Ohio City Liberty High School - O Citian Yearbook (Ohio City, OH)

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F.ll!9'ml'!! M -,-Nu A.-A - -Au .A.-.-l' 'L!'l.-fill.-.A.u .ggsmmllgy PROPHECY FOR CLASS OF 1939 Last week I returned from a trip around the world. I'm sure some of my ex- periences will interest you. M'ss Lantz a-ccompanied me to Hollywood, where I went first. VVhile there ue found two of my girl friends, Louraine Roller and Edna Doan. Edna was a stand-in for Alice Faye and Lourainel was private secretary for Clark Gable. I had to continue the trip alo.ne because Miss Lantz fell in love with a :handsome movie actor. A few days later I left Hollywood and went to New York. Ilere I discovered a classmate, Maxine' Place, who is a houseinaid for Mrs. Hobart Profit, the former Mary Ellen Putman of Ohio City. I a'so saw James Ellinger who was New Ycrk's outstaad- ing lawyen It wfs soon time for me to journey o.n. My next stop was Florida where I stayed at the O'son hotel. Mrs. Olson was the former Betty Fowler. In Chicago, my next stup, I ffund the Brown and Mi:h1n Step High, Light and Quickly Night Club . Two nfiny fonner dasmnates AnnabeHe Davm and Pauhne Fhmencq umre engaged there as participants in the Hcor show. Annabelle was their great swing dancer and Pauline wvas the r fanious blues singer. . While I was making the trip to Europe, the Ship's Dance Band, under the direc- tion of Bob Bickle, was awarded a radio contract to play on the Krugh and Bolenhauuh Nutcracker Program. During this voyage, I also saw the former Lois Ickes and her husband who were making t.heir annual trip to Europe. . , ln PaHs.FWance I wasinuch surprwed unsee Ida HoHnwn and Ehada Hensfn Ida was studying a subject called, The Selection of a Good Husband and ,Elzada was studying opera. In that beautiful country of Switzerland, where I visited a short time later. I found Orville Clouse, David Drake and the Akom twins who were vacationing there. In Detroit I heard Major Albert Wise's Program where Kenneth Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lantz, sang a solo. To my surprise I found that the pianist was the former Ruth Matthews. A young boy and a girl did acrobatic tap dancing and they won much applause. I learned later that they were my former classmates B.ll Har- rmon and Beny Newton I hardly recognized Ohio City when I returned because so many things were changed. I rcde by a large basebaH dimnond and standing in the nnddle of the held was the second Babe Ruth, Warren Exline who was batting furiously. Base- balls? Nol A Swarm of bumble bees had just gone over his hend. I went into High's Restaurant and ordered chicken and .noodle soup. Gale was so long br'nging niy soup that I decided he niust have gotten hungry and eaten the chicken. I went in to vistlt some of my friends where my former classmates and I used to be held as prisoners. I discovered two of my former classmates, Alys Rice and Marjorie Blush. Marjcrie, a science teacher, was trying to tell Robert Koch Jr. what a worm is and Alys was the famous coach of the outstanding Souaws. The next day I returned honie washing I inight start on another trfp to again see all of my classmates. DOROTHY HOVERMAN. -T1 ll l 1 15iY71 l lT6IGVN1l 1l - ' f c t - f - n o- fc' mmm. .am .ffmfgf 5

