Amity High School - Echoes Yearbook (Amity, OH)

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v LOIS ANN TALBOTT F. H. A. ........... 1.2.3.4 Junior Class Play Senior Class Play Class Treasurer X PAT RANSOM F. H. A. ........... 1.2.3 .4 Junior Class Play Senior Class Play Cheerleader .... - . . .Z,3,4 RICHARD R.ANSOM F. F. A ........... Basketball ..... Football ....... Junior Class Play Senior Class Play RICHARD HERNDON JOYCE McKAY F.F.A...............3 F.H.A........... 2,34 Basketball. , . . , . . . . . . . 3,4 Junior Class Play Junior Class Play Senior Class Play Senior Class Play Glee Club, . , , , , Senior Choir. . . . . Z 7 Q'

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Class History On September 8, 1939, our class attended our first day of school. Of course there was the usual crying, shouting and kicking, which is always cus- - tomary for that day. Miss DeLong was our first teacher throughout the first and second grades. It was under her direction that we learned our numbers and abc's. At least we were supposed to. In our third year Mrs. Hawkins was our instructor. She was the one who taught us how to multiply and divide. I still well remember how difficult it was for us to master those multiplication tables and long division. It was always customary for her to read us a fairy tale every evening, but she had a tendency to doze off to sleep. At times, we students considered this quite monotonous in- stead of exciting. In our fourth year, Mrs. Kulhman was our teacher. She also drilled and drilled us in multiplication and division. I guess we hadn't quite mastered either in the preceding year. It was under her that we studied a great deal about art. What we drew then we considered masterpieces, but now as we look at them we realize that they are only useful for a good laugh. In our fifth and sixth year, Mr. Strouse ruled as an absolute dictator over us and we soon learned that what he said, he meant. He had a well-organi- zed plan in keeping tab on us. There were two stairways to our room, and it was quite difficult for us to watch both at the same time. Never shall we forget those trying days. In our seventh year, we changed school buildings. We all felt so very foolish and out of place as we crept off the buses, up those stairs, and through those long halls. Everyone it seemed was staring at us, or perhaps it was only our imaginations. Mrs. Mackto became our teacher in that year. We all agree that that year would have been more enjoyable had it not been for geography. Our books were quite large, and we tried to hide behind them so as to evade the .teacher's questions. We soon learned that this was not the correct solution to our prob- lem. In our eighth year Mrs. Bennet joined us. She took a great deal of in- terest in us and helped to organize the Fun Club . That was a success, but our English class definitely wasn't. In our Freshman year we began to have more fun. We became more in- terested in sports and joined the other high school students in skating parties and dances. In that year we had a different teacher for each subject. That seemed so confusing at first, but later we became accustomed to it. Our Sophomore year was somewhat similar to the ninth except that we were having still more fun. It was in that year that Dick Ransom from Gambier joined us. We still don't know whether Gambier gained or Amity lost. 9