Granville High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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14 - BLUE AND WHITE SENIOR CLASS HISTORY One bright September morning in 1917 thirty-four Freshmen made their way to Miss Wright's room to make their debut in the world of higher knowledge. They were a large class and they made a good showing in classwork and on the field in athletics, even if they were just Freshmen. The greatest event of the year was a party wihch the rest of the school gave them. They were somewhat uneasy on ac- count of the secrecy of the preparations and some of the boys even came, dressed in overalls and prepared for the worst. They had a good time nevertheless and voted the party a great success, including the green all day suckers, which were special treats for the Freshmen. The next year they began to feel more at home and to enjoy f?J themselves while they learned all about lines and angles and dug deep in the memories of Caesar. They also had their representatives on the football field and they did their part in winning the county championship in baseball. It was this year that the plan of an annual bucking became well established, and every spring a certain number of stu- dents would take a day or two off, for no particular reason, and the results-well! it is best not to mention them. When they entered the Junior year they were still a good sized class although they had lost some of their classmates along the way, and they felt that they had passed one more milestone on the road to graduation. This year almost half of the successful football and baseball teams were Junior boys. The last social event of the year was the Senior reception which had been looked forward to for a long time and which was a decided success in every way. Now they are Seniors and although they remember the good times they had as Sophomores and Juniors, they cannot but think that this is their best year and the one which they will remember the longest and with the most pride and joy. In ath- letics they have maintained their reputation of other years. Each of the eight boys has been on one or the other of the teams, and from this class have come the cap- tains of the football, basketball, and baseball squads this year. The fact of which they are most justly proud is that it was their representative who won the first prize in the preliminary oratorical contest and who, although the judges did not see fit to give her but second prize in Newark, succeeded in acquitting herself most creditably. The social times of the class have not been much behind their other activities. This second semester they have given themselves several good parties. Now they, twenty-two strong, the largest class in the history of Granville High, are ready to leave dear G. H. S. and it appears to them as a crisis in their lives. Some will go to college, some will try life for themselves, and all are eager to see what lies ahead, but they are truly sorry to have to say good-bye to their teachers and their merry High School days. HAZEL DUNLAP. CLASS PROPHECY At last! I finally have my private wire installed. These Marsoiphones certainly are handy little things. When I was in old G. H. S. fourteen or fifteen years ago, I used to wonder and wonder if I'd ever get to talk to anyone on Mars, and also wonder what the people were like. And to think that I have been enlightened all because of Frank Williams. We never thought that little spark of inventive genius was lurking in his mind in 1921, did we? He always did choose topics on invention for oral com- positions though. Strange isn't it how people turn out? Little did we suspect that he would make his name in the world by the Marsophone. Speaking of Mars, did, you know Milford was the president of a Seminary for Red-Headed Girls up there? It seems to have become an obsession with him. He heard that there were a lot of them on Mars and he immediately attempted to bum his way up there fthought he'd suc- ceed as he did in 19201, but failed. Margaret Brooks finally took pity on him and gave him free passage on that new Eagle Flyer she's just started. Best route to Mars in the atmosphere or at least it is so advertised by Mr. A. E. Evans, her advertising manager. Beany caught the fever after he had learned all that line-up of words in It Pays to Advertise, that play we Seniors put on during comn'encement week in 1921. Ha! That reminds me of something I was playing in the Jazz Weekly last Sunday, which by the way is a musical newspaper edited by Katharine Howe. Of course she only composes the music, and has a staff of reporters. How she ever does that though I cannot see. But to go back to what I saw in the paper. Lenora is playing with a stock company in Japan. How she can stand it after the feelings now existing, is a mystery to me. But they say there is good money in it. That war over Yap certainly showed us what a power the Japanese were. Dear old Granville was totally destroyed by shells in 1930, and I can see my old home town no more. The Japs found out Thomas Hite was concocting some new kind of poisonous gas from

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BLUE AND WHITE 13 sriuff and so while he was gone this morning I sneaked in his room and took some. 'Ihen' while we were having prayers in chapel and funny part of it was old Snodsly was prayin, hed just got thro sayin Oh Lord, help us to control ourselves in all we do or somethin to that effectj I took out a handful a that snuff and threw it right at him. Course it went all over everywhere and such a time. Y0u'da thot they was havin a sneeain bee. Old Snodsly had to quit prayin. He says We'll fKatehewJ be fwhiskeej dismissed fker chool! An we went an I got ten black marks but it was worth it. Wed. Maid three zeros today. Thur. Same as yesterday. Will do better to-morrow. Also killed a snake today. Im gonna put it in Snodslys' bed to nite. Its dead an cant hurt him but I do hope it scares him. He reminds me of a snake, squirming around into everybody elses busi- ness. I put one in Sis's bed once and she fainted on it. Fri. Well Im safe yet. Didnt get found out that time. I got to thinkin last night maybe Id left my pennife in there in Snodsys room and its got my name on it and it wasnt in my pants pocket. Guess I musta lost it. Purty clever I was to get away with that. We fellas watched him from out on the fire exskapeg he laid clear down on the thing for he knowed it was there. He didnt jump. Oh no-o! We had to get back in quick fore he come to throw it out the window or somethin.. Sunday. Well todays the 13th and by golly I'll be superstishus forevermore. Its Sunday fdon know how come it aint Fridayj and I'm on my way home. I think I'll quit riting a Dairy. It takes too much time and trouble and furthermore I cant think of anything elevatin enuf to rite. Well's I said I am on my way home. The first thing was a dead rat and the nexts sticky fly paper. As to the rat I never done nothin with that. They found a rat in the swiminin pool and just cause they found my nife in there aint no reason to say I done it. But anyhow they bout wore out a pencil puttin black marks down for me. Secondly, I went and played nuther trick on Snoddy. After we fellers was all in bed I went and got a hole lotta this here sticky fly paper fl heated it over the register sosted be good n'gooey tool and laid it all out in the hall from Snodsly's door to mine and then I ran and pounded on my floor, like we was havin a ruf house and purty soon out come Snodsly to see what the trouble was, runnin down the hall. You never did see nuthin so funny. Why youd thot he was Eliza jumpin from one ice cake to another, an he always landed on the fly paper too. Had one clear upon his whiskers even. Hed try to get off' a one and being hed go in another. Well course they suspended me after that. Guess they thot I had the record for makin black marks. Made more in a week than anybody else did in a year. But it was wurth it!!! JUANITA B. JONES, '21, We are leaving thee forever, But the bonds of love will never Broken be, for nought can sever Thee from me My Granville High. Yet there's joy and exultation Filled with fond anticipation, When we feel the inspiration Thou hast given us Granville High. We shall strive to do our best And be equal to the test That life requireth, in the quest Of fame and fortune, Granville High. O'er the way of Life's long mile, We shall travel with a smile, Making living Worth the while For every man Our Granville High. Our thoughts are filled with deep regret For never can our minds forget The friendships, pleasures and the debt We owe thee Gr..anville High. The cheery school days now are past And finished now the long hard task, For kindly guidance we would ask In days to come Dear Granville High.

