Sparta High School - Spartan Yearbook (Sparta, MI)

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enior 6141.44 Betty Lonnee, ability to play hockey and live to tell about it to Jim Mortensen Doris Kober, sewing ability to Donna Reister. Joan Austin, pause that refreshes to Lyle Bloom. Karl Anderson, nickname Andy to Dick Anderson. Carl Fahling, ability to keep everything under control to Jerry Sheckler. John Scholten, ability to get along with Miss Hanna to Pete Heath. jack Dufort, quick temper to jerry Reisner. Delores Thorson, bottle of peroxide to joan Arnold. Gail Brooks, shyness to Donna Dufort. Carol Fahling, smile to jerry Sheckler. Jane Fraleigh, drum major suit to Janice Rowe. Almeta Powell, job of editor on the Echo to joan Allen. jackie Bradford, pea shooter and sling shot to her brothers. Bob Norton, love to Emily Anderson. Bill Nelton, goats to Jim Mortensen. Ray Romeyn, ability to tell sad, sad stories to Chuck Anderson. Lois Empie, ability to remember governments definitions to joan Allen. Leona Straus, English Literature book to Jim Ringleberg. Audrey Axford, geometry ability to Lois Klenk. Joan Nequist, art ability to Charles Gilson. Mildred Straus, front seat of Little Eva to Richard Ingersoll. Charles Kasper, ability to work harder in government to Erwin Bristol. Roger Irish, F.F.A. ability to Bob Beuschel. Alvin Hill, agricultural ability to Jim Parks. Wayne Youngquist, blonde hair to any Swede that wants it. Edwin Bristol, maps of Michigan to Brother Erwin. Curtis Heft, agricultural ability to Lowell Coster. Gordon Badgerow, car to Tom Norton. Gordon Baehre, arguments with Mr. Humeston to jim Mortensen. Gene Brooks, football ability and size to jim Bellamy. Bob Trudell, fencing ability to Charles Gilson. Sanford Deyo, annual worries to Bill Rogers. Walter Towns, government book to Donna Towns. Paul Schaefer, broad shoulders to jim Parks. Bob Bradford, high marks in physics to Jerry Shoup. Loeta Baughan, bashfulness to Mary Jane Van Dyke. Lenore Sterkenburg, solo clarinet chair to Joyce Roberts. Eunice Ritz, math ability to Ruth Schaefer. Kathryn Rider, ability to get along with Mrs. Sirrine to anyone that wants it. Ann Nicholson, sociology definitions to Barbara Fulkerson. Carl Mosher, lost articles from my desk to Dick Traxler and jerry Sheckler. Greydon Held, Mr. DeHart and government to Lyle Bloom. Gordon Welch, ability to make popcorn to Gordon Krewson. jerry Topping, ability to get confused in physics to Frank Stevens. Kenny jourden, ability to sleep in government to Don Stanton. Warren Guiles, corner of the hall to the romances of 1951. Frank Bueche, the class of 1951 to Miss Hanna. Delores Woolworth, eyelash curler to Marilyn Watkins. Kenny Swanson, height to Gordon Krewson. Ralph Fitzner, curly hair to Anne Schoolmaster. 17

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navy band, while jack is working as a mechanic. Inquiring further Karl tells us Betty Lonnee is a private secretary for one of the largest law firms in New York and that john Scholten is studying the organ in the Conservatory of Music in Boston. Glancing at a newspaper we find Gordon Badgerow's name in the headlines. Badgerow and staff of nurses, consisting of Jane Fraleigh, Eunice Ritz, Loeta Baughan, and Delores Wwlworth have just performed one of the most delicate operations of these times. Audrey Axford is the head dietitian at the hospital. Passing a church we see a bride and groom leaving which makes us think of Lois Empie and Dorothy Reyburn who are happily married. Reading a poster in one of our stores, we see that Conservation Officer, Gene Brooks is speaking at the high school about the preservation of natural resources. Calvin College held it's graduation exercises last night with Edwin Bristol named as one of the top ten graduates. Ann Nicholson also graduated with high honors from Junior College. Driving through the country we glance at the mail boxes of several of the nice farm homes on Fruit Ridge Avenue. The first box who's name we recognize is none other than Alvin Hill who is running a large fruit farm and is doing very well this year. Curtis Heft and Bill Nelton are in partnership on a 150-acre dairy farm. The next mail box has the words Ralph Fitzner' printed clearly on it. On this farm we see a beautiful, spacious farm home set back from the road and surrounded by an orchard of peach trees. Up ahead of us we see a sign that says Warren Guiles' Apiaries . Later we learn that he is running one of the largest apiaries in the country. The next farm belongs to Carl Fahling who after high school took an agriculture course in college and is now managing this large farm with the able assistance of Robert Bradford, who is his most dependable farmhand. Suddenly we notice three tractors coming down the road and as they pass, we notice that they are being driven by Gordon Baehre, Roger Irish and Carlton Youngquist, each working on farms in this area. Thus we end our day in Sparta. Many of the occupations that our former classmates are now holding are a surprise to us, but many are not. Whether these prophecies come true or not, we want to wish the best of luck to everyone in the class of 1950. Class glawer Yellow Roret Cfau Motto Excelrior 1 6

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unior- enior rom 1949 On May 20, 1949, the long awaited junior- Senior Prom was presented by the class of 1950. The theme was nursery rhymes and both the Methodist Church dining room and the gym were decorated appropriately. The napkins, place cards and programs had a nurs- ery rhyme character on them and the center pieces were made to look like May-pole dances. The gym was converted into a fairy-land of nursery rhymes. Three huge spider webs made of Christmas tinsel surrounded the orchestra pit. Dozens of sparkling stars dropped from threads from the false ceiling added more beauty to the make believe spectacle. A huge mural of Little Boy Blue covered one entire wall of the gym. On the other, Mary Quite Contrary took care of her garden of flowers. Punch was served in the home of The Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe . Many of the guests made wishes in the wishing well which stood in the center of the dance floor. The stage was changed from a structure of wood and plaster to a garden with soft grass and lawn chairs in which to relax. At intermission, Miss Susan Adams of Rockford entertained the group with two dance numbers.