Athens High School - Arena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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Hobo Day ON April 9, 1931, Athens, as well as Athens High, was reigned over by Hoboes. Two parades were held, the Hobo Band leading. Boys in torn, greasy overalls, ragged shirts, run over shoes. laced with cord string and with bearded faces and red noses could be seen everywhere. Girls wore patched gingham, antique hats, shoes and stockings, but not mates, had much make-up and dirt smeared on their faces, carried odd satchels and holey umbrellas to keep the sun off. The band led the class downstairs, into the auditorium, across the stage and to their seats. After the review, Dorothy Frank and Harold Gorham were adjudged the winners. Every member of the class had a part in the entertainment at the assembly. Songs, readings and dances were the features. This is the fifth time hobo day has been successfully held. Twenty-four

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PAUL FERRY CARL WEBER Hit eye and manner be- speak ambition. Football 3 Basketball 2. 3 Manual Arts Club 3. 4 A little nonsense now' and then: And then a little more.” Manual Arts Club 2. 3, 4 Student Council 4 Hi Y 4 Glee Club 2 PAUL POWERS This world belongs to the energetic. EUGENE CASSELS Never say die. man: up and try. EARL HALLER Great men are often un- known. or what is worse, often misknown. CLARENCE FIELDS He is known near and far As our athletic star. Football 2. 3. Capt. 4 Basketball 2. 3. 4 MELBA VERCOE Is she talking yet or again? Social Science Club 3 Latin Club 3 National Honor Society ♦ Twenty-th ree

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 Senior Class Will WE. the Senior Class of 1931, do hereby make and publish our last will and testament. We. being of unsound mentality, do give, dump, and bequeath the following valuable possessions to our suffering successors, the Junior Class. DONOR Velma Alexander Doris Allen Elsie Barnhill Mildred Bean Edith Bertram Mary E. Blackburn Gladys Bobo Marion Boggs Julia Bogle Dick Bolen Carl Browne Ivan Brown William Burt Catherine Campbell Lucille Carpenter Eugene Cassels Charles Chandler Arabelle Chute Bill Cline John Cline Frank Dickens I'hea Connett Earlene Cooper Ruth Daggett Dolly Dailey Helena DeVorc Oba Douglas Helen Drake Ruth Drake Nita Ewing William Farrell Mary Ellen Farrow Paul Ferry Clarence Fields John Foite Dorothy Frank Harold Gorham Edith Greenawalt Earl Haller Herbert Hartman Margaret Haskins Dwight Harvey Lucy Heightland Warren Higgins Carol Hope Harry Hudson Fallic Hughes Harley Jeffers Mildred Johnson Raymond Johnson Mary Jones Mary M. Kelly LEGACY her fastitdiousness her flaming hair her college beau her glass eye her misbehaving eyes her sweet smile her innocence his place as a member of Senior Class her matrimonial views his Radio Hookups his sheiky ways his pull in Physics Class his rosiness her laughter her specs his ability to pluck ukelele strings his sister her love his temperance views his fondness for opposite sex his coupe her golden hair her sweet disposition her roundness her pet expressions her boisterousness his industriousness her Bobbie Pins her winning smile her heroes his Latin book her Civics book his ability to swim his athletic ability his high powered Ford one-half dozen doughnuts three pads of tardy slips her moods his dramatic abilities his innocence her sophistication heroism her new roller skates his stout and stubby figure her country estate his wicked ways her flowering tresses his boldness her Mongolian eyes his bravery her school girl complexion her stride HEIR Donald Sams Lena Tucker Ruby Carmean Grace Story Helen Jones Mary C. Clutter Lucille Jones and Vernon Naomi Louise Kempton Virginia Hoover Lorene Rodehaver Gordon Oxley John James and Parker Sands Dennis McDaniels Betty Gullum Emma Mariner Harry Beebe Dick Corwin the Junior Class Jimmy Overmeyer Tom Reading Clifton Atkins 'Torn Craig Josephine Cojiry Clysta Rosser Mary JoTwiss Irma Greenawalt Nick Joseph Beatrice Perkins Virginia McGraner Kathleen Kerr and Jane Gill Kenneth Stewart Frances Kempton Randall Hunter John Bates Anyone who can persuade it to run Francis McClain Paul Lewis Ruth Dixon and Louise Moore- head Carl VanDyke Mike Patestides and Bea Brew- ster Bill Clark James Blazer Ardis Metcalf Riley Gaskill William Kavlish Fred Lee Helwig Genevieve Merchant Robert Holdren Mary E. Morton Roy Riggle Sarah Sherman Anyone who can get the swing Tu enty five