Arcadia High School - Arcadian Yearbook (Arcadia, OH)

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SENIOR CLASS HI TIIRY ln the fall of 1941, the future graduating class of 1953 came to school for the first time. Twelve years ago each of us lived in his own world. But then, we came to school- some of us didn't want to come. We didn't want to leave our own small worlds. But our curiosities and our wonderings pushed us out and on. Gradually we progressed in the following years. When we reached the fifth and sixth grades, our class had several members in the Elementary Chorus and several students had also joined the band and orchestra. Then came the day we had long awaited- we were promoted upstairs with the high school. In the seventh and eighth grades we learned to do without recesses and managed to get used to going from room to room for our different classes. We were also given those memorable eighth grade tests. FRESHMEN at last! Oh, how grown-up we thought we were and how sophisticated until the fateful day-Initiation. We finally strug- gled through all the embarrassment of being Greenies and were really in at last. This first year in high school we joined in almost all of the scheduled activities. Our class officers were: President, Floyd Hissong, Vice Presi- dent, Patsy Noel, Secretary, Shirley Lenhart, Treasurer, Larry Myers, and Reporter Janet Boes. For our class motto we chose: ON- WARD TOWARD A HIGHER AIM. Our class colors: Old Rose and Silver, and our flower, the White Carnation. Also this first year we had two members from our class as Student Coun- cil representatives. They were Barbara Cramer and Marion Peters. This year Mr. Richard Reis was our class sponsor. Next came the Sophomore year. We elected the following officers: President, Janet Boes, Vice President, Glen Saltzman, Secretary, Shirley Lenhart, Treasurer, Larry Myers, and Reporter, Floyd Hissong. Glen Saltzman and Janet Ziessler were the Student Council repre- sentatives. This year we had the pleasure of initiating the Freshmen. What a time we had making them recite their rituals! We also participated in the operetta, The Gypsy Rover. This year two of our members were also elected as Cheerleaders. Again, Mr. Reis was our sponsor. Our Junior year rolled around very quickly. 5imon's Apparel Exclusive Ladies' Wear Popular Prices Findlay, Ohio This year was very busy for us with the choos- ing of class rings, averaging grades for the Honor Society, presenting the Junior Play, Quiet Summer, and last but not least, enter- taining the Seniors at the Junior-Senior Ban- quet held May 17, at the Y. M. C. A. in Fos- toria, Ohio. The class officers this year were: President, Glen Saltzman, Vice President, Jim Steyer, Secretary, Shirley Rainey, Treasurer, Floyd Hissong, and Reporter, Carl Ziessler. We elected Bob Good as Student Council representative. This year our class obtained a new sponsor, Mr. Robinson. We also helped in the publishing of the Arcadian. In the fall of the year 1952, we entered school for our last wonderful year. We were finally Seniors. The time had come for us to make decisions. This year we chose once again our class officers. They were: President, Glen Saltzman, Vice President, Jim Steyer, Secretary, Shirley Rainey, Treasurer, Floyd Hissong, and Reporter, Jim Warren. Student Council representatives were Janet Ziessler and Bob Good. Our Senior class sponsor was Mr. Robinson. This year we had the respon- sibility of seeing that The Arcadian was published. Again we showed our dramatic ability in presenting the Senior Play, Nine Girls, under the direction of Mrs. Sharning- house. We were also honored by having five members on the National Honor Society. The Juniors entertained us at the Junior-Senior Banquet held in May. Baccalaureate services were held Sunday, May 17. Commencement exercises were held the 21st of May. Dr. MacDonald, president of Bowling Green State University, gave the address. Out of the group of students who started school together, only eleven remain. We have acquired and lost several of our members during these twelve years. Now we are standing on the threshold of the world. What it has in store for us, we do not know. The world is ready for us, we are ready for the world. We came to school, but now we are leaving. Once more we leave the security behind that we have built up in these past twelve years witlr our friends and teachers and we are stepping out into the world only to try to succeed and going ON- WARD TOWARD A HIGHER AIM. Shirley Rainey. Alice Dress and Beauty Shoppe 411 South Main Street Findlay, Ohio

