Roosevelt High School - Echo Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Seniors

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We thank our class sponsors, Mr, Lawrence DeBoer and Miss Thelma McAndless, for their help and guidance through our high school days. Our class was headed by president, Philip Clark; vice president, Rosalyn Taylor; secretary, Weslie Wilde; and treasurer, Carolyn Ruwitch, We look upon the past with pride and In 1954 we were 65 eager-eyed, long-eared seventh grade pupils. To- day we are 50 seniors, sober-minded, intent upon such serious thoughts as the college ahead and the important decisions to be made. As seventh graders we entered into the junior high activities, such as attending fun nights and football and basketball games. The years seemed to fly. Suddenly we were freshmen. We found our- selves engaged in a new type of curriculum, a self-chosen one. We took an active part in athletics, social functions, and the clubs to which we were now eligible. As tenth graders we moved up another place in the seating in the audi- torium, and we were welcomed officially into the senior high by the soph- omore initiation, “Autumn Swirl.” The juniors put us through all kinds of stunts, but our day was yet to come. We successfully sponsored our first dance which we dubbed “Winter Wonderland.” That spring we found out that Phil Clark and Bob Shaefer were elected to the top two positions on the Student Council. At the beginning of our junior year we received our class rings. This started a busy year off with a bang. We put the sophomores through the paces of the initiation, “Fall Fantasia,” and put on the dance, “Sayonara” as a farewell to the seniors. The senior year was here, and then gone; but during that year we took an exciting trip to New York and Washington, published our 1960 annual, and put on the spring dance to welcome the freshmen into senior high. Then that walk onto the stage to receive our diplomas. As we look back on old RHS we will always think, “This school was many things.”