Maple City High School - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Maple City, MI)

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CLASS HISTORY 49-50 This is the year we entered the Maple Cith High School, with the following students: Arlene Fritz, Sharon Cluff, Donna Brow, Frances Schettek, Patsy Sharnowski, Louise Kucera, Cresence Garvin, Proxes Skipski, Raymond Waslawski, Alex Peplinski, Ed- ward Nowak, Bob Zientek, Ronnie Shupiery, Philip Sharnowski, Carroll Sattler and Reynold Brow. Of course, since we were Freshmen, we were considered the zany green horns of the school and after a few days of school our friends the Sophomores wel- comed us with an initiation party. Fortunately, all of us survived. As we were just starting in our high school career we had many things to think about, one being to start a money campaign for a Senior trip. 50- 51 We came back to school in September and found our class had grown to 18 members since Marcella Nemeskal and Patrick Miller joined us. Now it was our turn to have fun so we initiated the Freshmen shortly after school started. 51- 52 School opened in September and as Juniors we found we had lost Proxes Skipski, Patsy Sharnowski, and Marcella Nemeskal. We got things rolling by staging a dance late in September. After this dance we began preparing for the Junior play, ’’The Funny Brats”, in November and it was a huge success. We raffled cakes at all home basketball games this year and when the year ended we had about $230 in our treasury. On May 16 the Junior classes of Isadore, Maple City, and Empire held a Junior-Senior Prom at the Glen Arbor Community Hall. 52-53 We started this year with a Washington or bust slogan and during the second week the class began preparing the annual.

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We all pitched in and put on dances, sold candy and pop, and by Feb. 1, had $700 in our treasury and at present we are planning our trip to Washington. During March we began preparing for our Senior play under the direction of Mr. Rader. This play was presented on April 24. Baccalaureate service were held on May 24 and on Com- mencement Day we graduated from Maple City High School. ACTIVITIES September--The Seniors got the ball rolling by staging a Hard Time Dance in later part of the month. October--The Sophomores put on an initiation party in honor of the Freshmen. In the later part of this month the Seniors put on the Third Annual Harvest Carnival in which all the classes of the schools participated. December--A Christmas Program was presented by the Centerville Township Schools. January--The Senior class held two dances this month on the 17 and 31. They also held a radio raffle this month which was raffled off at the last dance. February--A Lincoln program was presented by the High School. March--The girls and boys attended John Deere Day. The Fresh- man presented their play, Miss Chatterbox very successful! April--The Seniors presented the Senior play Cornin’ Around the Mountain !! The annual Athletic Banquet held in honor of the Basketball teams of MCHS was held on the sixteenth. May--The Seniors had their Senior trip to Washington D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Krull came along as chaparones. Also, the Com- mencement Exercises, Baccalaureate Services were held. The Junior-Senior Prom, sponsored by the Junior classes, was held May 1 at the Maple City Gymnasium.