Roosevelt High School - Echo Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Working hard on the Echo are staff members (1. to r.) Rosemary Cook, Linda Leininger, Patty Burns, Kay Ferris, Nancy Bruner, Barb Davey, Bill Giles, Bette Gilden, Claudia Zeller, Betty Case. Karen Glass, Rita Manion, Miss McAndless, and Aprill Kraus discuss yearbook layouts. Directed by co-editors Nancy Bruner and Kay Ferris, the Echo editorial and business staffs put in many hours planning layouts, taking pictures, writing copy, pasting up pages, and selling ads. After a slow start in the fall, the staff worked twice as hard to meet their deadline. The 1961 Echo staff includes Bette Gil- den and Betty Case, assistant editors; Patty Burns, copy editor; Claudia Zeller, senior; Bill Giles, photography; Karen Glass, adver- tisements; and Rosemary Cook, business. Norma Vargo ’62 assisted the staff with the design for cover and title pages. Professional photographers show staff members how to get better pictures. (clockwise starting at bottom) Betty Case, Claudia Zeller, Mr. Jack McClure, Mr. Harley McClure, Bette Gilden.

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(First row 1. to r.) Shirley Caldwell, Dave Rockwell, Miss Gotts, Rebecca Wagner, Judith James. (Second row l. to r.) Polly Cooch, Phyllis Wagner, Ina Hansen, Janet Coleman, Gloria Weber, Gwen Andrews, Maealyce Dapprich. The Bible Club, started by Judith James and Linda Simpkins in October of 1959 with a nucleus of three, is interdenominational in character and welcomes students from both the junior and senior high school. Programs vary from week to week: open discussions on subjects pertaining to Christian ethics, missionary speakers from foreign lands, and guest speakers who relate their work to re- ligion. Everyone has an opportunity to partici- pate through special musical numbers, Bible quizzes, group singing, discussions, and pro- gram planning. Officers for 1960-61 are: Dave Rockwell, president; Rebecca Wagner, vice president; Shirley Caldwell, secretary-treasurer; Judith James, music director. Bible Club Encourages Religious Attitudes. “The fear of the Lord is the ” beginning of wisdom... . Proverbs 9:10

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Students Obtain Journalism Experience (Seated at table 1. to r.) Jodi Tripp, Betsy Kontny, Congdon, Ellen McDermott, Mickey Roesch, Tom Patty Bates, Barb Henderson, Ina Hansen, Carol Tate. Cook, Miss Thelma McAndless. (At right 1. to r.) Sue Hopps, Jane Struppa, Karen (Standing behind 1. to r.) Patty Burns, Marti Glass, Betty Case. Virtue, Tom Sherwood, Dave Stewart, Carol Under the direction of Mr. Robert Benden, the RHS boys in the printing classes work on the next issue of the Rough Rider. fw = - = Rough Rider staff members Patty Burns, Betsy Kontny, Ina Hansen, Dave Stewart, and Tom Tate work hard to get the next issue out on time. The Rough Rider, Roosevelt’s tri-weekly news- paper, is headed this year by senior Dave Stewart. Students in grades seven through twelve are given the opportunity to gain journalism experience. They write all types of copy and learn something of news- paper make-up. The printing classes, under the direc- tion of Mr. Robert Benden, do the actual printing of the newspaper. The Rough Rider participates in a newspaper exchange with other schools throughout the USA. At the end of the year, the best issues of the Rough Rider are entered in the national scholastic judging contests—CSPA, NSPA, and Quill and Scroll. The Rough Rider usually places high in these contests.