Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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tee YPSi OT Xrt HELEN LANDIS Walking Around in a Dream MARTHA WOLTER Only a Rose Chorus .1;.2, 3; 4; Glee. Club 2,. 3, 4; Operetta T; Interclass Hockey 3; G. A. C. 1; Drum Corps 1. PAULINE REEVES I Wanta Marry a Male Quartet Interclass Athletics 1, 2, 3. is GERTRUDE PACKER I’m on a Diet Dramatics Club 4; Interclass Athletics 1, 2, 4. RICHARD ROOT Who Cares What You Have Been? Chorus 1, 2; Glee Club 1, 2; Operetta 1. ELVIRA LOSEY Ain't Misbehavin’ Agricolae Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Interclass Athletics 1, 2, Bas We ee ae LYLE- BART I'll Get By Football 3, 4; Basketball 3; Dramatics Club 4. THOMAS HUNT A-Hunting We Will Go Swimming 2. E NEWCOMB ilmington High, Wilmington, Illinois, 1, 2, 3. ARLENE SPRINGMAN Receives diploma from Stockbridge High, Stockbridge, Michigan. GRANT PIERCE CHIS CHRISTOPHER John Garrie Junior High, Jacksonville, Florida, 1; Rob- ert E. Lee High, Jacksonville, Florida, 2; Baseball 3, 4. Twenty-Seven 7 % so te

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g TUE ¥YPS$4- BIX IT ie History of the Senior Class Being the plain history of its development, ancicnt, medieval, and modern. By- Vio... Horron Written originally with the advice and help of Wilber T. Best, Miss Carrie A. Hardy, and Miss Hazel Milks. Complete in one volume IN EFRODUCTION HE PURPOSE of this history 1s an attempt to tell, truly and clearly, in one continuous narrative, the whole story of the early beginnings and devel- opment of this, the Senior Class of 1931. ee . It seems absolutely necessary to present this knowledge to the public, for without it they can have no understanding of the class as a whole. Since the previcus class histories tended to give too much attention to recent events and too little to the remote past or ancient history, so that there was little chance of realizing the vital bearing of the past on the present, in this volume the author has attempted to remedy this situation. In the three divisions of this book, the ancient period will deal with those years extending from the first grade to the Junior High School, the medieval will comprise that portion known as Junior High School, and the modern will include that period of four years spent in high scholastic training designated as Senior High School. Thus the author respectfully concludes this introduction with deep thanks to the faculty advisers and other persons in the Ypsilanti school system who have given such splendid help in the writing of this volume. ANCLENSE BistoORY So far as we have been able to discover in searching through past records, this Senior Class of eighty-nine pupils, one of the largest classes in the history of the school, has with it but four of the original members who started as first graders in the Ypsilanti Central grades in the year of our Lord 1919. Their names are Margaret Morrison, Ruth Crawford, Junior Schrader, and Ross Robtoy. It is well known that in the early stages of life man could not write and so left few traces of his existence. And thus it was with the forerunners of this great and splendid class. They could scrawl but a few unreadable hieroglyphics, so we have no written records and must leave all to speculation. We did learn from their teacher, however, that even at this early age these four began to develop the tendencies that characterize them today. For instance, Margaret Morrison was even then a great talker, Ruth had started an eighteen-day diet which was to stretch into an eighteen-year fast, and Junior’s proclivity as a musician took form early, inasmuch as he always carried a brass instrument of some kind on which in his spare moments he would practice industriously. Oddly enough he named each horn in succession, Viola, while Ross’s talent as an artist became evident in the cartoons of teacher drawn on desks, walls, and sidewalks, and in addition Twenty-Nim