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iillnward Toward a Higher Aims' Four years to go and goal in sight, We chose our flower the carnation white, And Old Rose and Silver lead us through bright. Some have faltered and fallen from strife, Giving up when the pace seemed slow, our school days But others Onward Toward o Higher Aim still go. We entered the last year with goal in sight, Twenty-one entered to finish the fight. We worked faithfully and struggled to capture the goal, For success we learned, one must pay the toll. We want to drink from the victor's cup, And smile with the rest when the time is up. Farewell to teachers and to our friends, Farewell to the twelve happy years we've spent. May the Lord bless each one and all, And help us to share and not let us fall. We shall always remember for real gain, Our motto, Onward Toward a Higher Aim. -Shi rley Lenhart

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An Excerpt From The Lives Of The Senior Class of l953. Ten Years Hence. Carol Kuhn is the only smart one of the bunch. She got married and is now busily raising little tax deductions. Q, Jim Warren, the athletic one, is now playing for the Globe Slobbers, which is the best Tidley Winks team in the country. He is their best Tidler. Lanny Semler got fabulously rich by making a killing in the stock market. lt seems that he invested in Amalgamated Tooth Pick just when the bottom fell out of his Jelly Bean Stock, making his holdings in National Door- nob increase SOOCKQ. Shirley Lenhart has just realized her lifelong ambition of being a nurse. She is now the nurse of Dr. Von Hoopenshlimer, the famous tree surgeon. Bob Good, the famous dairyman, has just cre- ated aboon to the Dairy lndustry which will set it ahead 25 years. He has just invented a non-slip, non-tip, milk stool. Carl Ziessler, the great mechanical genius, has just set the automotive industry ahead a century by inventing a car that doesn't use gas. He uses horses to pull it. Glenn Saltzman was the one who wanted to become an Engineer. He's an Engineer all right. I see by the paper that he runs the Flatwheel Limited between Podunk and Flat- bush. Floyd Hissong had the ambition of becoming a great painter. He is now happily situated in his present employment, which is painting eyebrows on the dolls in the Findlay doll fac- tory. John Bushong has a very comfortable position in the White House. He is the best piano tuner they ever had. John King has been with the French Foreign Legion for ten years. He decided on this secluded career as the result of a drastic hap- pening in his life. Ten years ago he received a traffic ticket and decided to beat the rap by skipping the country. Shirlee Farrell, the wealthy society matron has Reid's Sohio Service just traded in her eighth Cadillac for a new one. The windshield got dirty. Richard Smith is now a prominent Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He says he owes his entire success to the Commer- cial Law class he attended in school. Janet Ziessler always had the fond ambition to work in a large business office. She now is filling a position at the office of a large New York lawyer. She is in charge of sharpening pencils and keeping the water cooler full. Norma Ritter is now employed in the large chain store of Rears and Soebuck . She sells chains. Janet Boes decided to enter law after she graduated from high school. She is now a prominent lawyer and is famous for convict- ing her former school teacher for cruelty to dumb animals. Peggy Fox, after graduating, decided that she would enter the field of Stereophotomicro- graphy, but gave it .up after she found that she couldn't spell it on her application form for the job. She now sells mop handles in a large department store. Marilyn Plotts has become very famous as a popular song writer. Her latest song, My tomato ran away, but l'll catchup with her, is doing very nicely in the number one spot on the hit parade. Dick Kelley has opened a chain of candy stores all over the country. He said he is entranced by the sight of children straggling up to the counter with a penny to spend. Pat Emerine has become very much interested in her present employment as a newspaper writer. She has her own very important job in a very famous newspaper. She numbers the pages. Shirley Rainey organized a very prominent detective agency in Chicago. She calls it the Rainey Super Duper Snooper Agency, Jim Steyer has been commissioned an Admiral in the U. S. Navy. He has command ofa fleet of rowboats on the Blanchard River. Korner Lunch At the Traffic Light in Arcadia Bob and Thelma Nunn, Prop. Dinners-Short Orders-Soda Bar