L'Anse High School - Envoy Yearbook (L'Anse, MI)

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Charles A.ilson, and Lloyd Seavoy. Near the end of the year we ventured into our first dance, The Hayseed Hop . To boast the ticket sales we had a contest between the boys and girls. The losers iwere obligated to give a dinner for the winners. The jboys received the dinner because of the girls poor salesmanship. We all worked hard on the decorations, and the dance was a success in every way. Once more members of our class joined the Senior Band under the direction of Mr. Jacobs. V e were also .represented In the band by our twirlers, Catherine ((Peltier and Luella Fortier. At the end of our first year our adventure--seekers had nothing in the treasury, but our Sophmore year had changed things quite a bit. We went into our vacation without worry over money matters. We returned well rested from our vacation, ready to start the third stretch of our journey. The first thing Jthat required our attention was the choosing of another 'jet of leaders, who were as follows; Robert Wandell, president; Norman Schroeder, vice-president; Norma Jean Dubuque, secretary; and Jack Zarek, treasurer. The school's football team was again boolstered by someof our prospectors , Cyril Fortier, George Skuggen. Patricia Tollefson and Jeanette St. -John were our rep- resentatives in the cheer-leading section who, with members of other classes kept up school spirit. We were also well represented in basketball and track. Those who participated in basketball were Cyril Fortier, George Skuggen, Elmer Williams and Llovd Seavoy. (The track team had eight of our youn adventurers on it; they were Cyril Fortier, Robert Wandell, Georye Brunette,1 Edward Taipulus, Norman Schroeder, George Skuggen, Lloyd Seavoy and Elmer Williams. Many of our members again joined the Senior Bank. This year the marching band was lead by a majorette from ,our class, Catherine Peltier, Luella Fortier was the Jtwirler from our class. That year Girl's Gleeclub was resumed after a year under the direction of Mrs. Sikorsky. A Boy's Gleeclub and a mixed Gleeclub- were also organized under Mrs. Hill. Members of our group were abundent in all three. However, the main thought on our minds during'this TrlE ”49 u. yg r.jj

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CLASS HISTORY ±81+9-the word was gold. 1949-----the word again, is gold but of a different nature. Our gold is the knowledge of an education well gained. The 49ers of the 19th century didn't find their gold overnight, nor did we; it took four long years. We first took provisions for the long journey a- head in 1945. At the starting date, Sept. 6, 1945, there were 91 prospectors, 74 from L'Anse and 17 from surrounding areas. Early in the journey there was realized a need for leaders and so it was that a meeting was called and our leaders were elected. Lloyd Seavoy, was cho- sen president; Robert Wandell, vice president; George Skuggen, treasurer; Jack Zarek, secretary. In order to break the boredom of the Journey ahead, several of our young adventurers went out for football, basket- ball and track. Others were attracted by the senior band and the newly organized glee club. Thus it was we ended the first stage of our Journey, the Fresh- mem year. In the fall of 1946 we started the second lap of our journey which proved a more adventurous one. Again we chose our leaders. Robert Wandell was elected president; Patricia Tollefson, Vice president George Skuggen, secretary; and Jack Zarek, treasurer. Many of our able bodied men answered Coach Mill- man's call for football. They were George Brunette, Raymond Baril, Charles Ahlson, Cyril Fortier, William Foucault, Lloyd SeavOy, Elmer Williams, Norman Schroe der, and Jack Zarek. Skuggen and Seavoy making the varsity. The morale of the student body was helped, during football, basketball, and track season by two of our classmates, Patricia Tollefson and Lola Drol- son who were among the several cheerleaders. The following gold seekers were a trackted by basketball Cyril Fortier, Robert Wandell, William Foucault, George Brunette, Richard Ward, Norman Schroeder, Jack Zarek,George Skuggen, Elmer Williams, and Lloyd Seavoy Dthers from our group participating in track were, Cyril Fortier, Robert ’Wandell, Elmer Williams, George Brunette, William Foucault, Edward Taipalus, Norman Schroeder, Joe Blood, Jack Zarek, George Skuggen,

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CLASS HISTORY third lap of our journey was the Junior Prom, We knew that was the most important thing we had done up to date. It was early In March that we had a class meeting to decide the name and theme of the prom. After a very lengthly discussion we finally decided to call it the ’Moonlight Gardens . The gym was decorated to a false ceiling in blue and white, and a laree well in the main ' part of our theme. In the well were the favors, brightly- colored hats. Work on making the flowers was mostly done by the girls of the class, while the trellises were made by the oys under the direction of Mr. Hampton. This year the king and queen of the prom were Ruth Leaf and Roy Seppala from the Senior class. They lead the Grand March and were crowned at its climax by Robert Wandell, the Junior class president. The prom was the last social function of our class of£ this, the latter part of our journey, the end of our unior year. When we again assembled for the remaining miles of our long journey the first thing we did was to elect leaders for our last and most difficult task. Which re- sulted as follows: President, Rober Wandell; vice-president' Jack Zarek; secretary, Norma Jean Dubuque; and treasurer, George Skuggen. Some of our bold adventure—seeking pro- spectors went in for sports, they were: George Skuggen, Norman Schroeder, Jack Zarek, George Brunette, and Cyril Fortier. All whom were on the first string of the foot- ball team. We had no cheer-leaders from our class this year. We were well represented on the basketball team however. Cyril Fortier, George Brunette, Edward Taipalus, Joseph Blood, George Skuggen, Elmer Williams, and Lloyd Seavoy. This was to be the year we would always remember. We had our dance, bake sale, play, picnic, skipday, and ,of course, last but not least, Class night and Commence- ment. The fisst thing that needed our attention was the matter of our dance. We, being eager hunters called ‘it the Nimrod Capers . We decorated the gym like a hunt ers paradise. Bear, deer and other stuffed animals along with trets formed the main pattern, music was good and on the whole the dance was a great success. Yes, Novemberl2 was a big day.