Washington High School - Sunburst Yearbook (Washington Court House, OH)

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QQ i -V DUO End of the Rope and Scenes from Old Granada. Every person in the cast played his 'part well, carrying out clearly the dramatic talent of the class. At the start of our final round, we were saddened by the death of Joe Chris- tian, called in the midst of the basketball game between the Phi Sigma Chi Frater- nity quintet and New llolland. Joe went down fighting to the last breath, as he always gave his last full measure of strength in his games for the Blue and White. Again in the Senior class, Cupid welded hearts together. A fitting climax for our hard efforts at school was the Senion play, The Hottentotf' extremely well played by every member of the cast. Our debate teams came through this year adding another trophy to our long list. A majority of the debaters were from our class. This year our school lost the most popular coach ever known here. Coach John II. Miller left to go to the University of Arizona. Everyone, not only those on the athletic teams, but all who came into contact with him regretted his leav- ing very much. This vacancy was filled by Mr. Staats who piloted the baskeball team through a very successful season. A very appropriate ending of our High School career was the banquet given at the Washington Country Club by the Juniors in honor of the Seniors Out of the one hundred and twelve who finished the Freshman year there are now seventy-five of us who have lasted through the voyage of four short years. VVe have gained a knowledge that will make us much better fitted to fight the many strong battles of life. CLASS PROPHECY XVENTY-FIVI-'I YEARS ago today? Let me think! Oh, dear. How time flies! K J May and flowers again. Spring. How like, yet how unlike the Spring imqnj, of 1927. NVhat joys and sorrows have the years brought to the young men and young women of our graduating class of 1927? In my mind I see them then joyously and perhaps noisily moving from class- room to classroom or congregated in small groups in the corridor. Days-months-years together. And then-and then--the last days of school. So eagerly sought. forg so reluctantly given upg the last days of school. Each May brings vivid recollections of those dear classmates but this May of 1952, the twenty-fifth anniversary of our graduation seems particularly to have brought with it many forgotten incidents. My life work has necessarily taken me away from the world, but seclusion has never lessened the desire to hear about my school day friends. Yet until last evening I knew but very little of them. Last evening l gained much information in a very strange way. While searching through old records I noticed an apparently newly bound volume. Closer examination disclosed that it was printed in 1951 by the Record 'Publishing Company and in the city of Washington Court House, Ohio. Ilow it came to be where I found it will alwaysbe a mystery. Hastily glancing through the book I found some familiar names and brief accounts of the lives of these interesting people. Just the information for which I had been longing. Although many of the younger folks here tonight will not rexnevnber some of 25

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as X e no CLASS HISTORY Herbert Hard, Class Historian HE FUTURE is full of bright prospeets for this, the best, if not the largest , elass of High Sehool History, but my duty is to reeord the past, so she , if who prophecies may tell the future. v.i'tj,.f Baek over the short span of four years, this group before you this even- 'lt ing, together with many fallen by the wayside, gathered together for the first time. We found our tear-hers eagerly awaiting to indulge in our ignorance, and they were not long finding out, as they have so often told us, This is the brightest class l have ever had. ' Miss Davis worked uneeasingly and untiringly trying to teach us as Freshies, the deelensions and eonjugations. Some went to the other three corners of the building before they finally went to the VVest for Algebra. All classes were soon 'tHook -ed on Commercial Geography and Arithmetic. As the year sped on, the Great Reaper called two of our prominent class- mates, Charlotte Jefferson and Ruth Deen. When our Freshman year ended, we had one hundred and twelve in our class. At the beginning of our Sophomore year, our class began to make history for Washington High Sehool. Our candidates were making good on the football field. On the basketball eourt they were right there, both boys and girls. In the orches- tra and Glee' Clubs we were amply represented. As our second year started, one of our most popular classmates, William Baker, was called to the Great Beyond. He was taken from our midst, but his memory will always be eherished in the hearts and minds of his classmates. lt was also in our second year that Cupid made his debut. VVe were unable to have the usual Sophomore Carnival, but we did have a pienie at Monroe Falls that will never be forgotten. VVith the ineoming number, at the end of our Sophomore year, we had one hundred and seventeen enrolled. In our Junior year our class had diminished to ninety-four. In Miss .Iester's elass of Matrimony, Cupid's darts fell fast, thus further deereasing the number in our 4-lass. . Coach Vannorsdall resigned his position to take up coaching at East High of Akron. His plaee was amply filled by Coaoh Miller who immediately met with success by turning out a South Central Ohio League Championship football team. Our class furnished some splendid material without which they could never have aeeomplished this feat. The basketball team was not as fortunate although it did win a majority of the games played. The glrl's team did not win a majority of games, although it fought hard every game and deserves a great deal of eredit. lt was at this point that Mr. Rees who had guided us thus far, resigned to take up other work. His plaee was filled by Mr. Bruner who still holds the posi- tion of superintendent. The rest of our year was an eventful one. The Junior-Senior banquet, in whiz-h we entertained the Seniors, was one of the best ever put on in the history of Washington Hlgh School. The Junior plays were greatly enjoyed by everyone who saw them. The class used four well known one-act plays: The VVeasel,'l The Ghost Story, The 24

