Ironton High School - Owl Yearbook (Ironton, OH)

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-Armnvnxnvasfznv - - V 5-r.vAv - .. T H E O W L i,v, T4a3vg',i FACULTY IN THE FUTURE jun e 16, 1034. . I have just finished my trip around the world, and have had a wonderful time. I met some of Ironton's High School teachers who were teaching in 1927, our graduation year. I'll try to tell you of the trip from my home in I.os Angeles. Wlieii I started to board the train to Omaha City, another train was just pulling in, on which were Misses Hoffman. Dana, and Nazor. who. as l learned from a very short interview, were going to be movie stars. I was a bit surprised, but acted as though I thought that was the very thing they should do. i My next great surprise came when I had a three hour wait between trains at Flagstaff, Arizona. I was taking a horseback ride across the mesa through the cactus, when I saw Mr. Williaiiis, once a science teacher at Ironton High. trying out an experiment of grafting pineapples on cactus. This was a queer experiment, I told him, but he thought he could do it. I couldn't help thinking how the '27 faculty had drifted apart when I encountered Mr. Glore in Mississippi on a Chautauqua circuit playing the piano. He was captivating his audiences, but I was surprised to find him in that Work. He said Mr. Elliott was the branch manager, while Messrs. Miller. Phillips, and Stock were Hawaiian players. I had never thought they had such musical talent. I finally reached my old home town of Ironton. Ilere I learned that one of our former teachers, Miss Oesterle, had just disappeared quite suddenly It seemed that no one knew anvthing about her family or where she had gone. The whole town was agog. VVhile in Ironton I also learned that lXliss Iones had gone to Rome to learn more of the famous subject which she taught. I picked up the Ironton News, a large paper now, and read in the headlines that Mr. Sonny VVinters had won the cross country race trophy by running across the continent in seven days, three hours, and seven seconds. This took Iront n by storm, Sonny having once been Ironton High's coach. happened to meet Lena Smith in the large Finsterwald Department Store in Ironton, and she said that Gratia Flower and Helen Feuchter were salesladies. I was greatly surprised, for they were such capable teachers in high school. I wonder if they could have lost that talent. I finally landed in New York, ready to sail, but before I did. I thought I would like to go to a Broadway show. I picked out an attractive one, and Went that evening. To my surprise I found Edith Bingham and Leila lloaghn billed for toe dancing. They did real well, too. You wouldn't have expected that back in '27. Well, as soon as I recovered from this, I made preparations to sail the next day, and to- my great surprise, found Andy Andrews captain of the -.az-..s..u.v..v...v...-n...v.-.v..v.m 1 9 2 7 E.f3.vff.rai.a5-f:.-a.lf-.v.- Eight

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A--n.vu.-ua-u.v..4v - - .r.v4v . Tv ,-v,Tv ,-,T.5gig,g-:,j.,,-.I-v.v,,, TEACHER John T. Andrews Edith Bingham, A. B. F. L. Brenton, A. B. Rebecca Dana. A. B. Maridel Davidson Lucile Deffenbaugh, B. S. in Ed. Margaret Elam, B. C. S. G. E. Elliott, A. B. Helen Feuchter, B. C. S. H. J. Finsterwald, B. S. in Ed. Gratia Flower, A. B. Marguerite Friend Harry F. Glore, B, S. in Ed. Bonnie Griffith T. Mack Hall Cecil Hankins, A. B. Leila Hoaglin Edna Hoffman, M. A. Lillian Humphrey, M. A. Isabelle Johnston Anna L. Jones, A .B. Adrienne Kouns, A. B. Julia Layne, A. B. John M. Lynn, B. of M. E. Ella M. Marting John A. Miller, A. B. Eleanore Mitchell Lucille Nazor, B. S. in Ed. Nelle Oesterle, B. S. in Ed. E. R. Phillips, A. B. Harriet Price Ida M. Raine Elizabeth Robinson Herbert L, Stock, Ph. B. Harry E. Williams, B. S. Margery Williams L. A. Winters, A. B. ALMA MATER Purdue University Otterbein College Valparaiso University Marietta College Rio Grande College Ohio University Bowling Green Rio Grande College Bowling Green Ohio University Wisconsin University Ohio University University of Cincinnati Ohio University University of Chicago Rio Grande College Indiana State Normal Ohio State University Ohio State University Columbia University Ohio University Ohio University Ohio University Ohio State University Ohio University Rio Grande College Rio Grande College University University Ohio State Ohio State Rio Grande College Ironton Normal Ohio University Ohio University Kenyon College Ohio State University Ohio State University Ohio Northern Universit .XXX Y SUBTECT Athletics English Latin English History Home Economics Bookkeeping English Stenography Mathematics History Hygiene Music English Manual Training General Science Physical Education French Chemistry Mathematics Latin Spanish History Machine Shop Geography Mathematics Hygiene English History Typewriting English Mathematics English Mathematics Physics Civics Athletics -..-.2-A-l.-...-...v4v....'.v.v.w. ple-.,.A,.,-, - - - - - - . Seven

