Boardman High School - Crier Yearbook (Youngstown, OH)

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CLASS 14 HISTORY Dear Diary, To give this, the class of '47, a little family history, we dug back into our old diaries from the first to the twelfth grade, and came up with these choice tidbits. Here's what we found! The love bug bit Phyllis Eckman at the ripe old age of six. It was love at first sight for her with little Dickie Reed. Phyl would corner him during the first grade recesses, and make big plans for the future. Poor Dickie though, was hen-pecked already. If he didn't agree with Phyl's great plans, she would give him a good hard pinch. I wonder just how black and blue a man of six can get? That Was a hard year for Phylis Cantwell too. Sue Brown,-- being a few sizes larger, and stronger-would make poor Phylis take her for piggy-back rides. If Phylis threatened to tell the teacher, Sue would get all warmed up to beat poor Phylis to a pulp. I'll bet Phylis was the happiest one in the first grade to see the end ofthe school year! Do you remember in the second grade when our room mothers gave us the material to make houses and furniture? Golly, did we feel im- portant! After finishing the houses, we would give little tea parties, with Dick Kleyn furnishing us with those wonderful Dutch cookies. Dur- ing the parties, Dick would tell about his life in Holland,-and it would really get our seven year old minds Working. Since he came to America when only a baby, how in the world did he remember Holland? Maybe Dutch babies develop memories early? I In third grade, the girls got the urge to go domestic. After school, you could see Mavis Cusick and Jo Griffith slaving away over the making of lemonade to sell to the W. P. A. workers working in front of Griffith's house. That is, they slaved until they found out that lemon- ade requires a form of sweetening popularly called sugar . The dis- covery nearly broke their hearts. With Sue Maag, it was a case of Pride goeth after the fall. The alibi that she was only stretching her legs when she happened to trip Eleanor Miles who stood up to read from Jim and Judy , just didnft quite ring true to their teacher. Poor Sue's pride fell, but far, when she was made to sit in the corner. T The monkey instinct came to the surface in the boys in the fourth grade. It never failed,kevery recess they would climb the bell rope, and swing constantly back and forth. Whether they were trying to imitate Tarzan, or whether it was just a hangover from their ancestors, we never did find out. That year marked the mortal combat between Gloria Wilson and Jane Carlson as to who could write the smallest. A day never passed that our two class Swedes weren't arguing over their handwriting. Bob Watson was the class Romeo in the fifth grade, but Peggy Ann Aubrey was just one step ahead of him. When he wrote her a gushy love note, she replied with, Don't you think you're a little young for that sort of thing? Poor Romeo, he had to look for a more under- standing and less sophisticated Juliet. -- This was the year when we would plague our fellow classmates with appropriate f?J nicknames. Remember Mickey Mouse Rindin, and Red-Headed Woodpecker Kyle? CThey sound like something from Dick Tracy IJ

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CLASS HISTORY The six grade began by giving Miss Buchanan's girl scout troop a good scare. It was rumored that the Junior branch was to be done away with, with only a Senior branch for the high school. Margaret Ann Gib- bons, Gert Forney, and Rosemary DeAngelis cried for days until they found out that it wasn't true. Poor Bud Divelbiss. One day the girls ganged up on him and even knocked him down. When he tried to get up, he found out he had noth- ing less than a broken leg. That was the year Marianne Deak had to stand in the corner for knocking the wind out of the boy across the aisle. These poor defense- less males! ' Mr. Thompson really made a hit with the seventh grade girls. Every recess he would go out and jump rope with them. That year Tommy Moran and Bob Watson were known as the rope-snatchers . Maybe they had a secret ambition to be champion rope jumpers? This was the year of the personality books. Marge Campbell and Gert Forney were noted for having the longest hair, Bill Cantwell and Dick Anderson were noted for being the biggest wolves, and our all- champion basketball players were Bob McCaughey, Dick Shope, Jim Westerfield, and Fred Zimmer. Remember the white sweaters all the girls in Miss Kmet's room decided to buy? How were they to know that they would shrink about three sizes after the first washing? . The eighth grade started our social life on a big time basis. Joan Lemon and Pat Lockwood would throw a party and invite everybody. Our fathers or mothers would take us, then they'd pick us up later. We were really on our way. Peggy Ann Aubrey confided to Jo Murray, that next year as freshmen, if a boy asked her for a date she would certainly turn him down. She had heard that the girls that dated when they first went to high, weren't asked out in later years. She didn't want to take any chances. We just couldn't leave grade school without mentioning poor Miss Fehr. Will we ever forget her? Paul' Stimmer certainly won't. It couldn't be the scars she left on you when she caught you leaning out of the Window, could it Paul? Do you remember the drastic measures Merie Bradshaw had to take to get a ride home? After a Girl Reserve meeting, she stopped traf- fic by lying in the middle of the road in order to stop people and plead for a ride. It was an exciting day when that new blushing boy entered B. H. S. We soon found out his name was Dick Frondorf. His blushing hasn't left him-we won't talk about his shyness. The Sophmore girls being over anxious for summer went swimming at the Cables in APRIL! Was Sally Shornhorst's pneumonia a result of this? Flora Dow was the major catastrophe of a picnic when she nearly fell over a small falls but was rescued by Marge Campbell who will al- ways be remembered for her heroic deed. See Feature pictures for fu- ture details. . fContinued on Page 895