Andover High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Andover, OH)

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+ 9.4. QQ O60 O- 0 'U D' CD PJ P-I D-I 0 Books were made in Geography concern- ing the different countries. The Seventh Grade wishes to thank all the faculty who have helped to make this school year so successful. -Miss Lillian Moore, Teacher. O SIXTH GRADE NEWS Last year after specimens of writing were taken, the pupils of room six decided pen- manship must be stressed during the year. They worked faithfully, and the mounted specimens at the end of each quarter showed a progressive improvement. In order to be able to conduct meetings properly a Current Events Club was formed and instructions in parliamentary rules was given. Ofiicers were elected and class busi- ness was carried on in regular order. To add interest to the club work, the class sub- scribed to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Early in the year the pupils felt the need of a new dictionary and more supplementary readers. A candy sale was conducted at the street fair and these books were purchased, also several books of fiction. Room six entered the W. C. T. U. contestg each student made a booklet. The winners were: Victoria Cobb, first. Homer Gray, second. Geography notebooks of the United States were also made and proved interesting and instructive. In the Declamatory contest, Ida Mary Sil- liman won second place. The class was very much gratified to find they had fifty-six perfect scores in the last county examination. Besides the club work which was of a social nature the pupils enjoyed a warm sugar party and are looking forward to an outdoor picnic before the close of school. -Grace E. Tripp. 0 FIFTH GRADE NEWS The Fifth Grade has no failures to re- port this year. The class is looking forward to a successful year in the Sixth Grade. The attendance for this room was better than average, until the eighth month when grippe and colds caused several perfect records to be broken. Five pupils, however, have neither been absent or tardy thus far for this year. They are Vienna Arnio, Lois Bissell, Carrie Bittikofer, Grace Harmon, Edwin McClurg and Jessie Smith. In the declamatory contest held in April Norma Woodard and Arthur Betts repre- sented the Fifth Grade. They competed with +o contests from grades Six, Seven and Eight. From this contest Norma was chosen to represent Andover at the district contest held here April 19. Edwin McClurg and Wilda Vickery are representatives for spelling for Grade Five and Vienna Arnio and Norma Woodard for spelling. -Clara B. Jerome. 0 FOURTH GRADE NEWS The enrollment for Fourth Grade has not varied much this year. Only one pupil has entered from another school during the year and two have Withdrawn to go to other schools. Our enrollment now standing at twenty-five. We have completed about all the work re- quired for Fourth Grade. We are now spending our time reviewing some of the dif- ficult parts of each subject. Friday's reading lessons have been de- voted to oral reading. The pupils found their own stories they wanted to read, stud-- ied them and read them to the teacher some- time before their turn to read. Besides these special stories we have read three other books. Our Health Club has aroused much inter- est in cleanliness and neatness. If someone forgets and comes to school with unclean hands and face or uncombed hair usually gets invited to leave the room to fix them- selves up a bit. It seems to be rather diffi- cult for one to get passed the inspector with- out these marks of untidiness being noticed. Margaret Hatton and Seymour Brown have been neither absent nor trady during the school year. Miss Perry has taught music in the Fourth Grade during this school year while Miss Roberts taught penmanship in Third Grade. We are glad to have Jackie Fletcher and Leo Maki to represent our grade in the school band, and hope more will take up the work in another year. We have made portfolios to keep our art work in. Each pupil made their own cover, originated their own design and colored them. Most of our art work has been free hand. Some of the boys and girls have proven to be real artists. The last project we take up will be designing a book cover for our United States book we are making in Geography class. Spelling has been given much time and a great deal of interest has been shown. We have made our own spelling pads for each month and our aim has been for everv one to get 100 per cent every day each

