Ionia High School - Ionian Yearbook (Ionia, MI)

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Senior Play A young professor, principal of a small high school, attempted to prove his theory that, if you keep a bad boy busy, you have a boy too busy to be bad. When Albert Williams, the school's bad boy, was appointed president of the League of Young Citizens, complications arose which form the plot of Youth Takes Over, presented by the seniors May 23, at the Ionia theater, with Miss Helen Gaunt and Mr. Lloyd T. Smith directing. The acting committees of production were: business, Dorothy Brown, Hazel Hawkins, Helen Stevens, Jean Weisgerber, Dorothy Richards, and Sarah Marker; scenery, Louis Ruehs, Richard Wever, Elaine Misner, Helen Faulkner, Doris First, Doris Hawley, and Bob Haskin; property, Jack Chase, Mary Jean Coon, Virginia Hanson, and Phyllis Waldron, makeup, Marianne Langdon, Beverly Bliss, Anne Rumisek, Glenna Selchfield, and Doris Harvey, ushers, La Donna Miller, Elaine Misner, Marian McLellan, Genevieve Durand, Sarah Marker, Marguerite Hausserman, Helen Faulkner, and Phyllis Waldron. CAST Albert Williams .... Richard Husted Mrs. Rathbone . . Delrose Heinzelman Miss Gunther...............Betty Brunson Miss Stickney . . . Mary Jean Coon Dr. Pierson.................Don White, Jr. Betty..................Marianne Langdon Barbara.....................Doris Harvey Henry....................Orland Hotchkiss Mrs. Jones.............Virginia Liscombe Mr. Andrews .... Jess Christensen Dancers .... Hazel Hawkins, Esther De Armond, Virginia Hanson, Donna Sherwood, Margaret Mascho Snooky..................Catherine List Ethel...................Anne Rumisek Ditsie................Jean Weisgerber Swinburne.............Claude Edwards Peggy....................Beverly Bliss Gloria...................Jane McKendry The Postman .... Andrew Detmers Lenny...................Robert O'Neal Gus........................Robert Todd Mrs. Thurston .... Arlene Petersen Red.......................Jack Higbee 21

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First a conference with Mr. Smith Editor Hanline presents the plans Business committee ready for action Typists prepare the copy Photographers at the other end of the camera Last step — literary group proofreading Annual Staff The 1941 Annual staff organized itself differently by dividing the members of the staff into four definite committees — photography, business, literary, and typists — and by adding junior assistants for experience in publication problems. The staff fully realizes that, without the aid and cooperation of the students, business men and the faculty, this book could not have been published, and to them it expresses its appreciation. Editor-in-Chief Literary Editor Photography Editor Business Manager Literary Committee Business Committee Photography Committee Typists .... Junior Assistants . Faculty Advisers . Faculty Photographer . STAFF ......................Stanley Hanline ......................Mary Jean Coon ......................Virginia Hanson ..............................Robert O'Neal Catherine List, Jane Larson, Donna Sherwood, Virginia Liscombe Don White, Jr., Doris Harvey, Delrose Heinzel-man, Raymond Tafel Marion Maynard, Douglas Parker, Anne Rumisek, Keith Rhoades LaDonna Miller, Dorothy Richards, Sarah Marker Mary Eddy, Richards Olds, Warren Vanhetloo Mr. Lloyd T. Smith, Miss Mabel E. Brown Mr. Russell Bates « 20

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Class Will We, the ennobled Seniors of the Ionia High School, City of Ionia, State of Michigan, being of sound mind and aware of our immediate departure from these stately portals, do hereby ordain, publish, and declare this our first and last will and testament. I To the school board we bequeath: 1. The responsibility of providing an education for the coming generations. 2. The dreams of a new gymnasium and auditorium. II To the faculty we bequeath: 1. The experience it has gained through knowing us. 2. The guardianship of our friends, the underclassmen. III To the Juniors we bequeath: 1. The joys and troubles of producing the annual. 2. Our stage experience for use in their senior play. 3. Hopes of graduation in 1942. We do hereby make, constitute, and appoint Principal 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, Andy Detmers, do leave two feet of my height to Donald White. May you never have the feet that go with it. I, Doris Harvey, do leave my cheer-leading ability to the Wingeier twins. May you never make a mistake or it will be double trouble. I, Stanley Hanline, do leave my annual headaches to Richard Olds. May your annual be worth the effort. I, Mary Jean Coon, do leave my journalistic ability to next year's Spotlight staff. May you carry on for dear old Spotlight. I, Dick Husted, do leave my knack of getting out of trouble to any poor soul who needs it. I, Claude Edwards, do leave my fluent speech to George Spaulding. May you never be at a loss for words. We, Bob Pierce and Don White, Jr., do leave our track and field abilities to Harold Davis. I, Virginia Hanson, do leave my remarkable intellectual powers to Bill Owsley. May they help you out of your dreams. I, Bob Todd, do leave my presidency to Roosevelt. May he use it wisely. I, Virginia Liscombe, do leave my many jobs to whoever needs the pin money. I, Dorothy Brown, do leave my studious interests to Betty Bloomer. May you use them to advantage. We, Beverly Bliss and Jack Chase, do leave our sax and trumpet technique to Glenna June Douglas and Don Todd. I, Anne Rumisek, do leave my dancing ability to Betty Holland. May you dance through life on your toes. I, Orland Hotchkiss, do leave my professor stories to Mr. Mikle's speech class. We, the entire Senior Class, do hereby give the Juniors the authority to assume our Exalted position which we are about to leave. In witness whereof, we hereunto ascribe our name and affix our seal on this, the nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-one. Signed, THE SENIOR CLASS of 1941 Notaries, Don White, Jr. and Virginia Hanson. Our commission expires on June 20, 1941 This instrument was on the day of the above date thereof duly 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. Witnesses Bruce Harris, Richard Wever « 22