Sault Ste Marie High School - Northern Light Yearbook (Sault Ste Marie, MI)

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The lure of marriage and careers have beckoned fourteen from our ranks, yet, in spite of this, room 22 is still THE home room of Sault High. A really accomplished group are the thirty-two senior girls of home room l0! We started out as freshmen with 48, but since then some of our number have quit to go to work, others to marry, still others to finish in different schools. Margaret Carlton and Georgia Adams were two who moved away. Perhaps we are unique in that once we had a home room song which Gwenn Buzzo composed and which we sang to the tune of Auld Lang Sync. We were exceptionally proud, in our junior year, of our quartet composed of Elizabeth Gibson, Jeanne Gollinger, Isabel Sparling, and Norma Silverthorn. This year we boast of the Junior Red Cross presi- dent, Joan Hunt, and of the fact that we were first of any home room to finish our Red Cross afghan. And speaking of the Red Cross, Miss Solvsberg overcharged us for our theater tickets, fShe made us pay 2c instead of lcj, and so we donated the 32c to the junior Red Cross. We are fortunate to have in our number two fine figure skaters, Elizabeth Gibson and Gwenn Buzzo. Elizabeth was also Winter 'Carnival Queen thisyear and won the D.A.R. Good Citizenship Award. Now aren't we accomplished? During our four years we have been led by such able presidents as Gwenn Buzzo, Anna Baver, Gloria Akkanen, and Wanda Hope. Maybe home room is a pleasant place to catch that second nap before classes, but we think we've really done a lot, and we shall smile over our arguments and our squabbles in the years to come. In 1939 Wllen the class of ,43 entered Sault High, seventy boys were assigned to r00m 7, a room much larger than thc present one, and Mr. Knapp and Mr. Hansen were our home room advisers. That was the year when Don Case strung us along on those wild tales he used to tell for home room programs, otherwise the year passed quietly. Came the year '40, and the cream of the room 7 crop was placed in room 26, while the bums and crumbs went to room 29. About 30 of us were under Mr. Dean's command. Sault High won many eupg that year mo, Aotloo took Place in 1941- We had many Pfeslll'-THIS? in fact nearly everyone in the home room was president. The Paddle W35 used almost CVCFY d2YS We f00li the l'l0mC I'00m basketball championship away from room 13, and Sharpless got the idea we hadn't enough religion so he read the Bible X0 US daily- After three long years of toil and strife, we became seniors, we also came to earth and didn't use the paddle so much. Furthermore we have backed every drive 10096. And n0W the men of 26 will give you a peep into their futures. Here are some headlines: Attorney Simpkin Wins Another Case, Faught Fights His Way Back to Big League Baseball, R. Oakes Becomes High Class Detective, H. Light- foot, H. Maki, R. Maki, D. Comstock Become Captains in U.S. Army? M- PSYITICHI and C- NiClSCH BUY 01-lt the A- and P- Co., Crow an Ensign in U.S. Navy, G. Patton Becomes Captain on Great Lakes, Kihlstrom and Bush Find New Way to Make Rubber, Killer Stanley and Two Gun Teeple Captured by State Policemen, Kivencn and B. Bye, B. Quigley Gets Opera Contract, Mansfield Becomes City Treasurer, Brawley and Smart Run for City Commission, E. Quinn a Minister, C. Guil- lard and D. Bye Back from Africa, Laitenen Lost in Canada, Mallette Now a Banker, Maclsachlan Buys Chick Hatchery, Rodiger Married to Movie Actress, Naylor purchases Night Club, Barras Now an Undertaker. fCOVIfil1lll'd on page 331 Page 21

