Pettisville High School - Lariat Yearbook (Pettisville, OH)

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MR. HERBERT BELL MISS VELMA FREY Miss Alta Spiess, fifth grade teacher by vocation, is a farmer by avocation. Mr. James Clark, t h e busy vocational agriculture teacher, enjoys judging cattle. Miss Margaret Buckmaster, teacher o f grade 2, entertains faculty children: Delores Pace, Barbara and Martin Ziss, Steven Pace. Mr. Herbert Bell, trumpet player a n d teacher of school music, spent more time com- posing music than playing it, the last year. Miss Velma Frey, a Pettisville graduate, is home economics teacher and adviser of FHA. Her hobbies tend toward the artistic. Mr. James Pace, the new coach, teaches h i s t o r y and mathematics. He shows the domestic side of his nature in the picture. MRS. MILDRED RYCHENER MISS RUTH K. WYSE MR. JAMES PACE MRS. FLORENCE PORTER Mrs. Dwight Porter taught two sessions of kindergarden, a forenoon and an afternoon session. She took an extension course in art. Mrs. Mildred Rychener, teacher of grade 6, instructs her students in many interesting crafts. She took an extension course in art. Mrs. Jean O y e r teaches commercial subjects. She demonstrates one of her home- making activities at her home in Wauseon. Miss Ruth Wyse is teacher of high school English classes, journalism, and is adviser of the Lariat. She enjoys reading and spends much time in her library. Miss Sadie C. Miller,fourth grade teach- er, took a course in painting which she en- joys as a hobby in her spare time. MRS. JEAN OYER MISS SADIE C. MILLER or-9' QQ

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9 PRIN. MARK RAY MR. HAROLD ZISS The SCHOOL BOARD, pictured on page 3, paused from inspecting the farm shop to face the camera. Members are from left to right: Earl Weber, president, Victor Rupp, vice- presidentg Mrs. Ada Genter, clerk, Russell Gascheg Claude Rupp, and Supt. Springer. Har- old Schmucker. remaining member, was absent. The board takes a keen interest in the welfare and improvement of the school. Dur- ing 1952-53 it arranged for new fluorescent lighting in the study hall, new seating in room 21, refurnishing of r e s t rooms, and planting of shrubbery. Its attitude has been progressive in regard to scholarship, extra- curricular activities, and teacher interests, as well as to the school plant itself. MRS. HELEN SPRINGER SUPT. DAVID E. SPRINGER Mr. Mark Ray, the new principal, also history, English, and mathematics. teaches Mr. Ray finds odd jobs to do about his home. Mr. Harold Ziss, a new faculty member, all science and coaches junior high teaches basketball. He is also a golf enthusiast. Mrs. Helen Springer,wife of the superin- tendent, resumed teaching in the third grade. She relaxes in the newly redecorated lounge. Supt. David E. Springer succeeded S. M. Gottschalk, resigned. A busy executive, he finds time to give his home some attention. Mrs. Florence Lind l e y, first grade teacher, lives on a farm, where she has all the pets she wants-especially cats Faculiy MRS. FLORENCE LINDLEY M . JAMES CLARK MISS ALTA SPIESS MISS MARGARET BUCKMASTER

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NIV! -J a Am EMM I 4 Xfkkg t oh O ,pr scsq I a 4 eigmstpfff' 23.55 .W 1 4 Y , ' .rua 4, 454 'mag W' ff vu u w s, s, . ei '+ , p fp. Sri, LX' A, n urznlol 1' ' '-ff: ,I .'f' ' ' r 4' il Q i' Although General Anthony Wayne's victory over the In- dians in the Battle of Fallen Timbers in l79H opened the Maumee River valley to white settlers, Fulton County had no settlers until about 1833. Ohio had already been a state for thirty years. This area was the hunting grounds of the Potawatami Indians, who left a permanent imprint in the county in such names as Wauseon, Ot- tokee, and Winameg. T h e natives shared the fate of others of their race on the coming of the white man and were forced to western lands. The land that greeted the eyes of the pioneers in this beautiful Maumee River valley was swampy and densely wooded. One Jeremiah voiced the gloomy prophecy that the land of Fulton County would never be worth anything. It was too swampy! What would he say if he could return to- day to this garden spot of the United States and find the land which sold for 31.25 an acre in the early days now selling for as much as shoo an acre? The new land demanded much of its settlers. It had to be cleared and drained. It was unhealthy. Quinine for malaria was almost as es- sential as food. The names of many of the first families to settle here still strike a familiar note. The pioneers stayed and so did their descendants. Such well-known names as Nofziger, Grieser, Weber, Klopfenstein, Wyse, Rupp, Aeschliman, and Burkholder are found in the earliest records of the area. -6-