Jefferson High School - Archives Yearbook (Monroe, MI)

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of the Ford Motor Company are here. Rick Keys, the owner of the town distillery, is gracing the meeting with his presence, and Bill Burrer, the pharmacist, is here. Bewey Horn, the police chief, is here with some of his police force, Doug Whitaker, Harold Ca- vins, and Pat Doran. Finally the mayor, Dale Blair,walks in andthe meeting begins. The first subiect on the docket is whether it is unconstituational to give an invocation at the high school graduation, because some atheists in town felt the matter rather re- volting. This sounds like a rather dull to- pic so we'll leave. The village is small, and very dead. About the only place to go is Pat Buck's, so let's see what's happen- ing there. There is one remarkable thing about Pat's place, and that is the atmosphere. You go down a long flight of stairs to a wine cellar, and the soul is like no other. Glenn Hall's band is blairing loud and live- ly. Some members of his band are Gwen Hall, Everett Poore, Tom Keehn, and Don Reed. Behind the bar, serving ice cream sodas, is Ed Pipis. Over in the corner is the pool table. At it almost constantly is Skip Champagne, the local pool shark. Pre- sently, a game is going on between Skip, Gary DeLormier, Lonnie Sweat, and Ron Braden. Out on the dance floor is Linda Kidwell, John Shanteau, Kathy Kovach, Bob Nietubicz, Rose Mclntire, Rick Terrasi, Mary Spain, and Pat Connolly. ln the back room, Jack Absalom and Rich Andrews have a little bookie ioint where most of the guys meet on Saturday nights. Come on in and look around. The joint is a smoke filled room about eighteen feet by twenty feet. ln one corner is a pair of desks where Celia Beeler and Carol Polhamus work on the books. lt is their duty to keep the books straight and notify the enforcers, Tom Modica, and Bob Okleias, if anyone is delinquent with their payments. ln another corner are three rows of chairs where the men present can watch the race results coming in. Seated in these chairs tonight are Clyde Wenrick, Tom Hol- comb, David Reaume, Dan Vandercook, David Schultz, and John Meyer. Bob and Tom lust brought in iockey, Ed Sharkus, who has been picked up because he failed to throw a race. Oh welll lt was nice knowing you, Ed. lt's getting a little late, so we'll retire for the night. lt is the next morning. We can see Eve- lyn Baker, Marcia Boring, Billie Gedelian Janet Sancrant, and a hundred other wives and mothers hanging out clothes to dry on this bright and sunny day. Most of the girls of the class of '66 decided to take the long step toward the alter, and many such as Jean Boudrie, Laura Dobson, Gloria Hurtt, Kay Jaworski, Sandy Langford, and Rose- mary Larner have left Borruschville to fol- low their husbands to varied parts of the na- tion. There goes the hearse over to mortician McBride's funeral home. Old Dr. Todd Bel- isle has slipped again l'll bet! He and his nurse, Brenda Richardson, have been get- ting mighty careless lately. They'll have to watch themselves. What is this? The fire alarm iust went offl There is a fire over at Karen Tucker's house! How interesting. Firemen George Berry, Larry Blum, Larry Segur, David John- son, Russell Kalis, and Jim Key rush to the scene. ln little or notime the fire is out, but poor Karen's house is ruined. Thought- fully, Brenda Loncar offers to letKaren stay with her in her home above the china shop until her home is rebuilt. Jenny Scheich, the town librarian, is opening the grand old building now. Pretty soon she will be swamped with calls for The Communist Manifesto, Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, Animal Farm, and many other such books for a new fang- led course over at the high school. Over on the village green, Frank Bran- cheau is getting people together for a soc- cer game. Paul Brancheau, Robert Edwards, Ray Fowler, Larry Fuentes, Ernie Goodman, page 105