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an ..l.'Ls.'u-v.aL.'-AY Q ' SY.:-s .. T H E O W L ,v,-v,v,,v,-ylhvapgv,-wl-v.v,-v,,v steamer. As he sang out to the shipmates, Order up there, I found myself thinking I was in 220 study hall back in the old days. He hasn't changed much-a little grav, but that's all. He said Adrienne Kouns had crossed just a month before. She was going to live in Spain the rest of her life, and spend her declining years in the land where she would feel so much at home. Andy said he was making his home in Chile, South America because the climate there was so nice and warm. . After stopping in London, I took a boat to Paris. I was doing some shop- ping in a Parisian store. when I happened to see ,lulia Layne buying a number of beautiful dresses. She said she needed a great many, being on a tour with Lillian Humphrey. who was giving lectures on science. She told me, too, that she was enjoying seeing many of the old historic places she had loved to teach of in school. She invited me to her rooms for dinner that evening, and I had a nice long talk with both her and Bliss Humphrey. They intended to return home as soon as they had covered France and Italy. My trip next took me to the Hawaiian Islands. where I met Cecil Hankins playing a ukelele under a large palm tree. I was so interested in his music that I stayed and had quite a talk with him, finding out that Miss Elam was running a large bank in Hawaii. He pointed out to me the place where Miller, Phillips, and Stock lived while learning to play the Hawaiian guitars for the Chautauqua. He wanted to play with them, but was unable to tear himself away from Hawaii. I enjoyed my trip. and told him all the news of the teach- ers I had met. He seemed surprised to learn that Mr. Andrews was captain of a ship, and told me that Andy had once plaved in the movies with Bonnie Griffith as his leading lady. She must have, I thought, obtained her gift in this line from Corinne Griffith, probably her relative. I went one evening to watch a boat come in. and watch the Hawaiian girls throw leis around the travelers' necks. when whom should I see coming off the boat but Miss Isabelle johnston and Miss Deffenbaugh. They were going to japan and China to be foreign missionaries. They admitted that thev were starting on this career later in life than was necessary, but said they felt the need of diversion after their years of teaching in Ironton High School. After bidding my friends here good-bye. I then set sail for Los Angeles. I returned home wiser as to where mv former high school teachers were, and as to what they were doing. I was rather tired after my trip, but a friend insisted I go to see the movie Forgotten written by Anna I.. jones, and played by Lucille Nazor as leading lady. I was charmed with Miss Nazor's acting, and with her ease before the camera. But that was not all,-the same program presented a comedy, Bridget O' Flynn , in which Miss Dana played the lead- ing feminine role. Mr. Larson, our former principal, played opposite her, and it was a scream. I will never forget it, and no one who has an opportunity to see it, should fail to do so. Surprises seem never to end, and cinema land seems about to depopulate the ranks of Ironton High's faculty. Mr. Hixson, I learn, has also succumbed to the Hollywood urge, and will be seen soon as Edna Hoffman's new leading man in The Little Parade. This, I believe, is all the news I learned of the Ironton High teachers of '27. I will admit I was much surprised to learn how they had turned out in most cases. -GRACE WILSON '27. N me