College Elementary School

The following list was first based upon:

YEARBOOK 1951-1952
Central Michigan College of Education Parent-Teacher Association College Elementary and Junior High School

However, as students went and came during the potentially eight years at College El, this list is bound to be inaccurate in many instances both in inclusions and in omissions as a record of the "graduating year," 1954.   I have taken the list of fourth graders in fall, 1951 and supposed them all in the sixth grade class of (spring) 1954.  Ruth Bown has provided some addtions.  Diane Dargitz also provided confirmations and queries, as well as many addresses.  She can be contacted directly at randdhoward@earthlink.net.  Karen Veit has also send additions and corrections.I will publish addresses and emails on this site as folks respond and authorize me to do so.

The Little Chips Junior High Yearbook gives a list of sixthgraders in 1954.  I have edited the list below accordingly. 
Corrections are, as always, most welcome.

(Listed as 4th graders, 1951-1952, with additions and corrections):

Ball, Jim
Beatty, Taylor
Beckett, Peggy (Giller)
Bradley, Larry
Brandt, Roger
Breidenstein, Joan (Forrest) (not on roster of '56 sent by Karen Veit) (not on Little Chips roster, 1954)
Cole, Diane (?): Diane Dargitz (Howard) does not recall that Diane was in the class by sixth grade; Nan Lauer (Spindler) thinks she might be '55, not '54; Karen Veit confirms in '55--also, not on Little Chips roster, 1954
Cole, Jack (in this class per Karen Veit; not on Little Chips roster, 1954)
Dargitz, Darlene (Finch)
Dargitz, Diane =  Diane Howard, 345 E. Wing Road, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858
Doby, Marcelle (Williams) (not on roster of '56 sent by Karen Veit; not on Little Chips roster, 1954)
Evett, Paula (Shirley)
Fleming, Joe
Foley, Mary (Howe)
Heydenburg, Bob: Diane Dargitz (Howard) does not recall that Bob was in the class by sixth grade; Nan Lauer (Spindler) thinks he might be '55, not '54; Karen Veit confirms him in '55; not on Little Chips roster, 1954.
Harless, Leonora*: Diane Dargitz (Howard) writes: "She and her two sisters, Mary (CE Class of 56) and teenaged Ona Mae (CE Class of 48) were killed in an accident.  Ona Mae was driving some little home-made vehicle on the shoulder of west M-20 near their home when  they were hit by a car. It was during the summer of  ’53 or ’54.  It was SO tragic. The Harlesses had  4 boys, I believe.  These were all of their girls"
Killian, Bob
Lance, Don (on Little Chips roster, 1954)
Lauer, Nan (Spindler)
Leonard, Jim
Marks, Betty (Anderson)
Martin, Nancy (Bleier)
McVey, Dan (moved during 1954 per Karen Veit; not on Little Chips roster, 1954)
McVey, David (moved during 1954 per Karen Veit; not on Little Chips roster, 1954)
Mefort, Bart
Morris, Gregory (not on Little Chips roster, 1954)
Moss, Julia (Crowley)
Orr, Vance*
Osgood, Jimmy
Poole, Charles (not on roster of '56 sent by Karen Veit; not on Little Chips roster, 1954)
Potter, Dick
Recker, Jimmy
Steg, Eric
Stitt, Peter
Sudborough, Mike*
Thering, Ray (7th and 8th grades only; not on Little Chips roster, 1954)
Veit, Ross
Woodby, Sylvia (7th and 8th grades only; not on Little Chips roster, 1954)
Wysong, Mera Lee (Pety)
Zeoli, Janet (Green)

* = deceased

NOTE: Diane Dargitz Howard notes that in a picture from second grade, a student, Ruthie McDonald, appears; she recalls that Ruthie was in the class only for one year.