Swartz Creek High School - Dragon Yearbook (Swartz Creek, MI)

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61:55 We the Class of 1951, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, do here- by make public and declare this our last will and testiment. I, ORVAL AUTEN, will my dancing ability to Mr. Brown. I, BARBARA BAKER , will my straight bangs and freckles to Joan Smeja. I, VELMA BRISTOL, will my ability to do Latin to Duane Tilson. I, LELAND BUSH, will my waistline to Bob Slawson. I, PHYLLIS CURTIS, will my friendliness to Donna Thatcher. I, JIM DELBRIDGE, will my bashfulness to Roberta Titsworth. I, DICK DELBRIDGE: will my tallness to Nancy Dowell. I, BETTY DONASKI, will my laugh to Joyce Sexton. I, ,DAVID HOAG, will my sideburns to Neil Sweeney. I, HAROLD KING, will my ability to get along with Mr. Fierke to Bob Lovegrove. I, TOM LAWTHER, will my girlfriend to the Marines. I, BOB LOPER, will my temper to anyone who wants it. I, DOROTHY McCLUNG, will my smile to Dotie Beamer. I, FRANK MOKAN, will my ability to argue to Rudy Papes. I, MUR IEL MORGAN, will my driving ability to Shirley Fick. 18 i ANN OCENASEK, will my quietness to Roseann Podolan. SALLY OESTERLE, will my ability to play a full game of basketball without getting fouled out to Barbara Loper. BARBARA PHARR IS , will my job to Nancy Perry. BEVERLY RAPPS, will my neatness to anyone who needs it. DOROTHY SPRATT, will my ability to hold a man to anyone who wants to try. I-IAZEL TAYLOR: will my slimness to Laura Phaneff. LEATRICE VINCENT, will my blond hair to Vivian DeMoss. SARA WATSON, will my everlasting smile to the Freshmen. ALLEN WEBB, will my ability to hold a class meeting to Mick Sweeney. BILL WOOD, will my build to Louie Vereka. ETHEL WYKES, will my shortness to Mildred Halka. RICHARD YOUELLS, will my naturalred hair to Shirles Drlik. BOB ELIASON, will my shoes size 12 to Charlotte Cooper. FRED VASICEK, will my knowledge to the Junior Class. DONNA FOLTS, will my ability to be quiet in Mrs. Wad1ey's study hall to Fred Cupal.

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Cfarid .lrlidforg By Hazel Taylor and Fred Vasicek From the days of yester-year came the cheerful memories of our beginning inhigh school. It seems like four endless years ago that we wondered what it would be like to be a senior. What does a senior have that a freshman or junior hasn't,got? Yaaaa, you guessed it. lt's that tired, rundown feeling from over-exhaustion! It doesn't seem possible that we were once ambitious little freshmen. Let your imagination drift back through the years to the month of September in 1947. On one bright' sunny day forty- one foolish freshmen started on the road through high school. Let's see, what was our first ---- Oh, yes, now I remember--- finding our home room was our first encounter, and who did we meet when we walked in but Mr. Sullivan, our class sopn- sor. After much confusion and meeting old and new acquain- tances, we finally settled down to work. Phyllis Curtis was elected as president, Pat Plummer as vice-president, Marion Yax as secretary, and Barbara Pharris as treasurer. Things rolled along about the same everyday for two weeks. Then one morning we were a surprised and frightened bunch upon walk- ing into home room. There on the blackboard were written the fantastic things we had to do for initiation. Those sophomores surely made us look like idiots with the boys looking like girls, but the girls not resembling much of anything. Among some of the activities of our freshman year were two dances, which turned out well. Out two concessions in the annualcarnival were baseball throwing and the ring toss game. We thought that we had been slighted when our candidates for king and queen, Allen Webb and Dorothy McClung, were de- feated in the popularity contest. June eighteenth ended our freshman year in high school. Oh golly, how good it was to be out of school for our summer vacation. Time slipped by that summer and we were back in school again in the fall. This being our second year in high school made us sophomores. Much to our astonishment we occupied the same old home room, but found Mr. Webb to be our new sponsor. From some forty-three odd students we elected our class officers, president, Dorothy Berlin, vice-president, Orval Auteng secretary, Betty Sue Dorrisg and Ueasurer, Lloyd Ste- phens. Norma Wilson, Joyce Fitzgerald, and Bill Fitzgerald were not to be found with us this yearg however, there were four new classmates in our class: Marjory Arnold, Betty Donaski, Marguerite Luginbuhl, and Marya Luginbuhl. Most of us were sorry to have our sponsor, Mr. Webb, leave in the latter part of the first semesterg but we met with a very remarkable per- sonality when Mr. Prappen, our new