Marcellus High School - Wildcats Yearbook (Marcellus, MI)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY FRESHMAN YEAR On September 5, 1944 an enthusiastic group of twenty-three freshmen met to begin their long struggle through four stormy years of high school. There was much shouting and yelling but it was decided we wanted a firm class advisor, as we wanted to start out on the right foot, so Mr. Arnott was elected. Some confused and uproarious minutes later the class officers had been elected: Bob Busch, president: Dorothy Artis, vice-presidentg David Quinn, Treasurer: and Claire Elsey, secretary. The honor of representing the fresh- men in the Student Council was given to Florence Heath and Ed Schten. After being trampled by the Sophomores and exhibited before the whole school, we were officially freshmen. In February, to celebrate the opening of the Ross Theater, we had a class party. After a pot luck dinner at the school we attended the first picture of the new theater. As freshmen we were too busy with our studies to sponsor any high school parties, how- ever, we attended most of the parties that were sponsored by the other classes. We celebrated the end of our freshman year by our annual school picnic at Gravel Lake. SOPHOMORE YEAR Upon returning the next fall as sophomores, Miss Lawhun was chosen as the lucky one to be our class advisor. With a little more order than was demonstrated in our Freshman year, Claire Elsey was elected as president, Jack Harris, vice-presidentg Lois Ann Cree, secretary, and Russell Morlan, treasurer. Again Florence Heath and Ed Schten were the chosen ones to represent our class in the Student Council. We discovered our class had lost four members: Betty Brown, Roger Smith, Vernon Schmidtendorff, Margaret Taylor and gained two new members, Lois Ann Cree, and Iona Farquhar. The first item on the calendar for our Sophomore year was to humble the cocky fresh- men, but we showed a little compassion towards them by giving a combined freshmen and sophomore party on the night of initiation. The next event was the annual Christrnas party, for which we and the Juniors combined forces and matched wits. It was a very nice party with a cotton snow man and a multi-colored ceiling. An experience we all remember is our serving at the Junior-Senior banquet. Wonder- ously there was no soup spilled down anybody's neck. The last event was the annual picnic at Gravel Lake. JUNIOR YEAR We returned to M. H. S. to take up our studies and activities much wiser and worldly as Juniors. At our first class meeting, which was conducted in a most parliamentry manner, Mr. Hungerford was selected as our class advisor. The class officers were: Russell Morlan, president, Iona Farquar, vice-president: Florence Heath, treasurer, and Evelyn Ritter, Sec- retary. Roger Anderson and Dorothy Artis were elected as Student Council representatives. Our class was one member smalle,r than the preceding year. Bob Busch had joined the Armed forces. Our 'first major undertaking of the year was a skating party at the Three Rivers Roller- skating rink, exclusively to Marcellians. Although there were quite a few black and blue

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Senior Class History QContinuedJ marks the next day, everybody had a good time. The next event was the traditional Christmas party, which was given with the helping hand of Miss Mason and her Sophomores. The party was complete with sparkling snow- flakes, Christmas trees, games and a real, honest to goodness Santa Claus. It was a huge success. Soon after we returned from our Christmas vacation, we turned our efforts toward the Junior Play. Under the able direction of Miss Mason, we produced a hilarious comedy, Here Comes Charley on March 21, 1947. When the play was accomplished, the Junior-Senior prom was in the spotlight and all our thoughts were diverted in that direction. After much discussion a banquet was decided against. The Senior were rather indignant about it but we promised them a very lovely prom Our theme was Moonlight and Roses . Many eighth hours were spent in Mr. H's room making paper roses. The false ceiling was blue crepe paper, while the false walls were made of white crepe paper and sprinkled with red, pink and white roses. A grass carpet fell from the stage to the dance floor on which roses were pinned to spell out the words J-HOP. While we danced, our roses were slowly disappearing as souvenirs. We closed our Junior year by having the honor of walking with the Seniors at Baccalaureate. SENIOR YEAR For the last tirne we- began a school year at M. H. S. on September 2, 1947. We again choose Mr. Hungerford as our class advisor. Ed Schten was elected president: Eugene Beadle, vice-president: Evelyn Ritter, secretaryg and Juanita Hagan, treasurer. Nothing need be said of our class order, naturally it was perfection itself. Our class had dwindled from nineteen to fourteen members, since our Junior year. The members gone were: Jeanette Hulme, Florence Heath, Iona Farquhar, David Quinn and Lowell Drake. We had much to accomplish this year and we commenced with our Senior Play and Christrnas cards. We were very busy canvassing the town with Christmas cards and prac- ticing for our play, but we managed, with the help of Miss Elliott, Mr. Jensen, and Mr. Hungerford, to produce Plain Jane on schedule November the twenty-first. It was proven to be a great success. We also sold two hundred and seventy four boxes of Christrnas cards. We did not rest, however, when this was accomplished our next objective was our year- book, that was going to press in March and our bake sale in the month of February. On March tenth we sponsored an ice-cream social to help finance our Senior trip. For our Senior trip we chose a three day excursion to Mackinac Island aboard the S. S. Greater Detroit. On Friday, May 28, we drove to Chicago, where we boarded the ship to begin our three day cruise. The following day we arrived at Mackinac Island and had the afternoon to spend exploring the many points of interest. That night aboard the ship, there was dancing by moonlight, amateur shows, and other forms of entertainrnent. Sunday morning found us back in Chicago with the afternoon off to spend in sight-seeing there. Our Baccalaureate excercises were held Sunday, May 23, 1948, and our diplomas were issued to us Thursday, May 27, at the Hudson Memorial Building. And so ended our happy carefree days of high school, but just beginning, was the ad- ventures of our life ahead.