Lowrey High School - Futorian Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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Jonet Twork College Prep Booster Club. French Club. Senior Play William Usher General Commercial Irene Villalba Commercial All School Play. Hall Monitor Geraldine Waldcckcr General Commercial Chorus. G.A.C., Hall Monitor Gertrude Word General Hmkg Chorus. Hall Monitor. Library Staff Dclanc Way College Prep Holl Monitor Marilyn White College Prep Chorus, French Club Robert White College Prep Projection Club. Varsity Club Secretory, Swimming. Baseball Anne Wicklund College Prep Booster Club, Futorian Staff. Future Nurses Club. G.A.C.. Hall Monitor. Hostess Club. Lowrey Light Staff. Senior Ploy Corl Williams College Prep French Club. Holl Monitor Donald Winkleman Industrial NOT PICTURED Russel Forr Roger Hale ★ ★ ★ ★ SENIOR CLASS Looking back upon the day when we entered Lowrey, we remember ourselves as a group of expectant students embarking on a new and exciting adventure. We came from rural schools, and for the first time we were seeing what a modern school with complete facilities for education and recreation offered us. Knowing few people we were fearful, and we were worried about making new friends. Of course, we suffered the usual hazing by upperclassmen, and there were embarrassing mishaps our first weeks of school. Soon we settled down and enjoyed the routine of high school life. In our freshman and sophomore years we prepared ourselves to assume our role of upper- classmen in educational and athletic activities. During these years the class presented two dances. In October, 1948, we gave our first high school dance, the Autumn Nocturne.” Our sophomore year found the class presenting the First Sadie Hawkins Day Dance.” Frizes were awarded for the best Daisy Mae and Li'l Abner. A precedent was set by the girls, who invited their partners.

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Josephine Pikulo ' Commercial Chorus. Hall Monitor Richard Pilon Industrial Hall Monitor Robert Raymond General Industrial Chorus. Holl Monitor. Projection Club Janet Rechlin Commercial Booster Club. G A C., Holl Monitor Beatrice Reid Library Staff Marcello Remisoski GAC. Joyce Rogers Holl Monitor General General Commercial Daniel Ropek College Prep Hall Monitor. Projection Club. Varsity Club President. Football. Baseball, Basketball. Trock Barbora Royse College Prep Chorus. Lowrey Light Staff Ronold Rykwolder Industrial Hi-Y Joan Sangregoria General Library Staff Marilyn Sonto General Hall Monitor Gerald Schaffer Industrial Holl Monitor. Varsity Club. Hi-Y Secretory. Hi-Y Vice-President. Tennis Jock Schweitser College Prep Chorus. Junior Class President. Sophomore Class Vice-President. Hall Monitor. Lowrey Light Staff. Senior Ploy. Varsity Club. Hi-Y. Football. Boscball. Swimming Joan Show Commercial G A C.. Holl Monitor Joseph Show College Prep Holl Monitor. Varsity Club. Football Ann Shoup Booster Club, Chorus. G.A.C.. Dorwin Snyder Boseball. Football Myrilless Souler Holl Monitor. Swimming Club Donald Sprodlin Chorus Commercial Library Staff Commercial General Industrial Warren Spurlin College Prep Hall Monitor. Inter School Student Council. Lowrey Light Staff. Student Council. Var- sity Club. Hi-Y. Sophomore Class President. Football. Boseball Lois Stevenson College Prep Booster Club. French Club Secretary. Futor- ian Staff, Future Nurses Club. Hall Monitor, Swimming Club Jean Stoop General All School Play. Chorus. Lowrey Light Staff. Senior Ploy. Swimming Club Coroline Strobel College Prep Booster Club. Chorus. French Club. Futorion Staff. GAC.. Holl Monitor. Hostess Club. Lowrey Light Staff. Student Council Treas- urer Senior Year James Temple College Prep Hall Monitor. Varsity Club. Hi-Y. Senior Class Representative. Swimming. Football Koy Thomas Commercial Futorion Staff. Holl Monitor. Library Staff Elinor Trovis College Prep All School Ploy. Booster Club. French Club. Futorion Staff. G.A.C.. Hostess Club, Inter School Student Council. Senior Play. Student Council. Swimming Club. Cheerleader Cap- toin Shirley Turney General Commercial Futorion Staff. Future Nurses Club. Hall Monitor. Library Staff. Swimming Club

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It was unfortunate that this traditional dance has not been continued, for this was the first and last of its kind. During the sophomore year, the boys began making names for themselves in sports; many of them earned their varsity letters. We became juniors with thoughts of our senior year and graduation. The officers devised ways and means of making money. Besides presenting the usual dances, the class decided to take con- cessions at the baseball games. Our first dance of the junior year was the home-coming dance, The Snowball, at which Juanita Merriman and Donn Hamas, of the class of 1951, were crowned king and queen. It had a big turnout, and everyone enjoyed himself. The class voted to change the J-Hop date to February 10, and made plans to center it around Valentine’s Day. On May 4, the class sponsored a record dance. Square dancing was featured with a professional caller. May 27, a dismal rainy Sunday, was a day to be remembered. The class held its first picnic at Plymouth Park. Eating, playing baseball, volleyball, and tennis, and even wading in the nearby creek was part of this event. The day after the picnic the election of senior officers was held. We entered the senior year. The Witches Whirl,” held in October started the year’s senior activities. Many seniors elected Annual Staff and started the 1952 Futorian for printing in April. The Lowrey Light Staff became inspired to the extent that the paper was doubled in size and contents. With the graduation of the January class, we began to realize that June was not far off. Gradu- ation pictures were taken, and the class members purchased their graduation invitations. Plans for the Senior Prom and Senior Week were being made. On April 18, The Sock Hop” was presented. Soon the hustle and bustle of graduation was truly upon us. We were measured for our caps and gowns, and we began trading name cards and pic- tures with our classmates. The last weeks of school were approaching, and we were eagerly awaiting our week of class activities. During this week swimming parties, weiner roasts, and a boat trip were held. Senior Day was especially fun, and the seniors turned out for it. Senior Week was climaxed with the Senior Prom on June 6. The Crystal Ballroom of the Fort Shelby Hotel was the perfect setting for the last formal social event before graduation. Frank Netting’s Orchestra was chosen for this occasion. These last few weeks had been the perfect climax to four happy years spent in study and play together. We were leaving Lowrey for the last time. The night of graduation arrived, and we walked solemnly down the aisle to the strains of the music—Pomp and Circumstance. Some of us will further our education, others have already obtained work, some have plans of marriage, and many of the fellows have already had their futures planned for them in the service of our country. We have enjoyed our four years at Lowrey; we leave reluctantly. We look to the future and hope that we will do our parts to fulfill our roles of making this world of ours a better place in which to live. HISTORY