sponsor, came. Then came our revenge, initiating the freshmen. What a rough old time we hadl We really had those poor freshmen worried for a while, but lt wasn't really much to be afraid of after all. Finally our exquisite class rings arrived for which everyone had been waiting. Come to think of it, l'll bet some of those class rings have a history within themselves. Our candidate, Tom Lawther, won the election for the vice-presidency of the student council. The two dances spon- sored by our class were held on September 24 and the second on April 25. We also had an ice-skating party and took part in the annual carnival. Because of the stiff opposition Bill Wood and Marjory Arnold were defeated in the king and queen con- test. On the last day of school we were invited to a picnic at the Hoag's summer cottage. Upon our return in the fall of '49, realizing that timewas flying, we decided to get down to work for next year would be our senior year. Since Mr. Prappen did not returnto teachthat year, we again found ourselves with a new class sponsor. This turned out to be none other than Mr. Fierke, our brilliant but somewhat reluctant science teacher. After counting ears and dividing by two, as Mr. Fierke would say, There turned out to be only thirty-six students ln our junior class. We were regretful to find Elmer Vincent, Mary Lou Hoadley, Pat Plummer, Dorothy Berlin, Betty Sue Dorrig, Doyle Sampson, and Donald Knotts missing among the familiar faces. To add to our disappointment we had no new comets that year. From our midst we elected Tom Lawther, David Hoag, Marguerite Luginbuhl, and Velma Bristol as president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer respectively. Our first undertaking of the year was the campaign for our candidates, Allen Webb and Dorothy McClung, for the pres- idency and vice- presidency of the student council, Even though we were defeated we had three members from our class in the student council. Fred Vasicek and Phyllis Curtis as class rep- resentatives, and Dorothy McClung as band representative, We held a dance on October 31, 1949 and also several parties during the year. Then the junior class was proud to pre- sent the annual junior play, The Real Mr. McCoy . Under the excellent direction of Miss Lillian Baly, this was a huge success with lots of laughs. Of course the most important event was the preparation for the Senior Prom on May 31. All danced to the entertaining music of Brahm Ward and his orchestra. The auditorium was decorated with flowers and colored paper with a crystal ball in the center. The red and yellow spot- lights shining on it had a beautiful effect sending beams of light everywhere. Everyone had a wonderful time. Then we all looked forward to the Junior-Senior Banquet. The food surely was delicious. Thus, went our junior year with every- body eager to be off on their summer vacation again. Golly, did it feel good to be a senior and sit on top of the world. Oh, boy what a time we had. We were always thinking of everything under the sun that would be smart to pull. No wonder those teachers had special meetings just to talk about those proud but mischievous seniors. Coming ,back to a new building to be the first one to be graduated from it made us feel high-spirited. This new build- ing certainly did a lot in improving and making new studies possible. There are only thirty-two of us this year. Among some of the students who dropped out were Lloyd Stephens, Marjory Arnold, Sharon Artibee, and the twins , Marguerite and Marya Luginbuhl, The only new student is an attractive young lady named Barbara Baker, From our diminishing number we chose Allen Webb for president, Dorothy McClung for vice-president, Sally Oesterle for secretary, and Lloyd Stephens for ueasurer. After Lloyd left, David Hoag was elected to take his place. We still have that familiar acquaintance, Mr. Fierke, as our advisor. Our first activity of the year was selling magazine subscrip- tions. The girls sold far more than the boys. Then there were our graduation pictures taken by the Powell Studios'. They turned outquite satisfactorily. In October we sponsored a dance with the music of a local band. On December 9 came the presentation of the senior play, The Groom Said No . We also held several parties at which we always had fun. There were numerous other activities. Remember that hilarious talent show we presented? Boy, some talent. l'll never forget that-- --Oh, well skip it. Oh, yes, just to recall the fun we had on skip day makes us wish we could do it again. At last we were on our joyous senior trip for which all of us had struggled and worked through the last four years. Gosh, that trip certainly was exciting even though we did get sick. We all started from here one