1956-57 SHS Basketball Team

Thanks to Jodi Goshorn for sharing this photo of the 1956-57 Saugatuck High School Basketball team. Coached by Bud Whipple and Captained by her late husband Stanley (holding ball), varsity members included Ralph Birkholtz, Victor Mayer, Frank Lovejoy, Chuck Schoppe, Bob Brackenridge, Harvey Slotman, Bill Hedglin and Frank Lamb. Saugatuck was the smallest school in the Allegan-Van Buren League that year with 84 students in the top four grades.

The April 5, 1957 Commercial Record, covering the annual Rotary Banquet for Basketball Teams and Coaches, reported that the Saugatuck team was "District Champion" finishing 5^th in the Al-Van league. Their season record was 11 wins and 10 losses.

Stanley was his SHS senior class Vice-President, and went on to serve in the U.S. Navy. He retired from both the Saugatuck Fire Department and the Allegan County Road Commission. A resident of Saugatuck, he and Jodi had been married for 44 years when he passed away in 2005.

--contributed by Chris Yoder

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1880 Saugatuck Dietary Advice

A business ad featured in the Sept. 10, 1880 Lake Shore Commercial (now the Commercial Record) says "For a dish of fresh oysters go to R. F. Kleeman's. He also has them for sale at 40 cents per can. "

Directly following that note, the Commercial's editor, Mrs. Lena Woodall, offers her own sage bit of dietary advice: "Eat Oysters in the months that boast an R, and drink whiskey in the months that hold a Q. "

Reinhold Kleeman was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1838, and came to Saugatuck in the late 1850s. He was a prominent businessman here for many years and died in 1890. (To learn more about Reinhold F. Kleeman, visit his Riverside cemetery record).