Athens High School - Arena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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030 . 5 903,43 E AHS I924 'ei SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Hello! Hello! Is this l-9-2-4? Hello! Mrs. Royer? XVhy Helen. I didn't recognize your voice. I called to find out if you are going to the concert this evening. I-Iow's that? Ah, yes. Mariana Bing and Dorothy Drake are on the program. I believe. I read in the Morganite today that Dent Russell, Myron Parker, and Denver Gooding are supervising the sale of tickets. What? Speak louder. Helen. I can't hear. You saw Kenny XVilcox and Sam Bates. you say? Well, well. well. They are prominent lawyers in Detroit. aren't they?-you don't mean it! So they are visiting President Rees of the University. Did you know about our literary classmates of our high school days? Bea Sims and Justine Ruff at the beauty parlor today said that Dot Ann McVay and Jo Marshall were in Greenwich Village. -Yes indeed. And Harold VN7yckofI, too! He's quite a famous artist now, too. . Beg pardon. Helen? - Oh, I wish some one would stop cutting in. 5- What? --- Oh. yes. I heard from Chris just yesterday. She's playing the organ at St. John the Divine, vou know. - She wrote that Herbert Smith is the new minister there-my land! And Wilbur Imes is his assistant! - Pee XVee a minister! -- l'Iow's that? - Hello! - Hello! - Bob Dixon coming back! You don't say! As the new manager of the Shafer-Rhoads Hotel. That's fine! - Yes. indeed. XVho would have dreamed of Sereno and Jackie in the hotel business! You did! - Dutch Littler. just back from the Ohio Bread Trust Conference. said that Frances Pickering and Margie Sprague were models. -Oh yes, together as usual. Dutch saw William Kennedy. the Davis brothers. and Alberta Morris. too.-They-- No indeed! They are all in vaudeville. Isn't that killing? - Don Foster with Keith's circuit! - My land! -Yes, Don was quite a star in high school dramatics. you know. Helen. I simply can't hear you. Click the receiver. - There. that's better. Do you mean to say Fred White and Charles Tribe are in the hospital? - Oh, for good- ness sakes! - XVhen will they stop speeding on'that motorcycle! Ellen Johnson and Daisy Kennedy are nurses at the hospital, I hear- This line is busy please! -- Hello, Helen - you don't mean it! Mary Mansneld and Freda Turner girls' directors at Ohio State. That surely is news - and did you know Bill Davis was coach there? Some of our old classmates have figured high in politics. too. - NVhy, didn't you know that Hen Nice was running for governor of Ohio? - Mary Shafer's article in the Dispatch said that Leo Clifford and Harry Romine were appointed to the Supreme Court. too. That's what I said! r Have you heard that Rex and Honore Roush are on Redpath Chatauqua circuit this year? Adria Chappel and Helen Rathburn are too. They all appeared on the program last week at Lancaster. I wonder if Lancaster is on the same circuit as Athens. What - Mable Young. Frances Clark, and Frances Michael. opening a Blue Lantern Inn at Iuhrig! --- And Evan Hamilton's Quintet playing for them - you don't say! ' Did you read about Rose Violet. and Bea Butcher? - No. not that, my dear. -'- Why, they've just received their M. A. degrees at Columbia -yes. indeed. Ah, about Miss Jewett--this line is busy please. -- Yes. Helen. -- I almost forgot to tell you. Hello! Hello! Some one is cutting in f yes. Miss Jewett finally succumbed to the bug of love -- yesl she was a dandy class teacher. and one of our best friends. - XVell, everyone is delighted to hear of her marriage, though. What? -'- Hello, Helen. are you there? One can't take a minute on the phone any more without some one interrupting. - My land. I smell something burning in the kitchen - yes, yes, l've some pies in the oven so l just must hang up. Say, Helen - will you go to the concert? I almost forgot all about it. - Then we'll stop for you about seven-thirty - very well. Good-bye. , Page Twenty-nine

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can -I ,, 4' - omi- HRINR MYRON MARTIN Football 'Q-H. Officer Radio Club 145. EVAN HAMILTON Class Basketball Q2-3-45.- Football 141. Biology Club 145. NVILLIAM BAKER Football C2-3-41. Senior Carnival Committee C-U. XVithdrawn before graduation. XVILLIE KING Football HJ. Withdrawn before graduation. Page Twenly-eight

