Berea High School - Berean Yearbook (Berea, OH)

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Cl-IRGNICLE CDF Tl-IE elm of 1940 YVe live iII an age of Science Zlllll every day, every hoIIr, minute, Hlld CVCII every secoIId S0ll'll'thlllg is being revealed through the efforts of science. Television is one of these Zlllll although it has ll0t been perfected for its praetieability it is a very coming feature. Television is somewhat modern and so is our class. The other day a gI'oIIp of budding scien- tists of the class of 1940 was asked to View one of these television sets. Seated comfort- ably we proceeded to watch. To our amaze- ll1Clll', as the dial was tIIrIIed, we saw IlOt present day scenes bllt a group of children in clothes of yesterday. These children were, the narrator told us, pupils in the first grade at Central School iII the year 1928 A. D. Among them we saw Truman Goss, Evelyn Chope, Irene Filina, Gerald- ine Noah, Nlargaret Hiner, lllargaret Cur- tis, Eugenia Ellis, Alvin Jungeberg, Rob- ert Parshall, Virginia VVhitmore, Betty Smith, Edith Schmidt, Jane llfohler, Pris- eilla Staley, Donald Phillips, Norma Run- dle, Diary Rooney, Jeanne MeIIke, Vir- ginia Lustig, Janet Pershing, Elizabeth Ragg, Betty Asling, Jeannette Curtis, SENIIIR CI,,Iss OFFICERS President . . . DON PHILLIPS Vim' Prz-siflvnt liATHERlNE HL'IxIIfHIzEYs Serrrtnry .... JACK ARNOLD Trmsurer TRUMAN Goss page tzeclvr'

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down the position of athletic coach. This year he piloted the basketball team to thir- teen victories in sixteen games. RIR. U.-xI,E XVILSON teaches the Romance languages and it is said that not a little romance comes from his classes. IXIISS AANNE PODRACKY teaches Home Economics and lfnglish and is co-sponsor of the Home lic. Club with RIISS RUTH AICFADDEN. 'lihe latter teaches the majority of the Home lic. classes. Bliss EI.1z,u:ETH DYE, in her first year as girls' Physical lid. teacher, has won the respect of her students. She was instrumental in organizing the Leaders' Club. RIR. R.'xl,l'H HILTY has several music classes but his greatest work is done with the band, chorus, and orchestra. Their continued excellent showings have earned lllr. Hilty much renown. KIISS IJOROTHY KNOX is the head of the Art department and is responsible for the posters which advertise school functions. Our modern, up-to-date library is kept that way by Bliss JXNNE XVEIIJMANN, our librarian. She is the sponsor of the Library Guild and helps students become interested in reading. Last but l10t least we come to the office staff. The duties of these administrators are too many to consider here but it is well known that the mechanism of the school is disrupted when even one of them is absent. No end of credit and gratitude goes to RIR. KOEPPE, IXIR. Ckwlms, Bliss IJAVIES, and to their pleasant and efficient secre- tary, Miss Rmfirsxv. Here we have very briefly summarized the responsibilities of our faculty and have tried to point out what an important part they play, both in the classroom and out. SG THAT TI-IEV MAY, TGMGRRQW, LIVE Tuiz io BQTZGFI fran l'fl Z'l'II

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John Still, VVilma Hilgendorf, Oliver Pin- combe, VVarren Root, Elmer Heintz, Blar- cella La Rue, Edward Donohoe, and James Butler. Our red-haired teacher stood out as being the most memorable character of that first era. The next scene revealed a most out- standing feature: our little second grade band. Chope and Nlenke were chosen as the dual directors. Into our midst came La Verne Trapp, VVesley Baker, and Rob- ert Ridenour. The third scene passed rapidly with Donald Hales entering in the scene, hav- ing left Ulmsted Falls. But our fourth grade, well! that was something. It was then that the pupils, Betty Marciiiski be- came one with us this year, could carry heavy books and change classes by tramp- ing from room to room. One of our teach- ers, lNIiss Clarice Beamer, loved to curb curiosity, upon being asked her age, by saying that she was 99M years old. I might say that she seemed too attractive to be a centenarian less one-fourth of a year. At this point something went wrong with the radio and for a few minutes we sat there, meditating upon childhood and gaining a few chuckles. For instance every time lNIary Rooney had a slight cold she brought a bottle of Vick's nose drops which she used during class periods. However, the set was repaired and presently our Sth grade class iwas shown. As the vision be- came clearer we saw a string orchestra which was composed of students in the sec- ond year violin classg the students were Eu- genia Ellis, Jeanne llenke, Virginia VVhit- more, Janet Pershing, Jeannette Curtis, and Edward Donohoe. page Illirtren The sixth scene brought into view two young ladies in the persons of Claire Thomson and Katherine Humphreys. After a ten-minute intermission of spark- ling, effervescent cokes, we continued to watch the coming scenes. The 7th scene gave us several new class- mates from four other finishing schools. From Brookpark came Ralph Artler, Joyce Barlow, Lee Erman, VVinston Loach, Clar- ence Lichtenberg, Evelyn Nlares, Thelma Puls, Donald King, Dorothy Leinweber, Eleanor Rohde, Jean Scharkey, Jimmy Rademaker, Richard Scrivens, Alice Ocku- ly, and Norbert Lammermeier. Those from Fair Street School were Sam Petrick, Glo- ria Pacino, Olive VVilliams, Nfildred Lat- ko, and lklertle and Bette Vvitbeck. Gladys Beck came from St. lylaryys and Adeline Yanke from St. Adelbert's. Robert VVage- maker and Alfred Schafer came from schools outside the Berea School district. The three instructors of this ever augment- ing class of 125 were Bliss Fraser, llfiss Seith, and HIL Rliller. Our very first rep- resentatives in the Student Council were Betty Geesling fwho moved away in the Sth gradej, Geraldine Noah, and Kfary Rooney. The 8th scene shifted quickly and the only thing We were able to catch a glimpse of was Lee Erman tumblin' like a tumble- weed in the tumbling team. Our ninth scene showed Leona and Leo- narda Kobie, Evelyn Turton, lfarjorie Thompson, Jack Boone, Eugene Holcomb, Jack Arnold, Frank Zacharias, Rita Lam- mermeier and Casper VVilchek hailing from St. lNIary's. There were others from St. fC07ZfiIlllFl1 on Page 722 BCTZGD