Holly Area High School - Tell Tale Yearbook (Holly, MI)

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Kvmiuiscing Now that the Class of '58 has reached, or nearly reached, what once seemed to be a distant objective, fnamely graduationj it seems that the high-school years have flown with alarming speed. Looking back, it all seems so far away, like a chronicle of another century, but the fun and gaiety is bright, somehow, even beneath the haze of time. One needs only to be reminded of one event in the past four years, to bring a deluge of incidents, half-forgotten events and the special meaning that they may have had to each of us. tumbling around in our brain like the bright colored bits that they are. Who can forget the struggle we had as Freshmen to come up with something original for that dance or that float? How unique we felt as we dreamed up a new theme for the dances, only to end up calling it The Freshman Flip. And I doubt if there is a Senior who doesn't recall the pride and nervous apprehension as we surveyed our precariously perched masterpiece, the freshman float, looking a little more impressive in a garage than it did on the Main Street. How valiantly we struggled to make the towering foot- ball player retain his uncertain position throughout the parade. Some of us put more struggle in it, but the pride and laughter was equally shared, Another year - and finally we had the rather doubtful distinction of pretending supe- riority to the ranks we had recently left, but the jump from freshmen to sophomores was pure bliss to many of us. It seemed pretty nice to be able to criticize with the authority of age, even though we did so, kindly. This year, too, we had our first really important dance. The Spring Frolic - which we called 'Stardust Serenade' and who knows just how important a night that was to us? As a group we were pleased with our success and glad that we had reached this landmark in our high-school record. As individuals many of us may have been impressed with the atmosphere we had worked so hard to create, and tried in our own ways to see a little of the Stardust. We had a float that year, too. A slight departure from the burly creation the previous year, this one sported a huge Valentine and frothy trimmings and the theme of Sweet- hearts On Parade. Like a lovely flower, we thought, as it took its place in the parade. Then we had a little trouble with the wind and some of our frills became limp, battered pieces of paper. Curious, but come to think of it, winds of hurricane velocity seemed especially prevalent on the day of the Parade. Just our luck, we declared wrathfully among ourselves, but we joked about it with our upperclassmen and solemnly vowed that next year we would surely win. Into our Junior year, we began to feel the pressures of high school activities, and the bustle of activity was a preliminary of the feverish bustle we would have to meet in our Senior year. After much debate, we gave up our efforts to establish ourselves as leaders in the field of naming the dances differently, and called it The Junior Hop. For the past decade, it seems the title Junior Jump was widely popular. But losing one's identity is a bitter pill to swallow so we, for the sake of variation, called the dance The Junior Hop. Our Congratulations and Best Wishes DAIREE DYNE

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Uzro' the years WK!! See Wu in the Sweet ,lifter Qlauf IACQUELINE KAY WATSON Flint, Michigan March 14, 1940 Student Council 2, Play Cast 2g FBLA President 3g FNA 2, Band 1.2, Glee Club 15 Committees 1, 2, 3. Eupora, Mississippi December 31, 1940 Student Council 3, Audio-Visual 2g Football 1, 2. 3: Basketball 2: Track 1, 2, Varsity Club 2, 3, Committees 1, 2, 3. Graduating with y xl as , i-., the Class of '58 A ,,. WILLIAM 1AcKsoN JR. A X X S 1 - : H tltll V1 ' if g fi ' fl N ' xx x Q A A HANNELORE ZEPP ROBERT EDWARE ZAUEL Nowi-Werbas, Yugoslavia May 9, 1941 Committees 3. Nowi-Werbas, Yugoslavia April 23. 1940 Committees 3. HAROLD F. YOUN G Saginaw, Michigan June 19, 1940 Science 3g Stamp Club, President 1,25 Football 1, , 2, 3g Basketball 15 Track 1, 2, 3, Varsity Club 1, 2, 3g Committees 1,2, 3. HEINZ ZEPP

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The Junior Play was a roaring success. Well, a success anyway. Shy Guy was performed with such zest that the cast won the unanimous accolade of their fellow classmates and the respect of all the others who came to see it, for a job well done. Probably the ultimate achievement of our Junior year was the Junior-Senior Prom, which we sponsored. Rhapsody In Blue was the finished product of hours of careful planning and admirable co-operation. The combined efforts of the Junior class and the Junior mothers made it a lovely evening, a night to remember and amemory to cherish, Our float this year was a lovely Swan-drawn affair. It will suffice to say that again we did not win first prize. Alas, who says it's the little things that count? After all we had more important things to do, and anyway, we will win next year for sure. And now we are Seniors and Senioritas. Becoming a Senior was like the dawn of a new day and in a way a little frightening - the end of the beginning, beginning of the end - or what. But the Senior year tumed out to be the best of all. Lots of work and responsibility. But after all this is preparation for the big show - for life - and a student doesn't learn to face it by playing tiddley-winks and letting the few work for the many. There are innumerable lessons to be learned in the Senior year, and the only way one can acquire the knowledge is by seeking it. This year we struggle with money problems and decisions conceming class colors and motto and a uniform point system. We do our part at the concessions and. cheer like mad at the athletic games. We have problems and crises with our chili dinners and fish frys, and we leam that things don't care of themselves. The show must go on. And on the play went. A mystery called The Skeleton Walks and again the play cast did a job for which we were all proud and grateful. We have a lot of laughs with our Car Smash. In fact, -we have a lot of laughs at every class activity and somehow feel a little richer for having derived so much en- joyment from the company of our classmates. At the end of the year we would like to send a great big thank-you card to our- selves. Or rather to our class as a way of saying Thanks for the fun and for experience and for the wealth of memories you have given us. Thanks for the many intangible hidden things which have made us a class, and maybe made each of us a little hap- pier at times to be a member of this class, a friend - an insider - maybe the word is Senior, but for the gift which was never given nor taken, but rather exchanged, thanks. Best Wishes to the Class of '58 BENDLES S