Athens High School - Arena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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AQEXQIA -qw? Senior Class History It has been four short and happy years since we, the Seniors of Athens High School, ascended the Old School Hill one bright September morning, and as the end of our high school course draws near we are inclined to ask ourselves what we have accomplished in these four years, these four happiest years of our young lives. We are going to try to tell you, dear friends and fellow students, just what these years have meant to us. I don't believe much is expected of a Freshman in high school except that he is expected to show the teachers just what kind of member he intends to be-a lifter or a leaner. We had a few leaners, but under the presidency of Jimmie Bason, we struggled away, feeling very big and responsible, and tried to help the lifting squad. Our efforts were not entirely in vain, and even when we were Freshmen we had a few members taking part in high school activities. As a whole, I believe we were nothing extraordinary as a class. Our second year we elected Carl Brooks for President, and began to feel that it was time for us to pick up our material and invoice. We found that we had no little dramatic talent in our class in such persons as Angella Woods and Homer Baird and a great deal of athletic talent, such as Boobie Battin. Our Sophomore year vested in us a new responsibility. We now felt we could tell the Freshmen a few things just as we had been told the year before. I think a Sophomore is usually inclined to over-estimate his responsibility, but it is a white sin, so we may as well overlook it. As Juniors a feeling of unity we hadn't felt before came over us. We organized under the excellent general who has led us so successfully through the last two years of our high school course, Abbot Wilcox. We chose Harold Mardis for our class teacher. Under this organization we went through a most happy and successful year. We kept up our attendance. And we were far from the end of the list when the grades came in, for in our class we had some excellent students. I feel that this is a good time to mention the fact that in our junior year we had a valuable addition to our class in the person of Ruth Miller, whose musical and scholastic talent we have learned to value highly. Now, dear friends, we come to the happiest and most successful of our high school years. Seniors, as upper-classmen, must assume responsibility in trying to set the very best example to the under-classmen, to show them just what kind of people these Athens High School pupils should be. There are a great many activities in which Seniors must and may take part, and I believe we have done well in having with us in our Senior class such eloquent leaders as Angella Woods, Abbot Wilcox, Homer Baird and Edward Sharp. We are proud of our athletes, some of whom we believe will go to college and make their names in college athletics. We might mention Clyde Battin, Carl Brooks, Abbot Wilcox. Ross Ctandee and Thornton Hughes, and wish them as much success in other things as they have had in their athletics here. Our four years in high school have taught us many things we could not have learned from books, and I am sure we have all learned to love one another in this Senior class so it YPQX i 1 so f ,,.-.f.--.e, M,,',.5 -is ' . E Y h K X 'Pm N xv -J!

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AQEKIA ritiiz if' that in later years when one or another of us is mentioned, we will have a soft spot in our hearts as we say, Oh, he was one of my classmates back in '22. High school has taught us to appreciate our teachers, to realize that they are interested in every one of us. At times we have thought our teachers too hard on us, a little unjust, but now we realize that it was simply our own selfishness and our own unwilling- ness to do our part. We love our teachers for their attitude toward us and we shall always feel the influence of such advisors. We feel that it is a good time to speak of our affection for Mr. Mardis as our class teacher. He has been untiring in his efforts in our behalf and we feel that we couldn't have chosen anyone who would have advised us more wisely or who would have been more interested in us. We have learned a great deal here in high school from our superintendent and principal. They have had time for all our troubles, were never too busy to be our friends and most willing advisors, and our Senior class is proud to have graduated from Athens High under such unsurpassed men as these. Dear friends and fellow students, I haven't told you many facts concerning our class while here in school, but at a time like this, when we are just getting ready to leave a high school so dear to us, our hearts are full of such a love and such an appreciation for those who make the high school what it is that our tongues can speak nothing but gratitude to our teachers and friends here, and our hearts are a little heavy as we think that our work and our play in Athens High School is at an end. H. F. P., '22. 'Q K-di :-it 4-Q r ixli: Y :lj , . t