Ionia High School - Ionian Yearbook (Ionia, MI)

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G 44f25caqWncfmZ'!ae0a4A :,' 51' me XM. . First Row -- Presidents Address, Thomas Lockwoodg Valedictory, Margaret Ketchum: Saluta' tory, Esther Nielsen. Second Row -e Class Poem, -lean Young, Doris Baird, Virginia Velia: Class Prophecy, Jeanne Mosson, Williaiii Westrnzias, Ruth Moteheekg Class XVill, Mary Eddy, Richard Olds, Betty Lou Conner. Third Row -- Class History, Phyllis Steel, Warreii Vanhetloo, Myrtle Glossi: Presentation of Spade, Richard McCord, Max Raglin: Song, Beverly Bowne, Fred Christopher, Lucille Kyser, jack VanReenen.

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We B We, the elated Seniors of the Ionia High School, City of Ionia, State of Michigan, United States of America, being mentally intact and fully conscious, do hereby make, ordain, publish and declare this to be our Hrst and last Will and Testament. I We do hereby pledge ourselves to give the ut' most cooperation toward the ultimate victory of democracy. II We, the Senior Class, do leave to our inferior underclassmen, the Juniors, our scholastic dignity. We, the Senior Class, do leave the Juniors our sage experience in Annual production. May you meet the deadly deadfline. III We, the Senior Class, do leave the Sophomores all of our athletic aspirations. May you decorate the trophy case. IV We, the Senior Class, do bequeath to the Freshf men our knack of getting around. 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. V I, Beverly Bowne, do leave my superlative musif cal talent to Corrine Wolverton. May you soar to the musical notes of fame. I, Phyllis Brown, do leave my miraculous record of attending athletic events to every vigorous sports fan. I, Gayle Leslie, do leave my antiquated Ford to anyone capable of maneuvering it. I, Hugh Hanson, do leave my rhythmical drum' ming ability to Stuart Todd. May you win ad' miration among your fellow students as I have. I, Lester Smith, do leave my great parking ability to any patriotic soul who wishes to save tires. I, Leslie Murphy, do leave my versatile nature to Charles Kohloff. May you win the respect of your classmates as I have. I, George Peterson, do leave my magnetic power over girls to Dick Warden. You've a good start, Dick. I, Tom Lockwood, do leave my subtle humor to Meredith Jones. We, Dale Haney and Ralph Furman, do leave our musical combination to any noble FFA boy who desires to captivate the assemblies. I, Edward Coon, do leave to each and every member of the Junior Class, a portion of my vigor. Don't shove, studes , there's plenty to go around. I, Margaret Ketchum, do leave the vast oceans of knowledge I have so diligently explored to any' one wishing to become a walking encyclopedia. I, Dale Burdy, do leave my unsurpassed mathef matical genius to any young Einstein. I, Glenna June Douglas, do leave my drum majorette school to Betty Holland. May their perf formances be an added attraction to the football field. We, Don White and George Westbrook, do leave our excess stature to Asaph Smith. May he survey the crowds from the lofty height that we have enjoyed. We, Bill Westmaas and Gordon Fuller, do leave our persuasive powers to George Spaulding. May he continue to enjoy the debate trips as we have. We, the entire Senior Class, do hereby bequeath to the class of '43 our unswerving struggle for the perseverance of animated school spirit. In witness whereof, we hereunto ascribe our names, and affix our seal on the fifth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hun' drcd and fortyftwo. Signed, THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1942 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 the belowfnamed witnesses 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. Signed, , Betty Lou Conner ' Richard Olds Notary Public Mary Eddy My commission expires june 6, 1942

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aofainqfniadzeauifwze Aboard a U.S. Destroyer in the Carribean, June 27, 1952. Dear Mom: We are back on board ship again under Captain Dale Burdy, after our long shore leave, when we went places and saw things, inf cluding many of our old classmates. When we first got ashore, we saw George Peterson and Dale Haney celebrating shore leave from the Coast Guard with a couple of cute shore mermaids, Lina Smith and Wilma McPherson. They said they had reenlisted - just as we had - back in 1950, when we finished sinking the Rising Sun, and the war had ended. They said they were goingto stick out their threefyear enlistment - if they didf n't get married. Their girls were getting impatient, so we left and looked up Tom Conner, a prominent playboy down in Miami. Taking his secretary Kathleen White with him, he showed us the night club where Hugh Hanson's band featured Tom Lockwood's quivering cornet, Joyce Banks, the champ hatfcheck gal of the century, checked our wraps in the downtown concert hall where soloist Beverly Bowne, with accompanist Mary Esther Helmes, was billed. Coming soon was the Flutterf ing Flute and Resonant Reed Musical Troupe with glittering Glenna June Douglas and jovial Jack VanReenen. That night we stayed at the Hotel Haskin - Miami's finest, where we were greeted by Manager Joe himself in his shirtsleeves, laborif ously puffing at a Havana. We saw quite a few oldftimers there: hostess, Alice Strong, private secf retary, Lucille Kyser, visiting nurse, Betty Lou Conner, cook, Ruth Scheierng and bellhops, Ed' ward Zander, Gordon Sargeant, Harry Carroll and Wayne Anderson, who spent all their spare mo' ments riding up and down in the elevator. In the morning, we stopped at the House of Henry Morgan, banking firm, to borrow enough money to take a train back to good old Michigan, with Ionia its dead center. Teller Meriline Hoy took care of ,us nicely, and Assistant Geraldine Kiefer directed us to the station. On the way we passed the art studio of Brushless Bill Owsley who, with his Phenomenal Phyllis Oberlin, the mumptious model, was making art circles gasp all over the country. At the station we bought tickets from Betty Dunn and Clarabelle Durkee. Hopping on the train we met Dorothy Dalton and were inf formed that this was the new Sizzling Streamliner that had just broken the record under its speed demon engineer, Dave Ayers, and assistant, Bud Potter. On the train we met that irresistible, suave salesman, Jim Nichols who, in three minutes flat, had sold us both a new suit ensemble with underwear to match. Upon reaching Ionia, Fred Christopher, news photographer, snapped our physiognomies for the front page of the local Read It and Weep. We were greeted at the staf tion by Charles Signs and then we went to the drug store, where Pharmacist Ralph Lee fixed us up with a prescription of salkafeltzer to counteract the effects of our fast trip, while Assistant Barbara Eitniear was in a heated discussion with a cus' tomer, Thelma French, over the merits of two bubble dancers, Marian Munger and Zelphia Horf rocks, We were shown through the town by Mayor Fritz Kernen, who had won on the plat' form, 'bYou tend to your business, I'll play with mine. Gosh! you would never recognize the old burg. Remember Gasoline alley? Jerome Nelson has bought it all, and erected a superfservice sta' tion, selling cut rate aviation gas. While you wait, Eugene Vos, 'lBuck Walton, and Richard Vaughn swarm over the car, cleaning the windows, polish' ing the front bumper and cooling off the tires. For live cents more, Lester Smith will come out and check your oil with an amazing new gadget invented at the Dow Chemical by Chemist Richf ard Olds and Engineer Don White. Speaking of new things, Deacon Warren Vanhetloo has erected a new Evangelical Church with twoftone chimes. And a new Junior High has been erected after the old one collapsed under the strain of the new jufjitsu taught by Mary Eddy's revolutionary gym classes with Betty Moorhead as her assistant. Over in the Senior High, Jeanne Mosson teaches a new class - L'How to win friends and influence men, with Alice Fitzgerald as her star pupil. Professor Bob Vander Molen has a competing class - How