coaching there for Eve years Everyone thought that Ralph Carroll would keep basketball nn mind but they were fooled Ralph started to work ln the Grand Raplds Bank as a clerk He became very efficient as a clerk so the presxdent appolnted hxm as treasurer He kept hrs books In good order and thxs posmtlon led to the vxce presldency When the presxdent ret1red Ralph became president and has remained there to thus day Harold Johnston started to work on his farm after graduation but soon quit when Grand Rapids started to grow He took a posxtlon as a brlcklayer and soon he earned enough money to put hrmself through college He took an accounting course ln college He then started the career of an accountant Harold s Job of checkmg the books of the banks takes htm over all of Ohio and parts of Michigan and Indiana for there are very few ln thus occupatlon Hrs residence xs rn Grand Rapids though Bud Wrlght went to Bowling Green Unxverslty to take a course rn psychology and sociology After four years of this he got a Job m one of the new department stores here where he had to meet people all day Bud saved hrs money and bought all the stock he could get Eventually he took over the department store and now the store IS known as the R Wrlght Department Store The demand for business trained glrls far exceeded the supply Margaret Tanner helped to fulfill this need by opemng the Speed Busmess College Her regular busmess course has been shorthand from one year to three months but still produces efficient stenog raphers and secretaries Of all the professlons rn Grand Rapids there ls only one reducing school ln the whole city Thxs Charm School is operated by Anna Hersmg The reason Anna chose thxs professlon rather than that of a stenographer whrch she ongmally planned IS because she wanted other women to feel free whale working or enyoymg other types of entertainment wlthout that unnecessary weight The studios are located on the seventh floor of the Pentagon Burldlng on Maln Street After the bug boom ln the orl busxness many started to flood Into town and the need for a recreatxon center was felt The Y M C A and a Y W C A were built A man from Mrchlgan was appointed the xnstructor of the recreation at the Y M C A and Bonme Kexfer was appomted the Instructor at the YWC A Bonnie teaches the gurls the art of swxmmmg basketball softball dancing etc At the present trme Bonme has 90 assnstants And so ends my tale of the class of 48 Janet McEwen '. - ' - ,. . 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