Chandlersville High School - Yearbook (Chandlersville, OH)

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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

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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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