Ada High School - We Yearbook (Ada, OH)

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To Ada High To Ada High, our own school, We raise our song today, We praise thee now, we serve thee In all our work and play. Our colors always flying, We'll keep them ever up on high; To Ada High, our own school We’ll praise thee to the sky. For high school walls and high halls, We love thee best of all. For Ada High, our own school, We’ll always fight to win; We do our best to beat them Where’er we enter in; Our players always fighting, For victories they do their best For Ada High, our own school, We’ll always stand the test; For high school ways and high school days, We love thee best of all. Sidney R. Boyd.

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To Ada High You’re not so much to look at, Dear Old Ada High. But you mean a lot to us, And to serve you we do try. We honor you and praise you, We’ll stick until the end, And when we pass without your doors Into higher paths we will ascend. In every game between the schools, Our players always fight. They fight to win for Ada High, And they always fight for the right. Each student tries to back them With a yell and a cheer for thee, And when we’ve left you, dear Ada High, How we have loved you, then you can see. Then let us take off our hats to thee, While our colors float in the sky. Now stand erect, yes one and all Three cheers for Ada High! Ruth M. Ingledue, ’28.

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Traditions Man came from some place back in the past but we have little to tell of his past existence or ancient history today. From carvings on stones and what few weapons he left we know some of his past. Somewhere back in the dark past the citizens of a peaceful village deemed it proper to erect a school building. We know little of the early inhabitants of this building, for it is so far back that we can hardly comprehend the length of time from then till now. From the carvings on these ancient desks we are now able to trace many traditions. The first things noticeable are scores of past athletic contests. Those are traditions. Go to the office and notice the various cups won by Ada High teams. There in the center stands the Miami Valley Football Championship Cup, won by a team that averaged not over one hundred and forty-five pounds per man. A light but hard-fighting team. The size of opponents made no difference, for they even beat Stivers of Dayton, supposed to be the all-state Class A team. There are many basketball cups won by both boys and girls. Our teams have always been light but fighting Our basketball team of 1923 was defeated by the Class A, state championship team of Lorain, by one point. The basketball team of 1928 has not dropped below the standard and defeated Kenton on their own floor, something that has not been accomplished for quite a few years. In fullest appreciation of the spirit, fight and power of our athletic teams, we adopted the bull dog as the symbol and mascot of the high school. The bull dog symbolizes the reason for our well-filled trophy case. One spring in some year B. C. when all students of the aforesaid institution of learning had shed their winter apparel and were feeling in a rather jovial mood a day was set aside for general jollification. Under the label of “Bum’s Day ” this has become an annual event. The jolly but somewhat subdued Sophomores, the’ rising Juniors and even the dignified Seniors, cast aside all titles and all having dressed in “glad rags’’ join in a day of real sport, much to the annoyance of the Freshmen who by an unwritten clause of the constitution or by custom (I never did get those terms straight) are not permitted to join the fun. “In the spring a young man’s fancy,” well it’s just human nature. When the robins are back, the prehistoric flies are sunning themselves about the old building and the air is warming up without the fruitless effort of the janitor, to err is human The call of nature is too strong and a group of merry students will throw classes to the wind and go swimming in “Grass Run.” Then comes the reckoning, evidently the office force is not divine, for they refuse to forgive and a dejected file of young men parade about the hall with blue slips (three per cent off all grades) “sic vita.” In order to give those possessed with dramatic intelligence, an opportunity to display their powers, the Interclass Contest was introduced into the high school and that is where classism shows itself in the fullest degree. It is one time you can razz another class without getting mobbed. Along with this some member of the faculty (probably single) proposed an Interclass banquet. This was heartily approved by the young sheiks of the school and so it was. Of all traditions there is one that exists still and will continue to do so indefinitely. That is the spirit of loyalty to our High School. Our school days are our best days of youth, and as we go on we will appreciate more and more what our high school days have meant to us. As long as this spirit exists the success of the high school is assured. It is the moral of the school, let’s keep up the fight. RUSSKLL LONG, ’28.