Madison Heights High School
1965 Class Reunion

Classes
Art to Language

Art

Brush and pallet in hand, a student explores the boundless opportunities afforded by painting for relaxation and creativity.

Sculpturing and molding clay into intricate art designs or humanlike heads belong in any art class as well as oil painting and charcoal sketching.

Auto Mechanics

Somebody has to fix the cars! Boys learned to repair them in Mr. Smith's auto mechanics class. Fellows worked on their own cars to gain valuable experience.

Biology (taken as a freshman)

Jim Doenges in Biology Class. The worst part of the class for most freshmen was the dissection of a live frog. Yu...uk!

Experiments in Chemistry class didn't cause too many explosions. But we kept hoping. Particles of substance...

acid...heat, and the resulting reactions made the mind probe into the why's and how's of chemistry.

      Drafting

In 1965, drafting students became tomorrow's engineers, mechanics and architects. Drafting afforded the opportunity for drawing simple and very complex structures.

Driver's Education

Here, Janie Wilkinson, learned the art of driving. When we were nearing the all important driving age of 16, this was the class to take.

English

Mr. Trumble's junior English class relives the adventurous era of Mark Twain by listening to the record by Hal Holbrook impersonating Mark Twain.

History

Past history and Present history were studied diligently. Youth were encouraged to take more interest in current events by compiling data from various articles for reports in history class.

Home Economics

Back in 1965, only the girls took home economics. I believe this is Ann Dillie. Home Economics seamstresses create stylish clothing of the latest fashions. After the final touches have been added, girls display their products at the school style show.

Picture on the left - Winner of the Crisco Award, senior Anza Mauck busies herself in the Home Ec kitchen. Picture on the right - Mary Granger, winner of the Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow Award, demonstrates her ability in the preparation of food.

Language

Several were offered - Latin, German, French, and Spanish.

In this photo, Jane Gelling talked about her French dream house. Since she married a Frenchman and has lived in France for many years, I wonder if her actual home resembles this one?

Library

Our library was a great place for research and studying.

I wonder how many books we checked out of the MHHS library during our years there?