Waynesfield Goshen High School - Reflections Yearbook (Waynesfield, OH)

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T IVVAYNE HIGH ' f 'fl' l9fl9ll FIQJQQQ, FRESHMAN , l D l FRONT ROW-Roy Davisson, Ralph Focht, Robert Douglas. SECOND ROW-Lena Focht, Ruth Wells, Margaret Haggard, Evelyn Earl, Margaret Woodworth, Genevia Fields, Gail Ervin, Gaithel Musser. THIRD ROW-Ross Haggard, Helen Horn, Maxwell Shaw, Margaret Sproul, Robert Bailey, Doyle Good, Veda Atkinson, Thelma Horn. BACK ROW-Mrs. Wilson, Margaret Andrews, Carl Yale, Mr. Cook, Robert Wilcox, Mr. Wilson, Miss Witten, Eva Gossard. ill ' C If Page Eighteen

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WAYNE HIGH PROGRESS Following is a short account of the progress made by the school since the last is- sue of the Souvenir, in the spring of 1926. In the fall of 1926 complete equipment for football was purchased by the athletic association, and that sport was added to the high school athletic activities. Music was added to the curriculum of the elementary school, and by departmentalizing the upper four grades, with the music teacher acting as home room teacher of the seventh grade, thirty-minute daily music periods were added to the work of all eight grades. Immediately after the holiday vacation work was started on tearing out the old heating plant, and a complete new steam heating plant of the Mouat Vapor type was installed in both main building and gymnasium. After the close of school, all traces of the old soot-belching hot air plant were removed by painting and cleaning the building throughout, and installing new window blinds and screens. Then all seats and other furniture were completely renovated, so that at the opening of school the following year, the pupils felt that they were entering a new building. This cleanliness of the building has raised the morale of the entire school several notches, and has done won- ders in bettering the health conditions of the children. At the beginning of the school year just ending, one more elementary teacher was employed, making one teacher per grade for elementary work. This increase was made necessary after three rural schools in Wayne township had been abandoned and the pupils transported to Waynesfield. This change was made permanent when the County Board of Education, on January 31, created a new school district from the old Waynes- field district and about three-fourths of the Wayne Township district, leaving only the Gossard district to itself. The new district then purchased two new G. M. C. school trucks, through the assistance of state aid, and these were routed in seven trips such that only two loads leave the building before four o'clock, and less than six pupils have any back-tracking to do in their ride to and from school building. In February complete equipment for manual training and cooking was added to the high school, and Wayne High now possesses one of the most completely equipped kitchens, arranged according to newest unit kitchen idea, of any school in this section. Twenty-four girls enrolled for the work this year. Plans for the coming year include more playground space to relieve the badly crowded conditions, play-ground equipment for the little children, a new garage to house the school trucks on school property, with one of the drivers acting as mechanic to care for them, thereby eliminating considerable of the high cost of up-keep, and a commer- cial department in the high school, whereby Wayne High graduates can go out into the business world equipped for this kind of work, without having to take expensive courses in high priced business colleges. ll ll Page Seventeen

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:Smit -WAYNE HIGH .IQAQR WAYNE HIGH ALUMNI The time is here again for Wayne High Alumni Association to welcome the grad- uating class of nineteen-twenty-eight into its organization. For the Alumni it is the big social event of the yearg for the graduates it is the crowning event of their high school life, and one which they will always remember. For twenty years Wayne High Alumni Association has so welcomed its yearly graduates. The Alumni Association was formed in 1908 with John Coffin as its first president and Ada Skinner as secretary. The first class banoueted was the class of 1908 with four members--Bertha Volbrecht, Grace Pepple, Edgar Fasig and Edward Moyer. Since then the classes have gradually increased in numbers until now the total membership is near the 300 mark. These are scattered all over the United States in re- sponsible positions of almost every profession. Eight members are deceased. It is not possible for all members to attend the regular yearly banquets of the Alumni because of distant locations and business conditions. But whenever possible it is a privilege pleasurably executed for members to be present at these meetings. If for no more than to bring back pleasant memories of school days, greeting old friends and classmates, and getting personally acquainted with the new graduates it is surely worth while. What alumnus does not cherrish the memories of the pleasant four years spent in Wayne High. True, there were exasperating moments at the final exams, humiliating thoughts when being chastised for whispering or writing notes. How many times would the tortured alumnus liked to have had the authority to subdue Professors Rankin, Gregg, Bowsher, Lehr, Stoker, Miller, Stough, Younger and Wilson. Or perhaps a few remember the times they would liked to have gotten even with Misses Harrington, Hick. Bailey, Beavers, Blouser, Huffman, Shank. Rosebury. Krautwater, Hartman, Augsberger, Keppler, Felland, Beyerly, Means, Crawford, Trumbull, Yinger, Wilson, Williams and Witteng or Messrs. Fasig, Lusk, Wilkerson, Wolfe, Jones, Wenger and Cook. But the pleasant memories are the ones that survive, and every Wayne High instructor's name mentioned above brings back many pleasant thoughts to Alumni members of happy associations with some of them during the past twenty years. X Wayne High Alumni Association has a purpose to perform. Keep interested in Wayne High school enough to keep posted on what is going on. Stand back of the fac- ulty and help put across the things that are right for the betterment of the school. It is still our school so lets be boosters for Wayne High as long as she lives. ' -Byron Butcher '15. It 4 Pate Nineteen