Highland Park High School - Polar Bear Yearbook (Highland Park, MI)

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IBB III. SS W .fwisw Ray Sturgis, president flettl calls a meeting ol his fellow officers. Ierry Schroeder vice-presi- dent. Chella Sladek secretary. and Paul Militzer treasurer. O sooner had this year's Washington lVorkers climbed aboard their HP-43 than trouble set in. Those grim, gruesome grem- lins dusted out their bag of tricks and set to work spoiling things. The grems must have have decided to tackle the biggest and best thing first, for at the top of their sabotage list was the Mfashington Trip. They fixed things so there couldn't be any transportation, or hotel space, and then just sat back and laughed loud and long. Wlell, this hit the seniors pretty hard . . . that trip was the frosting on twelve years of cake. Then came an inspiration. YV ar Bonds! The seniors decided to take the money that would have gone for the trip and invest it in Victory. lVashington would just have to wait. t But it seems Mata Gremla had her agents everywhere. lfVhen the grems got word of this new development, they started to work, and bingo . . . out with the senior shop. No more cokes or candies or credits. Along about now the sen- iors started to look a bit on the harassed side . . . partly due to worry, and partly due to fewer seventh hours in the S.S. Even this did not stop the class, and they went on earning hours, wind- ing up the year by buying bonds galore-58,000 worth. Undaunted by the gremlins, the class spon- sored a travel-less Vfashington trip for Friday evening, May the fourteenth, which ended in a record dance at Hackett Field House. Assisting the class officers were Ed Matthews and Helen Howick as co-chairmen. Henry Dres- ser had charge of tickets, Bill Miller was chair- man of policing committee, and Alice Jane Rauch and Dick Cowles were publicity agents. All in all this year's class has had many set- backs, but they've met them with their chins up and have shown a determination to face things bravely.

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5 MMEB SIIHUIJLISH IIU TES-19112 Baket o M0629 Yfiminet Sch ai oi 5 Ytxnilip OX Edith Bailey Warren Barrone Rita Canevaro Irla Christine Ioe Fisher Helen Galli Viola Coratti Mike Karoub Carl Kingery Yola Mideria Ruth Rasmussen Billy Roberts Mary Ruddy Marion Saunby Mariorie Stroub Richard Taylor Chester Wells NOT PI-IOTOGRAPHED Phyliss Cobas Robert Showalter Burton Hewson Verna Takkula Charles Moye Frances Taylor Lois Watson Y, I HEN school opens next fall, Room l, that odor- iferous place where Mr. Baker held forth for so long, may be vacant. The chances are that he will be harvesting vegetables in his garden. But his students will never forget Mr. Baker. They will always remember what a swell guy he was, how he would so thoroughly bawl them out, but they could never stay peeved at him. He was a modern person, for- ward looking, and up to the minute in his thinking. Mr. Baker claimed that if he hadn't been brought up on a farm he never could have been a teacher. If he hadn't, he would never have had such a huge supply of homely stories. Often times he would get sidetracked and tell one just for amusement's sake. When he thought the class needed straightened out, he told one with a moral. Many were just good examples, illustrating a chemistry or physics lesson. Since Mr. Baker is leaving, his secret can be told: he keeps his matches between the wall and the picture above his desk.

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ll III. 55 UNIOR is Very busy this year. So busy with new tasks that he's had to drop a great many of his usual activities. But he isn't objecting to pounding the typewriter and taking-over be- hind the counter because he is getting some real business experience. unior is suiierin from a stran e disease-a S 8 stiffness in the joints, which he is sure isn't old age creeping up-yet. He has concluded that it's dance-less-ness, but he's sure he'1l survive- and be ready as ever to beat the time to a little 'ive now and then. J Meet Junior-the ll-A Class. President Dick Walsh concentrating on a list of phone numbers. Bev Reed, vice-president who broke the boys' block. lust checking up on the financial status of the class is Bob Schwartz. What's a little snow to Loren Spademan when there's sec- retarial work to be done?