Traverse City Central High School
Class of 59'
Traverse City Central High School
Class of 59'
Traverse City Central High School
Class of 59'
CLASS OF '59
Traverse City Senior High School
Senior Class Officers
Left to Right: Advisor, W. Gerard; Secretary, Rita Trager; Senior High Governor, Brian McGregor; President, Leo Arthur; Vice President, Doug McGregor; Treasurer, Solveig Sorum; Advisor, E. Smethells.


Senior Class History

Every graduating high school class looks with nostalgia at the four years spent developing from "green" freshmen to "wise" seniors. However, the TCHS Class of 1959 has a special reason for this feeling: the knowledge that they are the last class to graduate from Seventh-and-Pine Streets' Central High.

One early accomplishment in its memory is the exhausting but profitable Sophomore Magazine Sale. The next fall, "Onions In The Stew" was presented as the Junior Play to very enthusiastic audiences. Proceeds from the play and the magazine sale went toward the Junior Prom, "Sayonara" - a most elaborate and beautiful prom.

In the fall of 1958, the senior year started by welcoming New Zealand exchange student Adrian Coleman. The Government Day program, presented by the Government classes in November, was very interesting and informative to everyone. Furious work made the Christmas Formal, "La Nuit Des Cloches" (The Night of Bells), a success -which it most beautifully was. The Senior Play was "The Late Christopher Bean," a play of professional rather than high school caliber.

Soon now, you will hear the strains of "Pomp and Circumstance," and, impossible as it seems, they will be sounding for you, the Class of 1959.

Harbor Lights
Class Colors
Class Flower
Class Motto
Hawaiian Blue and Silver
White Rose
"We build the ladder by which we climb"
TCHS Class of '59
Where We Are in 2009
 
Of the 320 people on the Classmates List, 46 are deceased and there is no address available for 17 others.
 
Of the remaining 257 classmates, 162 live in Michigan.
 
Of those living in Michigan, 111 live in or near the Traverse City area.
 
Those who moved away from Michigan live in 29 states in the U.S.  One lives in New Zealand.
 
Of those who moved away from Michigan:
    *      Sixteen live in Florida
    *      Fourteen live in California
    *      Seven live in Arizona
    *      Six live in Wisconsin
    *      Four live in each of these states: Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington
    *      Three live in each of these states: New Mexico, Indiana and Illinois
    *      Two live in each of these states: Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Montana and Texas

One person lives in each of these remaining states:
    *      Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and
           Wyoming.
    *      One lives in New Zealand.


The numbers don't add up perfectly because five people have addresses in more than one state.

Compiled by Charlotte Graves