Napoleon High School - Buccaneer Yearbook (Napoleon, MI)

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With the burning of the Napoleon High School gymnasium on the night of April 15, 1957 the dream of many a disgruntled school boy became stark reality. The school house was burning down. The fire was presumed to have started about eleven o'clock in the stage area, probably with the curtains. Earlier that evening a citizens' committee studying the high school facilities and accreditation problems had met in the gymnasium and heard a talk by representatives of the University of Michigan. After the meeting adjoumed, Mr. Kingdon carefully checked the doors and lights. State police and insurance investigators considered arson possible in the fire which was first noticed by Fred Watson a little after midnight. The upper stage was completely destroyed. The roof was dam- aged and the overhead steelwork distorted by the intense heat. One wall was cracked and the stage floor badly damaged. The gymnasium, used this past year for study hall, noon hour lunch, as well as sports, was unusable for any activity. The Prom was held in the Consumers Club House on Clark Lake and the usual awards assembly and the Alumni meeting for 1957 were entirely omitted. To insure room for classes for the rest of the school year the administration decided on two sessions for the high school. The senior high students came in the moming from 7:30 until 12:30g the junior high students attended classes from 12:30 until 4:30. The teachers worked in shifts also. AND CONSTRUCTION DESTRUCTION In the latter months of 1956 the citizens of Napoleon Township voted suf- ficient funds to build an addition to the Eby School, improvements for the present high school and a new elementary school at Ackerson Lake. Despite Q freezing weather work was begun immediately by the Hungerford Construction Company and continued throughout the winter in order to have the school rooms ready for the beginning term in September 1957. 1 ' In recent years lack of class room space had necessitated half day sessions for the grade school children up to the fifth grade. The additional rooms provided by the new building will alleviate this acute situation. 53

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ATOP ROCKEFELLER CENTER liarly June 9, thirty-six members of the recently graduated senior class left Detroit for New York. We spent Sun- day afternoon in Niagara Falls where we saw the Rapids, the Whirlpool, and the Gorge besides the views of the spectacular Falls. Monday inoming we arrived in New York City and went from the train to the Taft llotel. Mon day aftemoon we toured Manhattan by bus seeing the Cathedral of St. Jolintht: Divine, China Town, llaarlein, Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and Central Park. Monday night we saw the fanned Rock- ettes at Radio City Music Ilall. Tuesday morning we toured the UN W., -if? n .w ' or' ,.-v LT 'ga A :nav ..- .5 auf, 1 ai' W Q-955' .... Y 9 i o':ff ft v i pf-- Li 4'. -QQ Q t '-Y 'ff ' 5 r . - ,ng K P it--' it 4 ' f f. ' ,, ..--w ff ', -. jr- fi , I ,He fl ., , f 4' A , t , -gi...'--nw ,fn Ark - A . ---' .-' , r, i 'gs i. , --- - .. . .- --tar, , QQ, n .. -t it ,- !:!uK ' W an ' i' u u 't f fi u ie' I' ' ,LM--'1'i:::.,.. i --.. ' J- t. N -' l -Tlzlt C ......-Qflfjjim, I: b I' lu., V lm A . .. 175. ,I 'H 4 L A- - t . -fl VF? -fm '- 1 - l.ov f ' , ' M 1 'C ,L ' N . ' K '1 , , A ' 4 mx -- dh- 'til ,-..-1 ',,...i,.,....:f A ' 1 Y V 4 H , ' . , 1 t n 1 .:.-::',Mp.g x gm ' i .lg r, X i . M L I '....,,,.'-f--l. 1, L, - .. ' . -1, r . i 1 ' ' .. ' h 1 H n - 7 ' . v md.,,..p-f- Y. au 'A' .. .h 8 -4, I All - . M V . , , , I t V :',0: . V V H A gy - 4 'Q I. Mflth I ' ,ws f ,, ..' 5 .+ '-., as .- ,--' .- h,,'at is f-'. ,, ' 4 . ,,. , a 'Q ' . f 4 , in f-9' . I ' 1 lu Y I V Y t U ' 1 Building where our guide was an Egyptian, that afternoon we circled Manhattan in a yacht. Wednesday aft- ernoon we went to Rockefeller Center before boarding the train for home. It was a memorable trip. vm VA,4f .wi 'Q , 1: M ,, Q ff by LY - 'sl'-' 4 6 .1 'err -...Q ,. . v uv ,igu -- COS'-1 f q:. 1, 1 if 1 15 , ll 1 I I I Q, Q? ' N be Nf f K , X h-rf' , ' 1 1 , Ui! C- 1 .L tg X 4 I1 Q 1 'x

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The work of the maintenance staff falls into the same classifica- tion as water in that we never miss it until we lack it. Theoretically Mr. Moon and his co-workers regulate ventilation, lighting, tempera- ture, and sanitation for the maximum comfort of the whole school. Personally the staff participates in the activities of the entire school. They hang the Stars and Stripes in every room, they hang the picture of President Dwight Eisenhower when requested, they take care ofthe snow in winter and the lawn in summer, they answer all MAINTENANCE emergency calls. Members of the staff come to know the student body personally. They know the latest teen idols, as Boone and Presley, from the literature which falls from the lockers in the halls and goes into the waste basket. They are the last to leave the school after the rock and roll and chicken dancers fto use the word dancer in its less restictive sensej have played such ttmes as You Butterfly and I'm All Shook Up for the last time. fat left, Mr. George Moon in his of ' fice in the high school I Mr. Moon's Staff x '11 S., .. Mr. Shirley Berkcypile Mr. Ted Burns Mr. Claude Gauze Mr. Jesse Lusby Ted Wilki nson 5 4 'Qs