Sturgis High School - Sturgensian Yearbook (Sturgis, MI)

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★ ★ ★ ★ El,wood Stevens Baseball; Intramurals; Class Officer. Ray Strang Football; Intramurals; Art Club; Wrestl¬ ing. Ruth Stratton Choir; Glee Club; Operetta; Latin Club; Jr. Play; Soph. Prom Comm.; J-Hop Comm.; Trojan Staff; Sturgensian Staff; Senior Play; Honor Roll. Newton Wayne Taylor Football; Intramurals; Baseball; Jr. Play; Wrestling; Sr. Play. John Toepper Band; Baseball; Intramurals. William C. Toepper Intramurals; Band; Baseball; Football. Jean Tooley GAA; J-Hop Comm. Ernest R. Vaillancourt Football; Chorus; Operetta; Choir. Lois Walker Glee Club; Choir; Orchestra; Latin Club; Operetta; Soph. Prom Comm.; Jr. Play; Dance Band; Trojan Staff; Sr. Play; Honor Roll. Ted Warner Band; Intramurals. Jane Watson GAA; Class Officer; Jr. Play; Sturgen¬ sian; Trojan Editor; Latin Club; Soph. Prom Comm. Virgil Wittenberg Band; Basketball. Norma Yunker Operetta; Chorus; Choir; Girls’ Glee Club. William Zeeb Honor Roll.

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ame ta iDeieri e Sn.d!u trii£ Norma Lee Rhoads GAA; Class Officer; Girl Intramurals; Art Club Sr. Representative; Sturgensian Staff. John Robert Ringler Intramurals. Vera E. Roberts GAA; Jr. Play; Trojan Staff; J-Hop Comm.; Class Officer; Senior Play. Doris Royer Latin Club. Helen Jean Sadewasser Robert J. Scheetz Football; Class Officer; Student Council Pres.; Hi-Y; J-Hop Comm.; Jr. Play; Sr. Play; Band; Latin Club; Dance Band; Senior Play. Victor E. Schragg Football; Baseball; Intramurals; Wrestl¬ ing; FFA. Ruth Schuster Intramurals. Suzanne Seger Latin Club; Jr. Play; Operetta; Girls’ Glee Club; Choir; J-Hop Comm.; Intra¬ murals ; Senior Play. Bill Shinn Intramurals. Georgia Smith Operetta; Choir; Girls’ Glee Club; Chorus. Jack Sowers Debate; Latin Club; Band; Soph. Prom Comm.; Jr. Play; Sr. Play. Phyllis Sowers GAA; Chorus; Soph. Prom Comm.; Jr. Play Comm.; Senior Play. Phyllis Squire GAA; Soph. Prom Comm.; Sr. Play; Trojan Staff; Operetta; Sr. Representative.

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Honor Roll Some of us, under the careful guid¬ ance of our advisors, have shown special effort and ability. Thus, we have attained the ten top positions in our class. When we were green freshmen, alge¬ bra was our “bug-a-boo”, and many were the anguished tears we shed as in vain we tried to master those disgusting formulas. Our second year as full-fledged senior high students found us again stymied by math. That year it was in geometry class where time and again we met our Waterloo. Theorms and postulates caused many head¬ aches, but again we conquered and emerged victorious. When we became “Jolly Jun¬ iors” we found that it took lots of concen¬ tration to learn thirty memory lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet as we struggled with English Literature, Sonnets and essays worried us too, and themes and Readers’ Digests added to the burden. We surged onward, however, and at long last became those “Sophisticated Seniors”. It was hard to maintain the sophisticated and carefree attitude belonging rightfully to us as members of the Senior class. We had to struggle long and hard to keep up our high standards as we met up with trouble in the forms of chemistry, govern¬ ment, math, and economics. We labored diligently and long, but with the aid of a little recreation—the senior play, the oper¬ etta, the senior party, and various other amusements—we managed to pull through. It has been a long pull, but after four years of determined effort and hard work we have reached our goal. A few of us have attained supreme success. It has giv¬ en us a taste of victory and we hope to continue in the top notches. These past school days will be treas¬ ured memories. Pleasant memories, it’s true, for the happiest days are those spent during school days. We will always have these trials and tribulations to look back upon. Certainly there were times when we were discouraged and blue, tired and depressed. Anything worth while must be obtained by honest-to-goodness hard work, and we of the Honor Roll feel that our posi¬ tions here are well worth the hard work and the worrying we’ve done for four long years. It’s an honor to be a member of the Honor Roll, but not an honor that is freely and easily won. Back Row, left to right: Blaine Cadwell; Roland Pagels; Grant Parker; William Zeeb. Front Row, left to right: Ellen Linder; Alice Bogen; Beverly Hossie; Ruth Stratton; Lois Walker; Wava Large.