Belfast High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Belfast, OH)

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CLASS HISTOR Y In the year of 1937, seventeen small children entered the first grade with Miss Ruth Storer as our teacher, who continued to teach us throughout the second grade. The class entered the third grade with Miss Dorothy Mercer as our teacher, and Mr. Lawerance Frazer as our music director. In this grade Donald Burton enrolled in our class. We plodded along happily into the fourth grade with the same teacher but with a different music director. Miss Muntz. became our music director and taught our music the rest of our school years. This year Helen Swonger left our school. The class entered the fifth grade with Mr. Harry Satterfield as our teacher. We were under the efficient guidance of Mr. Harry Satterfield the remaining years of our grade school. We lost Wahnita McKee this year, and gained Skippy Day and Phyllis Glaze this same year. In the sixth grade Maxine Skidmore left our school to take the remaining years of her education at Mowrystown. In the seventh grade we had the same teacher and five new pupils. We gained Ellen and Earl Gulley from Kentucky, Donna Walker from Dayton and Frank and Carl Greene from Louden. ln the eighth grade, Bertha Barney, joan Lewis, and Kathryn Music enrolled in our class. We lost Phyllis Glaze who moved to Sugar Tree Ridge, Wahnita McKee who left to go to Leesburg, and Louise Helterbran who moved to Locusts Grove. We lost Ellen Gulley this same year. There were eight of this class that graduated from the eighth grade into high school They were joanTenner, joan Lewis, Kathryn Music, Bertha Barney, Donna Walker, Billy Williamson, Jean Chambers and Leroy Ward. Our teachers were Mrs. Mildred jones, Mrs. Virginia Collins, and Mr. Ernest Williamson. Mr. Wayne Treftz was our principal. At the end of this year Louise Helterbran, Wahnita McKee, Phyllis Glaze and Kenneth Skidmore enrolled in our class again. We lost Leroy Ward this same year. In our Sophomore class we had Mr. Williamson, Mrs. McMahon and Mr. Treftz as our teachers. Bob Chaney enrolled in our class this year. 'Lillian Davis and joan Lewis left our school to take up married life, and Bertha Barney left to go to Greenfield. We also lost Kenneth Skidmore, Leroy Ward, Bob Chaney and Kathryn Music . In the junior year jay and Carl Freeman entered our class making a total of ten members. Mr. Freeman became our new principal and continued in this capacity during our Senior year. 9

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CLASS OF '49 When asked to write the poem of our fair class of '49 The first words issued from my lips were, I resignI Of our class, of four girls and five boys, I've much to tell So draw up a chair and prepare to sit a spell. First, there is jean Chambers, our Kentucky lad, With all the girls he appears to be quite a fad, He drives here and there on his own accord In that bright, new, shiny Ford. Next in line is Roger Chambers, better known as Mutt, Says he, When it comes to Physics, I'm in a rut. But I say, with his blond hair and personality, That boy will go places, you wait and see. The next member of our class has great ambition To be a doctor, Harvard bound, is his mission, lt's Billy'james Williamson, if you haven't guessed, And in all his studies he ranks the best. Then there's jay Freeman, the basketball star of the year When it comes to English, says he, I can't get in gear. But in the Shop class, jay takes the cake, He will make the grade for his own sake. Pertaining to the fifth boy I'1l tell you in time Look in the last verse for his story in rhyme. And now for our girls, the lovely quartet, Boys before girls is my motto, you bet. There is Phyllis Glaz..e, our blond cheerleader, And all the boys agree there is none sweeter. She is the soprano soloist of our class, For her to reach those high notes, it is no task. Then there is Donna Walker, our fair secretary, Says she, lean sing a cheer, but I'm no canary. Donna's smile shows her as a girl of fun and good will, Whether in school or out, she is no pill, ll