Mattawan High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mattawan, MI)

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CUSS HISTORY In 1935 s group of 26 little green Freshnen came falteringly into the assembly room which contained the four High School grades of about 35 students. Mr. Everett, the Principal, onesided over the High School. Our present Superinterdant, ,.r. Cottir was serving hi3 first year in ttavra n. Other Instructors during that year vere dr. 'or Voorhces, coach; Miss Newland, English and Commercial. Mr. uour las who had de a to and some Junior Rich subicct3. and ill3s Thorne, who was the Home The students in our freshmen yocr Adele Hi ley Lorraine. Schutz Magadan Hunt Joyce dlankshine Gcneviev Wheeler Helen Files Susan Srcg.att Mary-Lou' Rix Dorothy Myers lob ole deattic dotty 1C I hie Lorc-thy Do Vrou Julian Van Aukcn 111,,;i Economics teachjr. wefre: 1'Inrtin Pi3Ck Marvin Dents Gone banning George Hubor.rd Lloyd Maxwell John Pobuda Louie Jirikovlc '.7a 1 tor Sp inch Donald iiakor John Amoy Kenneth Sr.mens Raymond Sowles Herbert Jefferies f' .Aim.ji .... . iiMlUW I,

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..., m ... . ..... ' i.; l V ••• ' 1 ' PR©'Ffi£C¥ -there in the upper corner, look? i'ho girl ..no rose to l.-md Criminology is tae nejon, Inc mil— Oxcgci id tie name « rhis picture here reminds me 'r t day I visitea u convent iLun . Pipe..r Wed i. sister, m-.ny ye...r3 tiicrc has she. spent, « y goodness 1 'n.en 1 o Betty Pierce To stardom ehc i.as risen, Gerald V»agor is her co-st r Ted Staert, the he id of c Prision. 'Jo can't forget T ilmn dhcolcr dhc wa3 English born. Then thcro is Edna Overacker, She is still tootin her horn. Swell picture of Gertrude Ewing 3hc's far across the sees,' .idolc Eigloy is with her now. She 'sings with greatest cn3c. Helen Becker is a 'teacher Of tenth grade Lit. ro.ture Lchoy luicheal is n.v .1 officer And tacy .uina him, to oo sure. And here's our big physician Eunsil 0idding3 on hi3 c-.rd. Philip Banner for secretary To got there, they worked hard. And -Louie Jirikovic is our 3en-ator 1 or the State of luichigun. Helen Liles i3 his secretary They arc both rcpuo ican. fit.re we see in Pronch quarter Jwj.ee Bian..ahinu in all hex ..nd right beside her, a court reporter, Genevieve ’ ncelor, is her n.aao. Axxd here'w those seerst rics, T.i y did tile oiiicc work ..t school. mm xl.inoehl .aid U rqueritc Soott, Tney never broke the rule. Goodness listen how many h..vc been married. There's a-i’y Pi pour ana Ernn V ood, Donald Phelps and Eugnne nusk. Did you ever think they would? Among them tnore are m ny more, Marine Phelps and E. Ver Uelen Of course there's 'Walter apeica He is ii..mous with his pen. hut now it's time to close my book Come back from memr'y kune Put aside my tnoughts and te rs nut I'll come back again. i WUa.Hl... ■' Miii.HMUlillnilllMlItMHltU.iilli 1.1 .in i-.i'i M

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 John Pobuda was clcs- president and hiss Kswland acted as advisor. Wc were cnterta-ined and initiated by the Sophomores at a Soy-'homore Freshman party. Later in the year we snonsored a skating party. Throughout the year we heard many rumors and occasion''.lly saw some plans of the now school building which was to be erected for us the following year. Our freshman days ended by an all-school picnic rt Eagle Lake. In 1936 we entered the new • school building with 22 new students, which made 0 total of I(.0- students in the class. The new students were: ’Mini f red Burs on Ma r o ret HcCyui re Erne . ood Thelma Sieglo Edna Overacker Orohia Piffer Mary Pipesr Albert Allman lensil.Giddiny s Dcnal d Phelps Leo .aterfield Wayno Otto 'Jilllam Estoy •'ilford Lilno Wilma ’..'heeler Betty Pierce Jean Walton Opal Mae Burns Donna Stratton Catherine Burmcster Delbort Buck Emma Plpoar Some of our freshmen who did not come back as Sophomoros were: Susan Sackett, Dorothy Dc Vrou, onsld Baker, Martin Pisck, Julian Van Aukon. In our Sophomore year we sponsored two skating parties Marian Hunt wi3 elected President of our class. Our advisor wa.s Hiss Friday. The new members of the faculty were: Miss Friday, Socn .1 Science; Hiss 7 orkraan, Mathematics and Science; Miss Schmidt, Home Economics ; Mr. Lorstweitz, music. During the year Mr. Foil substituted six weeks for Miss ..ekkmen. The rest of our teachers were as tho yea r before, Mr. Cotter, Mr. van Voorhees, Miss Howland, and Hr. Ev rtt. '..hen wo came back as Juniors, we found that, contrary to the usual decreasing of numbers, we had fined, for we now numbered 52. Our new students were 15 in numoor. LeRoy'Hicheal Helen Becker Robe rt Bradford LeRoy Dyer Eugene Busk James Davis Gertrude Ewing Ora Edwards Richt rd G nccr Arnold Dyer EdithMa-e Fors the Erma Rcinoehl Merquorlte Scott Evelyn Vcrmuolen Gerald Wager The students in our Sophomore year who did not return as Juniors were: Lorraine Schutz, Betty Kimball, Margaret McQuire, Orphia Piffer, Lee .atorfiold.