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Prophecy...Borruschville, USA... If we could somehow look into the fu- ture and see the lives of the members of the class of l966, I wonder if we would recog- nize them, or even want to. Some of the class would be busy and on the go, while others would stay at home with nothing more intellectual to do than watch television soap operas. Some would retain their youthful ap- pearance, while others would look worn and haggard. Let us delve for a moment in the supernatural and add twenty years to the lives of our classmates. The majority of us would have a family, and maybe even two or three families for a few of us. lt could be that a few of us would even become fa- mous. Let's see. The year is l986, we are now entering fne village of Borruschville. Founded in 1830 by an old German family, the town has noble heritage. The last remaining direct descendantof the town father, Ray Borrusch, lives in the big house overlooking the vil- lage with his new bride, the former Erika Rabe. ln the typical midwest fashion, this is a farm district. Larry Prucka, one of our wealthier gentleman farmers, is iust coming into town with his lovely wife, Sharon, to pick up some more computer paper for his completely mechanized farm. Up the street is the town's only inn. lt's run by Pat Buck, who also owns the pub next door. Further on is the local alchohol station operated by Tom and Brenda Peter- son. The automobiles stopped burning gas after a sudden oil shortage a few years back. Turn right at the next cross street, and you will see the newly erectedJames Fisch- er High School. Jim was a hero during the police action in Viet Nam about 18 years back. Let's go in and look around. As we walk down the halls we see that many of the page 104 teachers are from the class of i966 at Jef- ferson High School. Linda Swanson teaches math, Ruth Parish, art, Margo Parmenter, French, Frenchie Rouse, English, Karyn Forbes, physical education, Marsha Hutch- ison, shorthand, Kaye Chinavare, music, Mike Duvall, industrial arts, Bosko Kneze- vich is the football coach, Gary Frankhouse, basketball, and Terry Telfer coaches track and teaches American History. Don Rushlow teaches auto mechanics, Debbie Rieger, typ- ing, Elizabeth Roberts, homemaking, and Ginger Towne, iournalism. We'll leave the high school now and continue on our way. Back on Main Street, we can see Gary Betway's home. He's the preacher of the town and right now his wife, the former Lana Perkins, is out on her daily rounds visiting the sick of her husband's congregation. She is chatting with Sister Mary-Terri Lambert from the convent lust outside town. Marcie Rousselo, the local dressmuker, is on her way over to Joan Paul's beauty shop to have her hair done for the fashion show in the city tomorrow. Coming down the street with her little band of Camp Fire Girls is Pat Reicha, the local Camp Fire Girls' field di- rector. Whizzing through the street is John Wiegand in his TV repair truck. He went in- to business with Ron Gonia a little while back. It's later now and the town meeting is about to begin. We'll go in and listen for awhile. The citizens are starting to file in now. There is Tanya Marshall, the interior decorator, June Robinson, our local lawyer, and Ron Myers, the president of the bank with some of his clerks Diania Compton, Carolyn Morgan, and Linda Greenlee. .lack Foster owns the speed shop at the end of town that is the hot-rod mecca for the teens of Borruschville. Jack Cliffor, Terry Foun- tain, Tim Mental, Larry Kiefer, all workers

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ond Tom Gross are on Frank's team. Today they will play Jim McDevitt's team compris- ed of Mike McLaughlin, Mike Meinhardt, Dave Reglin, Tom Spain, Jim Woods and Tom Harmer. We'll watch for awhile and then be on our way. Some of the members of the class of 1966 have left Borruschville to persue their own talents. Most of these people are doing quite well with themselves. Ray Avendt has become a famous comedian. Paula Creason, Joann Nadeau, and Becky Peters have be- come Playboy bunnies. Dave Gilleon is now an airlines pilot, Bob Trombley, an archi- tect, Larry Tyniw, a member of a large ad- vertising firm, Wanda Owsley and Sue Rey- nolds, missionaries, Tim Lockwood, a fa- mous newspaper mang Joy-el Peer, a woman race car driver, Pat Keya private secretary, Bonnie St. Bernard, a fashion desi gner, and Judi Gustafson, a member of the C.l.A. Shadows of days gone by... The years transpose the fresh innocence of ayoungster to the present stage of our lives, young, maturing adults. Yet lingering in the memories of childhood pictures are the .. , stages of our life which will never be forgot- ten. A true hair color, first set of teeth, the smile, a black eye, and a gawky walk has left us but not without a trace. s-1,. ,mit We ' ,,L, z .. ..., ..,, ft' plugs: J A s 22- r t - we ' yegin gg ag WQNMM iQ .,:,- L- I ,- N fl T ,4g, ,, .., , T J. McDevitt R. Braden 'l' Gustafson E' Baker stew . Q, 'll ll lilifil .. . , ,,,. , ., - ' 4 -.y llls-V ,f -i ' it W ig, . ., W ,.. 'V' 'gif' ., SV - Li 5 ' 's T r H ,,.r 1 ff' Ybwgbiw Q r' jqg,W Wyi ,raw .5 ifjfmwt wwkgg . ,,., r ,. , s .. , , Y .,. ... r Q f 'E ...rv in iv ..f:'f i ifiifiii, Qif b ,,. r rf lVg,, ' r R. Okleias M. Hutchinson C. Morgan page I 06