Sparta High School - Spartan Yearbook (Sparta, MI)

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Senior Class Prophecy Eight years have passed and upon our return to the fair city of Sparta we notice many changes. e As our car needs repairs we drive into the spacious garage of Kenneth Colby now sole owner and proprietor. Talking to Kenny we find that he and his wife, the former Florence Lenski. are doing fine and that he is the father of two bouncing boys. When we asked how business was progressing he replied, Fine, but I have a little competition with the Chevrolet garage which we later find is owned and operated by none other then Ted Baker. After Kenny has assured us that our car will stay together we decide to make a social call on the former LaVonna Allen who brings us up to date on all her former classmates. After four long years of struggle in college, Wilmine Baehre decided to take the easy Way out by marrying the brilliant agriculturist Dean Allen, While Margaret Ebers married the well-known doctor Iames Badgerow. Bob Anderson is living on easy street since he's made millions off of his invention, the nonfsquirting grapefruit. Max Waldherr and Arzie Pinclmey are running neck to neck in the comic script race. Max with his Flitting Fanny the air hostess, and Arzie with Clancy Cobb the sailor. LaVonna then tells us of the four girls who promised to be true before they left school. Betty Bazzett, Marjorie Brooks, Beverly Carrier, and Elvema Metzger. All find married life quite alluring. Barbara Bull and Lois Oakes have become Well-known in the field of medicine and Henry Baehre in the world of physics. Martha Lee Nason has also shown her ability in the music world, but none is greater than the great Metropolitan star Laurence Bohrnan. singing Short- nin' Bread. And of all the great careers Keith Hall has the hardest-Van Iohnson of l955. While reading the newspaper, we come across the sports page and find the Bee-Hivers play tonite with Nell White as their star player. Warren Straight has made his appearance in sports by becoming a great ring fighter. Managed by his shrewd brother Richard Straight. Also as stars of the football field and bowling alley we find Richard Sterkenburg and Duane Schoolmaster. Leaving LaVonne's house, we drive by the great expanded foundry. Here we stop to talk with Arva Kober who tells us she is secretary to Vice- President Dan Cheslek.

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Senior Class Will We, the Senior Class, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen hundred and forty- seven, residing in the Village of Sparta, do hereby will and bequeath in the manner following: First: To the Senior Class of 1948 - a. All unpaid bills, which in turn shall be passed to the class of '49. b. Our two wonderful and charming classes, Government and Eco- nornics. c. Our Senior Assembly. d. Our quiet and orderly Way of conducting a class meeting. e. Our Representatives in the Senate. f. The fun of promoting the Annual. . Our favorite by-Word ohl'1? . The privilege of putting on a spooky Senior Play. i. Our quaint trick of catching measles and the flu at the most inoppor- tune times. Q h Second: To the class of 1949 -- a. The first day in school lsetting next to the windowsl. What a thrill! b. The excitement of putting on the Iunior Play. Third: To the class of 1950 - That eventful morning when the class rings arrive. Fourth: To the Faculty - The thanks and appreciation for doing the best they could with not much to start With. ' Fifth: To the incoming Frosh - Three good strong waste paper baskets and hundreds of strong coat hangers. lPlease let 'em down easy.J We hereby declare this to be our last will and testament. We also name: Superintendent: W. H. DeHart Principal: I. H. Gardner Captain: V. Y. Tuttle as co-executors of thiswill.

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Also working here are Gamet Wiltenburg, Barbara Allison, and Iean Hansen in the payroll department. We then proceed down main street where we pass the Nequist and Snip photography shop. While still further down we notice the new '47 club, owned by Audley Bloom. His staff consists of cook-Emily Bradford and dish-washer Burwell Powell. The Furniture Market which was once Sherry's is now owned and oper- ated by Lowell Heath, a leader of the community. Noticing a poster in a Window we are passing, we find there is to be a contest between those three famous fruit growers-Charles Chase. Charles Saur. and Caryl Schaefer. Finding it the middle of the afternoon we decide to drive out to see Carylin Hill, better known in 1947, as Miss Schaefer. She and her husband Rowland Hill inform us that Don Reed, Bob Reyburn. and Carl Woolworth are working on a farm-milking Carnation Contented Cows. They also tell us Alvin Kober has a nice business trucking peaches to Detroit. Sero Lutkes finds married life peaceful and quiet on his own farm. On returning to Sparta we decide to visit the old Alma-Mater. As we look at the faculty list we find Lorraine Fitzner as art instructor, and Elaine Stortz as dramatic director. While Elinor Murray is the first grade teacher. Corning down from school we meet Robert Mills who has taken his father's place at the Baptist Church. Talking with Bob, we inquire of his remaining classmates. He tells us that Kenneth Scott finished his pharmacy course and now owns a drug store in Grand Rapids. - He also tells us that serving as nurses at St. Mary's Hospital we would find Nola Heath and Evelyn Straus. While Irene Rosell and Ioyce Barnes are now missionaries in China. And last but not least we find that Charles Tindall has the right honorable position of mayor of the town. Although this prophecy will probably never come true. We wish the best of luck to you. EB