Sturgis High School - Sturgensian Yearbook (Sturgis, MI)

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Class Prophecy Recently I was presented with a “post victory” chrystal. As I gazed into its fu¬ ture-revealing depths, I saw a blue haze. Then it cleared and the class of ’43 appear ed to have taken its rightful place in a peaceful United States. Mr. Charles Brown and his bride-to-be, Miss Alice Bogen, hav e purchased the love¬ ly “Swinging Door” night club of the metirrpolis of Burr Dak. Mr. Donald Froli is still blowing them loud and sour in the Salvation Army Band. Mr. Charles Arver has signed a con¬ tract to play with the “Cleveland Club- foots”, professional basketball team man¬ aged by Fred Torn and Charles Haack. Professors Cadwell and Kraft have been named research chemists for Du Pont. Mr. Marvin Fldridge has recently pur¬ chased the Leone Studio of this city. News item: Miss Jacqueline Krumm, Miss Fawn River of 1948, and that tall, darkhaired playboy, a former classmate, have decided to say their “I do’s.” The Misses Beverly Bell and Ann Dwyer are spending a month in Detroit for beauty lessons and treatments. The Misses Dolores De Oliver, Velma Mae Fair, Joyce Gasper, Jeanne Krueger, and Florence Gottschalk were among those to graduate recently from Ford Hospital of Detroit. Mr. Keith Lancaster has accepted the position of house detective at the Hotel Elliot. The Misses Betty Embler, Lois Hrdina, Betty Houser and Beverly Hossie have been selected as the four leading secre¬ taries of Michigan. Messrs. Robert Gage and Joe “Flash” Crain of the New York Mudcats are hold¬ ing out for more money. They’re still the same old boys. Mr. Dale Clark has appointed Mr. Mar¬ ion Jones to manage his 1800 acre sheep ranch in Colorado. Mr. Richard Clark and Mr. James Frays, flea experts, have returned from the tropics where they gathered material for Mr. Clark’s new book entitled “Bug Life In the Raw.” Mr. Louis Burmeister is in his 5th year as a Freshman at Northwestern University. The Misses Lois Crosbie, Elayta Creamer, and Bernita Carpenter have se¬ cured positions as secretaries in Wash¬ ington D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fair (Marilyn Clark) have moved into their new home at Coldwater. Messrs. Kenneth Kroll and Kenneth Brothers have perfected a new hog feed fit for humans. Miss Wava Jean Large has been added to the faculty of Sturgis High School. She is teaching a course in how to get “A’s” and still have a good time. The Richard Fontaine Dairy claims more cream per quart than Richard David¬ son’s Dairy claims flies per cow. Miss MaDonna Dauber is again the star of a new Broadway hit. The Misses Arlene Eicholtz, Eva Mae Englarth, Jeane Eichler, and Shirley Evert have united their talents and opened a Beauty Culture School in Chicago. The boy next door has finally claimed Elizabeth Hafer as his bride. Miss Doris Kline and her co-author, Miss Myrtle Asbury, have written a best seller entitled “Helpful Household Hints.” The Misses Florence Carls and Wilma Kanouse are consistant first prize win¬ ners in the Home Cooking Department of the St. Joseph County Fair. She’s engaged, she’s lovely, she used Shear’s Miracle Mudpack! You will find this slogan along with Jean Pierson’s pic¬ ture in all the current magazines. “Leaping lizards,” said Annie, “Bow wow, ’ ’ barked Sandy. Don’t forget to tune in next Sunday at this same time and hear Ralph Oman read the funny papers to the kiddies.

