Chandlersville High School - Yearbook (Chandlersville, OH)

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I am sitting here in the office of good old Chandlersville High again--Rernem- bering--Remembering the times when I sat here as a student. Graduation is now close for the class of '49, Will it be the same as it was for the class of '4-8? ? Will there be that last minute regret for the good time soon past? Will your eyes fill with tears as you march up the isle to the somber chords of the Processional? You step up on the stage and take your place self-consciously in the seat you have been directed to take at rehearsal. You breath a sigh of relief as you finally get seated without falling over your big feet or otherwise disgracing yourself. You resign your- self to sitting for an indefinite period like a lady with your lily-white hands folded in your white gowned lap. For just a moment you look out across the audience out there are your friends and relatives. Mom and Dad are proudly sitting in their reserved seats. What are they thinking of just now? What are you thinking? You're not scared now. You just seem to be remembering the times you have hated school. The times you have said, I wish I was out of it, you wonder what Betty sitting next to you is thinking. Oh: the program is beginning. The music has stopped. The principal is speak- ing. It's odd you never noticed him before. He doesn't seem a bad sort of fellow nowg in fact, at the moment he seems human, you wish you had known him better. Now the guest speaker arises. You look him over and decide that this will pro- bably be a very long-winded speech. He launches into golden oratory on all the oppor- tunities that await us in the bright future. Yes, the future. Well, brother, the future means the end of school days for me. What's that he said, We would look back upon them as our happiest days? Hmmm, I've heard that one before. His speech is about over, it seems that the future belongs to us now that we are graduated. I wonder ? Our class Valedictorian gets up to deliver her address. I can't hear a word she says. It probably isn't important anyway. She wrote it herself and besides it?s fun to see her shake as she speaks. She sure is scared: I'm glad I'M not in her shoes. Do you suppose anyone is listening to what she is saying? What's this, oh - someone called my name. I stumble over to a man. He hands me my diploma. I've graduated, l'm through, my worries are over. The next thing I know I'm standing in the hall. Friends are congratulating meg Ifeel pretty good. Band, bam, clatter, pfft. Oh - where am I? Ahf I am sitting in the office of good old C. H. S. again. I must have been dreaming. All of this happened one year ago and now I know how wrong I was. Did I say I was glad to be through school? What a fool I was. School was a picnic compared with working everyday now. Did I laugh when the speaker said the future was mine? Why didn't I listen and remember. May- 12.

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l on ,f ,bar en My lloor What happens when a young romantic girl in the junior Class reads too many love novels and suddenly decides no common boy is good enough for her? What hap- pens when two old maids in the class become interested in the novels. Even the maid of all work who once loved the gardener one who attended the junior Class Play on November 18 and 19 found the answers to these questions. Donald Miller who acted the part of Roger Kent the stern uncle of about fifty and unmarried because he couldn't find the right girl. At practice, Donald was rather shy, but by the final night we were fully convinced that perhaps he isn't as shy as we thought. joe Ann Boles who played the part of Rosemary, Rogers' pretty romantic nic ce. She was the girl who read too many love novels and decided that Tom Garrick, played by Bill Shook was not good enough for her. joe Ann was shaking in her shoes when Tom kissed her before lifting her over the window sill. Virginia Mitchell as the maid, Poppy Foster, was kept busy trying to keep Alec Stubbins from chasing her. When she told him he wasn't strong, she got a great surprise. Alec picked her up but he didn't seem to have enough strength to hold her and talk at the same time. Alec was George Buchanan the junior Comedian. One never knew what to expect from George from one minute to the next. One night when thieves were in the house, George appeared in pajamas and gum boots with his old shotgun. The second night he was in his bare feet and when he jumped on the divan he bounced from one side to the other. Lorena Harmon and Dorothy Archer were the two old maids, Miss Louisa and Susie Featherstone. Their dresses and bonnets were really a good fitg they were long, full and old fashioned. Dorothy fell in love with Mr. Kent, but her squeaky voice betrayed her age. Miss Louisa pretended she didn't want to read the love novels. Though she was as stern in saying SUSIE everyone felt sure she was as crazy to read the books as Dorothy. Miss jane Perkins played by Barbara Hall, was the writer of the novels which caused Tom and Alec so many heartaches. We feel sure everyone enjoyed the last speech when someone hes- itated to pull the curtain. Donald had to make love just a little longer than he did at practice. The girls and boys who did not take part in the play were joy White, Marjorie Eck, Ethel Parrett, Mary Lou Carpenter, Catherine Bliss, Virgil Tarman and Max Pennington. The boys were stage managers and the girls were dressed in pastel colored formals and were ushers. They also sang between acts, My Happiness and The Woody Woodpecker, song. Kenneth Lindamood who is a Freshman was dressed to look like a woodpecker and helped the girls sing. Donna Henry who is in the fifth grade sang Bluebird of Happiness. She was dressed in a wine velvet dress trimmed in gold. The stage was set as an attractive living room. Our appreciation is due Mrs. Mary Henry for her patience and work as our director. The gift presented her by the class is but a small token of the gratitude due her. ll

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be he could have told me of the sacrifices necessary to attain it and I could have been fore-warned. I wish, the principal would send me to class. lwish the school bell would ring for me again. There is so much I wasted. . A Z 1748 :Dial you now? Eddie Roberts ambition is to be a business man and his favorite pastime is driving his girl friend's car. Emily Gray wishes to become a schoolteacher and be so self supporting that she will not have to marry for money. Stuff Wolfe spends all her time dating Chick, and longs to be a little ray of sunshine in someone's life. Maggie Watts wants to be a nurse but would rather spend her time reading than rolling pills. Mert Thompson wants to be a stenographer to a handsome man but her hobby of collecting husbands will probably prevent this, Adam Tom wants to be a farmer and to get rich. This is the same as saying Adam wants a miracle. Feet Klies aspires to the king ship of hobos and since he likes to walk and has the equipment, ---- who knows. ' Edgar Moore just wants to be somebody but the only thing that ever happens to him is just sweepinn and sweepinn. Abner Barnes interest in aeronautics will fly him around the world in twenty-four hours someday. But if Abner ever lets a pretty girl get close to him, he will fly in twenty-four minutes. 13