Antwerp Local High School - Archer Yearbook (Antwerp, OH)

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100 YEARS The principal of the Antwerp Schools earned an annual salary of $1000.00. There was a county wide uniform adop- tion of common school text books to be used in Paulding County. 1916 The board fixed the second Friday evening of each month to be the time of their regularly scheduled meetings. Where as the Carryall Rural School District was maintaining a first grade high school and felt the need of more supervision for the welfare of the school, the Carryall Rural School District peti- tioned the Paulding County Board to be set off as a separate district. The school term started on September 4, and the superintendent was instructed to make a schedule with the school term not to exceed nine months. 1917 The school board adopted The Essentials of Geography, Books One and Two, By Adolph, Brigams, and McFarlands. The books were purchased by the school board and in turn were sold to pupils for $.54 and $.93 each. The Erter School was closed due to the fact that the average daily attendance for the preceeding school year was only eight pupils per day and there were only eight prospective pupils for this year. The school purchased a horse drawn school wagon with a Wayne heater at- tached and a drop pole for $223.50 from Carrs at Richmond, Ind. 1918 The school board fixed their regularly scheduled meeting day to be the second Thursday of each month. On March 16th, 1918, the Paulding Coun- ty Board of Education, in accordance with the provisions of the General Code of Ohio, dissolved the Carryall Township Rural School District of Paulding County and created there, together with certain territory from Harrison Township Rural School District, a new district to be known as Antwerp Rural School District. The school year was scheduled for all grades to attend school for eight months and high school for nine mo nths. The high school was to make up two weeks by attending on Saturdays. 1919 School was closed six weeks due to a smallpox and flu epidemic. Teachers were notified that they were expected to make up for the lost time and would be paid half time wages for the make up days. The school board made application to the Ohio State Department of Education for federal state aid for a department of vocational agriculture in the high school. Plans were made to reopen the Erter School provided there were the required the number of students to hire a qualified teacher. 1920 Superintendent Kunce was in- structed to buy the necessary supplies as required by law for the carrying on of a first grade high school for the coming year. On April 20th, the Murphy Schoolhouse, situated one and one half mile east of Antwerp on the old Canal, burned down during a wind storm. The remains were sold in five lots to the highest bidders. 1. 1938 Custodian, Millard Jones 2. 1938 Custo- dian, Ruth Jones 3. Band Director in the 1940 ' s, Mr. Richard Hickman 4. 1939 Junior Class Play, Song of My Heart ROW 1 — Margery Putman, Phyllis Guysinger, Fern Matzen, Almeda Howard ROW 2 — Catherine Chiles, Denzil Weber, Max Daub, Fairy Boesch, Donald Enderle, Budd Friend, Marian McCreery, Forrest Weller 5. AHS Prin- cipal, Teacher and Coach during the 1940 ' s and 1950 ' s, Mr. N. L. Samaha 6. 1938-39 Football Team ROW 1 — George Magdich, Robert Kemerer, Ivan Cottrell, Max Putman, Richard Carr, Max Daub, Cleston Chester ROW 2 — Donald Enderle, Rolland Fisher, Richard Crosby, Jack Yager, Budd Swann, Raymand Ewing, Robert Culler, Paul Deemer, Warren Bissell ROW 3 — Coach Bill Homey, Manager Jack Weber, Donald Edens, Bill Cottrell, Stanley Jor- dan, Edward McCreery, William Caine, Leon Miller, Robert Taylor, Dale Ewing, Assistant Coach A. 0. Bell 7. Some of the members of the 1938-39 Football Team pictured at the 1983-84 Homecoming Game — Dale Ewing, Harold Ewing, Robert Kemerer, Leon Miller, Max Daub, Paul Deemer, Richard Carr, Richard Crosby, Robert Culler, Stanley Jordan, Rex Hopkins, Ivan Cot- trell, Raymond Ewing, Jack Yager

