Middletown High School - Optimist Yearbook (Middletown, OH)

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D. R. BAKER, Principal A. B., Nliarni Univvrsily Au llnivvrsiiy or Cinfinxmii mini str cltion IOHN U. BL.'XCKf fJRD, Slllwrinlvmfmzl B. in lid., Nlimni Univcrsiiy xl. School fXLIl!liY1iStl'ilNUIl, Nliunxi lfnix orsity Indiana Univmfrsily. Cincinnali lfnivvrsiiy. cNf!IlIlIlI3iil Univvrsily 20

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First Row: Harry Hadley, vice-president: Joseph Vvoodruti, president: Charles Reuthe. Second Row: Hugh Butter, cleric: Dr. Joseph E. Heck: John Blackford, superintendent: Jack D. Christy. Board o Education Midhe children now iove luxury, they have had manners and contempt for authority, they show disrespect for elders, and iove chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants oi their household. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contra- dict their parents, chatter hefore company and gohhie up dainties at the tahie, cross their iegs, and tyrannize over their teachersf' The ahove quotation was written hy Soc- rates some 2,500 years ago. The hahit of view- ing with aiarm the activities, interests and goais ot young peopie hy the oider generation is one of the uconstantsu of history. Yet somehow, civilization has progressed'-with each gen,- eration infusing some worthwhile improvements into the stream of culture. The small percentage oi udeiinquentsn have more spectacular ways of getting into trouhie, and with m 0 d e r n communication methods, their deviations receive wide puhiicity. AU too iittie is said or written ahout the solid core of American youth, the Q0 to Q5 per cent who de- vote their taients and energy to the process of growing up saneiy and constructively. I suhmit that this is the most wholesome, the hest educated, and the straightest thinking group of hoys and girls I have known in forty years of either heing a youth or teaching youth. I predict that when the seniors of 1955 have become the Holder generationf, they, too, will point with pardonahie pride to many great a- chievements and a better worid-which they will hesitate to ieave to a generation ot irre- sponsihie and decadent youth. J. D. Blackford, Superintendent

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Faculty ARLENE C. AKERIVIAN B. A., IVI0unt Union College Debate ami Discussion, English. IOSEPHINE ARMSTRONG B. A., IVI. A., Miami University Sponisli, American History. WILLIAM KING BALDRIDGE 0l1io State University. Ivliami University University of Cincinnati Machine Trades. FRED BANKER B. S., University of Cincinnati IW. E., Miami University Physical Eciucation, Hvaltii, Recreation. KATHLEEN BANKER A. B., Western College Ivlatiiematics. E. O. BARR A. B., Antiocli College IW. A., Chic State University Printing, Mechanical Drawing. HAROLD DRAUT B. S.. Denison University IVI. A., Columloia University Chemistry, Vocational Science. ELLEN EASTON A. B., Wittenberg College M. A., University of l.VliCl'lIgEill English, IVIABEL ELDRIDGE, Dean of Girls B. S. in Ecl,, Miami University IVI. E., University of Cincinnati French, Creative Writing. GLENN ELLISON A. B., Denison University Football, English.