Laingsburg High School - Looking Glass Yearbook (Laingsburg, MI)

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We produced the Junior Play “Head First,” under the direction of MR. WESTERHOF; some of us visited “The Hot Puppy” afterwards in Lansing. The lockers were installed in our junior year. We, as juniors, gave the Junior-Senior Prom. It was quite an affair. Our senior pictures had to be taken twice. We tried to pick our class flower and colors as seniors. Our senior pictures finally came. Our senior play “Grandad Steps Out” was given under MR. DOYLE’S supervision. We, as seniors, enjoyed the Prom given us by the juniors. We finally had to leave. Barbara H. at 4 Jean Austin at 4 Wayne at 5 JoAnne at 1%

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Remember When NORMA LEE fell off the slide in kindergarten and broke her collarbone. DOLORES GINTHER collided with TINY HIDDID on the playground. The result was a black eye for DOLORES. BARBARA HURST stood in the corner half of a day in first grade for talking. JEAN POWELL fainted in the fifth grade. (It seems that BARBARA HURST and JEAN ate too many chocolate chips the night before.) BOB KYES, TED ROWLEY and WAYNE BASINGER each had to occupy a corner in the study hall. This left only three corners filled as JEAN AUSTIN reminded the teacher and JEAN was asked to fill the vacant corner. This happened in MISS BENNETT’S 7th grade geography class. ANN HERBLET was finally persuaded to keep quiet by some tape which MISS GIFFELS put across her mouth in first grade. BONNIE SPARKES had her hands slapped by MISS RYDER in kindergarten for biting her pencil. JOANNE WATEROUS found a ruler decending on her ear during seventh grade science class for talking to SAM WRIGHT. RICHARD WERT joined our class in the seventh grade coming from Leslie. BUTCH COOK accompanied by WAYNE BASINGER and BOB KYES skipped school one afternoon in the 10th grade. MR. REED started checking and found the boys sunning themselves on the Cory Bridge. We hear the boys had to stay 9 hours for a week. Crime doesn’t pay! BARBARA WILLARD broke her wrist trying to ice skate down the hill by Alexanders. This happened in the 7th grade. We also hear BARB and ANN HERBLET enjoyed a day away from school in the 11th grade and then found themselves with two days off that they hadn’t bargained for. EDWIN PARKER disturbed the peaceful calm of the school by breaking the window in the big door downstairs. ED was working for the 11th grade dance at the t'me. TED ROWLEY was the hearthrob of all the girls when we were in the 3rd and 4th grades. HANK BAUMGRAS read the joke about “blankets” to the U. S. History class. RITA McGRATH was kept after school by MRS. MERRILL, only RITA didn't stay and then missed science class for three days more. LARR POWERS had the leading part in the “Wildcat Willie” series which were put on in the 6th grade. CAROL SMITH was then CAROL IRWIN. PHYLLIS MILLER stayed one neon hour for talking in a study hall in the 10th grade. JOHN MAHONEY used to always win while playing the eraser game in the 3rd and 4th grades. CLARE GREENE always carried a pack of cards around in the 8th grade. We heard they were used in study hall. SAM WRIGHT used to come to school. MR. DOYLE worked so hard to finish an exam on the ditto machine so we could take it before Thanksgiving vacation. We took a hike to “Pike’s Peak” in the 7th grade. MR. REED took our 8th grade class to see the “Sugar Bush” at Michigan State College. We had a contest with the 10th grade to see who could sell the most magazines; our freshmen class won and the 10th grade gave us a party. We gave a spring dance in our junior year.

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Class Will WE, the superb class of the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty one, possessing some mina and more body, and not acting under the influence of any person, place or thing, being uncertain of life and more so of graduation, do hereby declare this our last will and testament. Whereby, we bestow all our possessions, traits, and other silly notions, worthy, unworthy or otherwise to the following legal heirs. First and foremost, to the faculty we leave our sympathy, knowing how sad they will be when we depart from them. To the juniors we leave our textbooks, notebooks, pencils, and special means of sending notes, so that they may be as intelligent as we have been. To the sophomores we leave two or more years of struggle. To the freshmen we leave 99.9% of our hard-earned education, with the thought that they can supply the other .1%, and maybe someday become dignified seniors as we were. We endow and scatter our personal possessions, belongings, and character- istics to the following underclassmen: I, LAWRENCE COOK, will my intelligence in history class to anyone interested in history. I, LAWRENCE POWERS, will my ability to get along with the girls to JOE COE. I, RICHARD WERT, will my accurate typing to STUART SHUE. I, SAM WRIGHT, will my many girl friends to JERRY FELZKE to dispose of as he sees fit. I, TED ROWLEY, will my bashful ways to DONALD McDONALD. I, HENRY BAUMGRAS, leave my passing grades in bookkeeping to JOHN AUSTIN. I, CLARE GREENE, will my favorite parking place to CARL VEITH. I, WAYNE BASINGER, leave my attendance record to anyone who can get away with it. I, JOHN MAHONEY, will my prompt service as a paper boy to ARTHUR WILLARD. I, EDWIN PARKER, leave hoping never to return again. I, BONNIE SPARKES, leave to join my husband. I, ANN HERBLET, will my honorary seat in bookkeeping to anyone honorable enough to keep it. I, JOANNE WATEROUS, will my place as a trumpet player in the band to HERMAN SCHULTZ. I, RITA McGRATH, will my ability to date four guys on a three night weekend to my sister, ROSE MARIE. I, DOLORES G1NTHER, will CLARE to anyone who wants him after I’m dead and gone. I, BARBARA HURST, will my artist work on the cover of the reflector to 1IM COE. I, PHYLLIS MILLER, will my knack to run the mimeograph machine to TOAN MORGAN. 1 I, JEAN AUSTIN, leave my position as treasurer of the Journalism Class to any- one honest enough to handle the money. I, NORMA LEE DASCHNER, will my vast fortune, accumulated while working at the A. A. Recreation, to the Army if they’ll discharge GEORGE. I, JEAN POWELL, will my position as left forward on the girls’ basketball team to CONNIE FREDRICK. I, CAROL SMITH, will my soft voice to COLEEN VEITH. I, ROBERT KYES, will my capability to attend one school and graduate from another to anyone smart enough to do it. I, BARBARA WILLARD, will my honorable place as cheerleader to MARILYN MAHONEY. In witness of the undersigned we declare this to be our last will and testament. SENIORS OF ’51 BARBARA WILLARD JEAN POWELL