Manlius High School - Mirror Devil Yearbook (Manlius, IL)

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THE WILL SENIOR CLASS HISTORY I 953-I 957 In 1953, 37 green freshmen opened the doors of Manlius High to begin their first of four wonderful years. Officers were: Larry Lubbs--Pres., Norman Berry--V.P.g Chuck Peterson--Sec.g Anita Raabe--Treas.g Mr. Gleick--Ad- visor. Initiation on the school lawn wasn't as bad as we had anticipated. Various stunts were performed with the boys dressed in grass skirts and the girls in housecoats and aprons on backwards. During the year we lost six of our members: larry Hughes, Lawrence Dabler, Bob Vickers, Joanne Smith, Sally Hurley and Jim Ferguson. Our sophomore year the officers were: Ronald Christensen--Pres.: Larry Lubbs -V.P.: Anita Raabe--Sec., Chuck Peterson--Treas.g Mr. Bushell--Advisor. Our dance, April Fool's Fling, and a chili dinner proved successful. Francis Schaefer, Clarence Frank, Joe Lowder, Frances Foy, Bill Ghys, and Larry Rowland left us during our junior year and we gained Karen Peterson. The officers were: Janice Johnson--Pres.g Norman Berry-V.P.: Larry Lubbs- Sec.g Glenda Rogers--Treas.g Miss Schmidt and Mrs. Block--Advisors. Activities included a dance and turkey raffle on December 16, two chili dinners and our play, The Hasty Heart, directed by Mr. Cliff: our Jr.-Sr. Prom, May 19, lasted all night. Kraft Food Co. furnished our smorgasbord after the dance, we were hosts at the Walnut Theater, and the firemen of Manlius and New Bedford gave us a breakfast. Our theme was South of the Border and the gym was decorated in brilliant colors. This year, 33 members--11 girls and 22 boys, walked into Manlius High for their last year. Officers were: Janice Johnson--Pres.: Norman Berry--V.P.: Anita Raabe--Sec.: Larry Lubbs--Treas. Advisors--Miss Schmidt and Mr. Holman. During the year we lost Barbara Hurst and Jim Miller, but we gained Cephas Bryan, only to lose him the second semester to the Service. Our home-coming dance, October 12, followed the LaMoi1le-Manlius game. We raffled off an autographed football. We had two barbeque dinners, a record dance, hobo day, bake sale, coatcheck room at the New Bedford basketball games, a concession stand at the home football games and other projects. Our play, Down to Earth, was under the able direction of Mr. Milbum. Our final activity as a class was our long awaited Senior Trip. We, the Senior Class of 1957, being of sound mind and body do hereby declare this to be our last solemn will and testament. Norm--my summer paint brush to Butch so that he may pursue further his artistic career. Curt--my Schmidt Sales and Service shirt to Ronnie. Chris--a bar of candy to Art so that he may get astart in a business venture such as I had this year. Marie--my soft, feminine voice to Ann. ac --one frozen chicken to Jim so that it will save e trip to Ladd. --my TV antenna to Larry so that he may pull in 110 stations as J did. Ike--my auto to Jerry in the hope that he will find the time to finish customizing it. Eric--my ability for getting out of work to my sister, Ann. Charlotte--my nickname Gooper to Jean Neahring. Fran--my set of bar bells to lane. Blanche--my ability to get along with Mrs. Block to Carol. Ronnie H.--my ability to say shicken to Art. Charlie--my touch on and off the basketball floor to Alan. Chunt--my front seat at the basketball games to Kar- en. ' 15 Cliff--my cherubic characteristics to Jerry. Don--a propeller to Sonny so that he might attain a faster take off and be able to keep up with me. Janice- -the nickname of Husky to Mary. Larry--my Old Grey Ghost which carried me through the football season to Marvin. Dorothy--my curly black hair to Connie. John--my slim trim hips to Jean Neahring. Ken--my easy going nature to Carolyn. Chuck--my nickname of bonehead obtained from Coach Bushell to Squeek. Karen--my skating ability to Donna. Anita--my good grades and no boys UQ to Nyla. Glenda--my ability to drive to Manlius in 8 minutes to Jeanne. LaVem--my ability to acquire demerits to Jim. Ron S.--my trapping ability to Rachel. Dean and Duane--our ability to get along with each other to Glenn and Wayne. Barb--my cautiousness to Sharon. Med--my noble position of being alphabetically last in the class to Bonnie. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the above named parties have hereunto set their hand and seal in the presence of Lola Schmidt and Delbert Holman. Written by Medley Tornow and Jack Dabler.

