Leetonia High School - Lehiscan Yearbook (Leetonia, OH)

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The Last Word Glau of '45 Class History It was a day early in September of 1941 that we, as Freshmen. assembled under the sponsor- ship of Miss Schaeffer. The tardy bell had rung five minutes before, the boys and girls from the Catholic School had been welcomed: when in meandered a girl whom we later learned to know as Sully,' and whose late arrivals we, likewise, learned to expect at least once a week. Uuring our first class meeting we chose our class officers as follows: president, Shirley Holt, vice president, Anthony Dominic: secretary, Helyne Spatholtg treasurer, John Altomare. The two representatives in the Student Council were Wilma Fire and joseph jeswald. Very shortly we decided upon blue. and gold for the class colors, yellow Tea Rose for the class flower, and Do It Well or Not At All for the class motto. Our class was an industrious lot. Although many comments were passed among the stu- dents of the other classes as to our 'fnot too fewn money-making schemes, in reality we were just ambitious. As a result, we sought many difierent ways of earning money. such as penny dances, skating parties. and candy sales. Starting in our freshman year each member paid 5151.00 a year dues, at which rate we continued the remaining three years of high school. This was the year in which we participated in the air raid drills. Sometimes they were quite successful and other times they were little more than diversion from our studies, but, nevertheless, it was the general opinion at that time that we must be prepared. Through this year's course of studies we lost two of our classmates-Martha jane Morris and jim Webster. Our Sophomore Year was started out very industriously with the help of our sponsors, Miss Graham and Miss Maclnnis, by selling pencils sold to us by the Seniors. The others classes continued to comment. Those whom we chcse to lead our class during our second year in high school were: presi- dent. joseph jeswald: vice president, Shirley Holt: secretary, Amelia Sullivan: treasurer, Da- vid Peppelq and Student Council representatives,Wilma Fire and Margaret Rankin. When asked if our class would like to have an All-High Party and would we help to sup- port it, we inunediately voted g'yes. There were two members of the class put on an All- Hi Party Committee, which soon started to function. The big night Hnally came, and, as usual, was enjoyed by all. During our class meeting of January 29, 1943, we discussed the idea of having some activity that would be a little difierent and would afford a lot of fun. A hay ride, it was decided, would be just the thing. However, after much discussion we found that the gas ration- ing was squelching our plans, since it would be necessary to have cars to take us out to the farm and a tractor to pull the wagon. We turned to brighter subjects when our vice president told us that the pencils were selling very well and were almost gone. More were ordered at once. Another of our ingenious ideas was to order our class rings during our Sophomore year so that we could have them at the beginning of our Junior year. But after much discussion Mr. Narragon talked to us about it and told us, contrary to the stories we had been hearing, that there wouldn't be such a shortage of metals that we wouldnit be able to get them the next year. Several of our fellow class members withdrew from L. H. S. during our Sophomore year. They were: Raymond Leonard, Wanda Howard, Betty Hall, and june Circle. As we look back on this year of school we Sophomores. for we were always busy making penny dances, selling pencils, and anything else NN'e entered our junior year in the fall of Miss Maclnnis. For the first time we were all for our class officers: president, Joseph -Ieswald: Eugene Eyster, Robert Carlisle, Dorothy Hall, see that L. H. S. did not have a group of idle money by having skating parties, candy sales, there was to do. 1943 under the guidance and sponsorship of together in one room. This year we elected vice president, Margaret Rankin 3 secretary,