Your entering the Waterford Township portion of the web site but you will also find many Classmates and Friends from Michigan, Waterford and Drayton Plains as I prefer to call it.
My memory tells me my first year at WTHS was 1960 from there I eventually went to WKHS when they first opened the school. I nearly forgot going to WTHS and had to have my memory shaken up by Carol Bane.

I will change the colors here to reflect the school colors.

You will find this version easier to naviagte since there will be only three main pages;

• Alumni
• Classmates and Friends
• Photo Memories
• The Waterlogs 1948 - 1968 by Oliver Owens

You can always navigate back to the home page to go to the Waterford Kettering portion of the web site, or Click on this banner to visit the WaterfordAlumni Group over at Yahoo. Don Bova and Glen Bradsher keep it up and running.

A little more history of the blue and gold from Gary Lewis...

WTHS was last attended by a public school class in my Class of 1983. Classes
of '84 and '85 had the choice to go to either Mott or Kettering to finish --
they didn't rezone the district for those two classes because it was such a
political issue. Those two classes also had the option to walk at graduation
day wearing the Blue and Gold of the Skippers.

In the fall of 1983 the school was used for about another ten years as a
community education center; GED classes at night, daycare and special
education in the day. They also kept the shop(s) open for a while as kind of
a vocational school if I remember right.

By the way, our Class of 1983 20 Year Reunion is coming up this July if you
have any access to related websites or media outlets (radio, TV, news). Our
'official' website for the class is WTHSOnline.com
Gary Lewis 1983

Mike continues....

What a heck of a lapse of memory! When I first logged onto Classmates, I went browsing to the various schools. Went to Kettering which I graduated from in 1963. Went browsing WTHS and noticed several of the names there and dropped a few E-mails. Got one back that made me think I was at the wrong place. So I never ventured back. Now I remember I went to WTHS in the early sixties, then went over to Kettering when it was first built.

Now for what ever reason, I discover that all the photos I have and all the great friends I made while in Drayton Plains, started from my days at WTHS. Carole Bane sent me several pages from the yearbooks and I could not believe that those were some very special years that I had somehow blocked out of my memory. Strange....

Carole Bane writes:
I agree completely....that first year in "high school" at Township was a very special year. Going to Township was very different in a special way. The school had years of tradition behind it and growing up that's what you had always looked forward to going to WTHS. Kettering was very nice, all brand new and all, but it definitely wasn't the same. I'm sure the first few graduating classes from Kettering understand that kind of feeling. The 62 and 63 graduating classes were very different from most. All the way through school, because of the ever increasing population we never stayed with the same group of students for much more than two to three years at a time. From elementary school on. At Drayton Plains Elementary we were all split up some being shipped to the C.A.I. building for 5th grade. Then in 6th grade McVitty (I think that was the name) opened behind the shopping center on Dixie and half of the kids went there. Then we all went to Crary for 7th grade but on half days, so it was all split up again. Some in the morning some in the afternoon. Then split again, some going to Crary and some going to the new Pierce. Back together again in the 10th grade at Township only to be split again in 61-62 school year. Township holds many special memories for us and hopefully we will make some connections with the ones from those days also.

Someone sent in the following for those Pizza Burgers and the cookies we all enjoyed in school... Looks like it was Sharon Cunningham Blake who spent hours and weeks locating the recipes from the members of the school, and they shared it with her so that we can all go out and have a school party. Thanks to Sharon Cunningham Blake

School recipes

11 pounds ground beef
1/4 cup dehydrated onion
1 Tablespoon salt
1 Teaspoon pepper
3 pounds ground lunch meat (optional)
1 Tablespoon oregano
2 1/2 quarts pizza sauce
1 1/3 cups grated cheese

Make the day before. Put together and simmer.
l.5 oz. meat mixture and .5 ounces. cheese per 1/2 hamburger bun.
(Can use mix of cheeses/cheddar and Mozzarella or one cheese)
Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.  Makes 100-1/2 pizza
burgers.

Peanut Butter Brownies

1 1/2 pound Butter (melted)
1 1/8 pound Peanut Butter
2 5/8 pound Sugar
7 1/2 oz. Dry Eggs
1 1/2 cups Cocoa
2 1/2 Tablespoons Vanilla
1 pound Flour
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1 Tablespoon Salt
1 Pound nuts
1 1/8 # Water ( I will have to check on this one) I don't know if
maybe they mean cups?

Mix melted butter and peanut butter. Mix dry ingredients and add to mixture with water. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Makes 8 pounds per pan.
Must have use the giant pan.

I could not believe all I had to do to get the recipe was to call the Board of Education on Pontiac Lake Road in Waterford.
They were so kind to do this for me.
Hope you all enjoy!
Sharon Cunningham Blake

Mike

^{Butch Trager's memories....}

If you remember The Original Hollywood Squares and its comics, this will bring a tear to your eyes. These great questions and answers are from the days when game show responses were spontaneous and clever, not scripted and (often) dull as they are now. Peter Marshall was the host asking the
questions.

Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.

Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you
be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.

Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes

Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.

Q. According to Cosmo, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?
A Rose Marie: No, wait until morning.

Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.

Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say "I Love You"?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.
Q. What are "Do It," "I Can Help," and "I Can't Get Enough"?
A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.

Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.

Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A. Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.


Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.

Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.

Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps.
One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.

Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.

Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.

Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose
do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?

Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.

Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into
the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.

Q. While visiting China, your tour guide starts shouting "Poo! Poo! Poo!"
What does this mean?
A. George Gobel: Cattle crossing.

Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused but it certainly isn't neglected.

Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head,
what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.

Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your
elephant?
A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?

Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.

Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and
has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet

Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in
bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and Laugh !!