Sparta High School - Spartan Yearbook (Sparta, MI)

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Junior Hall of Fame Best Liked Girl Best Liked Boy Best Dressed Girl Best Dressed Boy . Class Cut-up Class Bookworm Most Bashful Girl Most Bashful Boy Most Handsome Boy . Prettiest Girl Girl Athlete . Boy Athlete Boy Musician Girl Musician . Best Personality Girl . Best Personality Boy Class Promoter Class Poet .... Who Did The Most For Sparta Who Did Sparta For The Most . lean Tanner . Kenneth De Young . Irene Brooks Kenneth DeYoung lim Norris . Walter Beuschel Betty Shangle . Gordon Colby . Kenneth DeYoung Doris Anderson Maryalyce VanAntwerp Bob McCracken . Max Nason . Bernice Gunneson Maryalyce VanAntWerp . Kenneth DeYoung . Elizabeth Newberg . Charles Welch . Elizabeth Newberg . Frances Horrnig

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Juniors The class of 1948, now known as Iuniors, began the year by selecting class officers. They elected Iim Norris for their President, Kenneth De Young, Vice- President, Charles Switzer Secretary and Maryalyce Van Antwerp, Treas- urer. The advisors which were chosen were Mrs. Le Roy, Language teacher, and Mr. Van Hosen, Shop teacher. The most important item next was to decide ways of making money. One of the successful things which they decided to do was to sell hot-dogs at the football games. This brought quite a bit of money for their class treasury. The students took turns selling at the games. Collecting scrap-paper from around town was next attempted, though not so successfully at first. The students were excused from classes and among the many difficulties during the first day, was the cleaning of the floor of the Peoples State Bank, due to the accident of a broken bail of scraps. The musty cellars, a flat tire on the city truck, and Phyllis Kleink's falling off the truck added to the zest of the drive. The next drive carried with it a brighter outlook. The class sold candy and pop at the basketball games. A great deal of credit for the success of this should be placed on Elizabeth Newberg, Marilyn Erhart and Ierry Swartz for a fine job in handling it. Eleanor Deyo was elected as an additional member to the school senate, Gordon Colby was elected to the athletic board and lean Tanner and Bernice Gunneson, to the library board. The class of 48 chose Big Top Ball as the theme of their class party. The gym was decorated as a circus, with clowns, animals, Ccaged and un- cagedl, and with a false ceiling of red and white crepe paper hanging thick and low, making it a duck dance for anyone over 5 feet 10 inches. At inter- mission the paper was pulled down and it was a' tangled mess for anyone to dance in. On May eighth and ninth, The Campbells Are Coming was produced by the Iunior class, under the direction of Mrs. Le Roy. The play was a farce- comedy with hillbilly trimmings. The characters were portrayed by lim Norris, Ardis I-lale, Phyllis Kleink, Kathryn Baehre, Kenneth De Young, Gordon Colby, Charles Switzer, Elizabeth Newberg, Maryalyce Van Antwerp and Ierry Goring. The class had a great time putting on this play and will look forward to their senior production. The big event of the year was next-the long awaited lunior-Senior Prom, on May 23rd. The theme was Chinese. Decora- tions of lotus blossoms and crape paper were used to achieve the effect of a Chinese garden. The hostesses were dressed in Chinese robes. The Ban- quet was held at the Baptist Church, where the dining room was also deco- rated as a Chinese garden, and was an exotically beautiful place in which to dine. A Chinese farewell was given to the class of 47 by the class of 48 .

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Sophomores Shirley Andrus, Barbara Axford, Joyce Axford, Ray Baughan, Pat Barendson, Evelyn Biggs, Joan Black Merrilyn Bradford, John Bull, Joyce Carroll, Lee Colby, Marvin Colby, Doris Couturier, Doris Crouch Dolores Dake, Cynthia Davis, Georgene Davis, Ronald Denton, Robert Falconer, Maurice Fulkerson Criscilla Gear Malcolm Gilbert, Betty Grice, Darlene Guiles, Joe Guiles, Clarice Gunneson, Clare Heath, Gordon Heath Stanley Helmer, Douglas Helsel, Shirley Hoekwater, Kenneth Hussey George Jacoby, Lee Johnson, Lotus Johnson Lowell Johnson, Dorothy Kutzli, Arthur Lenske, Kenneth Lockard, Robert Lundberg, Alda Lutkes, Richard McKinney Lawrence Meginley, Donald Morrisette Carlton Murphy Patricia Norton, Charlene Olson. Gordon Ostman, Dolores Preston Jeanette Reed, Wilma Reister, Charles Reynolds, Dorothy Reyburn, Phyllis Rol ton, Jack Romeyn, Carolyn Schwartz Joan Shepard, Joe Sidlauskas, Cathola Sprague, Marlene Stark, Roger VanDenHout, Margaret Watkins, Richard Webber Mary Welch, James White, Joe Winegarder, James Wyse Ahsentees: Robert Keech Carlton Murphy Jack Tuttle