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PRCPH ECY Often arises the question, What's behind the green door? Maybe we'll ind the answer somewhere in Manlius. And how lucky! We have just received an unexpected invitation from our old class- mate, Chris, to attend the opening of his new nightclub, Chris' Superbo Magnificie Ball Room. The nightclub's speediest chauffeur, Don, wasted no time zipping us to the ball room in his Jet-A- Way-Space-Mobile, invented by Curt, who also is famous for his Boyce Buggy which can be used in the water, in air, on land, or as a tractor, He says it will soon be the only type vehicle used in the world. Oh, oh, we find we must enter through an orange door! What a catty color! Dig the crazy door man--that's Deang leave it to him to wear those jazzy striped trousers. Before we enter the orange door, let's go in and talk to Dot and Glenda at their Dunk-it Shop. We find that they are both happily married. Look at those crazy sugar bowls--why, they're little red wagons. That must be Glenda's idea. Now let's go through the orange door. Who's that over thererby that palm tree? That's Norm! I guess some twigs from his forest ranger job got caught in his hat. Who is that be- side him! Why, it's that notorious Casinova, LaVern, the sailor with two girls in every port. And there is a strangely dressed fellow painting a picture of this mob. It's that world famous artist, Bill. And looking around we see several sports characters tonight. There is Chuck Hewitt, famous forhis coaching of the New York Yankees. Marie Cox is here and she is coach of the first woman's Olym- pic basketball team. Seated next to his wife, Donna, is Chuck Peterson, the farmer who revolution- ized agriculture by raising crops through six inches of snow. What's the rumble in the background! It's Cliff, experienced tobacco auctioneer and he is talking his usual mile a minute to Ron Sand- rock, a fur merchant. Well, the floor show is about ready to startg the orchestra is the Heart Beats led by Ron Henson and featuring Charles Hunt on drums fan ability acquired through drum- ming in classes at MHSJ Star of the show is Med--he is giving one of his great, dramatic love scenes. He has gained quite a reputation as being the second Rudolph Valentino. We see by the program that the choreography was done by Cephas, famous for his Califomia Bounce. The cos- tumes were all designed by the famous pace setter of fashions, Barb. As a special treat tonight we have Janice Johnson, singing her new, smash hit of So That's What's Behind the Green Door. Next on the program is Duane and his red and black trained bunnies. Looking around at the tables we find Karen and Jerry talking to Barb and John. They are discussing their families. Seated next to them is Fran Randall who was voted Homemaker of the Year. Why, there is the President of Cor- nell University and famed orator, Larry. He's talking to Nite, representative of Illinoisg Ihear she's trying to get the state of Illinois' name changed to She ffield. At the next table we see Eric, the rising young state's attorney from Florida. Ken, millionaire super market owner has stores in forty-eight states, Hawaii, and Alaska, we hear from Blanche, the head waitress. Blanche, in this job, picks up many juicy bits for Charlotte's gossip column. Charlotte is known for writing news be- fore it happens. To end a perfect evening, we visit the kitchen where world-famous chef, Jack, is preparing his grilled leg of lamb, the recipe for which he has been offered millions. As we leave in our customized car, another production of Stan, we still have not found out what is behind the Green Door but we do have renewed memories of our four wonderful years at good old MHS. 14

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'L Ascending, left to right: Mrs. Block, Jim Rashid Nyla Nelson Sharon Plumley, Mrs. Yates, Jane Glafka On August 27, 1956, we, a group of twenty eight boys and g1r1s entered Manlrus Hrgh filled with anticipation for our coming year as jolly juniors. We elected the following officers James Rashid. ........ President Nyla Nelson. . . . .... V. Pres. Sharon Plumley. ...... Secretary Jane Glafka. .... . . .Treasurer Mrs. Block. . . . .... Advisor Mrs. Yates. ........... Advisor During the year we lost Letha Carrington who moved to Galesburg and Joe Nerdzrela who enlisted rn the Navy In October we received our class rings which we dunk are very beautiful This year we enjoyed many activities Among these were record dances a ch111 drnner a magazine campaign picking up com, class play, and we had charge of the pop and rn11k drstrrbutron Our most enjoyable project was the Ir Sr Prom We worked very hard to make the prom a memorable event A good number of the students took part rn music sports dramatrcs and the school organrzatrons Written By Carolyn Vols I 7' X ff 16