Stevensville High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Stevensville, MI)

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Jacuity MARCIA ANDERSON Third and Fourth Grades ALBERT HOUCK Junior High PEARL McKAY First and Second Grades JEANETTE WARD Fifth and Sixth Grades ESTHER SMITH Beginners

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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