Harriet Whitney High School - First Lady Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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The class of 1953 proudly dedicates this First Lady to Mr. Elmer Quaintance. Mr. Quaintance, better known to Whitneyites as "Elmer," is plan- ning to retire after completing this year as supervisor of the mainten- ance department of Whitney. Elmer was born in Portage, Ohio, in l883, where he attended Portage grade and high schools. In this same town he married Ida R. Heminger. Next August Mr. and Mrs. Quaintance will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. just before World War l, they established a residence in Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Quaintance have been blessed with five children: Ruth, Wayne, Maxine, Helen, and Betty. Ruth was in the army, and is now employed at the Overland. Wayne has followed in his father's footsteps, he works for the Board of Education. Maxine is a book- keeper for the Congress of Industrial Organizations, while Helen works at a Save-Way. Betty, the youngest, is a housewife with three children. Altogether they have nine grandchildren. One of them, Donna Barker, graduated from Whitney three years ago, and is now employed as a machine operator at the Toledo Trust Company. First, Mr. Quaintance was a farmer, afterwards he worked at the Big Four Coal Company where he was a foreman fourteen years. Later, he came to the Board of Education where he worked for twenty- seven years: one year-at all of the schools, two years--Homeville portables, eight years-DeVilbiss, two years-Gunckel, fourteen years-Whitney. Asked how he liked his work he replied, "l'm crazy about Whit- ney. lt's the nicest and the best of schools. ln an all girls school one doesn't have so much trouble. In the fourteen years that l've been here, no one has ever said an unkind word to me. Some may have wanted to, but they never did." He especially enjoyed being the lone male in the building. lf he could have his choice of jobs, Elmer would come back to Whitney. Among other things, Elmer enjoys fishing and puttering in his garden. After retiring, he intends to do odd jobs around his home and for other people. In the future as we recall memories of school days at Whitney, each of us will have a warm spot in our hearts for Mr. Elmer Quain- tance, who besides doing a good job, always had a smile and kind word for everyone. We, the class of '53, wish Mr. Quaintance happiness and success in retirement. -joanne Mocek

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MEN OF SERVICE Rudyard Kippling in his poem "A School Song" pays tribute to individuals under whose tutelage he was placed in the following rhyme: ll Let us now praise famous men Men of little showing For their work contineuth And their work continueth ' Broad and deep continueth Greater than their knowing! Wherefore praise we famous men From whose bays we borrow They that put aside today All the joys of their today And with toil of their today Bought for us tomorrow!" This year the senior class honors such a man ot service. May he long enjoy the fruits of his laborg Whitney will miss him. He com- manded respect of students and earned it. To the class of l9'53 best wishesg may you have learned some- thing ot the unending benefits of service well rendered from the man to whom you dedicate First Lady. -Ethel Wooden il'