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

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History of Class of '44 The class of “44” started its journey in “Ye Old Grey School House” before the new one was built. And we are proud to day we were the first, first graders to occupy the new building. Our class was not very large at the beginning, hut our number has grown to great proportions since we left the sixth grade. The class has now approximately seventy-five members. We began to have the class organized in the fifth grade and had many class parties, etc., etc., since. We have the honor of being the largest freshman class in the history of our high school and we are making our presence felt in all high school activities for which we arc eligible. When we entered junior high school two years ago last September, this was a new experience for us. Instead of having all our work in one room, under one teacher, we moved about at the end of each period the same as upperclassmen. We then began attending chapel and having part in the programs. Our school program was enlarged; the girls work included home economics, the boys industrial arts while l oth groups were enrolled in physical education. Music became elective, but the majority of the class is including music in their course of study. Our class advisors have included: Miss Basinger in the seventh grade, Mr. Lowell in the eighth grade, and Mr. Lowell and Miss Hawk this year. Eileen Lugibill —20—

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Top Row: Wayne Agner, Jay Basinger, Richard Billingsley, Betty Blosser, Jane Blos-ser, Richard Bogart Row 2: Richard Bok, Clara Bolander, Ted Carpenter, Mary Core, Roy Core, Glen Core Row 3: Betty Lou Cruikshank, Jane Davis, Helen Diller, Lynn Eikenwiler, Lois F.lliott, Beatrice Evcrsole Row 4: Shirley Eithen, Marian Fitzgerald, Gerald Haunstein, Louise Hcffley, Rosemary Hermillcr, Dorothy Hitchcock Ro'w 5: Dorothy Holmes, Charles Irwin, Jean Jones, Norman Knott, Joseph Knott, Norman Kohls Bottom Row: Alice Lentz, Edith Lentz, Eileen Lugibil], Joan Lusk, Thelma Lusk, Eugene Martz FRESHMEN Top Rojo: Franklin Mayberry, Gerald Miller, Mildred Maag, Bernice Miller, Mildred Myer Row 2: Owen Myers, Billy Myers, Wanda McClure, Agnes Nesbit, Louie Palmer, Paul Rampe Rojo 3: Margaret Ramsey, Ruby Reeder, Don Renner, Roland Renner, Ray Riggenbach, Lois Kisser Rojo 4: Betty Roethlisberger, Lc Roy Schl-horst, Gilbert Siefker, James Siniff, Robert Smith, I oris Spallinger Rojo 5: Adrian Stechschulte, Robert Stech-schulte, La Verne Schumacher, Janet Pugh, Judith Verhoff, Alma Warnecke Bottom Rojo: Jacob Workentine, Gerald Wood, Alice Welty —1 L-

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EIGHTH GRADE Row 1 : Marie Hall, Alice Barkimer, Frank Baxter, Alice Barber, Alice Bogart, Floyd Benroth Row 2: Patty Benroth, James Best, Robert Bowers, Veland Bucher, Paul Claypool, Gerald 1 Jackin Row 3: Jean Davis, Ethel Diller, Loren Fruchey, Donna Fruchey, Emerson Fruchey, Robert Gander Row 4: Lillian Getteman, Mary Ann Graham, Richard Harris, Helen Kidd, Doris Kohli, John Lusk Rotv 5: Nina Martin, Milton McDowell, Alice Neu, Ruth Porter, Marlynn Porterfield, Jean Ann Reeder Row 6: Gerald Samsal, John Samsal, Winston Seitz, Margaret Smith, Robert Sommer, Evelyn Sybert Row 7: Edward Streeter, Helen Thornton, Richard Thornton, Willis Wright, Paul Van Demark, Donald Dunlap Eighth Grade History This is our second year upstairs as one of the classes in the upper six grades. Here we have opportunities in home economics, industrail arts, physical education, intramurals, etc. that we did not have in the lower grades. Sixty-five of us began our school work in September 1933, with Miss Ruth McComb and Miss Amy Morris as our teachers. Of this number only 30 are still members of our class. Twenty-four of the missing members have moved away and the other eleven are enrolled in classes below us. —21— Alice Barkimer