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— Valedictory “I desire to see the time when educa¬ tion and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise, and industry shall become much more general than at present. ’ ’ Such were the words written by Abraham Lincoln in the last century when a good education was a rare privilege. Lincoln’s keen mind saw far into the future when the common man’s passion for more knowledge and greater learning would be satisfied by a great sys¬ tem of public schools. Lincoln’s desire has now been realized. Since his time amazing strides have been taken to bring to the Am¬ erican youth the ‘‘Light of Knowledge.” The men who were responsible for making a success of our educational system realized the heed for more advanced subjects in our public schools. As a result our public high schools offer work in chemistry, physics, mathematics, social sciences, and a great number of vocational subjects. Dur¬ ing the past twelve years we have had the opportunity of taking full advantage of this great educational system. However, our graduation will open an entirely new era of our lives. Each one of us will become a vital link in the ranks of our city, state and nation. It will be our duty to accept responsibilities willingly and to help protect our rights to “life, lib¬ erty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Most graduates of the past looked forward to colleges and universities where they could, through further study, obtain better posi¬ tions and more rapid advancement. How¬ ever, our graduation class faces an alto¬ gether different situation. We must share the responsibilities and burdens necessary to win the worldwide conflict now raging. Most of the boys will enter the armed forces of our nation while the girls must make their efforts felt on the home front. We must meet any problem as a challenge and face it with courage and de¬ termination. The greatest men of the past succeeded because they had the willpower to carry on through all opposition and de¬ feat all difficulties confronting them. Will¬ power shall also play a vital roll in shaping our lives. The progress we make, the heights of prosperity we attain, and our future happiness depend upon it. Therefore it will always be important to remember that “the man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any goal.” —William Zeeb ★ ★ Salutatory Parents, teachers, fellow students, and friends: William Shakespeare once wrote : “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players ...” Life is a mammoth play. High School graduation is but a step between the acts. It is, however, a big step, out of the shelter of school life into the world. In the first act most of the scenes are pleasant, but now the play becomes more serious. Sometimes we wish we might prolong the pleasant scenes where the players and scenery are familiar, but the play moves on and we must make our adjustment to new scenes, new players, and a changing plot. The stage on which we are about to step has un¬ dergone a great change of scenery in the past few years. The act into which we shall enter is different. This class, instead of going on to college and private positions will be working for the defense of our country, in the armed services, on the pro¬ duction front, and on the home front. Many of us may feel miscast in the roles which we shall be obliged to play in the next act, but if we give the best we have to those roles, playing our parts with courage, sincerity, and high purpose; and if we hold steadfast to the age-old principle that right must prevail, we shall eventually find ourselves in the roles in which we can give our best performance. —Blaine Cadwell

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Lois Meisling, Norma Meyers, and Georgia Smith, three great Metrosournote stars will be in Sturgis next Monday night. They will sing all the songs from their latest opera. We are happy to announce that Argyle Morrison, who has been a Mrs. for the last five years, has just presented her husband with a set of twins. Dorothy Nugent and Ellen Linder have just opened an exclusive clinic for expect¬ ant fathers. They will sooth the poor things’ brows while the blessed events are taking place. The famous Drip-O-Tea Room will be closed this afternoon. The managers Norma Large, Thelma Smoker, and Jean Hart, are taking their families and hus¬ bands to the country for an outing. Recently Phyllis Squire was appointed by the National Businessmen’s Association as the ideal career woman. Accepting Hollywood’s offer to play the part of the “Tall Thin Man”, Jack Toepper has agreed to grow a mustache. It is rumored that Robert Miller owns a large chain of bowling alleys throughout the country. Up for reelection this term we find Luella Prestidge running for Sheriff of Carson County. She states emphatically that she always gets her man. The Miller and Miller Zoot Suit Busi¬ ness is doing marvelously well since movie hero Bill Post has worn them in all his latest love roles. He will appear soon in “Savage Love”. We’ve just received word that Dick Newman has at last been made manager of South Huckleberry’s Montgomery Ward store and he now has one clerk—Dortlia Long. Attention lonely hearts! If your love troubles are getting you down tune in your radio to station WOW! at 5 o’clock and Telia Talstorv (Arietta Monroe) will ex¬ plain to you all the latest methods of how to get your man and hold him. Subscriptions have soared since Es¬ quire Magazine has been edited and pub¬ lished by Virgil Wittenberg and illustrated by Bill Shinn. The Waldorf Astoria of New York has just hired Jack Sowers and Ernest Vaillan- court as chief cooks and bottlewashers. “Let us pray, brethern”, says Rever¬ end Theodore Warner each Sabbotli morn, in his little brown church in the valley. Mary Pinney has recently become lit¬ erary critic on the Burr Oak Acorn. Kate Painter is still taking dictation from her boss’s lap in the City Office of Sturgis. The newest invention of Roland Pagels and Grant Parker, the Amphiboplane, is the result of many months of experiments. It is rumored that this machine can sail on water, ride on land, and fly in the air. The great Naval flying Ace, Bob Sclieetz, has agreed to test out this remarkable (!) invention. We recently heard that Prof. Elwood Stevens and Prof. Newton Taylor have opened their School for Refined Young Ladies, in the east. Evidently the girls can’t resist these dashing young profes¬ sors for enrollment is very high. Shut off from the world in their lab¬ oratory, Wm. Zeeb, the great mastermind and his assistant, Morris Jackson have dis¬ covered and proved that 2 plus 2 is not 4, but 3. They will soon publish their book called, “Theories Incident to the Pleni¬ potentiary Axiom of the Parallelopipedon as Contrasted to an Isoseles Triangle”. Modeling the newest creations made from limestone, celophane, and carbon for the ultra swank “400”, Jane Watson has become a renowned figure—and how! Raymond Strang alias “The Killer”, after a brilliant career as a wrestler, is happily settled down in the cares of domes¬ tic life. We have just heard that Bill Toepper has fled to the north woods to take refuge in the Deagen-Douglas Sanctuary for Dilapi¬ dated Males, to get away from the usual thing, a determined blond. Mrs. Lois Walker Loomis has resign¬ ed her position as head nurse at Hoboken