Mount Pleasant High School - Derrick Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, MI)

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It .-44.1. si' 2 7 l, L X, ,- f I - . ri EE: i i . : -i - i,i'l'l.-A Junior Theme Assemblies THE MOST interesting of all places in this school is a matter very difficult to decide upon, but in my opinion assemblies are the most exciting of all places. The one foremost in my mind is the one that begins at twelve-thirty in the senior assembly room. There is one continual buzz all the time: lessons are the farthest from those ambitious young minds. Over in one COYUPI' two Students SP9 Staring blankly at the puzzling pages of a Chemistry book. Then two Latin students enter the room soon after the time for the assembly to be in session. Behold! these two students must have magnetic drawing power, for inside of ten minutes Mr. Green's Latin class has U- scmbled around them and the day's lesson begins. The other assembly that some times becomes very interesting at times is the eighth hour. If by chance the teacher is not there on time. which frequently happens, or leaves the room occasionally I am sure that it would be a very wise policy to have one's life insured. Ink wells flying through the air is not an unusual sight, and if one was walking down the aisle the feet of some unconscious student may stray into the aisle and a very interesting little scene may occur if the unlucky victim cannot dislodge his feet from the squirming feet of his tormentor. Of course when the teacher is seen approaching, telegraphic signals are sent abroad warning everyone or the coming pessimist. The one thing I have been puzzled about for a considerable length of time is: why the great silence when Mr. Wendt en- ters the room occasionally to read an announcement, or to summon someone to a tete a tete in the inviting and intoxicating atmosphere of his cozy little ofiice? I think that an assembly would be just as interesting as a coffee house if one might hear the various discussions that take place behind a raised Latin or English book when the mind is supposed to be deep in the thought of Caesar and his many conquests. The opportunity presented itself one day for me to hear a very little of one of these most inter- esting discussions. Two students came into the assembly and very quietly took the seat behind me. I was supposed to be studying the many ways of making different kinds of acids, but there drifted to my ears like gentle music the many things that were taking piece in this school that I had thought to be so free from these things that other schools suffered from. Again and again my mind would sihik into the depth of that Chemistry book and I would try to shut out that information bureau that was in perfect running order behind me. Now and then they would step on the soft peddle as the kind assembly teacher would advise them to do and there would be a lapse in the very interesting little tete a tete that was taking place behind that innocent looking English book. But alas! they had mentioned the name of a very popular student in school and I came up out of my reveries as if awakening from some terrible dream, my ears were strained to the utmost and I wanted to hear the terrible thing that had happened. There was a party over to Harry Mark's and she was there with the most stunning dress on you ever saw but look at the thing she was with. can vou imagine it Mari.. and I just would have sworn that he was drunk and she never seemed to mind it at all. Again the soft peddle was applied to that steady old car best known by the name of gossip. and I was still wondering what happened at that party that was attended by the most popular student in school. YYPII I was left without having the pleasure of hearing the rest of that little discussion which I know was very interesting. Then it was time for the bell to ring and we all were sitting on the very edge of the seat ready to make a grand dash for the door and get out of that assembly that seemed to have I charged atmosphere. I met my friend and she told me of the little news she had heard over in her cor- ner of the study room, hers was even more interesting than the one I had heard. Sir Roger would have been shocked at the news he would have heard if he had been there. The Spectator could have written a volume on just the news that he heard in that one hour. It would have included everything from the br:-rt looking fellow and the way he dressed, to how the latest hair cut would take in this school, how the best athlete in school was becoming an habitual smoker, and how ridiculously abbreviated some of the girls wore their dresses. I have one wish that I-would like to have fulfilled: I would like to read a paper written by the Spectator on the little news he could get from our Modern Coffee House in the twelve-thirty assembly. --Marisa Kidder. Page Forty-four

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' ' 1 1 1 ' - . shin' ,Nga-A I Sophomore Class History YES! We are no longer Freshmen. Last year we were green, timid, little boys and and girls, fearing the high and mighty Seniors, and standing in awe of the teachers. CoachaZiegler helped pilot us through a trying but successful year for we came out on top. , Our lronorable officers were: President, James Fitchg Vice-President, Helen Brookensg 'Secretary-Treasurer, Reuel Cole. Now we are sophisticated Sophomores starting the year with ninety-three mem- bers. We elected Carl Munson as Presidentg Paul Munson, Vice-President: Helen Brookens, Secretaryj and Reuel Cole, Treasurer. Miss Nelson kindly consented to help us over the rough places and advise us in our affairs. Our Dancing Party, The Sophomore Shuffle, was one of the most successful parties of the year. We have proudly contributed to the High School these athletes: Jerry Swindle- hurst, Chief Webster, and Harold Grinnell as first team men in basketball, and Paul Munson, Reuel Cole, and Carl Munson as substitutes. We wish to :all future Sophomore classes Success as we pass out to try to ful- fill the worthy position of Juniors. ' -Edith Moyer. O P has nifty-six