Mentor High School - Cardinal Notes Yearbook (Mentor, OH)

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TRIVIA 1. ) When was the Memorial Field built? 2. ) Why wasn't a yearbook, Scarlet and Grey, published in 1934? 3. ) What was the name of Mentor High’s first school paper, originally published in 1942? 4. ) Who bought the band new uniforms in 1920? 5. ) In what year did Mentor High start having coed health classes? 6. ) 1966 was the first year that this wellknown administrator was principal of MHS. Name him. 7. ) In what year were Ohio’s oldest relays established? (Mentor Relays) 8 .) Name two of the many names that Mentor’s teams have been known as over the years, 9. ) What was the first year that the Mentor football team went undefeated? 10. ) What was the Nematode, first published, at MHS in 1966. 11. ) What are the only two varsity sports teams at Mentor with an all-time win-loss record below 500? 12. ) In what year was the Memorial Field dedicated? 13. ) Which of Mentor’s teams has the best all-time win-loss record? 14. ) What was the first year for girl’s varsity sports? 15. ) Name the group that originated at MHS in 1945. 6 ■streidsaqx ‘SZ.61 (fcl Jiunoo ssojd s.Xoq '9 61 (31 UEqaseq s Xoq ‘nEqja sRq s,Xoq (|j 3U|ze§elli aDuajos leatuioa V (01 SZ6 (6 s[euipjir)3uiiq8tj ‘sui spay spjrg pay Xmq pus sp?mpJB3 (8 ‘8361 (£ ueiidE3 h sauief (9 -9951 (g ’uosuqof smcn 3 -11103,. sqj, (£ ‘stiquinjo ui issuj sjejs »qi joj uiBai deji atp oj u3ai8 sem asuoui aqj (j '0£6i ([

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Opposite Page - Upper Forword, 1925 Scarlet and Grey. Upper Right: Doorway to Mentor High School, 1925 Scarlet and Grey. Middle: Dale K. Rice. First Principal »F Mentor High School, 1925 Scarlet and Grey. Lower Left: Library, 1925 Scarlet and Grey. Lower Right: Principal's Office, 1925 Scarlet and Grey. This Page - Upper Left: Block “M” in Gym class, 1926 Scarlet and Grey. Before the colonies could claim and develop land, they had to obtain charters from the British government. These charters allowed the British government control and ruling over the new colonies. However, not all the land claimed by the colonies was developed for settlers. Several sections of these “underdeveloped lands were located in the west, which is the area in which we live today. After the Revolu- tionary War. there was a conflict over who owned these lands. Great Britain or America? Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, and Connec- ticut all had claims to these underdeveloped lands. Gradually these states relinquished the rights of these lands except for Connecticut. Connecticut, finally in 1786, surrendered part of its claim, except for an area known today as Northeastern Ohio. It stretched from the western border of Pennsylvania 120 miles west; a total of 7,440 square miles. Governing this land from the home state of Connecticut became too much, and the land was sold to the Connecticut Land Company in 1795. In May of 1796 Moses Cleaveland led a group of 51 people to survey the Western Reserve, The city of Cleveland was named after the leader of the expedition group. The group set about their tasks, and began to divide the land up for sale. Six areas were to be chosen for immediate improvements and settlement. One of the areas chosen was Mentor Township. Mentor has been thought to receive its name as did Solon, Euclid, Medina, and Macedonia. Several of Moses Cleaveland's companions were Greek scholars which accounts for these names. In Homer's Odyssey, Mentor is an Ithacan noble, whose disguise the Goddess Athena assumed in order to act as a wise guardian to the young Telemachus. The first settlers in 1797 chose an area named Hopkins Point in which to settle. It was located by the marsh and has now been washed into Lake Erie. Mentor was orginally part of Painesville Township as were a number of other cities. It had always been called Mentor, but in 1815 it separated from Painesville Township and given its own name of Mentor Township. In 1811 or 1812 the residents of Mentor decided they should establish their own school.The location of this school was on Ridge Road (now called Mentor Avenue) across from the present day Drug Mart and Hytree Pharmacy, on a lot of land which now holds an abandoned, dilapidated mansion. Schooling, during these days, was only for the children whose parenls could afford to send them. However, after 1826. funds came from public taxation so that more students could attend. Several schools were built and destroyed since that very first schoolhouse in 1811. The only official high school was that of the Village School, built in 1887. It is now known as Center Street Village School. Today's Center Street building was rebuilt in 1914 to replace the school built in 1859 which replaced the orginial building built in 1827. The bell, located in the back of the building, is a landmark, and it marked where it used to hang in the tower. In the fall of 1923 the Mentor School Board expanded its system by opening the first Mentor High School. It is now known as Memorial Junior High School. It instructed students from grades 7-12, and in 1925 it had its first graduating class of 19. (There had always been graduating Seniors but never enough to call a class ). In 1924 the Auditorium and Gymnasium were added to the New High School. Not only was 1925 the first year for Mentor High and first graduating class, but it was also the first year for an annual or yearbook to be published. It was entitled Scarlet and Grey and put out by the senior class. The Painesville Telegraph wras given credit as the first publisher of ihe book. Students in grades 7 through 12 attended classes which were small and carefully regimented by Principal Dale R. Rice. Mr. Rice later went on to become Mentor's Superintendent, and he helped shape Mentor Schools in the early years to the great reputation they hold today. Dak R Rice Elementary on Lakeshore Boulevard was named after Mr. Rice in 1958, 5

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Yearbooks for Mentor are hostages By LARRY LUPAS Staff Reporter MENTOR - Mentor High School’s yearbooks are being held hostage, innocent victims of a Pennsylvania trucking company’s bankruptcy and labor dispute. The yearbooks are stu k on a trailer in a West Middlesex, Pa., layover lot. The chances of the 1,250 books getting to Mentor High School before the last day of school Thur- sday are unknown. “It’s hard to say which way it will break now. We’re really in a Catch- 22,” said Jack Walker, faculty ad- visor to the yearbook staff. “It’s just crazy,” said Debbie Bailee, yearbook editor. “We worked so hard just so we’d get the yearbooks on time, but it didn’t do any good. We keep looking at the boxes that corrje in with the food to see if they’re the yearbooks.” The books were stranded on the last leg of trip from the printer because the trucking company, Interstate Trucking, filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 13, and the Teamsters Union walked out over back pay. The hostage crisis has attracted the attention of Cong. Dennis Eckart, D-ll, who called Teamster Union President Jackie Presser. But even their combined clout hasn’t been able to solve the problem in time for Mentor seniors to write those never-changing salutations in each other’s yearbooks. “The teamsters have pledged their full cooperation to get the yearbooks back,” said Greg Allen, advisor of the yearbook staff along with Walker. But that may not be enough. In- terstate Trucking is reluctant to let non-employees onto their property to unload the books because of in- surance liability, said Walker. And even if a group of people were to travel to West Middlesex, about 40 miles east of Youngstown near the Pennsylvania State line, the books are loaded in the front of the trailer with a full cargo load blocking it and no forklifts at the site, “It looks like everything is going to be shut down from now until Tuesday with the holiday,” said Walker. “No one believes us when we tell them what’s happening,” added assistant editor Tulika Sinha. “They think we're keeping them, or the principal will hand them out after school’s out because she doesn’t want the signatures to disrupt classes, but that’s not the case.” Allen has one copy of the $16 book for the 2,600 students at the school. 7