Handy High School - Occident Yearbook (Bay City, MI)

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Boat building is a main industry of Bay City, as the city is located on the mouth of the Saginaw River. The Defoe shipbuilding company builds, repairs, and launches huge vessels throughout the year. A project that was recently finished was a destroyer escort for the U. S. Navy. Here, one of the dredges of the Great Lakes sits in drydock for repairs. s. gateway to the Great Lakes The gates swing open to let the first car cross the new across the Saginaw River and provided another link be Veterans Memorial Bridge, dedicated on November lil, tween the two parts of town. 1957. Several years in the building, this bridge eased traffic t i x x x x . li 5 g ,Q wx I 'Z -ig . . , L. - L agua- ft, ' , , I .W . , K ve- , , J' Mr ' X. .fm f ,f 0, W s , fsf. 2 , by 3 - ,m'!b:- f -L i ' A.. ' an me . at at . . - - , N' ,grtswsgyea V , ' ' . . is envy we ss 5. 1-y . 1 s f .gtg anus School life

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,wmrr 12. I at ,1- p Bay City lies quietly in the hot summer sun, but the of the Saginaw River, our dll' is 3 main MPP for the People are hurrying around in the colnfort of their air. great Lakes vessels, as well as a summer and winter sports conditioned offices or in the shade of a tree. At the mouth Center- Bay City is Michigan' ,M-:ff ' , f,-v,1Wf'f'? i 'W 'X M f , Q42 N f f 12 7 fr w Q , ,X fZ'fWffi Way f fe .tt, Q W, ,, 4 f' 71 ff f Q, fy, 4 27 s ww 1 ,V I-1 wfzi md ,, ,ss-,QI .ffp yzt ,H Q A-4 ,, 1 Z, An open-floor policy is mziintuinetl at the Bay City Junior College. The junior college, which is two years of the regular four-year colle 'e, is 1 n f h - D A g m e o t e several opportunities in Bay City for continuing education. School life

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l l Honor students, row l: janet Carr, Carol Higgs, LaVonne Kercher, Carol Fowler, Barbara Shack, Dale Koch, William Bishop, Alan Kayncr, james White, Leonard Alton. Row 2: Sue Wuepper, Lois Ziegler, Marilyn Wendt, Billie Sue Satterlee, Patricia Mandley, David Seidenstucker, john Priede, and Warren Woodford. In the center is Mr. Paul W. Briggs, superintendent of schools. Class of 1957 had Each year, the senior class graduates a larger number of students. Among the graduates, several students are chosen to be placed on the permanent honor plaque. These students are the pride of the school, a boon to their community, and are chosen on the basis of scholar- ship, leadership, character, and service to the school. Other senior activities were skip day, senior dinner, fun assembly, torch cere- mony, senior prom, commencement dance, and finally - commencement! Senior class officers during the Torch Ceremony, left to right: Leonard. Alton, Billie Sue Satterlee, Carol Fowler, and Barb Shack. School lzfe