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1. 1936-37 Baseball Team ROW 1 — Harold Ew- ng, Dick Crosby, Howard Monroe, Dick Rhoad, Wayne Fleck, Jack Yager, Rex Gloor. ROW 2 — 3ob Armstrong, Jim Jordan, Warren Bissell, Roy 3issell, Coach Bill Homey, Bob Kemerer, Wayne Shuherk, Lawrence Cromley 2. 1936-37 Girls ' Basketball Team ROW 1 — Betty Laney, Ruth Parrett, Madeline Sims, Inez Fett, Marian Mc- 3reery, Phyllis Guysinger, Dorothy Quaintance, fairy Boesch, Ruth Tracy, Dorothy Donat, Kathryn Chiles ROW 2 — Miss Harris, Eileen Armstrong, Phyllis Bissell, Pauline Hargrave, Dorothy Gordon, Dorothy Tobolt, Vivian Steven- son, Doris Jump, Evelyn Seslar, Helen Hartman, Miss Zimmerman ROW 3 — Samantha Johnson, Elouise Weber, Letha Morhardt, Jane Long, June Donat, Betty Friend, Betty Boyce, Juanita Chester, Fay Feagan, Rosetta Guysinger 3. 1939-40 Basketball Team ROW 1 — Eugene Chiles, Budd Swann, Thurman Culler, Robert Culler, Robert Taylor ROW 2 — Mgr. Joe Magdich, Lowell Weller, Don Enderle, Paul Deemer, Floyd Bitler, Forest Weller, Ray Ewing, Coach H. W. Homey Did you know? construction of a new building to be com- pleted by September 1911, The building was not completed in September, but school was held in the portion of the building that was finished. 1912 The school board fixed their regularly scheduled meeting day to be on Saturday evening of each month. A telephone was installed in the new Antwerp school building. Teachers in the Antwerp Village were notified that school would not start as scheduled in September due to lack of funds to pay salaries. 1913 The school houses were heated with the best Kentucky lump coal available at a cost of $4.80 per ton. 1914 The high school students publish- ed a school paper called The PAPAW. The following articles were taken from the Antwerp High School PAPAW Spring Number, 1914. If I had only one thing to say to the school boys and girls of today it would be this: Learn to use your mind, learn to think about the things that count with the same enthusiasm and earnestness that you think about play. Never let the mind rust for want of exercise. Have high ideals. Read only the best books; study the lives of great and good men and try to fill your minds with the thoughts and purposes that make them remembered and loved. Remember you are laying the foundation for a work of a lifetime and that whether you succeed or fail depends on what you think and how you think and that pure thoughts make a pure life and right thoughts make right living. John S. Snook THE ANTWERP HIGH SCHOOL Along the old Maumee stands our Ant- werp Town And the A.H.S. which is our pride and crown Will we forget it? No, Never, Never Our school days we ' ll remember for ever and ever The days, how long and dreary they seem As we toil along our way But each effort fits us better. For the duties we ' ll meet some day. Our teachers so kind to us have been. May we never forget how they tried To lead us on a higher realm As we toil her side by side Ethel Bardelmeier THE SENIOR CLA SS On Feb. 27, our classmate Marie Derek came in, and took the Seniors for a bobsl- ed ride to her home in the country, where the evening was spent in enjoying ourselves as only the Seniors know how. After a lunch served by the hostess, we returned to our homes. As we sped homeward one of the girls exclaimed, Oh, I ' ve had the best time tonight that I ' ve had in ages, and she voiced the sen- timents of all. 1915 It was resolved that the clerk of the school district was to perform the duties of treasurer. The Antwerp Village School District voted to dissolve the school district and it was transferred to the Carryall Rural Board of Education to be maintained in the village in the same manner as it had been in the past.

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I « f a tit, Did you know? . 1940 High School Orchestra ROW 1 — Earleen levenger, Nyota Clevenger, Rae Ree Major, Idith Gordon, Wanda Nelson, Jacqueline Snyder, :uth Carr, Norma Jean Gordon, Iona Sue Booth, lula Powell ROW 2 — Ruth Hartman, Eunice hoad, Alfred Daeger, Donald Rhoad, William aine, Thurman Culler, Miss Carr, Paul Deemer, ichard Hemrick, Floyd Bitler, Estel Kauffman, ' ale Mathews, Ruby Hopkins, Lois Anderson 2. 940 Operetta, Grades 3-6 3. 1941-42 Paulding ounty Basketball Champs ROW 1 — Max Donat, John Howard, Stanley Jordan, Jack Bickhard, Earl Hahn ROW 2 — Coach H. W. Horney, Bing Bissell, Charles Peffley, Estel Cot- trell, Lynn Bickhard, Zeb Delong, Charles Dove 4. 1948 Junior-Senior Prom, Arabian Nights 5. 1948 Junior-Senior Prom 6. Girls in the class of 1951 ROW 1 — Phyllis Vail, Jackie Weible ROW 2 — Marcelline Elliott, Margaret Terwilliger, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Theresa Bradley, Jean Hawkins, Ruth Mary Hallock 7. A.H.S. Students in 1954 — Pat McCalla, Peg Worrick, Tom Clark C. B. Waters was employed as agricultural teacher for the 1920-1921 school year. Father Joseph Ludwig, St. Michael ' s Parish of Hicksville, Ohio, purchased the Clay School Building, exclusive of lightn- ing rods, bell, window sash and glass for $275.00. The board passed a resolution to discon- tinue transporting pupils to and from school unless said pupils lived more than two miles from the school. Due to the fact that there was an insuffi- cient number of pupils in the Armstrong School District to lawfully carry on a public school, the building was closed. The school board established the policy that they refused to transport pupils either to or from any school unless it was a public school in the Antwerp Rural School District or other public school district where it became necessary for transportation in accordance with the school laws of the state of Ohio. The salary of the clerk of the school board was increased to $25.00 per month due to the fact that the position required more research and bookkeeping since the passage of the Ohio State Teachers ' Retirement System. The school board hired Isaac Boice to drive the school truck now owned by the board. His salary was $20.00 per week. He had to furnish his own oil, gas, grease, make repairs, and store the truck at the end of the term for $2.00 per month. The school board paid for all new materials and parts. In August, the school electric bill was $3.00. It cost the board $69.00 to place four new tires, tubes, and make other repairs on the bus. In October, the school board found themselves financially short on funds to meet the payroll of the teachers and bus drivers. They borrowed $1000 to be paid back at the rate of 7° ' o ■ 1921 The superintendent ' s salary was set at $2,000. On April 7th, the school board approved the graduation of 16 girls and 2 boys. Students fees for high school were $8.00 per month. G. H. Deemer was employed as principal of the high school at the salary of $1,800. On August 4th, under the Smith-Hughes Law, M r. L. L. Brown was employed to teach agriculture at the high school. The opening day of school was September 12, and elementary students ended their school year on April 28, 1922, with 2 days off for Thanksgiving and 9 days off for Christmas. The compulsory school age for the Ant- werp School District was 7 to 18 inclusive. In September, the school board was con- sidering solutions to overcrowding in the Antwerp building. 1922 There were nine locations making up the network of the Antwerp School District: Erter, Clark, Overmeyer, Elmtree, Wilson, Champion, Doering, Link and Stinger.