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

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Wink 7044 DORNA WATKINS Valcdictorizm ROSE MARY MEYER Salutatornn THESE SENIORS WERE SELECTED BY THE SOPHOMORE JUNIOR AND SENIOR CLASSES FOR THE FOLLOWING: MOST POPULAR BOY MOST POPULAR GIRL NEATEST APPEARINC BOY NISATEST APPEARING GIRL BEST BOY ATI'ILE'I'E BEST GIRL ATIILETE BEST MUSICIAN ROGER CORE JIMMIE DALE FRUCHEY ROSEMARY MEYER DORIS STECHSCHULTE JOAN MAYBERRY ROGER CORE RICHARD WAGNER JOAN MAYBERRY ADA JONES CODY MILLER ROSEMARY MEYER WILMA ANDERSON JIMMIE DALE FRUCHEY JEANNETTE CLARK

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HISTORY Ol' THE CLASS OF 1950 My friends and class mates, we have come to the parting of the ways and like the two-faced Greek God, Janus, who looked both to the past and to the future, we, too, are looking backward and forward. As we look backward upon the happy days of school life which will always be rich in our collection of treasured memories, our minds are crowded with scenes of yesteryear, scenes that will always be cherished as important milestones in the long strides which take us down the road of Life. Among those scenes, preposterous, mirthful, and sor- rowful though they be, the ones that have established themselves most firmly in the deep recesses of our minds are the ones that we wish to bestow as revered thoughts in this, our Book of Memoirs. Our first recollection of school life was viewing a sea of frightened faces that were distorted by horrible thoughts of a grim domineering teacher. But contrary to thought, Mrs. Burkham and Miss Ruth McComb did not shape themselves to these conceptions. We 42 boys and girls do not remember much about our first year of school except that Mrs. Radabaugh brought Ed to school. We were so frightened of the older students that we did not care whether or not we came back to school each succeeding day. The members of our class were as follows: Fred- erick Ball, Robert Basinger, Dennis Billingsley, Roger Core, Frederick Culp, Jimmie Dale Fruchey, Tom Gett- man, Paul Irwin, George Lusk, Edward Radabaugh, Marvin Risser, Richard Rogers, Carl Seargoss, Junior Shinaberry, Norman Smith, Jack Sisson, Richard Wag- ner Gene Wood, Dwight Amstutz, Junior Busick, Lester Busick, Jack Core, Lowell Forbes, Jack Dunbar, Ted Fruchey, James Krontz, Betty Busick, Dortha Epley, Myrtle Fetheringill, Marilyn Herman, Marilyn Kemp, Joan Mayberry, Betty Ramsey, Mary Reeder, Barbara Wilson, Gladys Wootton, Marilyn Amstutz, Mary Elliot, Carol Jean Lawrence, Phyllis Lentz, Dorothy Martz, and Betty Lou Huber. We started the second grade with Miss Ruth Mc- Comb, now Mrs. George Niemi, as our teacher, with an enrollment of 16 girls and 22 boys. It seems that the girls were outnumbered. But we do remember the long stockings that were so much trouble, although we remedied the situation somewhat by rolling them down when we got to school in the morning and then rolling them up when we went home at night. Oh, yes, we managed that situ- ation quite easily. Carrying out the fact that women constitute the stronger sex, Joan Mayberry often indulged in the en- ergetic sport of knocking George Lusk down. None of us girls were muscle bound in those days! By this time 39 of us had moved on to the third grade, where Miss Wava Kurtz was our teacher. Dur- ing this year Carol Miessler joined our class and we lost Leila Shiek, Barbara Wilson, and Romana Vien- cient. -23-. Miss Rettig was our fourth grade teacher. Fred Bail who was quite small compared with the rest of us, was always the little boy, fwhen we played housej. One new pupil, Ruth Ann Miller, came to us from Belmore. As fifth graders we were pretty mischievous. There were 18 girls and 24 boys in the class. Miss Killen started our class and then entered the service. Mrs. Lichty from Pandora took the position but left to teach the second grade. Mr. Hawk, as our teacher, finished the year with us. Let's see now, marching on to the sixth grade, who would come first in our thoughts? The teacher, of course. She was Mrs. Helen Ridgeway. Naturally, the ones who parted from us would be next in our thoughts. They were Glenn Dukes, Charles Joseph, and Don Thornton. One new member, Dorna Watkins, joined us during this year. Remember all the fights we had? The whole class was divided into two groups throughout the whole year, Marilyn Herman and Betty Lou Huber captaining one side and Joan Mayberry the other. The last day of school is one that will be long-remembered, too. The party at Joe Wiswasser's home was a lot of fun. We enjoyed walking the two miles to his home, but I think we enjoyed more swinging from one haymow to the other in his bam. We thought there was going to be a tragedy when Phyllis Lentz fell, but she didn't hurt herself. At last one of our big dreams is fulfilled, we got to go upstairs as seventh graders. Our first couple of weeks in the high school were nightmares because we were so lost in the maze of halls that constitute our high school and so frightened of the upperclassmen that we quaked in our shoes every time one of them was near. We were under the tutelage of Jeannette Anderson for the first semester during which time we had a Halloween party at Marilyn Amstutz's. Some of the romances that sprang up then were quite surprising. There was Marilyn Amstutz and Dick Benroth, Gladys Wootton and Jim Lusk, Dorna Watkins and Norman. Smith. We probably were a little young but we didn't think so at the time. After our first semester was over we lost. Mrs. Anderson and were taught for the remain- der of the year by Miss Jean Core. We must have been little red satans that year because we trod a well- worn path to the office. But in the summer after we were out of the seventh grade we lost one of our classmates in an automobile accident. Carol Miessler lost her life in a collision with another car. Our eighth grade was not too eventful a year, although we enjoyed putting on a chapel program. That was the year when the girls had the boys stumped with their famous B. O. F. Club. The boys just couldn't guess what the initials meant. During the course of this year we lost Fred Ball and Carl Betts and gained Jeannette Clark.