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Attention. Those enior Qsqttad qfooms If you have ever been to 29 and heard a lot of noise, you didn't hear it long gpaddle width ten inchesj. Believing in sound democratic principles, officers have been elected three times this year. The men now in office, voted in by ballots and bullets, are all honest reputable leaders: president, Arthur Hillmang vice president, David Barclay: secretary, Gerald Corey tall-Americanjg treasurer, Eugene Stanleyg sergeant-at-arms, jim Young. and chief custodian. Francis Goetz. Some new officers were also installed this year: fire chief, dog warden, and air raid warden. The men of 29 have had numerous home room advisers: first, Mr. Larson for two and a half years: then two sub- stitutes, Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Taylor: and finally, Mr. Collins. Punctuality is always stressed in room 29. james W'illette says he is reducing because he has to run to get to home room on time each morning. Likewise Bill Teeple is out to break track records running to school. Many lectures have been given on this delicate subject, ,lack Theriault being one of the main lecturers. Nearly every boy has his engraving on the rod of authority, the paddle, which has also placed a temporary engraving on each of the boys. This year a band composed of accomplished artists from room 29 was organized. A brief in- formal concert was given at an amateur program in the auditorium. Its director, Svan Bortyanky- vanski, has now left the country for unknown reasons. That the boys are willing to do their bit for every cause is shown by the fact that they don- ated money for materials for an afghan, which Mrs. Taylor made. They have also given gener- ously to the war effort. No doubt you have all heard of home room 22, known in earlier years as the happy-go-lucky in- habitants of room 28. The old saying that nice things come in small wrappings is not always true because the walls of room 22 have enclosed the most superb group of girls in Sault High. The presidency is ably handled by Peggy Tray- nor, our sparkle-eyed Carnival Queen of Sault High. Her diligent assistant is Jane Steele. Each and every morning, Marion Vfalker is ready with pad and pen. waiting to write the proceedings of a well-conducted meeting. Money flashes every- where when Lillian Mackie gives a pep talk. As treasurer she's tops! Ellen Mannesto keeps us in- formed as to the proceedings of the Student Coun- cil. while Audrey Hope attends the Red Cross meetings. Because of her urging. 22 ranked sec- ond in the Red Cross drive conducted in the home rooms. XVe have had the privilege and honor of hav- ing Miss Ruth Bradish as adviser. Vfithout her, room 22 would not be home. Page 20

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Seated at table: left to right'-Margaret Mc- Kerchie. Margaret VanDusen. Bertha Brehm, Helen Gianakura, Joyce Ann Barry. Barbara Blair. Jean Rounds. Standing: left to rightf Marion Jacobson. Dorothy Matheson. emit Qlfigh School just as the Second World War has affected every phase of this nation's life, so it has played a major role in every class- room and in every activity of Sault High School. The four pictures on this page are merely representative of a few of the many activities that the war either has created or has affected in the school. Because of the magnificent work which the Junior Red Cross has done this year under the leadership of Miss Gladys Wold and Miss Ruth Bradish, that organization deserves a place of honor on this page as well as in the annals of the school. Through its efforts to promote the sale of war stamps and bonds, the Student Council has contributed much to the spirit of victory in Sault High. Students purchased a jeep, a machine gun, and an ambulance through buying war stamps and bonds. Physical education became a required subject in 1942 - '43 for junior and senior boys, who ordinarily are required to take only two years of that subjectg but since war demands physical fitness to a degree not thought of in peace time, back to calisthenics went every lad. Into the spotlight of war have been drawn the women of the world, to do jobs that men in the armed forces have left vacant. And so into Sault High's curriculum have been introduced a number of wartime courses, one of which is blueii print reading and tracing, a subject designed to teach girls the basic principles of drafting. Girls could also be seen in other wartime courses about the school this year-in auto mechanics, welding, aeronautics, fundamentals of machines, and fundamentals of electricity. Perhaps no other organization in school can boast of the fact that practically every student in school contributed ma- terially to it and its work, yet that fact is true in the case of the Junior Red Cross. Students have enjoyed their work in the organization and have had tangible evidence that their efforts have been decidedly worthwhile, They have received Y , .- - - nn-n--........- Azaz . Hard at work during sixth period are these lads, members of one of the physical edu- cation units which Uncle Sam ordered this year to make sure that his future members of the armed forces and his future citizens are physically fit. The editors are sorry that an action photo of the group perform- ing some of their Commando drills could not be taken. This picture shows the class doing calisthenics.