Lakeview High School - La Chatte Yearbook (Lakeview, MI)

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F oreword Table Of Contents To preserve the important and every- Dedication 2 day occurences of ou r school life, we the annual staff have compiled this book, the Recognition 3 La Chatte of 1963. So as we go on in our life we now pause, look through these pages Adminstration 5 and recall the friendships, and activities of our high school life from opening day Junior High 17 anxiety as Freshmen to commencement as mighty Seniors. Sports 29 We hope the annual will keep this year ' s memories vivid, ready to be regained at a Underclassmen 37 flick of the pages . Activies 59 Seniors 85 4

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25 Years Of Progress Going back to 1937 when Mr. Kos came to Lake view as principal, he became superintendent the following year, we find that many changes have taken place in the intervening years. The physical plant then consisted of the original building,built in 1916- ' 17, the addition of 1936, which included seven classrooms, tire superintendent ' s office, a shop--now remodeled into a food preparation area, and a boys ' locker room. The first building under Mr. Kos was the four stall bus garage--which is now utilized by the commercial department. As the bus system grew, a need was seen for more housing area, consequently in 1948 a twenty stall bus garage was built. Part of this building, however, was used for classroom space. The agricultural department has been there from the date of completion and the area has also been used by the music department and has housed grade rooms. Following this, considerable study was undertaken on our building needs and this materialized into the building of three classrooms and science and homemaking facili¬ ties in 1954- ' 55 and the addition of a gymnasium-auditorium, locker rooms, and music rooms in 1955- ' 56. Also in this same year, a seven classroom elementary building was constructed. This had two rooms added in 1956- ' 57 and four added in 1959- ' 60. A sinking fund over the past two years has provided enough money so that two more rooms could be added to this structure. A new maintenance garage for the busses, remodeling of existing area for shop, cafeteria, com¬ mercial rooms, library, and science was also comple ted in 1959- ' 60. The total r ’ V ° S worth of the physical plant is presently valued at over one and one half million, plus equipment, which is considerably more than the assessed value of the district in 1937- ' 38 of $754, 750. The assessed valuation now is 16. 6 million. The student body in 1937- ' 38 num¬ bered 332 students and, of course, all had to find their own way to school. This grew to 895 in 1951- ' 52 and to 1385 in 1962- ' 63. The faculty also grew from 15 in 1937- ' 38 to 32 in 1951- ' 52 and to 49 at the present time. Other than Mr. Kos, Mr. Ferris is the only teacher remaining from 1937- ' 38. The bus system was inaugurated in the fall of 1938 with four busses travel¬ ing 44 thousand miles and carrying 192 pupils. This has grown to a system of eighteen, traveling 175 thousand miles and transporting over 1, 000 pupils. Another significant development over these years has been consolidation with surrounding school districts. Some thirty have joined which gives the dis¬ trict reasonably even boundary lines. The Six Lakes, Maple Valley, and Fout districts are the only areas not consolidated which are now a part of our service area. One can see the tremendous growth that has taken place over these years and can appreciate the foresight, planning, and hard work done by Mr. Kos in making our system one that we all can be proud. As members of the annual staff we are pleased that we can, for the com¬ munity, recognize Mr. Kos for his excellent leadership over the past twenty-five years. 3

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Administration