Ionia High School - Ionian Yearbook (Ionia, MI)

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 28 19 4 0 Senior Play A handsome young automobile salesman inherits a girls' boarding school and insists on running it according to his own ideas, chief of which is that the dominant feature in the education of the young girls of today should be charm. Under the direction of Miss Helen Gaunt and Mr. Lloyd T. Smith, the play, The Charm School,” was produced on May 31 at the Ionia Theatre. The committees which aided in the production of this play were as follow: tickets—Alice Ross, Anita Ruehs, Kathleen Kidd, Elizabeth Dunnett, Mary Beth Willobee; properties—Marian Edwards, Naomi Popendick, Gertrude Brock; advertising—Donna Harris, Gordon Ries, Donald Eddy, Blaine Redemsky; stage-—William Whitesides, William Eddy, Patricia Everts, Sally Wellman, Richard Drake, Charles Galloway. CAST Austin Bevans Richard Smith David McKensie Jack Mowatt George Boyd William Heitman Jim Simpkins Robert McKendry Tim Simpkins Robert Mellinger Homer Johns Robert Schwyn Elise Benedotti Doris Rubach Miss Hays Virginia Ries Miss Curtis Virginia Fox Sally Boyd Arlene Sessions Muriel Doughty Betty Van Vleck Ethel Spelvin Marjorie Schild Alix Mercier Marguerite Martin Lillian Stafford Joy Wagner Madge Kent Doris Benedict Dotsie Greta Wheeler Charlotte Frances Dunn

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27 19 4 0 Senior Annual Staff With this “Ionian we the class of 1940 mark another milestone of our work in high school. It has been a difficult and obstructed path with the illness of our editor and business manager. With this yearbook we have introduced new ideas in its publication. Of these innovations we have been very proud. It has been our hope to record here many memories that will in later life be revived. If this is achieved, we can feel assured that this publication is a success. We wish to thank those who have lent their services that this 1940 “Ionian might be completed. It would have been impossible without the help of the faculty, students, and business men. STAFF Editor-in-chief Assistant Editor Business Managers Advertising Manager Art Editors Athletic Editors Literary Editors Society Editors Literary Critic Faculty Critic Faculty Sponsor Faculty Photographer Elizabeth Dunnett Kathleen Kidd Robert Schwyn Donald Eddy Robert Mellinger Gordon Ries William Pearce William Eddy George Robinson Alice Ross Arlene Sessions Doris Rubach Virginia Ries Mary Beth Willobee Betty Van Vleck Miss Mabel E. Brown Mr. Lloyd T. Smith Mr. Russell Bates

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29 1940 — Class Will We, the exalted Seniors of the Ionia High School, City of Ionia, State of Michigan, not knowing what may befall us, and being aware that soon we shall leave these halls forever, do hereby publicly make our first and last will and testament. I. To the school board we leave: 1. The school which we occupied for three consecutive years. 2. The struggle to maintain funds with which to operate for ten months. II. To the faculty we bequeath: 1. The burden of the juniors. 2. The responsibility of the school government. 3. The credit for our fine record. III. To the Juniors we bequeath the following: 1. The choice of second-floor lockers. 2. The privilege of being honored at the prom. 3. The right to dignity. We do hereby make, constitute, and appoint Lloyd T. Smith sole Executor of this, our last will and testament, and it is our wish that he may dispose of our estate in his own way, by his own methods. IV. (Personal Bequests) I, William Heitman, do leave my rosy blush to Don F. White, Jr. May he thrill the girls as I have! I, Anita Ruehs, do leave my petite figure to Donna Sherwood. Plenty of exercise is the secret formula. I, Jack Mowatt, do leave my all-round athletic ability to Stanley Hanline. I, Robert Schwyn, do leave my ability in oratory to Martin Anderson. May he hold audiences spellbound as I succeeded in doing. I, Kathleen Kidd, do leave my literary competence in working on Spotlight and the Annual to Mary Jean Coon. I, Norris Signs, do leave my superb dancing technique to Richard Wicherham. May the girls flock around him as they did me. I, Elisabeth Marshall, do leave my hearty voice to Mary Eddy. May she attain high honors as cheerleader. I, William Whitesides, do leave my suave appearance and charming manners to Gordon Fuller. I, Delores Moore, do leave my skill in writing and translating French to Anne Rumisek. I, Robert Klein, do gladly leave two feet of my manliness to George Westbrook. I, Marjorie Schild, do leave my giggles to Jean Weisgerber. I, Donna Harris, do “sadly” leave my typewriting technique to the next person who attempts to use my rattly old typewriter. I, Don Eddy, do leave my magnetic powers with women to Bruce Harris. I, Doris Benedict, do leave my dear old Essex to Catherine List. Don't slam the door, Kate. It might fall off. I, Gordon Ries, do leave my ability for getting “scoops” for the Spotlight to Bob Pierce. May you scoop them as I did. To our successors, the Class of 1941, of whom we think so highly, we bequeath our Senior Session Room along with the privilege of elevating themselves to the high position we are now leaving. In witness whereof, I hereunto ascribe my name, and affix my seal on the thirteenth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and forty. Signed, THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1940 Notary, Elizabeth Dunnett My commission expires June 13, 1940. This instrument was, on the day of the above date thereof, signed, published, and declared by the said Senior class to be its last will and testament in the presence of us who at its request have subscribed our names thereto as witnesses, in the presence of the Senior class and in the presence of each other. Alice Ross Arlene Sessions