Roosevelt High School - Echo Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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El Cid Ventures Into Thirteen Acre Forest The Roosevelt Swim Club is а competitive club for girls interested in synchronized swim- ming. Those who are new in the club are af- fectionately referred to as Polywogs. After a year of mastering basic skills the girls have the opportunity to become full-fledged Sinkopa- tors. Miss Mary Drake serves as sponsor of and taskmaster to the group. During the 1965-66 year the 37 Swim Club girls showed their talents in many ways: Christmas stockings distributed to patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital while singing carols; a dinner for the boys’ swim team, en- tertainment courtesy of the Polywogs; the initi- ation of the Polywogs in the late spring. The climax of the year was the presentation of The Thirteen Acre Forest, the water ballet nar- rated by Christopher Robin (Robin Robinson) and Winnie the Pooh (Valerie Leabu). For an hour and a half the wonderful land of make- believe became reality. El Cid, Debbie Davis, prepares to throw her cape to the wind before plunging into her synchronized swim solo. (Kneeling 1-r) Karol Suggitt, Gretchen Geiser, Kay Ker- Davis, Nancy McClelland, Patty Wescott, Jean LaBounty, shul, Linda Wood, Lynn Sharrock, Lusia Mitchell, Betty Cheryl Jones. (Standing 1-г) Roz Green, Wendy Skinner, Giles, Debbie Betts, Rebecca Taylor, Margaret Kennedy, Carol Burrell, Barb Campbell, Betsy Bryan, Dorothy Barbara Carter, Bonnie Fore. (Middle row 1-г) Peggy Betts, Miss Mary Drake, Yumi Shitoto, Sandy Sharrock, Elliott, Patsy Stiles, Susan Cleeton, Judy Robinson, Susan Karen Blakemore, Betsy Tate, Sue Giles, Martha Ulrich. Hart, Mary Elliott, Mary Giles, Georgia Campbell, Debbie

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First row (1-r) Kathy Gilden, Kerry DeNoyer, JoAnn Ylisto, Jody Anderson, Barb Carter, Kate MacDonald. Carter, Karen Kramer, Glenda Carter, Lilla Walton, Fourth row (1-r) Pat Staskievitz, Diana Roth, Gwen Janet Osborn, Janice Kersey. Second row (1-r) Debbie Andrews, Sandy Furtney, Cheryl Fore, Shirley Dick- Bowen, Judy Demmons, Gail Pugh, Nancy Seyfried, son, Miss Linda McKinley, Anita Bolden, Diana LouEllen Green, Sue Graubner, Sharon Turner, Char- Paschall, Dian Cummings, Martha Ray, Georgia lotte Osborn, Betsy Tate, Beverly Robinson. Third Campbell, Gloria Riseling, Patty Wescott, Wendy row (1-г) Lee Brasseur, Dodie Stiles, Judy Robinson, Weller, Debbie Sharpe. Mary Elliott, Polly Cooch, Sally Leighton, Briita Future Homemakers Bring Happiness through Activities One of the largest groups in the School's extracurricular program, Roo- sevelt’s FHA chapter combines service projects with practical homemaking experience. Throughout the уеаг the Future Homemakers exhibit goodwill and the happiness that comes from helping others. Among their outstanding projects have been a Christmas party for under- privileged children, utility bags sewn for the people of the Far East, and the sponsorship of Ward Bl-2 at the Ypsi- lanti State Hospital. For Roosevelt stu- dents and staff the FHA girls operate a noon-hour concession with such goodies as ice cream bars, potato chips, and popcorn. Among their spring projects were the Mother-Daughter Tea and a Faculty Mary Elliott digs out an ice cream bar for Jim Bellers while Open House. Wendy Weller hands him his change. 8

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Among the people assembled in the Echo room are a few production workers. In the early fall willing hands reached out to take part in putting together the 1966 Echo. Under the watchful eye of Miss Thelma McAndless, the editor and her staff encountered new (and sometimes baffling) situations. As the months rolled by, the challenges were met head-on by the valiant editor and her key assistants as they slaved away page by page to tell the story of a memorable year. ECHO editor, Sue Hart, caught behind the scenes, crops one of more than four hundred pictures processed for the 1966 ECHO. 10