Ionia High School - Ionian Yearbook (Ionia, MI)

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INTERLUiE

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Opening Night — Making ' Tune In A Smash Hit ! The senior girls ' sextette, composed of Eleanor Westbrook, Charlotte Van Nornum, Doris Owens, June Redemsky, Bea Brown and Alice Weisgerber, blended their voices together at com- mencement. The junior octette also had many workouts. The members were Darlene Lmde- man, Alice Teichmann, Avis Harwood, Lois Ans- low, Marilyn Janes, Virginia Holbrook and Laura May Anderson. Lois and Avis took turns accom- panying the group. Mr. Crane, the band director, also flashed his baton in bovs ' chorus. The fellows this year worked in groups of four, as quartets. They were Allen Robertson, Bill Youngs, Don Funk, Richard Burlingame, Gene Henry, Karl Gierman, Arthur Sawtell, Kent Raymor, Bob Guernsey, John Barnes and Wayne Roush. After a lapse of three years, the vocal depart- ment produced an operetta, Tune In. Janet Todd, as Mrs. Kroggins, kept her husband Mr. Kroggins, or Allen Robertson, busy correcting her mistakes. Jean Kroggins, Avis Harwood, had a secret affair with Joe, or Dan Owens. Mitzi, Joyce Fox, the mystery voice had her troubles with lerry, Don Funk, while Milly, Billy, and Tilly (Bea Brown, Alice Weisgerber, and June Redem- sky) did their dance routine. Roger Nielsen was Phipps, the scoundrel. John Barnes acted as Dave. Rich Burlingame was the versatile announcer, while Pat Wilder played the role of Throckmor- ton, the lawyer. Both Miss Cooley and Mr. Crane supervised the music of the production, and Lloyd T. Smith directed the dramatics. The dancers were tramed by Miss Naomi Falan. Sinatra ' s Rivals Senior Songstresses r H ' ir?

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f LOUIS J. LORI — Another new member of I.H.S. this year was Mr. Lori, who was Bull- dog coach and instructor of boys ' phys. ed. A giaduate of Fhnt Northern high school, he attended Western and Michigan State and holds a B.S. degree. Swimming, golf, and dancing help fill Coach Lori ' s vacant hours. RAY WILES — As the assistant coach Mr. Wiles guided the second team football and basketball squad. (See write-up page 9). Pigskin Cast Performs — With four varsity members back from the ' 44 championship team, Coach Lori called his first practice with a high-spirited squad. After the preliminary toughening up, the team began learning new plays in the form of the modi- fied box formation. Then came the first test against opposition. Carson City went home the loser after a close- fought game of 25-19. What was considered to be the most difficult game came the next week-end, and the boys drilled extensively on pass offense and defense. It was thought that Lowell would be the victor, but the Bulldogs defeated the Kent county aggre- gation before a record crowd 13-0. It looked as if Ionia high was well on the way to another cham- pionship team with Belding our next game. The game was in the bag by a 14-13 score when Beld- ing blocked a punt deep in Ionia territory in the last two minutes, and Belding went on from there to win 20-14. Royal Kirby, a regular guard, was lost to the team with a broken leg in the Belding game. St. Johns sent home a thoroughly trounced eleven, 19-0, and Bob Whitesides, another regular, went out with a twisted knee. Ionia then set about to wallop Lake-O, which proved to be a tough nut to crack. The Bulldogs eked out a 7-6 victory. Stanton, usually easy pickings, held the lonians to a 7-7 tie. The gridders drilled hard the next week with Hastings coming up for an- other conference tilt, but Ionia went down to a 19-6 defeat. The last game of the season for the team and its four seniors, Pork Raymor, Whitey Whitesides, Keith Dickerson and Wayne Douglas came up the next week. Ionia bowed out the season to a powerful Greenville team to the score of 14-0. The Bulldogs First row, Funk, mgr. ; second row, Coach Lori, Haas, Keliey, Sullivan, Dickerson, Kenny, Raymor, Fate, Coach Wiles; third row, Echlin, Mellinger, Buxton, Essex, Shattuck, Benedict, LeValley, Spaulding; fourth row, Moore, Perrin, Kitch, Kirby, Thomas, Schwab, Douglas, Whitesides.