Chandlersville High School - Yearbook (Chandlersville, OH)

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Senior Class History It was just four years ago that a rather large group of inexperienced but interesting Fresh- men descended on the precints of the Chandlersville High School. Some were products of the local school, who had begun their more or less? illustrious careers as students under the tute- lage of Mrs, Graham, who was serving her first year in the Salt Creek system. Others came from Rich Hill, All had met at the time they assembled for the eighth-grade tests in the local building. There were four real brunettes, with very dark hair that marked them apart. These black-haired youngsters were Gary Adams, Roger Ritterbeck, Dicky Lindamood, and Elsie Mitchell. Two stood out as distinct blonds Kay Pyle and Janet Menzie. Redheads ? There were two--Marion Gatewood and Ann Smith. It is sometimes difficult to recall events of the past. but there are always those that stand out rather vividly, Mr, Douglas Canny was the freshman sponsor and home room monitor. He was also the athletic coach. The class numbered twenty-two--divided evenly between Rich Hill and Chandlersville. The first social event for the group was a haywagon ride. We started at the school and went to the home of Betty Leonard. ln the spring, the class motored to the Lind Arcade and enjoyed a skating party. Many of us were on skates for the first time, so we Sat on the floor at frequent intervals. Before the end of the year we had lost Donna Henry and Edwin Joiner. ln our Sophomore year we were under the guidance of Mr, Edward Yarzab, The enrollment was twenty. Our new classmates were Anna Adamsfrorn Meigs and Marlin Moore from Rich Hill, We had a hay ride to the home of Kay Pyle. ln the spring we had a party at the school building. We played games in the moonlight and made ice cream. During the year we lost Bob Brewer, Stanley Howard, and Paul Burkett. the Junior year saw us launched on a round of activities. We had Mrs, Love as our sponsor, Our enrollment was now nineteen. ln our estimation the outstanding events were the Junior Play and the Banquet for the Seniors, Our play was The Importance of Being Young , and the whole class made up the cast. We shall not soon forget the fun we had decorating the gym for the Ban- quet, Ballons cascaded from an immense black and pink wheel in the center of the ceiling. Pink elephants marked the places. and carousels with pink tops and black elephants heightened the interest of the table, A bus carried hosts and guests to a movie in Zanesville, after the Juniors had presented an informal program in the gym. Before the end of the year we had lost Marlin Moore and Pearl Burkett, both of whom are now married. These events carried us along into the Senior year. Mrs. Love was again our director, and we numbered seventeen. Almost at once we were busy getting ads for the annual, .preparing for the Senior, play, Yes, lt's a Baby, and selling candy. Taking orders for Christmas cards, displaying scarves and ties to add to our school fund, and soliciting magazine subscriptions have occupied us since. Betty Leonard married last summer, and during the year Bonnie Kelso and Kay Pyle joined the parade of newly-weds, Our enrollment dropped to fifteen, Five have had their complete education in Chandlersville, five have gone to Rich Hill and Chandlersville togeth- er. Commencement will write finis to the history of the class of '56, 32

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Class Prophecy Oh, Senior Class of the Chandlersville High School, hear ye the message 1 bring, Life is divided into three great periods, the past, the present, and the future. The past, with its many happy days of freedom from care, is behind you. It is only a succession of beautiful memories, that, in years to come, we shall love to recall, The present. wtih its petty trials, its days of study and play, of triumph and disappointment, is with you now: but the great unknown future stretches out before you, an untraveled road, filled with--you know not what. Perhaps it is great joy and success: perhaps sorrow and disappointment: perhaps wealthgperhaps p-overty: perhaps fame. You go forward with, as it were, your eyes blindfolded, traveling the great road of life, each step opening up something new, something unexpected. But I, with my mystic power, can unfold that future to you and give a brief glimpse of this class, thirty years from today. Then you can judge for yourselves the path each one has traveled, the efforts each one has made. Listen well, Oh Class of 19562 Give heea to these words of mystic wisdom, as the future is revealed I see a great building, rising out of the heart of the city. The name in clear letters over it read, D. R, Lindamood, Manufacturer of Ford Automobiles, I see a magnificent private railroad car, speed- ing over the glistening rails, There are men in conference around a handsome mahogany table. The president at its head is Dick Lindamood. I see miles and miles of unbroken prairie land, There are thousands of splendid cattle, with cow- boys riding in and out among them. Let me see, those faces under the broad hats are familiar. Identi fy Homer Thompson as one of the cowboys, but I can't tell who the others are. The owner of this splen- did ranch, sitting at ease on the broad veranda of the handsome ranch house is Roger Ritterbeck: -and his wife, standing beside him. is Shirley Wells, I see great tents, a vast number of th-em, What can it be? Oh, it is a circus, joy for the little ones, pleasure for the grown-ups. There are large banners, with the name or the owner, Virgil Founds, Successor to Ringling Brothers. Let us peep into the tents. Perhaps we may find some more of our friends. Yes, suspended, from a lofty trapeeze, we find Janet Menzi The leader of the great band is Ann Smith, Look in this lions' cage, There, fearlessly handling the'great beasts, we find Marion Gatewood.and running round and round the ring, with his ever-ready jokes, I see Clarence CE'-Renter, the greatest clown of the century. Now I envision a stately person at a beautiful home, receiving her guest, I do not know her married name, but there she sits before me, Elsie Mitchell, She said she wasn't getting married, but the right man must have come along. Now I see Hollywood, that fascinating place of famous men and women. Here I find Florence Eck, sharing honors with Linda Leedom in the new play, Modern People, written by the successful Anna Adams, and directed by Gary Adams, who has become famous in his chosen profession, - Here is a great forest, with a single trail leading to a lone cabin, where we find a gray-haired man, resting and hiding from the enthusiastic public, after the successful exhibition of his latest invention, the folding automobile, There he is now, on the porch, with one folded, lying on the chair beside him, Fame has at last come to Mr, Larry Warne. Now the ball is growing dim,but I can still clearly see a wonderful new building situated on this very spot, Tall, four stories high, elevators, swimming pools, roof garden, rest rooms, marble stair- ways, splendid library, gyrnnasium. auditorium, large, sunny class-rooms, everything to make it an ideal school for boys and girls, for it is a new school. Dimmer and dimmer grows the ball, Its message is over, and I, too, 'will say to you my farewell, Peace--Happiness--Good-bye. CLASS MOTTO 'Tis Man's To Give, But Heaven's To Receive. CLASS COLORS Pink and Black CLASS FLOWER 'Pink Carnation

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