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

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SOPHOMORES Top Row: Doris Allen, James Hal-ker, Evelyn Basinger, Paul Basinger, Alice Benroth; Row 2: Patricia Blankmeycr, Richard Bridenbaugh, June Dackin, Reba Dew, Alice Diller. Row 3: Edward Ernest, Rachel Eastman, Wilma Everett, Ethel Featheringill, Doris Fruchey. Row 4: Ruth Fruchey, Kenneth Alt, Dessie Harter, Edna Hetrick, Mark Hilty. Bottom Row: James Holmes, Richard Killen, Franklin Kitchen, Lloyd Kohli, Betty Kohli. Top Row: Edwin Lamb, Lewis Martz, Carl McCrate, Jack McCullough, Jeanette Miller. Row 2 : Billy McDowell, James Ncu, I )orothy Palmer, I )orothy Pease, Patricia Pierman. Row 3: Edith Risser, Florence Rieman, Lenard Rogers, Betty Rusher, I Ida Sandy. Row 4: Helen Schaad, Betty Schrocder, James Schroeder, Jack Sommer, Galen Struhlc. Bottom Row: Junann Smith, Robert Tussing, Olive Williams, Roger W right, Donald Williams. 17

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JUNIOR HISTORY 1 In 1930, fifty-six shinging-faced l oys and girls darkened the threshold to become first graders under Miss Barnum’s patient instruction. Working energetically and enjoying ourselves most of the time, we continue to grow. Presto! Chango! We were proud but bewildered seventh graders. The upper floor held new problems, new experiences and new teachers in store for us. Yes, we tried to adjust ourselves to our new routine and tried hard to please our new teachers. In a sudden hound, we jumped from eighth graders to freshmen—high school at last! As freshmen we began to make our first real impressions on our teachers and in school life. Our class, even as freshmen, made great strides in athletics. We have lettermen in basketball, football, baseball and track. We were intra-class champions in both boys’ and girls’ basketball in our sophomore year. Not to be outdone by the boys, several girls entered basketball and track. To back up our sportsmen and sportswomen, we have a class member who is a cheerleader. We not only contribute to sports, but we have done equally well in other fields. Music finds a great many of our class members making their contribution, for we are represented in band, orchestra, girls’ and boys’ glee, mixed chorus, octette, male quartette and operettas. Oh, yes, we also have members in several school clubs; namely, Hi-Y, G. R., F. H. A., F. F. A., Varsity Club and others—not just meml ers, but officers! Besides these other feats, we are dramatically inclined. Four operettas, two F. H. A. plays and two G. R. - Hi-Y plays would not have been what they were without our cooperation. Other than these, we presented our Junior Class play, “Professor! How Could You!” This year we are hosts and hostesses at the annual Junior-Senior Banquet. Next year we will he seniors! What better, all-round group would you want for next year’s senior class? Of the fifty-six who began work together with Miss Barnum, the following are still enrolled: Mildred Bogart, Alice Fruchey, Francis Hitchcock, Alice Hitchcock, Janice Pugh, Betty Reeder, Ethel Schaad, Dorothy Samsal, Lois Van Demark, Herbert Altstaetter, James Baxter, William Busche, John Beam, James 1 tfmaldson, John Gettman, Lowell Moore. Robert Mumea. Herbert Miller, Karl Myers, Ralph Marshall, Jack Palmer, Kenneth W'elty. James Baxter —16—

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SOPHOMORE HISTORY In September, 1939, the class of ’43 of Columbus Grove High School entered into their high school life with spirit and enthusiasm. Jack Sommer was elected president; Jeanette Miller, vice-president; and Doris Allen, secretary and treasurer. The class showed real spirit in their hearty support of these school activities and athletics. One of the social events of our first year in High School, long to be remembered, was the Halloween party in the gym. To be sure we mastered our Freshmen subjects to the satisfaction of our teachers. By the end of our “eventful” year we were happy with the thought that our presence in the halls of our dear old C. G. High was not entirely obscure. In September, 1940, the class started out with renewed energy, determined to make everything count for the good of the class and the school. We elected Bob Tussing president; Betty Schroeder, vice-president; and Leonard Rogers secretary and treasurer. New members have been added to our ranks from time to time. The class is well represented on both the basketball and football squads. We are taking our places in the boys’ and girls’ glee clubs, mixed chorus, orchestra and band. Many of our names arc listed as members of the Girl Reserve and Hi-Y groups as well as the F. H. A., F. F. A., and 4H clubs. Our Sophormore class party this year turned out to be a real mixer and a big success, partly due to the help of our sponsors, Miss Kerr and Mr. Shaffer. A skating party at Fort Brown was one of the high lights of this, our second year. The future outlook for the class of '43 is bright. It is the hope of the group to leave behind them a record of their high school years to which they can refer with pride. Dorothy Pease —18—