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0+ I O FRESHMAN CLASS HISTORY Most of them have been together since they were in the First Grade. During the years there has been many new members whom they have always welcomed. They have been unfortunate in losing members this year and the six vacant seats are mute reminders of their loss. Julius Chismar, Howard Williams, Franklin Lehn, Dorothy Weidenhamer, Lyda and Lyla Loe have gone to other places. During election time 'they had many fierce struggles, deciding whether a Democrat or Republican nominee should occupy the chair. Republican Harry Sanko was finally elected president of the class. The vice president was Ruth Hill. Clay Wentz, secretary and treasurer, manages the amazingly large money affairs. Blue and Gold was selected as the class colors. Although they worked hard during the year they have had some pleasure. Their party this year was a roaring success. Four of the High School teachers accepted an invitation to attend. They had many games during the evening and the refresh- ments proved that the committee worked hard. Best of all, they are only Freshmen. and we can look ahead to three more years of High School work. They wish you well, Seniors, but do not envy you! Let them look ahead, as Freshmen, to the opportuni- ties of the future. -Mr. Thompson. 0 FRESHMAN NEWS There has been a noticeable change in the atmosphere of the Freshmen room since the warm Spring days have come. The lassies are talking about picking flowers and the boys about fishing. It has not been determined who has caught the largest fish, but Mr. Thompson and Harry Sanko are chief claimants to the honor. Raymond reports not a nibble. The General Science class has been studying the topic, The Balance in Nature. In this study it was made plain that most of our common weeds came from Europe, and that American Nature is better if left undis- turbed by some foreign importations. We are planning to have a cake and ice cream social Wednesday evening, May 9, 1928, at the school house. Everybody is to come prepared to have a good time. The Biology class when do we take a hike? Mr. Thompson's whereabouts over the week-end was unknown. Those on the honor roll for April were Q Raymond Johnson, Helen Karpiak, Faye Myres, Maud Myres and Frank Robertson. O . EIGHTH GRADE NEWS There have been several things of con- siderable interest to those of us here in the Eighth Grade this year. We were glad when the girls copped for us the Interclass Basket- ball pennant. It helps to show where Andover's future basketball girls are. Our class held a class party in the base- ment of the schoolhouse in March 9. All enjoyed a good time and then lots of eats after the games. Ruth Fitts and Francis Simon repre- sented our room in the grade Spelling con- test. Ruth will represent our school at Jef- ferson in the County contest May 12. Junior Woodworth and Francis Simons represented our room in Arithmetic. They are representing the school in the County contest, too. Field Day events are in style now. Charles French and Winston Silliman being our high jumpers. Herman Austin and Wal- ter French heaving the shot for us. We have two who have a perfect atten- dance for the year. Francis Simon and Har- old Robinson. Four of our class have left us. Joe Geho, Frank T1'oia, Harry Emmerson and Mamie Huffman. Then we have one new member, Harry Petrie, making the total which hopes to be Freshmen next year, 27. For a month our class had a change in the regular course of study. The girls were instructed in sewing by Miss Moore and the boys were given manual training by Mr. Jerome. All seemed to enjoy the change. -Carl G. Jerome, Teacher. o SEVENTH GRADE NEWS The Seventh Grade has enjoyed many activities this year. The girls have had a month of sewing and the boys a month of manual training. A number of the pupils have moved away. We were very sorry to see them go but we wish them success in their new schools. The grade has been having lessons in water coloring and many interesting pictures have been painted by members of the class. During the year a Bird Club was organ- ized and much interest was shown in out- door life. Field glasses were brought and were used extensively to aid them in their study. The class is ahead of other Seventh Grades in all their books. In several they have finished thus taking some of the Eighth Grade work. Q o+ryrer+o++rQ+o+++ooo+ooQ-0 5-0-Q4-0 Q PAGE 10