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Z 1 ,ova the names mentioned, I am sure the older generation will not have forgotten. VVith your permission I will read just what is written: Georgia Prugh Chapman has been with the Hartman Stock Company for the past several years. She is the prima donna. Ivan Manville Boyer is successfully completing his fifteenth year on the con- cert stage. The public never allows Mr. Boyer to leave the platform until he has given them his unique and absolutely original presentation of Twittering Birds. Ruth Ellen Sheppard is not the man-hater she was in High School days. She is especially fond of reading the nursery rhyme about Tommy Tuckerf' Aulten Edward Carter, profiting by his own experience while in High School, is the head of a large Automobile Protective Association. Elizateth Florence Burnette is the wife of the manager of a Penney Store. She is in charge of the music department recently installed in her husband's store. Thomas Ware Doyle had so much trouble with his private correspondence in High School that now he is the head of a large concern for handling communica- tions between High School pupils. Dorothy Louise Boggess is now living in Sabina. Gone for awhile, her m- Emory has returned and now she is quite happy. Harold Allen Todhunter and Bertha Inez Smith have attained great success by their interpretive dancing and at the present are touring Europe. Marjorie Katherine Evans has been doing reform work. It has been rumored that she gives most of her time to the Irish. Loren Donald Overstake has remained in the occupation of his forefathers. He is the owner of one thousand acres of land around Washington Court House. Susie Irene Tracey, because she disliked her name so much, changed it to Jane! She has been teaching all the children in the neighborhood the beautiful old ballad Oh John, My Joe John. George Everett Conner, so much admired by the Faculty of IVashington High School for his scholary attitude, did not accept the Rhodes Scholarship offered him. Instead he has the job of entertaining the fair maidens of the Kindergarten in their spare time. Laura Esther Hurtt is now with the Zeigfield Follies. She has the responsible position of costumer. VVilliam Kouns Robinson has seemingly repented of the characteristics that gave him, while still in High School, the nickname of Wild Bill. He is now con- nected with the Capital University Conservatory of Music. Essyle Mae Bell and Florence Marie Christian are stenographers of the National Defense League. They are extremely well fitted for their positions because of their High School experience with Reds . William Lawson Henry is doing a great deal of good among the poorer classes in his position of secretary of the local Y. M. C. A. Jean Catherine Michael's natural talent has led her into politics. She has sp-oken a Little for Senator Miller, Congressman Carr and others. Being non- partisan she always speaks for the best man. Robert Samuel Whiteside-'s slow and cultured drawl acquired in school theatri- cals is an invaluable asset in, his law practice. Two persons with the initials, UD. W., one of whom is Daniel VVehster, have had a marked influence on his lffc. Armeda Jean West has just returned from Afghanistan. She has been explor- ing for the National Geographic Society. Always interested in Athletics, Herbert Condon Campbell is Head of the Athletic Commission for the State of Ohio. It was a great Schfriock to him when Frank Palmer lost the heavyweight boxing championship to Thurman Sheppard. 26