Bexley High School - Bexleo Yearbook (Bexley, OH)

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-..— — -• Z5orcl) •-------------------------------------— THE CLASS HISTORY STUDENT DAYS are happy days, and ours have been no exception. As they are fast drawing to a close, recollections of all the convivial pastimes, the pleasant experiences, and delightful friendships, which filled these four years to the brim, come back to us in surprisingly great numbers. Our class has won many laurels in scholarship: we rated the highest in the Intelligence Tests; fifteen of us made the Senior Honor Roll; and fourteen gained membership on the National Honor Society. Considering the size of this year's group, that was quite an achievement. The Student Council was again revived, with the seniors Sam Caldwell and John Stark as principal officers. Along with it came the All-School Dances, which were the jolliest affairs of the year and the result of the active interest shown by the Student Council in the students' pleasure- activities. We were also deeply indebted to the various clubs which participated. A large number of our class were members of the Hi-Y Club; and Jim Morgan, a senior, was president this past year. They delved into the annJual temporary resort to lunacy with fervor, whisk- brooms, and shoes that were ill-mated. Their HhY Frolic was a great source of enjoyment. The presidents of the Girls' Athletic and the Girl Reserves' Clubs this year were both seniors. Their presidents were Virginia Furniss and Mary Ellen Brightman, respectively. The G. R. C. was unusually active, with the gala Big Sister party, the Jolly Jamboree, the Washington's Birthday dance, and the annual Coed Prom topping the list of its activities. The Garden of the Shah, the musical comedy operetta which scored such a hit this year, was surmounted by a commendable cast of seniors, all of whom carried off honors. Jane Davis, Ted Jones, Ann Altmaier, and Walter Murphy had stellar roles; and were ably supported by Ralph Brown, Harriet Johnson, and the two lower classmen, Billy MacDonald and Lloyd Riley. Ted Jones and John Dunnick carried minor roles in last year's The Belle of Barcelona. Hash, the highly amusing skit presented in chapel by senior members of the TORCH staff, deserves some recognition here, for it showed not only remarkable ability on the part of the performers, but also the fine determined spirit that our hitherto flourishing and excellent paper should not be discontinued for financial reasons. We are partly indebted to them for having retained the TORCH this year. And oh, yes, the Junior-Senior dance must not be forgotten. It is always great fun, and was such in a high degree this spring. The memory of it can well endear our school to us. The Homecoming game with Upper Arlington was presided over by Mary Downey, the queen, and her court attendants, Virginia Schorr and Anne Bonnet. Bexley's football fame was upheld by our gridmen when they tied for us in the Central Buckeye League Championship. As a whole, they showed remarkable fighting spirit throughout the numerous battles staged last season. The Bexley gridders, topped by Captain Bob Beggs, were greatly responsible for our winning the undisputed championship in the C. B. L. the previous year. Bob Magnuson captained the basketball team, whose outstanding players included Beggs, Stark, Calwell, and Jim Bone. Prominent in track were Stark, Walter Murphy, Dienst, Bone, Beggs, and Magnuson. The latter two scored in baseball likewise. Ben Gardner, Stark, and Beggs led the natatorial movements. Our achievements in sports lay for the most part this year in the efforts expended on the gridiron. These memories will strike us warmly, always; and they will entirely eclipse any of those less pleasant. The true significance of high school life is just now beginning to be opened to our eyes, and it will gradually grow upon us when we have begun to apply our acquired knowledge and skill to the world's work. No, our student days will not soon be forgotten. MARY CAMPE. Pacte Twenty-three