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-9-+4-0-0-09-0-0-Q month. The penalty for those who didn't do this was to take a spelling test covering the words spelled during the month. Besides these has been quite a rivalry between the boys and girls to see which could have the least number missing words. The Fourth Grade can feel proud of themselves to know that there are no fail- ures. Hazel Roberts. O THIRD GRADE NEWS The following pupils have not been late or absent during the month of May: Howard Barnes, Kenneth Cook, Marietta Fitts, Ruth Hazelton, Ruth Inman, Vieno Maki, Claire Miller, Wade Miner, Donald Peck, Florence Peck, Charles Peebles, William Simons, Doris Simons, Clarabel Snyder, Blanche Ward and Hiram Waters. Blanche Ward is the only one in the third grade who has had a perfect attendance the entire year. Miss Roberts has had charge of the writ- ing this year. Pen and ink have been used most of the time and fine results have been obtained. As we think back to the beginning of our third year's work a great improvement can be seen in our reading. The readers we have read are Beacon Second Reader, Beacon Third Reader, New American Reader, Elson Reader, Winston Silent Reader and Beacon Fourth Reader. Many of the stories have been dramatized, encouraging self-expres- sion. The first fifteen minutes of each after- noon are given over to the reading of a chap- ter from some books chosen by the boys and girls. Nine of the Bobbsey Twin books have been read. The children having the six highest grades for the year are Marietta Fitts, Vieno Maki, Ruth Hazelton, Burdetta Beebe, Her- man Karr and Claire Miller. A project was worked out in connection with our drawing work. National Biscuit boxes were gotten from the stores and one side and windows cut out, thus making lovely doll houses. The walls were papered, rugs put on the floor, curtains hung at the win- dows and furniture constructed and placed in the room. Bedrooms, living rooms, kitch- ens and dining rooms were made, each child bringing out some harmonious color combi- nations, also work in arranging furniture. National Music Week, which is the week of May 6, is being observed in the third grade. The pupils who can play or sing some little pieces are going to give their class- mates a program Friday, May 11. Arleen Leonard, Alice Corey, Goldie Van Dusen and Keith Russell were enrolled in our grade for a part of the year, but moved to other schools. All the multiplication tables have been learned in our arithmetic work throughout the year. Other new work taken up has been the multiplying of numbers with numbers carried over, subtraction involving borrow- ing and division with numbers remaining to be carried over. The work book used this year has made the arithmetic work very in- teresting, the thought problems being about the things children are interested in and are told in story form. Health scrapbooks were made a few months ago. Pictures were collected per- taining to health and health rules. Good food, exercise and fresh air, proper care of the body and cleanliness were some of the lessons taught. Our room is planning a picnic for the last day of school, if the weather permits. Faye Perry. 0 SECOND GRADE NEWS The second grade total enrollment for the year is 44-22 girls and 22 boys. At the end of the year we have 39-21 boys and 18 girls. Lois Jane Parsons missed two months of school with scarlet fever. She was the only one in our room to get this disease. Susie Turoci, Jack Hazelton and James Hatton have been neither absent nor tardy during their second year of school. During the year Robert Lyle Allen en- tered our room from Wayne, Florence Davis from Saybrook, Helen Nemes from Cleve- land, Lois Jane Parsons from Williamsfield. Also several boys and girls moved away, Ar- lena Case to Richmond, Florence Davis to Cleveland, James Dixon to Grafton, W. Va., and Mary Ann Weidenhamer to Deiance. Burdetta Beebe was promoted to third grade in October. She has been doing splen- did work all the year. In April Bobby and Betty French joined us from first grade. They are doing good Work in our room. The following have been on the Honor Roll for the year: Lois Butler, Beulah Carr. Betty Cross, Lucille Fletcher, Olaf Maki. Lyle McCormick, Carol Pancost and Helen Scannell. We have read the following books in our regular reading class: The Beacon Intro- ductory Second Reader, the Beacon Second Reader, the Progressive Reader, In Animal Land, the Everyday Classis and the River- side Reader, besides first having reviewed both the Beacon Primer and the Beacon First Reader. As part of our reading work the children prepared stories outside of school and read PAGE 12