Redford High School - Redford Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Photos by Shuptrine MORE PET P TIME Wallace, it smells, is the mother's comment on IZA Wallace Klager's messing around with chemicals and radios, his idea of a good time. He's my best chemistry student, said Mr. Van Avery when he had Wallace in chemistry. All A's in every one of his science courses is the Klager record. ln the picture he is filling a balloon with hydrogen. Last spring he sent out several of these, two of which came back from someone in Pennsylvania. Somewhat in the same vein, Wallace threw overboard a ketchup bottle while on the senior boat trip. The bottle was returned to him from a man in Monroe, Michigan. Going for the dogs is Phillis l..elVlire, a l0B clog lover shown holding her eleventh and twelfth dogs, both black pomeranian spitzes. The elder dog, Peggy, is six years old, although Phillis has had her only three. Last October Peggy had a puppy, now named Snooter which is a con- traction of a parental Usnootsie-pie. Phillis' other dogs have been wire-haired fox terriers and collies. Most of them were named Buster, but the l..elVlire family got original on some of them with Susie Q, Patrick and Spider. Unfortunately, the majority of her pets have been killed by automobiles. Mr. Zimmerman, chemistry and physics teacher, is pretty proud of his cartoon collection. The majority of these masterpieces, drawn by students Bob Hughes and Rudy Pessel are some humorous posters advertising safety in the chemistry luabs. So far, the collection numbers about sixty odd sketches, which Rudy Pessel is reviewing with Mr. Zimmerman in the picture. Occasionally someone's pencil will be flying furiously while the rest of the class sits calmly back during recita- tion, a paper is handed to teacher, a broad grin breaks over his countenlance, andl he quietly slips the new cartoon into a folder, amid clamors of, Let us see it, Mr. Zimmer- man. It all began with electric trains. jim Goode, IIB, spends a good part of his spare time tinkering with radios and electrical apparatus. At the left he is shown with his radio in the physics lab. One of his ambitions is to become a ham , but he is not able to send words fast enough yet. After building his first two sets in the sum- mer of l940, Jim took a class in radio work, where he learned all his big words and technical information. jim plans to go to an electrical engineering college or trade school to continue his work.

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l One can't say much about the uncommonness of Mr. Frank Smith's name but our mechanical and architectural drawing teacher's accomplishments c e r t a i n l y are. Shown in the picture with him is a water color of a scene in Plymouth Parkway. Mr. Smith studied paint- ing 'and sculpture under a former instructor at Cranbrook. One time he entered an' architectural design contest sponsored by Harvard Uni- versity in which he placed seventh. Besides this work, photography, and etching, making copies of colonial furniture, he helps his friends with their landscape problems. l-le did a llandscape in the I936 Hower show also. As a sideline in land- scaping Mr. Smith makes his own concrete garden furniture. Says he, I've never had nerve enough to sell anything. Wielding a wicked ping pong paddle, is IZB Ethel Gray. Six years of ping pong playing have given her five tricky serves and a success- ful waiting game. Her father, however, still holds the family crown. Ethel also goes in for golf, having been on the girls' golf team a year ago. Since this ga.me is a favorite among Redford- ites, a Ping Pong Club, with .a girl champ, was formed a year ago but had to be disbanded this semester. The group lacked the necessary equipment and a place to play. Photo by Hughes A blue one, two white ones, and a brown and white one are the colors of the rabbits Arthur Olsen, 9B, keeps penned up in his back yard. He and three other boys bought the rabbits last August and plan eventually to sell them for pets or meat. Believe it or not, one rabbit appears gray from a. distance but upon closer inspection is really blue. The animals weigh from six to nine pounds, and the-y got that way from eating the oats, hay, dog biscuit for rabbits, a little lettuce and greenery,-but no cabbage as in the story books. Photos by Shuptrine , A :M ,. ,, x.., I .A . , ., t . .

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Photo by Shuptrine. THIS YEAR