Union High School - Aurora Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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Noon Recreation Lures Gay Unionites Putting on their most pleasant smiles, Haight, Van Oss, Niel- son, and Caminer wait in dread anticipation for the ll:30 bell which will send a mob of grabbing youngsters charging for the school store to re lenish their needs. P Let me see-the cake looks so good, but there - Blanton finds selecting delicacies from the day's menu difiicult because she is confronted by such an appealing assortment of calories. The cafeteria is a popular spot at lunchtime. Batter Up. Panzer, backed by Strain, bears a con- fident smirk as he Waits menacingly for the windup. More active Unionites find fast ball games are just the thing to set the blood circulating again after morning classes. Here's a quarter. Give me two-no, no-two. Hey, you gave me the wrong change. The frantic ticket seller struggles through this rain of commands as impatient students flounder for tickets to the noon- hour movies.

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With Fun At Morn The Day is Born Mc Diarmid, Lazoski, Noneman, Buzalski, and Rin- gleberg, as do several other happy Unionites, enter the portals of their treasured school in gay anticipation of the hours to follow. The hearty lumberjacks in the north woods have nothing on spirited Unionites when it comes to re- I Attentive Unionites listen with interest to home room leader Forrest Peterson, as he dutifully reads the bulletin of announcements in the daily program freshing diversions from routine in the form of varied recreation. Here is proof of the pleasing highlights in their daily activities. Often spirited pep assemblies or colorful lectures offer a haven of escape from the class- rooms. Reflector girls, garbed in the famous Red-Hawk football uniform, frolic before the student body in a Reflector sales assembly. Bells ring and the once vacant halls be- come a mob of hustling youngters as Wil- liams and Van Malsen wait while Sommers and Sanders search frantically for their Eng- lish books and Phillips struggles with her lock.

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Afternoon Pastimes Climax Busy Day First row: Passatelli, Felcieioni Reed, Schaaphok First row: Heslinga, Pinckney, Second row: Stahr, White, Johnson, Nonernan The last hour of the day seems the longest, wails many a work-worn student after a long, hard day of activity. Though the seventh graders pictured in the upper right gaze woefully at the clock, hoping that those last 45 minutes will pass ileetly by, they nevertheless have the consoling thought that perhaps one of the many clubs will be sponsoring an after-school sale like that pictured above and will serve delectable goodies that will most likely be swallowed in one satisfactory gulp. For some, the seventh hour is an extremely busy one, Keeping Union's honored War Memorial clean and its plant Well- Wabered is the duty Well-performed each day by Jan Wagenka. and Selling: Gessner, Gold lor it is then that Hliousecleaningn begins. Janitors politely disturb classes by emptying waste baskets, while those on the YVar Memorial committee and others give their objects of exertion a thorough and complete overhauling. Soon the day is ended and students make their hur- ried way home, only to return again in a few hours for an exciting jaunt to jackson, Muskegon, or perhaps Wfyandotte, on one of the many unforgettable excur- sions that prompts every student who graduates rem- iniscently to sigh, I'll never forget! Sleepy-heads like Gedris, Gillman, and Stranz doze off while Paw- loski stays Wearily awake on the way from one of the many excur- Dorothy Swanson. sions.