Norwalk High School - Signal Yearbook (Norwalk, OH)

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'ef Chin- fs 1849-1949 SHQsX'gf'Ql:'7-Nj?'?-'fl f -5 3' 1- 7 pl V if, 43- at 'f x One .AIMHJPBJ Mara of P4446 524005 WOPMJIZM February Zl, l849 an act of the Ohio St porated cities, towns, and villages having a to adoption of a system of public schools. ln the spring of l85O Norwalk citizens v mills to run the public schools in the town. F Norwalk bought the Norwalk Institute, a pri 'fists and this became Norwalk High School. T in 1849. The enrollment in l949 is 349. 1 . it K , W .S Y MA sl , l'f'3'1:. A fl - Q fi t ate Legislature was passed allowing all incor- tal of ZOO in population to vote upon the oted almost unanimously for a levy of four ive years later the Union School District of vate school of secondary rank, from the Bap- he catalogue of this school lists 306 students , -I-as ., 'lv is 'X 3

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V rf Abiniy ibeakcafion H. C. Ellis, superintendent Resigned 1949 Efficiency Qualities of true public servants Sincerity Agatha -Hogah V Retired i 948

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-KY Wir if YC.. flair FRONT ROW: Burton H. Chandler, B. S. Denison-Mathe- matics, Physics , Kay Haynes, Baldwin-Wallace-Physical Edu- cation-Health Esther Worstel, Denison, Freshman English H. C. Ellis, M. A. Mount Union, Oberlin, Superintendent Myrleen Habecker, M. A. Columbia and Northcentral, Naperville, Ill. - Home Economics Jane Richardson, A. B. Wooster, English J. C. Blair, Ed. M. Bethany-Chemistry and Mathematics. . SECOND ROW: Olive Franz, M. A. Denison-English Alice E. Watson, Ashland-Choral Music and Piano Mary E. Hasselkus, M. A. Librarian, and French Eva S. Harkness, Miami, Cleveland School of Art, and University of Cincinnati--Art Classes Ethel M. Foster, A. B. Millikan-Shorthand and Typing Ruth Bell, M. A. Oberlin and Wellesley-Biol- ogy-General Sc. Madge Mossman, Ph. B. Denison-Latin- Y-Teen Sponsor Agatha Hogan, B. S. Kent-Commercial Sub- jects F. P. Gehres, Bowling Green, Ohio State-Vo- cational-Mechanical Drawing BACK ROW: P. J. Garcia, B. Th., B. D. Colgate-Spanish- Economics-Geography-Sociology R. P. Laycock, M, A, Cincinnati- lnstrumental Music S. Henry Smith, B. S. Miami-Vocational Shop Donald Morrison, Oberlin-Stringed instru- ments Carl H. Seibel, B. S. Denison-Physical Educa- tion, Mathematics and Tennis, Track Coach Grant W. Walls, A. B. Indiana State Teachers College-Football and Basketball Coach -World History Franklin V. Lehn, M. A. Mount Union- Principal C. N. Stevenson, M. A. Wesleyan and Ohio State-American History Herbert Rolsten, M. A. Ohio and Ohio State- lndustrial Arts, Metal Shop dard O! gyncalfion J. N. Orebaugh, President ........... - .......... l95O Violet Wilkinson, Vice President ............ l95O H. Burton,Bracy, Clerk .......................... i953 Dr. G. F. Linn ............................... ........ l 950 Dr. P. M. Gibbons ..... ........l953