Muskegon Heights High School - Oaks Yearbook (Muskegon Heights, MI)

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CUSTODIANS Our custodians are among the most popular members of this institution. For example, there's Mr. Albert Cruse, a veteran of 14 years of service in our high school. He is a man of long experience in industry, having been a millwright by trade before coming here. He was once a carpenter also. Many of the boys would be surprised, perhaps, to know that in his younger days he used to hurl a mean ball over the batter's box in league baseball in his home town. Seventy years old, Mr. Cruse has about made up his mind it's time to knock off steady work and rest a bit. All we have to say is, We shall miss you, Mr. Cruse. Come back often and visit us. One feminine face is in the line of the faithful workers on the maintenance front. Her name is Mrs. Caroline Christiansen. Quiet efficiency best describes her activities here, but all who know her recognize her generous and kindly nature. Our engineer seems to have a very difficult and strenuous job. How would you like to be on the job seven days a week, getting up often in the middle of the night, firing the furnace for the students on a winter's morning? Bill Phillips tWil1iam, by rights J is as steady as an lglargn clock. Did you know he built our athletic field and that it is named Phillips Field after im. Then there's Frank. Frank Scott is the youngest of them all but now that he is papa at home, he probably feels like a veteran, too. Frank is popular with all of the students and is a conscientious worker. -23-