Archbold High School - Blue Streak Yearbook (Archbold, OH)

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Freshmen Front Row:—Catherine Leupp, Ilene Spengler, Loretta Lugbill, Robert Domi- nique, Charles Rupp, Mattie Miller, Zelma Aeschliman, Louella Yediea Irene Leatherman, Florence Leininger, Evelyn Nofziger, Rachael Walter, Frieda Stamm. Second Row: M. A. Farber, Advisor, Orval Wyse, Myrtie Lugbill, Shirley Spiess. Lois Ringenberg, Kathleen Grime, Clemma Nofziger, Winona Roth. Doris Nagel, Gayle Leavy, Glenadene Hitt, Christine Lauber, Gretchen Spoerle, Suzette Vernier, Laura Beck, Kathleen Bruns, Eunice Mahler. Third Row: Lydia Fricke, Evelyn Rice, Elon Eash, Dale Schlatter, Glen King Rhonda Bacon, Louise Kutzley, Mina Merillat, Mary Eicher, Albert Lein- inger, Pauline Bernath, Helen Rueger. Back Row:—Loren Sauder, Bill Kramer, Bill Jones, Bill Lorton, Calvin Short, Maurice Short, Arthur Stuckey, Donald Lee Nofziger, Florence Stuckey, Lucinda Rupp, Bernice Beck, Phyllis Rupp, Carabelle Lauber. Absent Fred Fricke, Laurine Yoder. Last fall thirty-four boys and girls entered the A. H. S. and joined the twenty-six who had called the Archbold school home ever since they entered the first grade. The first few days we wandered aimlessly around, wondering what it was all about. Everyone else was bewildered too, for even the faculty wasn’t ready for so many of us. However, we soon grew accustomed to our new home and convinced the teachers that we were made of good stuff by fitting into our places and getting to work conscientiously. To begin the year right, we elected Christine Lauber, president: Gretchen Spoerle, vice-president; and Loretta Lugbill, secretary-treasurer. The rude sophomores told us we were a discredit to the school and pro- ceeded to scare our greenness away with firecrackers and howling at our initia- tion. They gloated in their dictatorship, but not long afterward we manifested our finer qualities by giving them a return party at which we made the Sophs throw off school dignity for a brief time and enjoy the company of their inferior schoolmates. Oh. yes, speaking of parlies, that’s our favorite way to break the regular class routine. We like to throw kisses (candy kisses) at Mr. Farber and Miss McCurdy. Our only regret is that their birthdays come but once a year. We claim to be the largest freshmen class in the history of the school and this, together with the closing of the little red schoolhouses, makes our fresh- man year one to be remembered in the history of the education attainments of German Towmship. Judging from our picture above, we are the best-looking class (at least we think so). No doubt, we have superior intelligence, too. In our num- ber we have a band leader, a scientist, a great lover, a social star, and others who are just plain, ordinary, good students. We have not excelled in everything. But we feel richer than ever before for we have grown intellectually, won new friends, and helped each other to convert stumbling blocks into stepping stones. But why should the teachers ex- pect so much of us? After all, we’re only Freshmen.

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Front Row: Dale Short, Ralph Rupp, Loren Stuckey, Bernette Nofziger, Helen Grime, Doris Towne, Helen Clingaman, Lodema Wyse, Wilma Valiton, Kenneth Short, Daryl Grime. Second Row: Helen Goldsmith, Dorothea Hinderer, Paul Bock, Harold Merillat, Martha Rupp, Doris Winzeler, Eva Baker, Martha Eicher, Donna Grime. C. R. Warden, Advisor. Third Row':—Donna Spengler, Ronald Short, Morris Roth, Maynard Riegsecker, Harold Schroeder, Wayne Spengler, John Rupp, Jr.. Clarabelle Schaffner, Loueen Rychener. Back Row:—Helen Wyse, Lodema Nofzinger, Robert Ruffer, Edward Lohse, Priscilla Spithaler, Bette Hollingshead, Zelma Stamm, Berneda Short. June Burkholder, Lamoyle Short. Absent:—Junior Pape. We sophomores- or merely ex-freshies—entered our memorable second year of high school with forty-six members. We left very few of our “Frosh” classmates behind. We elected Junior Rupp as our chief Knot tier along with Helen Clingaman as his assistant and with Paul Bock to hold the ropes. We are an exceedingly good looking, very intelligent group of young people filled with a rugged determination to make the best of the situations which present themselves before our searching eyes. We are better than the average, and rate fairly well with all the teachers, due to our extraordinarily pleasing personalities. Our class has been active in the various musical, athletic, and dramatic organizations of the school. We have had much enjoyment from playing basket- ball during the noon hour. Others have enjoyed watching and cheering their players on to win. This will to win has permeated the whole class and we expect much from our athletes before we finish our high school course. We have given two short plays before the Wednesday Assembly. We took part in the school play given in the fall. We have shown not a little dramatic talent for the future. We have furnished baseball, basketball, and track material that will some day put the Blue Streaks back on the map. The old adage “Sophisticated Sophomores” still remains in our minds' eye as we see the young people of our sophomore class plodding up the treadworn stairway to success and fame.

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Front Row—Lois Neuhauser, Ernest Gricser, Theola Dimke. Lowell Short, Donald Buehrer, Mahlon Wysi, Wayne Stuckey, Betty Rupp. Middle Row Lloyd Armstrong, Emma Bruns. Leroy Schroeder, Lloyd Rychener. Marvin Wyse, John Erbskorn, Dale Stevens, Paul Holic, Miss Swalley, teacher. Back Row Charles Winzeler, Ruth Siege ., Doris Merillat, Mabel Short, Lorene Nofziger, Lowell Rose, Lois Nofziger Front Row Miriam Rupp, Herma Short, Burnell Crossgrove, Charles Wyse, Paul Short, Wesley Eash, Russel Harvey, Paul Merillat, Wayne Spiess, Lois Beck, Dale Bruns. Middle Row Margaret Bock, Ilva Flory, Wayne Nofziger, Dean Slagle, Harold Rupp, Suzanna Schlatter. Robert Rose, Clara Stuckey, Margaret Grime, Kenneth Yedica. Miss Nofziger, teacher. Back Row Loyal Nofziger, Clarice Layman, Martha Dominique, Marilyn Swisher. Ora Pace, Doris Lugbill, Arlene Short, Otis Hitt, Bob Jones, Ilva Sauder, Paul Rupp, Lowell Grieser, James Eicher.