Ionia High School - Ionian Yearbook (Ionia, MI)

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 exfocxUiost We, the senior class of 1953, dedicate this Ionian to the new addition to our school, the gymnasium. Even though our class graduated too soon to use it, we leave behind us the sincere hope that all classes who follow us may enjoy physical education, basketball games, proms, plays, school parties and many other opportunities which this greatly needed new unit of our school offer.

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First row: Douglas Welch, D. J. Perrone, Carl Rudine—Roger Allen architect, Nels Strand, Wilson Dalzell Second row: Supt. Arthur Rather. lames Hilton, Clyde Spencer, Chandler Haight fcoG ldt l Z ucxUia+t Due to the efforts of the School Board and the Superintendent, Ionia is one of the few school districts in the State which can open its 1953-54 school year with all of its school children housed in modern fire-proof buildings. At the present time the school district is engaged in the construction of a gymnasium which will be ready for use by September 1, 1953. Plans for the present high school were formulated in general outline in the year 1936, and it will continue to be the function of the School Board to try and forecast the future and lay and develop a plan for the housing and education of an ever increasing school population.