Northern Michigan Christian School - Reflector Yearbook (McBain, MI)

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Cam Mya ec? It rs the year 1961 and Donna Dykhouse and Gladys Vxs who are the alumm reporters for the school paper Tra1l Blazer have completed the round up of tne class of 1951 as follows Ronald Jager a man of great xntellxgence has completed a dxctxonary whxch far ex ceeds Websters but It has not as yet been publlshed Harm Scnolton has succeeded ln guldmg h1s Jet engme Mercury on two wheels over a txght rope across the N1agara Falls Herm Zu1derveen has swum the Engllsh Channel ln 5 hours 7 mxnutes and 6 seconds Tins 15 an all txme record Geraldme Bxerens woke up one mornxng to fmd herself famous for dreamxng up a concoct1on whlch she calls Gerry's Freckle Remover Sne maxntaxns that she would have been even more successful mf Shxrley D1ck wouldn t run around sell1ng creams and powders to cover up freckles Forrest Sm1ts an F B I agent 15 on the track of a thxef who has stolen tne l1fe sav mgs of Mxss Joanne Wmkle They amounted to two mrllxon dollars Dorothy Dykhouse's alto voxce has become famous by advertxsmg over the N B C network whose ma1n statlon 15 rn McBa1n She IS bemg sponsored by M1ldred Beren s haxr tomc Ethel Van Houten and Margze DeVr1es are stxll the h1gh flyxng gxrls they always were They are now worklng as steward esses on the Amerxcan Overseas Axr Lxnes Boyd Tacoma xs agaln roam1ng the country only thxs t1me as a b1g game hunter mn Afrxca being employed by Brookf1eld Zoo of Chxcago Cornne Aardema has fmally worked her way to the honorary posxtmon as Custod1an of Magazlnes m the L1brary of Congress Ruth Blerens and her husband have moved to the state of Washlngton and are operatxng a large fruxt farm there called Fruxt Valley Dorothy Tacoma who thought that xt was too cold up here has gone down South and IS the manager of a hotel for summer resorters Jack Vredevoogd who has been an astronomer for the last few years has resxgned h1s lofty lookxng Job It seems he hasn't been lookmg too good lately Joyce Tacoma and Gladys TeBos together wmth a couple of assxstants are runnmg a home for aged men Last seen they were runnmg as fast as they could Leona Pluger has recently been employed by Joyce and Gladys as patcher and sock darner 1n thexr home for aged men Kerwm Koetje who used to go at quxte a pace rn a drlapxdated old chevy he owned IS stlll gozng hke a streak of hghtmng at t1mes He dr1ves one of the twenty e1ght fzre trucks owned by the great and growxng c1ty of Vogel Center Ella Jean Marcusse has taken over a candy company m New York Clty She specrahzes ln a certaxn varmety known as Ella Jean's Jelly Beans Carl Mulder IS experxment1ng w1th a new brand of corn wh1ch has now reached the hexght of two feet wlth ears as long as h1s arm Ruth Van Houten has majored 1n scxence at the Unxverslty of Columbla and IS work1ng on the hydrogen bomb Mearl Hoekwater and Ray Brxnks mxmsters from Calxforma and Rhode lsland respectxvely plan to exchange pulp1ts the next couple of weeks at the people's request Barbara Vander Wexde has recently moved to Cal1forn1a It seems that she has some specxal interest there Harold Ebels xs now a baker The other day as he was workxng xn a batter of bread he stumbled and fell and xs stall rolhng ln the dough Don Boes IS doxng the electrxc work here 1n the new rooms that are bemg added to the N M C H S He xs a very accomphshed electrxclan after four years of attendmg an electrxcal school Our school 15 qu1te proud of thxs class whxch has accompllshed so many th1ngs 27 f 0 . - i . , . 4 1 l . . . I . .

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Soorfo BASKETBALL The f1rst basketball teams of N C H named Comets by a school vote were organ 1zed th1s wmter And desplte bemg hand1capped by a cement floor they at once began practxce The flI'St team pract1ced the last perxod on Monday Wednesday and Fnday and after school on Thursday The second team practlced the seventn perxod on Monday Wednesday and Frxday and after school on Tuesday On January 9th wxth a couple months of pract1ce the Cnrlstxan Comets met the McBa1n Ramblers ' m Chr1st1an's f1rst game They lost 71 to 14 and tne second team lost 54 to 18 It can truthfully be samd that none of the team went home mad and a number of the cheerers spoke w1th modxfxed volces the next day They were hoarse' The second team 1S showxng the rnaklngs of a very good future team and there 15 lxttle doubt that the Comets w1ll soon take then' place among other hzgfm school teams BASEB ALL Our baseball team IS ln very good shape thls year We have a new group whlch 15 bexng broke ln but they are a flne bunch of talented baseball players and can show thexr abxlxty for xndxvxdual and teamwork plays on the held We also nave a group of seasoned players and they are Mearl Hoekwater with a battlng average of 428 a long ball mtter who last year h1t three txmes as many doubles trxples and home runs as smgles also a very good Zu1derveen wzth a batt1ng average of 111 a fast outfxelder last year and trylng for f1rst base th1s year and Ray Brxnks wxth a batt1ng average of 222 who alternated p1tch1ng and shortstop last year lost a close game agalnst Tustln and won easlly over Stoney Corners So when the 'rookxes get together wlth the old txmers they ought to be able to crack the cover clean off the cabbage GYM Last fall the baseball team not belng orgamzed certain actxv1t1es of many types wh1ch were not organxzed SPeC1flC3lly were partlcxpated mn by varxous groups of students Tne f1rst of these was football entered xnto by a group of the mascullne gender who were shown the fundamentals of 'touch football a mod1f1ed form of the real th1ng The last perxod was devoted to thxs At th1s txme other groups orgamzed volleyball teams Th1s was played at noons and last perxods usually an the gym Later basketball nets were put up and basketball teams used the leftover port1on of the gym Flve boys were appoxnted by the Student Councll to captam the volleyball and basketball games Stzll later rn the wmter P1ng pong came 1nto full swmg The tables were moved from the basement of the old buxldxng xnto the gym wmch gave the players more room The gxrls monopolzze the gym on Wednesday and Frxday wxth thelr basketball teams They also practnce the last perxod on Tuesdays and Thursdays although they have not as yet orgamzed a girls team 29 Q . . . . l . . . ' . ' - infielderg Harold Ebels, with a batting average of . 235, and a dead-eye outfielderg Herman