Stevensville High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Stevensville, MI)

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With practically all hope spent after three months of worrying, we returned as Juniors. Except for the absence of two former classmates, Oscar Ziemba and Kenneth Woods; we received quite a surprise to find six new names to our class role. The additional members were Mary Lou Honicutt, Orville Lippens, Gertrude Molenda, Eugene Marshall, Raymond Mak, and Dariel Western. This would have given us ten students as Juniors, but Dariel Western and Orville Lippens soon found it necessary to move to different localities. The first issue which confronted our class was the election of officers. E- lected were Alan Radde, President; Mary Lou Honicutt, Vice-President; Gertrude Molenda, Secretary; Raymond Mak, Treasurer. Finding it necessary to have a class Reporter, we gladly gave Lucille Bischoff this honor, and Mrs. Myers, as was the custom, took the position of our class advisor. Our next issue was the selecting of our class rings. After much discussion, we chose a plain background, with the standard “Cardinal” crescent. We had a huge responsibility facing us and that was procuring some money for our Senior trip. We had too few members to have a Junior Play, so we de- cided on an all school minstrel show sponsored by the Junior Class and under the direction of Mrs. Myers. Sho’ was fun, and it also helped to increase our treas- ury. Other memories from this year are: the Junior-Senior Prom, which we spon- sored in honor of the Seniors; and the graduation, which we observed and under- went with the Seniors. The pages of this year were closed at that favorite spot, the Indian Lake resort. Returning as veterans, we, Seniors, took our appointed seats in the back row of study hall. We found there were only seven of us left in the class of ’49, since Mary Lou Honicutt and Phil Geisler had resigned from our roll. Starting out in orderly fashion, we decided to elect our class officers. Mr. Shearer took the responsibility of class advisor and the following were elected: Kenneth Walski, President; Raymond Mak, Vice-President; Eugene Marshall, Secretary; Lucille Bischoff, Treasureri One of our memories from this year is our Senior Skip Day. We spent an entertaining and educational day in Chicago, visiting the museums and other build- ings of interest. As the “Cardinal” goes to press, we are looking forward to the Junior-Senior Prom, being planned by the Juniors in our honor. We appreciate their consideration as we have such a small class. Of course, we are all looking forward to the day when we receive those emblems of graduation--our diplomas—in the Stevensville High School auditorium. We also would like to say that we enjoyed our years at Stevensville, and if not now, sometime in the future will wish we could live them over again. 6

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Sociologists, with their complicated statistics on such matters, have em- phatically placed the blame on the depression, but the old-timers declare that it happens quite often. Despite these solutions, the fact remains that there were only nine Freshmen enrolling in Stevensville High School, on the morning of Sep- tember 7, 1945. The students included in this group were Lucille Bischoff, Phil Geisler, Flora Kemp, Anna Kroening, Alan Radde, Raymond Reitz, Donald Sheiro, Frankie Thomas, and Oscar Ziemba. Following closely in the footsteps of our upper-classmen, we eventually be- came well enough acquainted, so that we could conduct our first class meeting. The important issue was the election of officers who were as follows: Raymond Reitz, President; Alan Radde, Vice-President; Lucille Bischoff, Secretary; and Oscar Ziemba, Treasurer. An event, which will live forever in the memory of our classmen, was our initiation. Although we were the last class, who submitted to the Sophomores in this manner, we enjoyed it in full and are not sorry that we didn’t escape this in- troduction into high school. We gave in return for this honor a Sophomore party, in the latter part of this year. Our only disappointment during this year, was the withdrawal from school of two of our classmen. They were Donald Sheiro and Flora Kemp. We finished this promising year, which we had enjoyed under the guidance of Mrs. Hunter, at the scenic Indian Lake. Returning as Sophomores, the following fall, we found the situation very un- promising for our always optimistic class. Two more of our members had for- saken us, Anna Kroening sought to further her education in St. Joseph High School, while Frankie Thomas withdrew from school with other aspects in view. This left us with only five members but Kenneth Woods boosted our morale by enrolling as a member of our class. In the early part of October, Mr. Barkmeier, our class advisor for this year, suggested we elect our Sophomore class officers. These people received our vote: Phil Geisler, President; Kenneth Woods, Vice-President; Lucille Bischoff, Sec- retary; Raymond Reitz, Treasurer. Since initiation was already a forgotten episode in the book of a Freshman, they honored us with an informal party in place of the annual tradition. We welcomed the enrollment of Edward Nozicka at the second semester, re- placing the vacancy in our class roll, made by the necessary withdrawal of Raymond Reitz from Stevensville High School. The closing memory for this year is the annual picnic, which was held at the House of David Park. 5

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E D W A R D N 0 z 1 c K A Valedictorian KENNETH WALSKI G E R T R U D E M O L E N D A R A Y M O N D M A K Sa lu ta torian 7