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BLUE AND WHITE 15 pussy-willow trees which grew along that stream down on the Newark pike and cen- tered all their bomb attacks on the village. Wilhelmina has started a Cat and Rat Ranch out in Lincoln ithat state between the Dakotas and Montanal. She's running it on economic principles all right. Keeps the rats to feed the cats. The last fur coat I got was guaranteed to be a direct pro- duct from there. White angora, it's a beauty, too, and they are all the rage in San Francisco. Gaile Davies does all the labor on the farm and gets an immense salary. Must be some job to care for two such types of animals. After finishing my shopping yesterday, I stopped at a movie house and saw the Sin Twisters in their latest comedy and guess who they were-Lucie and Marjorie. Lucie has grown so thin she looks as though she were wasting away and Marjorie-a barrel cannot be compared to her. No one would know either of them. It was some comedy, too. They also had the latest news on the screen. Uree Black, the only living person who has been able to converse with the dead fand it has been proved that she is not a fakej has just learned that there will be no cooties to bother us in Heaven. It seems that she can not keep up a steady conversation, but only hears snatches at a time. Mr. Edison's theory never worked and Uree says it's because there was a hole in the ether just the other side of Mars, so his messages never got through. Poor Lee Dawson is having a terrible time trying to get Sunday Blue Laws through the Senate. People say he has almost gone crazy from the strain! And no wonder. With Dorothy Hobart fighting him so, it certainly looks as though he would fail. She is the only member who will not agree and, as it takes a unanimous vote now to pass a bill, it certainly looks dark for Lee. If I hadn't known Dorothy so well in old Granville Hi, I might see some hopes, but l'm afraid mountains cannot move her. Poor Mable, had to give up her Dan! Did it for the money though, I guess she supports him never-the-less. Some old millionaire widower came through Granville after she'd been in college only one year, and took it into his head that she looked like his long lost daughter, and now I guess she's living in Alaska in luxury. We really thought Francis Bacon had gone wrong once. She ran away to Hawaii and learned the Hula but she has since been converted and has gone to Mars as a missionary. Earl Williams, who used to be so brilliant in Math, has taken a turn for the better or worse fas one may look at itj and is weaving a marvelously lustrous material from caterpillar fur. People were rather doubtful as to its durability until his wife demon- strated that it could be worn, continually for two years and not have a hole in it. In a gown in which she sang at a Grand Opera in Paris she really appeared more beauti- ful than she did fifteen years ago in the Feast ofthe Red Corn. Hazel Dunlap has started a school of photography in Fredonia, where one studies the art of picturing homely people in beautiful ways. Helen Owens caused quite a sensation in 1922. Found she had been corresponding with the son ofa French ex-nobleman, and immediately deserted her dear Dick and set sail for France. Speak- ing of crossing the Atlantic reminds me of the ridiculous attitude Hazel Dunlap took toward the World War, went to Germany, found the Kaiser and after many years has finally convinced him he was pursuing the wrong policy. It seems that only was her main idea. Sylvia Hall is teaching the shimniy up on Mars. Poor Lovey! I always wondered if he would ever pull through that long course in medicine his parents had planned for him. He graduated from Denison, then from a University in Germany and thinking he must have everything going finally went to Mars for more knowledge. It seems that the climate had some effect on his tongue, and he is now without any speaking facilities. Bob is getting along all right with her teaching and is still waiting and hoping that he will come back and his power of speech will return with him. Thus have all our dignified Seniors of '21 turned out and I venture to say not one of them would have believed it if their fortunes had been told thus in 1921. CLASS WILL We, the graduating class of 1921 of the village of Granville, county of Licking, and state of Ohio, supposedly being in sound mind and memory do make, publish and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all other testimonial writings by us heretofore made. We do hereby direct that all our just debts and funeral expenses shall be first fully paid, that our funeral services shall be conducted by our friends, well wishers, and that the faculty shall see that the funeral is carried on with the dignity and pomp to which our standing in school entitles us. As to such estate as has accumulated in the four years of hard labor, we do dis- pose of the saire as follows: .We give and bequeath to the Board of Education the newly acquired Colosseum and our ideas for improvement of same. .To the Honorable Members of the Faculty we bequeath our good will, dignity, and