Columbus Grove High School - Col Gro Yearbook (Columbus Grove, OH)

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to lE President—Nolan Heidlebaugh Secretary-Treasurer—Alice Basinger m 4 A1 3]

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JUNIOR POEM In old C. G. There is a class Of Fifty-two Which none can pass. We stand so strong And mighty too, In everything We try to do. We’re hard to beat At any game, We do not cheat But earn our fame. Play basket ball We always could; At baseball too, We’re just as good. The honor roll Records our names So to this field We lay our claims. The boys’ sextet With voices loud Can sing to please Most any crowd. The girls you know Are singers, too The class has voices Not a few. We shine in math We shun not Science In all our work, There’s no defiance. In twenty-four The Seniors part, Pass to the world To get a start. And we will come In twenty-five To face the world In life’s long drive. —Theodore Kunneke.

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, r c - ■ ■ ■ ■ JUNIOR HISTORY In September 1921, the doors of the Columbus Grove high school open-, ed to the class of ’25. Now, almost three years have elapsed and we are Juniors. In point of number we have always been a record breaking class, for we brought into high school the largest Freshman class in the history of the school and have never surrendered that reputation as we passed through the Sophomore and into the Junior year. One of our first privileges as a class was to organize. The presidential ' honor was conferred on Nolan Heidlebaugh while Alice Basinger was elected secretary and treasurer. We decided that our class colors should be crimson and gold in accordance with which we at once had a pennant made which has had a home in the assembly room since the early months of the Freshman year. , After the expiration of about two months’ experience in high school the Sophomores treated us to a reception. We were the prey of their dictations on that evening for they even told us how to dress. We obeyed through fear of prosecution and all lived to see the day when our turn came to issue the commands on such an occasion. Two class parties characterized our Freshman year. Lela Althaus first ■ 1 entertained us, and toward the latter part of the year we were guests of another one of our members, LaVerne Nusbaum. When we entered the next fall our number was somewhat depleted. Mildred Moore answered the call of her Master; Kenneth Van Meter, Clyde Rinehart, Herbert DeWeese, Doris and Esther Whitney moved and attended school elsewhere. In October of this year we enjoyed a melon party at the farm home of Verena Bucher. Soon after this we entertained the Freshmen. No more special class functions were held the first semester. At the beginning of the second semester Alfred Doty came to us from Vaughnsville. Alfred added another to our long list of athletes. The Junior class boasts of having in its ranks more athletes, both girls and boys, than any other class in high school at the same time. Five of the boys who comprised our strong basketball team during the present season are members of the Junior class and six of the ten members who comprised our CHAMPIONSHIP girls’ team are proudly claimed by the class of ’25. Many representatives of the Junior class have held an almost permanent berth on the ■ ■ monthly honor roll and others have earned a place on this list for different months during the year though not always consecutive ones. At the beginning of the present year, Junior, a few more names were added to our roster, Lucille Hamilton come from from Kalida, and at the beginning of the second semester Ethel Eversole transferred her class affiliations from the Pandora Junior class to ours. On the other hand a few-left school, so all in all our number remained about the same but there was a slight change in personnel. Our Junior year was characterized by another melon party at Verena Bucher’s. Her home was beautifully decorated in the class colors. Our class is again a distinctive one for early in our Junior year we de- ■ 1 cided almost unanimously to do what no class had done since 1915, that was to publish an Annual. Its merits have exceeded all our expectations in all of its phases. Business men gave us excellent support, Alumni members, friends and pupils responded generously with their subscriptions and to use a military term, we now see ourselves going “over the top” in this enterprise. At this stage our history overtakes us and we leave the rest 1 to time, hoping for as profitable and enjoyable a time the remainder of this year and during our Senior as our high school career has been thus far. —Alice McComb. r 28