early morning and took a school bus to Holland, Michigan. Boarding a boat we started off for Chicago. After docking a short while we again set sail for Mackinaw ,Island where everyone had the time of his life. On leaving Mackinaw Island we arrived at Detroit from whence all of us were glad to get back to home sweet home. Coming back to those dreadful exams after Baccalaureate was something we didn't look forward to. But then came Class Night and Commencement which enthralled us to the heights of joy. Thus ends the era of our class in those well-known halls and rooms of Mary Crapo. The majority of us will be happy to leave high school, but in the future years we will all look back to those happy and joyful years we spent in this grand school of ours. 17

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arid MOP QC? BY Velma Bristol and Barbara Baker TIME: Summer 1956 PLACE: Lurline Cruise : Just listen to the music of Orval Au- ten's orchestra. He was always a lover of music. Well, well, if it isn't Barbara I see comingtoward us. She is one of those gallant Seniors of '51 from Swartz Creek. : Velma of all people. What have you succeeded in doing to earn such a wonder- ful trip? : I answered one of those long questions on Fred Vasicek's Million Questionsn. You remember Fred, always studying, must be he was composing the questions then. Anyway, he is doing well for him- self on several networks now. And you, how did you get here? : I had a month's vacation with pay plus a bonus so I thought I would kill two birds with one stone and visit my aunt in Hawaii and have the enjoyment of this trip too. She is living over there for a while and she wrote and asked me to come to visit her. She lives near that large Pineapple Grove' of Leland Bush's : Speaking of pineapple, Dorothy Mc- Clung is the proud owner of Dot's Fine Candies the new candy factory that is so widely known. She makes the best candied pineapple. : I always knew she was a sweet girl but I didn't know she would make candy of it. Has she employed any of our old class mates? : Oh yes, Betty Donaski is Dorothy's offical candy sampler, and Tom Lawther drives a truck fromthe factory to several surrounding cities. : Bill Wood was the star football player on the Detroit Lions team last fall and I suppose he will be even greater this fall. : He always did play a good game of football. By the way have you seen this month's issue of Woman's Home Com- panion ? Sally Oesterle's picture is in it. Don't get excited she is not a famous nobel winner but she is a model for New York Stylist, Inc. : She looked nice in everything she wore in high school. That must be the same place where Leatrice Vincent is the hair stylist. She has created several new hair styles. 19 : Oh, by the way Phyllis Curtis is a nurse in Ford hospital. Ijust received a letter from her the day Ileft. She said she enjoys her work very much. : About a month before I left for this trip I smashed the front end of the car but you wouldn't know it now because Dick Delbridge did a perfect job of bumping it out in his bumping and painting shop. : I stopped three days in Philadelphia on my way here to shop around a little. Anna Ocenasek was head waitress at the restaurant I ate at, the Frank's Best the owner is Frank Mokan. : Did you know you can learn to play Polkas in ten easy lessons from Bob Eliason's Studio? He set up this business in the great town of Swartz Creek. : Oh, I almost forgot to tell you that while I was in Philadelphia I went to one of the large churches. Guess who the preacher was. None other than Rev. G.D. Hoag. : When I made reservations at the Traveling Bureau I found Muriel Mor- gan at the receptionist desk and that Dor- othy Spratt was the president's private secretary. : Hazel Taylor is the owner of Taylor's Dairy located in Flint, Michigan. She buys milk from severallarge dairy farms in her vicinity. : So Ihave heard, and did you know that Richard Youells owns a big dairy farm and sells his milk to her. Also, Harold King is one of his herdsmen. : Barbara Pharris owns a grocery store. She sells Taylor Dairy Products and poultry from Beverly Rapps chicken ranch. : Bob Loper is the proud owner of Loper's Wholesale . He is doing very well and is increasing his business over a large area. : You remember how well Sara Watson liked to chew gum. Well she chews gum to her hearts content. For she is the sampler for Ethel Wykes' gum factory. : Well,that must make a lot of business for Dr. .Tim Delbridge. Donna Folts is the receptionist in his denist office. : Iguess we have talked about every- body in our class and they all seem to be getting right up in this world. : The music has stopped and we are back to reality. I hope that our futures are as bright as fortold.