Leetonia High School - Lehiscan Yearbook (Leetonia, OH)

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Zhu., XA Z- If 'N a , is-tl ,, ' yy, 1,11 BLUE AND WHITE MFI lms CLASS HISTORY CContinuedD The time passed quickly. Many of the Freshies went out for basketball and many were the good times we had riding out to Kelley's in trucks to practice. At the beginning of the second semester, Marge Kiernan and Milt Price joined our ranks. After much studying of etiquette books we held a St. Valentines' Day party for the wordly wise Sophs, our first attempt at entertaining. We thought we did fairly well. June rolled around and thus ended our Freshmen year. Second stage 1923-1924 STONE This September we entered school, but, oh, how different everything was! We were Sophomores, sophisticated and hard as stone, ready to perform our great duty-to help educate the incoming Primitives. In order to do this we gave a program with Freshies as the actors. I am .sure they profited from the advice yvhich we, with out great experience, gave them. Then to show that we thought they were worthy to be members of High School, we gave a Christmas party for them, with a Christmas tree, presents, Santa Claus, and everything. At lunch time we discovered to our horror that we had forgotten to get spoons. But Poppy and Virginia were equal to the occasion. They dashed to the preachers and came back with the necess-ary spoons. Everything was busy. Some played football, others debated, gave orations or took part in the chorus musical comedy. We held a picture show at which we cleared 5109. Then the first of May arrived. The Sophomores, directed by Miss Bailey, were to give the May Pole dance. Each day we arose with the sun and went up to practice. The fatal day arrived and it was time for the May Pole dance. We found our places and the dance was on. The pole was tightly wound, but horrors-we couldn't unwind it. After vain attempts had been made to unwind it, we waltzed to the pole, laid down our ribbons and thus ended the famous May Pole dance. We ended the year by giving the annual High School picnic at Kelley's Park It was declared a great success. Third stage 1924-1925 IRON Our Junior year was our busiest and best year. How we worked! Mr. Clements will testify to how we slaved, as if we were made of iron, over chemistry experiments, civics, history and literature made us rack our brains and spend hours pondering over our books. Tests seemed to come every few days. But we were an exceptional class. We found time to get our studies and still take part in other school activities. Many of our boys played on the football team, 15