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THE GRUMBLER O.h ine, there's that bell again. I hope the .next time a burglar breaks in, he has enough sense to disconnect the bells that ring by that crazy old clock in the office. No cne ever does anything bes des take a few finger prints anyway. You'd t.hi.nk they don't even miss a few dollars and a couple ice cream bars. Some of these teachers won't even let you sleep ilt you have three study periods a day. They want you to read up on the world affairs or study .next month's Lesson rather than get rest for the next 'class so you can recite. If they don't get new chairs or put cushions and head rests on the ones we' have, in a few years the pupils will be getting curvature of the spi.ne and charge the doctrr bill to the scltoolg then the board will kick because it costs so much. Half the gliders are off the chairs in study hall. and when the chair squeal.s-well-- it's a good thing loolfs can't kifl. The chairs in recitation rcoms are too far apart. You can't evein scoot down and rest your weary bones after working hard all day. Some people seem to forget that tlhey were young once and also that times have changed since they were young. I don't know whether they are afraid we will scar the floor or if they fear we will exert ourselves on outside activities, but it remains to be seen that they don't want us to enjoy oiurselves in a little clean dancing. They would rather we go out to Mid Way mn and play the nickle music box and dance while otihers sit and gulp beer. Another thing., .they would rather the w.hole s-chool should die of a flu epidemic than let us out for two short days. If no one else came the teachers would teach one another. O yeah? They buy a new .score board, pay too much for it i.n the first place, then put it way back in the corner so the people in the bleachers can't see it, then tell everyone to sit on thei stage and help yell. On dark cloudy days the teachers pull the blinds clear down and on nice days they put them up so the sun shines in your eyes and you can't sleep. I never did like the system of changing se.a.t.s eivery week i.n English Class and marching out one at a t'me. If the others can't get out of the way in time, that's the'r hard luck. That's the reason some can never get to class on time. You forget where you sit and have to ask a fellow cl.assmate where you are this week. The craziest idea of all is the one cf getting an excuse to go to class after ab- sence. Any person with an oun-cel of brains knows that is wrong. We don't care if you admit us to class or not. A very smart thing to do would be to give us an excuse to stay out. Now you know a person as busy as a Senior can't read a book in two weeks with all his work and take t'mei to run down and have a book renewed. Why not just give him four weeks in which to read it? Why doesn't sumeone change the pictures in study hall? Those same pictures will be here w1hen our grand-children attend school. You can't enjoy looking at the same' pictures year in and year out. And why do the chemistry .students persist in making hydrogen sulphide and leaving the doors open so you can smell it all ovelr tlhe building. Oh, I suppose people will say that we should have nothing to grumble about, but school is school and I 'have no special love for it. BOB BICKLE. Qmm w'c 'e'-'c v,+Q-,-meef,va-f,-g,'ofa-,-,-Q-,c,'5-,fm'mm-gm,-0-,'ms,-5,-W,mmm -mmmlf-,WE

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U .L .M ,..,.,-u.AL.lA- IMWFEIHIEW CLASS POEM A finer group yo-u've never seen Than Mother Lantz's chickensg Just. ho'd your tongue about that class Or she'll flog you like the dickens. There's James Ellingeir, tihe President, Who guides us through to fameg And mischievous Billy Harrison, Who usually takes all the blame. Then Martha and Mary, the Akrm twins, Whrm you never can tell apart: And Orville Clouse, the comedian, Who stopped one of Cupid's darts. For being all-star captain, Bud Wise' will take the cake: Bob Bickle's another good player If he only could keep awake. There's Esther Brown and Edna Dean, The dizzy blondes of the classg And Annabelle Davis, just oppfsite, But a very friendly lass. Ida Hoffman and Marjorie Blush Are endowed w'th intelligenceg Louraine Roller and Ruth Matthews Also ,have plenty of sense. Betty Newton and Pauline Florence Are just stuffed full of humor: VVhile Mary Ellen Putman, true to friends Never l'stens to a rumor. I think that wel will all agree That Alys Rice is a good sportg And Warren Exline, alias Babe Ruth The baseball team will support. Alan Bolenbaugzh, a very short lad, A farmer boy will make: While David will probably carry on The work of Papa Drake. Gale Higfh will graduate A year ahead of time: Dorothy Hovernian was ve-ry sure She couldn't write a rhyme. Together in life es well as in verse Are Betty Fowler and Naomi Foorg Lois Ifckes, captain of the basketball team, Is a whirlwind upo.n that floor. Irene Mihm and Maxine Place, The smallest of the class VVith Gladys Krugth and Myself, Make thirty bright pupils to pass. ELZADA HENSON M i ff + rv ff'-r f'P' 'fs i ,C,,'p,F