Manistee High School - Manichigan Yearbook (Manistee, MI)

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DETACHED, ALONE, WITH ONLY A STAR Look up into the heavens! See it up there? No, not that one, over a bit, to the left of the Dipper. Now you see it. See it glimmering and shining? See it casting its glow on this old school? Well young fellow, its saying goodbye. That's what it's doing. It's saying goodbye forever. I've watched that little star for a heap of years now. Yes sir, live seen a mite of stars break loose from their moorings but this one was my favorite. Guess because it was just a noisy determined little thing. It got a bad start, it did . . . broke off from another generation star amidst the chaos and confusion of a wartorn world that flung the little thing to the very edge of the heavens. I watched it hesitate and then slowly begin its way upward. ' Don't think that first year wasn't hard for the little star 'cause it was. I know, I've watched it fall back, time and again, weighed down with too much responsibility for its size. Yet it kept on its course . . . upward. I've watched it travel through the flak-torn skies of this mad world where no untouched things should be allowed, it passed those craters and upward it climbed. The little star moved steadily the next year, young fellow, hardened by the sights of war, maybe, but it traveled. It had found its place among the other stars and was a part of their sphere now. It added its light to that of the other stars and their countenance made the heavens bright with whiteness. I kinda lost track of my little star the next year 'cause it had climbed so far. ,26

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Theodore Kamaloski Business September Twenty-ninth Libra xayx, For mile: afar. You can hear Ted in his mighty car. Tumbling 1, 2, 3 Football 3 Audrey Green General August Third Q In all our school none ir seen, Whose wit compares with Audrey Green. G. A. A. 1, 2, 3,4 Annual 4 Chorus 3, 4 J-Hop 3 Roy Wicinski Industrial Arts December Sixteenth Sagittarius says, 'The only boy, Whose alwayr carefree-is our Roy. Football 4 Golf 3, 4 Class Football 3, 4 ul' i' ir G I's Earl Anderson Business August Twenty-sixth He is one, the oil does hum, Hu only motive ix to learn. Standing: Picardat, Biers, Berenrsen, Ziegenhagen, Lewis, Mr. Bendle. Seated: Pierson, Kotecki, Anderson, Mathewson. 1 'A' 'k 'k 25

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AND WINTER'S SILENCE BREATHING It almost was to the throne of the heavens and it was a sight to behold. Yes, yes, my little star was a beauty, so young and so confident of its mastery of the sky. It moved slowly and steadily now toward its goal, no longer cautious, for the throne was in sight. I longed to say, 'linger a while, little one, savor the sweetness of your victory, but I did not, for time pushed the little star along, young fella, as it did you . . . to my doors. And so my little star reached the throne of the heavens. It ruled the skies from its position . . . so high up there. W Now, you see it, youngster, you are another star just beginning your journey. My little star has finished. It rules . . . but time is ever pushing on and putting a younger star in its place. Understand? Yes, my star has finished its existence in this sphere. It begins anew in another one. See it, proud little thing that it is, grasping so tightly to its scepter. Kinda make you feel bad now, don't it? But that's life, I reckon. My little star is growing dimmer now. lt's spending its glory to bid me farewell. Look away! Frosh. Are you to see a dying prince of the heavens? I see it falling now, my little falling star. It's leaving a path of star-dust in it's wake but that will fade. It's spinning now, growing dimmer and fainter. There! It's gone! Fallen from its throne and majesty, it has fallen. I have lost it. Goodbye my little star, goodbye. - JACKY ANDERSON 27