Hancock Central High School - Echoes Yearbook (Hancock, MI)

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ROSEMARY ANDREOZZI Generalg Pewabic 1, 25 Senatus Club 3, 45 Girls' Chorus 45 Mixed Choir 4: Home EC. Club Vice Pres. 45 Echo Staff 4. GERALDINE ASHER Salutatorian5 Commercial5 Eveleth, Minn. 15 Girls' Chorus 2, 3, 45 Prom Committee 35 Mixed Choir 3, 45 Forensics 25 Y-Teen Club 3, 45 Echo Staff 3, 45 Orchestra 45 Band 45 Yearbook Staff 4. JEANNE BAAKKO Comniercialg Literary Club 2, 3, 45 Literary Club Sec. 515 Girls' Chorus 45 Echo Staff 4. MARJORIE BALLARD Literaryg Band 1, 2, 3, 45 Orchestra 1, 2, 215 Senatus Club 2, 3, 45 Girls' Basketball 2, 3, 45 Prom Committee 35 Girls' Chorus 45 Mixed Choir 3, 45 Senior Play. MARY ANN BONINI Gcneralg Tumbling 1, 35 Y-Teen Club 2, 13, 45 Junior Councilg Echo Staff 3. 45 Prom Com- mittee J35 'Y'-Teen Treas. 45 Home Ec. Club 4. MARY ELLEN CARNEY Literaryg Girls' Chorus 1, 35 Literary Club 2, II, 4: Mixed Choir 35 Home Ec. Club 4. THOMAS CONDON Gencral5 Recreation Club 2, 3, 45 Track 2, 45 Boys' Chorus 2, 3, 45 Mixed Choir 3, 45 Junior Councilg Prom Committee 35 Recreation Club Pres. 4, Senior Council. JAMES DALE Genci'al5 Ripley 1. 25 Basketball 3, 45 Hi-Y Club 3, 45 Hi-Y Club Sec. 45 Prom Com- mittee 35 Boys' Chorus 45 Mixed Choir 45 Yearbook Staff 4. Page fiffccif

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Wale' lay lx'rlIl11'1'i111' Iioliln Parents, teachers, and friends: For thousands of years men have been seeking and fighting and dying for gold. because gold meant riches. One hundred years ago people of every race, creed, and nationality went to California to search for gold. Some went on horseback, others, by boat, but most of them went over the dangerous mountain passes and deserts by prairie schooners, bravely flaunting their motto California or Bust. The boom was on! Finding gold as thick as dust, they staked their claims and became rich beyond their wildest dreams. However, some found the gold was slipping away. They were the failures who sadly returned to their homes and former occupa- tions to pick up the loose ends of their lives. After a few years came the depression which according to the economic cycle always follows a boom. Now, on the one hundredth anniversary of that famous Gold Rush, we seniors, who are being graduated from high schools throughout our country, are really De- pression's children. However, we are not children of the depression following the Gold Rush, for just twenty years ago these United States were on the skids starting down the slide into the depths of thc desperate depression of the early thirties, and fifteen years ago we had started the long climb back. Between the top and the bottom of that cycle we were born, therefore, we had none of the gold dust which must have been sprinkled on the children born one hundred years ago. We received very few of the luxuries, but we did get the necessities of life to make us strong and healthy at this stepping stone in our lives. When we think ot' the strong character, the fortitude that our parents passed on to us, the faith that they had in themselves, in this country of ours, and in God, to want to make a home and raise a family at a time like that, we want to say to them, Thank you for getting us off to such a healthy, strong, and interesting start in life. Our own Quincy Mine was opened one hundred one years ago. Because mining was our chief industry, we know that very few of the citizens of the Copper Country went to California to seek gold: they stayed in their own yard and mined their own type of gold, copper. That same characteristic came out again in Iron Mountain, when, during the depression of the early thirties, they began to develop the Pine Mountain Ski Hill. THAT was the gold in THEIR back yard. This ski hill, dedicated in 1939, has been the scene of numerous ski jump events, at which many skiers have competed, and some have established local, national, and world records. Our lives are similar to those skiers who compete on the ski hill. The hill itself is like our schools, the E. L. Wright, the Edward Ryan, St. Joseph's, and the High School, all good, substantial structures provided by the citizens of this community through the Board of Education, which give us protective surroundings. To the Board of Education and to the citizens of Hancock we say, Thank you for this second home which we have enjoyed for the past twelve years. Continuing with our picture of the ski slide, wc need skis in which to take part in all events. The skis, which are chosen after very critical inspection, and are smoothed, treated, and waxed with almost loving care by the skiers before being put into actual use in ski jump competition, are like the education which we have received in these twelve years. For, from the kindergarten on through the grades and in high school, we have been watched over, we have been smoothed, we have been soothed. and, yes, we have even been waxed with loving care by our teachers. We know that they have given us a straight and strong grained education on which we can rely as we compete in the life ahead of us. To our teachers we want to say, Thank you for the many lessons you have taught us. ln these school years we have easily and readily taken the slide down the hill to the jump, our high school graduation, which we have now reached. According to our motto, Here endeth the first lesson. Now, as we enter the next lesson and take off into the life ahead of us, some will establish local, some national, and some world records. May God grant that we shall maintain our balance throughout our leap into the future, and that as we land, and complete the circuit of our lives, we shall earn the satisfaction that comes of having helped our fellow men. When our life's record is ended, may the Creator write after our names You have lived the good lifeg you have fought the good fight. I age f0lll l'l'll.

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ll CLAIRE FELDSCHER Honor Student, Literary, Literary Club 2, 3, 4, Girls' Chorus 3, Mixed Choir 3, Home Ee. Club 4, Senior Class Sec., Yearbook Staff 4. BARBARA FREDRICKSON Literary, Girls' Basketball 1, 2, 3, Orches- tra 1, 2, 3, 4, Literary Club 2, 3, 4, Lit- erary Club Vice Pres. 3, 4, Prom Committee 3, Mixed Choir 3, xl, Yearbook Staff 4, Home Ee. Club 4, Girls' Chorus 2, 4, Band 1, 2, ::, 4. JOSEPH GEMIGNANI Engineering, Football 1, 2, 3, 4, Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4, Track 1, 2, 3, Hi-Y Club 2, 3, 4, Sophomore Class Vice Pres., Boys' Chorus 2, 4, Hi-Y Club Treas. 3, Prom Committee 3, Hi-Y Club Pres. 4, Mixed Choir 4, Senior Council. RUDOLPH GEMIGNANI General, Football 1, 2, 3, 4, Basketball 1, Track 1, 2, 3, 4, Recreation Club 2, 3, 4, Prom Committee 3. ARDIS HARRIS General, Painesdalc l, 2, Mixed Choir 3, Home Ec. Club 4. BETTE HAWKEN General, Y-Teen Club 2, 3, 4, Girls' Chorus 3, 4, Mixed Choir 3, 4, Home Ec. Club 4, Home EC. Club Treas. 4, Y-Teen Club See. 41. DONALD HEIKKILA Literary, Football 1, 2, 3, 4, Track 1, 2, 3, 4, Recreation Club 2, 3, 4, Recreation Club Vice Pres. 3, Recreation Club Treas. 4, Boys' Chorus 3, Mixed Choir 3, Senior Council, Football Co-Captain 4. MILTON HERMANSON General, Football 2, Track 3, 4, Boys' Chorus 2.