Maumee Valley Country Day High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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INUICATIVE Most Embarrassing Memory Caught crying in closet. . . Holy, Holy, Holy Three man date ........ Falling down Rivoli stairs Rising at graduation with Happiest Hours Friday afternoons .... With the Navy ..... Phoning Mr. Coryell. .Vllith B. lower school .......... With Benny Goodman. . . Talking about Pacl-cards. .On a date. . . . Dropping Luckies in the hall .................. Avoiding homework. -a step in the right Riding? in a red station direction wagon Most Cherished Possession Stadium boots. Tan tights. . . . . B.O.N.D. pledge. Mail Cmale'?l. . . .Tennis shoes. . . Men .... . Knitting bag. . . Ham . . . 25 Bets Noir Snakes Charlie Modern dance History Noisy study hall Putting tables up in the gym K. P. Certain 7th and 8th grade girls

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Name Marilyn Luette . . B. lay- .. Boots . . . Tony . . . Sue- . . . Nancy . Ma1 tha . Favorite Song As Time Goes By . . . I'1l Never Smile Again . . . VVhat's the Use of Getting Sober . . . ln the Blue of Evening . . . PRESENT . . . . A date with Louie. . . . . . . . Addressing 'Writers' War Board ... . . Finishing history. . . .. . . . . Getting her cues. . . . . . . . Iust the Way You Look Tonight ...... Riding in Geraldine . . . . . . Time On My Hands . .. 'Embraceable You . . . NiQht and Day . . . . 24 . . . . Becoming popular. . . . . . . . Finishing yellow sweater. . . . . . . . Public School vice-president. . .

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PAST IMPEBFEET lf anyone had walked into the old Smead School tfounded in 1881 by the Misses Mary, Marian, and Caroline Smeadl in the fall of '32, he would have found, figuratively speaking, of course, a trylon and a perisphere: Lutie and Tony, constructing the red reading table which is still in Miss SmiLh's room. These two, who walked side by side in commencement exer- cises last year as junior ushers, were the nuc- leus of the present senior class. Although others came and went, these two remained' together happily, except for a brief interlude in the third grade when they came to blows. Lutie likes to remember that in those days it was she whom the boys backed. Under the guidance of Miss Simonds and Mrs. Bayer, their class passed through the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Fin- ally they were joined in the seventh grade by Stinky Beidler. Next we find these original three being initiated into Ye Followers of the Dra- gon , on august association of violent initia- tions. tWho was the dragon? Ham?l ln the fall of '39 Boots became a member of this fast, and increasingly large class, and that same fall, with the closing of the public schools, Piglet Wall and the domineering Wolfess entered the ranks. Before long this group was cooperating with Mr. Stork on that amazing news sheet, the Octo . That was the year the Followers of the Dragon ordered five hundred fir trees, and instead of a large truck's driving up to the door, piled high with half-grown evergreens, to our amazement, one small package was suavely handed us by Miss Dickey. We soon found out that only God can make a tree . Then we came to the time in our lives when we became more conscious of the le's than the la's , when our luncheons were spent in trying to think up ways to get to the counter at the same time as our favorite boy and trying to keep up with the conversation, which was usually in code. At the Misses Semples' that year, decked in pilgrim shoes and velvet dresses, we often saw two future members of the class, B. I. and Susie O., dancing together. Here, on Friday nights we were taught to dance like little ladies, but during the rest of the week we could often be found jitterbugging in the hall science room. outside the In the fall of '40, donning high heels and lip- stick, we tripped into the English room to greet our new classmate, Susie O., and to begin our high school career. We soon became fondly known as the beef trust, after our rather unfor- tunate experience with the Howe boys. This dance was also the scene of Oh, Ioel Our presentation of Dickens's Christmas Carol marked the beginning of our dramatic career. How we struggled with our pahst , hahnds , and neoos l That spring we continually got out of study halls to color programs and to col- lect records for the spring program dance. And what excitement there was as we eagerly watched the door for any alumni home for vaca- tionl At last, in our sophomore year, our present class was completed with the arrival of B. I. We took over our first real responsibility as librarians under Marilyn's leadership. This was the year when we were known as those sopho- mores , when we learned what crust was from Mr. Coryell, and when we were called pigs- CMadame?l. But we showed our true spirit when we gave the gala Hill-billy Hop to raise mon- ey for the juniors for the senior prom. And, oh that senior prom, from which most of us dashed to hear Tony Pastor! lt was a big year for house-parties. There was the time Tony was stuck in the window, Marilyn went to sleep in the chair, and Martha was seen riding a motor-bike through Ottawa Hills at an ungodly hour in her white satin pajamas. At the end of the year we bade good-bye to Ford, and so ended our co-ed days. We returned in the fall of '42'to become the jerky juniors . Every morning the eight of us would gather in the psychology room to discuss the coming dances. B. I. and Marilyn were Brown and Orange captains, and spent many a study hall with Mrs. Schaefer. Before long we were working madly on the Weather Vane . Never a free period went by without B. I.'s snap- ping all sorts of pictures. Every Wednesday Marilyn would call together her little brood, and they would no sooner be reading proof or pasting snap pages than Miss Beard would ap- pear to summon them to study hall. Sue and Tony had one job to do, and it took them all year to do it-the calendar. Lutie and Nancy nagged 26