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 D..UI ir. I -JU. Bottom Row, left to right—Joe Kerr, Bob Magnuson, Ruth Ebert, Mary Campe, Bob Beggs, Anne Bonnet. Second Row—William Young, Edna Bradbury, Ann Altmaier, Fritz Lichtenberg, Martha Brundige. Top Row—Bob Kloss, Mary Elizabeth Keys, Mary Ellen Brightman. NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY FOURTEEN members of the senior class of 1934 were selected as members of the Bexley Chapter of the National Honor Society of secondary schools this year. The object of this organization is: to create enthusiasm for scholarship; to stimulate a desire to render service; to promote worthy leadership; and to encourage the development of character in pupils of Bexley High School. Membership is based on four things: scholarship, service, leadership, and character. The members are selected from the upper third of their class in scholar- ship, and each year, fifteen per cent of the senior class may be admitted. The students on the Senior Honor Roll are the fifteen who received an average of A or above in their four years of high school work. SENIOR HONOR ROLL Mary Ellen Brightman.................. 95.75 Martha Brundige....................... 93.93 Anne Bonnet............................ 93.64 Robert Beggs.......................... 92.69 Ann Altmaier........................... 92.39 Edna Bradbury.......................... 92.33 Robert Magnuson....................... 92.14 Robert Kloss.......................... 92.1 I Joe Kerr............................... 91.70 Ruth Ebert............................ 91.45 Fritz Lichtenberg...................... 91.32 Mary Campe............................ 90.59 John Burkey........................... 90.58 Edna McCracken......................... 90.14 Virginia Furniss....................... 90.10 • oorcl) • Page Twenty-two

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=• ' ■ 15orcl) • = CLASS PROPHECY Editor’s Note: The following is a clipping from the June 15, 1949, issue of the Columbus “Dispatch-Examiner.” ONE of the most enjoyable entertainments of the year was presented in the huge new civic auditorium in commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the Bexley High class of '34. Tho chairman of the committee on arrangements was Robert Kloss, of the local Chamber of Commerce. His gracious and charming wife, whom we remember as Mary Anne Nixon, was in charge of publicity for the affair. She was assisted by two of the city's most prominent young matrons, known to us as Betty Johnston and Jane Daeumler. The husbands of both of these busy women are abroad, Robert Dienst on an engineering project in Capetown, Africa, and Bud Evans on a diplomatic mission in France. The list of patrons and patronesses for the entertainment reads like a page from Who's Who. There were, our own Ted Jones, now head of a nation-wide theater chain, and his wife, the former Miss Marjorie Betz, who, before her marriage, was the society editor of the Columbus Dispatch- Examiner. Ruth Ebert is in charge of bookings for the entire chain of Jones Theaters. Other familiar names on the patrons' list were those of Betty Kronenbitter, who owns and operates a group of exclusive women's apparel shops in the East and the Middle West; and Drs. Ralph E. Brown, Jr., and John N. Burkey, who are chiefs of staff at the New Municipal Hospital. By the way, Virginia Cooper is chief dietician, and Anne Gregory supervisor of nurses at the same institution. Included in the same list were the names of Sam Caldwell, now president of The First National Bank, and Robert Bradshaw, one of the foremost corporation lawyers in the state. The guest of honor for the evening was Governor James Bone, who opened the program with a short address, in which he reviewed the history of Bexley, giving due honor to the present mayor, Richard Brunner, and his predecessor, John Dunnick, now a member of the U. S. Senate. The class of '34 was well represented among the entertainers of the evening. Ann Altmaier, a soprano with the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, sang a song composed for the occasion by Janice Sims, popular song writer. Harriet Johnson, Broadway star, was another of the visiting artists. She was accompanied by Jane Davis, her booking and press agent. Fred Moyer, solo clarinetist with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by Mar- jorie Whipple, played one of his own compositions, dedicated to Anne Bonnet, stage and screen actress, who was also on the program. There were present a group of Bexley men who have made names for themselves in various fields, who contributed personal reminiscences and anecdotes to the evening's entertainment. These included Bill Hoffman, golfer and this year's winner of the British Open Championship: Frank Huling, research chemist with the Elmer Minch Laboratories, leading manufacturers of pharmaceutic preparations; John Stark, athletic coach at Notre Dame; and Robert Beggs, coach at Leland Stanford University. The program closed with a style show, featuring the creations of Mary Downey, which were modeled by Virginia Schorr, Kathryn Wilson, Margaret Benedict, and Emily Wheaton, from Miss Downey's establishment. The elaborate settings for the entertainment of the evening were designed by the firm of Wallick and Murphy, commercial artists. After the entertainment, an Alumni Anniversary Ball was held at the Carlton Club, at the invitation of Colabrese and Tackman, owners. Page Twenty-four