| Cass County Michigan Graduates |
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We are collecting information about the old schools of Cass County, Michigan, up to and including 1955. Please send us your old school information, ie. graduating classes, school rosters or pictures. Graduating classes may be 5th, 8th, 10th or 12th grades.
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1903 Marcellus School
Graduates
Row 1: Birdie Walker, Ethel Apted, Daisy Lewis, Helen H. Stern,
Neva F. Kent, Hattie I. Potter
Second Row: Albert J. Carpenter, Holister
H. Savage, Jennie Thompson, Deane Hebert, Harry P. Jones
Photo Contributed
by: Lois at grumpycrab29@yahoo.com
Marcellus 1920 lady graduates at
circa 1950 Class reunion.
Only one identified in photo is Leona (Cropsey)
Pound, far left in the front row
contributed by: Wendy VanderVeen
- 1932 Cassopolis Graduating Class - Class photo:
| From L-R 1st Row at Bottom: Miss D. Pawlley, History, Commercial Mr. Van Lenta, Coach, Science Miss D. Lockwood, Latin, English Mr. Sinclair, Supt. Miss F. Springsteen, Prin. Marion Baldwin, Music Miss M. Chapman, English Mrs. G. Street, Domestic Art |
2nd Row: Dick W. Jones George L. Hartman William H. Dillenbeck, Treas. Ann F. Armstrong, Sec. Edward F. Gebbard Margaret J. Colburn |
3rd Row: Marion Powell Wilson F. Kelley Alma R. Byrd, Valodict. (hand-written) Simon W. Fogg, Pres. Joe D. Bogue, Vice Pres. Fanny M. Carroll Richard Rinehart Myrtle M. Steinman |
4th Row: John Brooks Thelma L. Bass Burl K. Rice Rose Jones Richard R. Heath Helen E. McCully Maxine A. Ellis Robert F. Patterson |
5th Row at Top: Wm. G. Stephenson Marman F. Probst Gladys G. Morning Laverne H. Jones Rosalind B. Bauer ? Wesley B. McCoy Helen E. Beckwith James Lamb Bernice L. Breece |

1940
Cassopolis, MI High School Photo Text: Thirty-two seniors of the Cassopolis,
Mich., high school and their instructors are shown in the photograph.
Graduation exercises will be held Wednesday night May 29, in the gymnasium
and baccalaureate services Sunday night, May 26, in the Methodist church.
Shown are, left to right, top row: Leona Coker, Junior Rickman, Barbara
Ramsey, Donald Spalding, Marilyn McCully, Laura Jean Ayers, Robert Smith,
Esther Belle Gorton, Duane Carter, Rosemary Chatman; Second Row: Kenneth
Haines, Evelyn Myers, George Smith, Helen Ruth Waldo, Barton Leach,
Frances
Long, Roberta Mae Tase, Mary Trojan, Donnabell Shank, Betty Lou Cays, George Le
Mon; Third Row: Granvill Brown, Martha Fuller, Mildred Heath,
Warren
Wooden, vice president; OBoyle, president; Kathrun Doane,
secretary-treasurer; Harold Merwin, Betty Cobb, Bill Halladay;
Bottom row:
Ernestine Fitzgerald, John Dean, coach-English; Ameta Schwartz, commercial;
Harvey Elliott, agriculture science; Fred Strong, superintendent;
Kenneth
Hawkins, principal; Helen Wells, domestic science; Vern Neidlinger, stop-coach;
Vera Damstra, journalism-mathematics-Latin, and Richard Draper
Photo and
listing contributed by: Maurice Sanders