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1 IIRINR SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Without, the world seemed to be undergoing a great change. Rain beat against the plate glass windows, and the wind moaned mournfully among the swaying pine trees that surrounded the finest estate in the county. Vlftihin the spacious home, which was set back from the road in dignified seclusion, sat the owner with a book in his hands. A great clap of thunder, followed by a deluge of rain against the loose window shutters, caused the reader to thrust his book aside. Who could read on such a restless'night? , The fire-light playing on the dark wainscoating. the one rose-shaded lamp, and the bright pictures on the wall contrasted with the outside world and conspired to send the man who owned them into the pleasant land of dreams. The fanciful fire became a stage on which appeared happy memories of the long ago school days in Athens High School. First in this flaming red and black setting came a chorus of lads and lasses in knickera- bockers and hair ribbons. the Freshmen of A. H. S. They made their bow when the leaves of autumn were trying to brighten a quickly paling earth with their ruddy hues. Each day these industrious. youthful students entered the study hall with Algebra and Latin books under their arms. All the usual joys and problems were theirs during that first year. The pages of the calendar turned rapidly and the Fall of '21 drew nigh. As Sopho- mores they were very much like preceeding classes. The class had the distinction of having the least number of tardy marks as has been the case each year. Daily the Sophomores were vested with new responsibilities which they carried with ease. Then came a long Summer, at the end of which the background was painted again with the bright colors of September. There on the hill, looking over the town, stood a throng of students waiting for the door to be opened. The people who were last year's Sophomores were now' Juniors. They began at once to take their proper place in the school. The Junior Prom, the outstanding social feature of the year, was a huge success. The Carnival was a merry fun- fest with the usual fortune teller. confetti, and merry-makers. Different members of this class took part in debates, athletics and operettas. Many were elected to the National Honor Society. These three years soon slipped into the background and when the curtain rose again the promised land of the, Seniors was disclosed. The familiar forms wove in and out on the stage with the determination to play their parts well without being prompted. '. The best scenes were reproductions of those which occurred in the session room, where many weighty problems were solved. Should caps and gowns be worn No. Woixld another carnival be a success? It was. Robert Dixon, class president. was an excellent manager. and Miss Jewett, who was chosen class teacher, made a good director and coach. Mingled among the other colors of the setting appeared in artistic designs the Senior colors of blue and gold. For many minutes the now absorbed man gazed at the quarreling flames until another scene passed before his eyes. This took place upon the athletic field. At the side of the field, and surrounded by a human snake which wreathed about them many times, stood the team which represented Athens High. It was captained by Sereno Shafer, a Senior, who with many others won laurels for the Senior class. This class took the lead in all the activities of the school. Some of them came near the end of that glorious fourth act and were manifested in those delightful dramatic productions The Bo's'n's Bride in which many Seniors participated, and in The Tailor-Made Man, which put to the supreme test the dramatic talent of the Senior class. And the man saw once more, in the dying embers, his classmates as they acted their parts in that final setting. The members of this Senior class so lived and labored that, when the time came for them to pass from the stage after the last curtain call, they had left something behind. by which they would be remembered, to pay in part for the treasures they had won and carried away. It may have been because of the sheer joy of these memories. or sadness at the thought of leaving them. that the now prominent man arose and half whispered to himself, Those happy days! The wonderful school and class spirit! Then, walking noiselessly over the soft rugs to the piano, he opened it and with gliding hngers played his Alma Mater. ' MARY SHAFER. '24. Page Thirty