Laurel School - Leaves Yearbook (Shaker Heights, OH)

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Susan Alexander Sue 1955 In some ways Sue belongs to the temperamental artist group. She has an ability in, and a feeling for the visual arts -- which may be something new to a few who don't know her well. She attacks her aesthetic endeavors with careless ease, but always manages to produce something with an air of pre- cision about it. Aside from this talent, Sue doesn't fit neatly in- to any labeled cubbyhole. Her opinions are her own and she would defend them to the death. She is fond of argumentation - as a way to record these opinions - and she's never been known to submit to onerous necessity without a well-chosen growl. For instance, Why do seniors have to take basket- ball? Why won't dancing do just as well? 0r better? I just don't see . . . Quite right, Sue. The world needs to be told. Beauty and the beast. A

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Judith Margaret Akers Judy 1953 With a golden tan carefully obtained at the family swimming pool, and a boy's ring around her neck, Judy of Akron returns to the dorm every fall. Immediately, she sets to work achieving good grades, simultaneously managing to write daily letters to the owner of the aforesaid ring. Many dormites wonder when they walk into her room, how Judy ever finishes her school work and is able to find all the tax stamps she's forever collecting from the members of our class. Her extraordinary room seems to contain everything she could possibly need during the school year but never in its proper place. Yet she finds what she desires and is always willing to lend almost anything. Her FRUIT-OF-THE MONTH club package is invariably emptied one hour after its arrival. Judy's quiet, unassuming man- ner wins her many friends, for she's quick to praise but slow to rebuke. In school life, she's chairman of the Library Committee and takes a real interest in many student activities. Often she can be seen with either a male or female partner, batting tennis balls firmly and skillfully across Laurel courts. Judy will probably be most remembered for her frequent blushes. But her accomplishments have been a great asset to Laurel and will certainly gain success for Judy in college. Actually, I hate stuffed animals. P Q .L- 'X

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Gail Elizabeth Bender 1955 Gail will be remembered at Laurel for many things. In the dorm, girls will remember sitting in her room eating delicious brownies, baked in the Bender kitchen by their maid Laura, while watching slim Gail try on her beautiful new clothes. She is almost always with her other half, Barbie Phillips. Every spring vacation, for example, these two bask in the Florida sun and water-ski on the ocean. Gail is definitely the outdoor type, for she comes from a baseball loving family. Her twenty-two year old brother Bob plays for a Pittsburgh Pirates' farm team. But she has many indoor interests also. Danc- ing-from modern as a dance club member to jitterbugging-appeals to her. Gail likes all kinds of music and has been taking piano lessons for ten years. While at home in Peninsula, Ohio, she adds to her foreign' doll collection and during summers she takes part in the Peninsula Players' productions. The Benders spend part of each summer on their Lake Erie island, where it has been rumored that Gail shoots snakes for a pastime. Gail is thinking seriously about going into ele- mentary education, for she has an affectionate inter- est in children. Nevertheless, she certainly has the normal Laurel interest in males and is planning to settle down with her right one before she's thirty, at least. That colchicine really did the trick.