Chaney High School - Lariat Yearbook (Youngstown, OH)

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Cl-l.XN1'Y HIGH ANNUAL Through persistent efforts we secured the front seats for assemblies and the privi- lege of leaving the auditorium in a dignified fashion-without being run down by mere children. XVe were permitted to be real society on November 2, 1926 and staged our first Senior party. With the successful closing of our first semester at Chaney, we became advanced Seniors and our work began. W'e established an enviable record of achievement in basketball by winning the class championship as well as by defeating our Worthy oppon- ents, the faculty. Some of us set about to record the facts of our school history, while others attempted to add to our list of success by displaying the theatrical inclinations of the class and gave a three-act comedy Adam and Eva in the school auditorium on Friday, May 27. 3 v-, I 1 'O o 5' , K g , fi lf! t wlf l ll X . i I 3 J! 5 ,' ' , ,rl J. R oooooo ' A flfll . N U1 WW! f IL , lla My 1' ll, 28

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CHANEY HIGH ANNUAL Claes History 552 Q i 215351 50 By James Barnes NE bright day in autumn-a day long to be remembered-we, thc forty-one sen- iors of Chaney High, entered the various junior high schools of the city. Two uneventful years passed, then we bade farewell to the grades and entered the ninth year as verdant freshman. At the end of months of toil and study, we said good-bye to the junior highs for- ever-so we hoped-and entered the wide and spacious, marble halls of South High. Although we were sophomores, we were treated very much like freshmen, and compelled to sit in the balcony at assembly. Soon, however, our vast knowledge and wining ways brought us the proper recognition and we were invited to participate in school activi- ties. We became members of clubs and committees, we attended all the games and cheered lustily. How thrilled we were to see our dear old South Hold that line. At last we were juniors! We were of some importance! During this period of achievement we heard rumors of plans for a West High. We wondered if the plans would ever materialize, and which ones of us would be called to take up our residence there. Plans did materialize and the machinery was set in motion. In the meantime we received our credit slips and during the too brief vacation we observed the erection of our future home. September 7, 1926 arrived and Chaney High was opened with C. W. Ricksecker, former principal of Central Junior, in charge. Enrollment was speeded up by Miss Eckert and Mr. Parmenter, who supplied us with class and schedule cards, and when we had an opportunity to look about for familiar faces, we were surprised to see some of our former teachers. When we had become accustomed to our new quarters, we sent out a call for all June seniors to meet for the purpose of organizing. Out of a class of 219 at South, forty-one answered to roll call-we were destined to begin anew-but we were ready. James Barnes was chosen president, Dur Cole, vice-president, Freda McKnight, social chairmang Dorothy Timlin, recorderg and Archie Rider, treasurer. Miss Lim- bach and Mr. Gustafson were selected as advisors-and we set about to plan a program of activities. 27

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CHANEY HIGH ANNUAL Q aes Qglpropclsliesy ,J AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS By Helen Si pos rom up in the composing room, the printer, Ernest Schoenhut, called, Hey, Helen, the city editor wants to see ya. The city editor, Isabel Donahue, gave me my assignment, Since this is June 17, 1947, go and look up our old classmates of the first graduating class of Chaney High. Write a feature story that will bring tears to the eyes of a potato. I left the office-but where to begin? just around the corner, at Phelps and Wood streets, I saw an accident. A Packard car driven by Ralph Jordan, chauffeur of Miss Erma Grice, collided with Fredericka Bardon, the first woman football coach at Ohio State. She was rushed to the hospital where the attending physician, Leo Spain, who also owns the controlling interest in the Berry M. Deep Undertaking Establishment, gave this bit of advice to anyone whom it may concern or anyone else-take it no extra charge QWe known he learned it from his Senior English teacher years agoj. Don't take life too seriously, you can't get out of it alive. just then I saw Vedabel Young who was on her way to the state legislature to in- troduce a bill for the extermination of any and all freshman. She was accompanied by Senator Helen Roxbury, who will try to introduce the same measure in the U. S. congress. As we were chatting, the champion loafer of the world, James Barnes, the owns the Barnes Bed Co., Inc.j joined us. He told me that Louise Stough is the elocution teacher, while Marjorie Metcalfe is the singing instructor at the Deaf and Dumb Institute. A parade passed by on Federal Street. It was the Society For the Repression of All Flappersf' headed by James Marks. I doubted his sincerity as he winked at Freda McKnight, the ideal American girl of 1947 fshe won this title at the Atlantic City Beauty Contestj. Leaving my friends I went to the courthouse. There I saw Attorney Charles Gallagher pleading before Judge John Crosbie that Clifford Scannell deserved a divorce from Helen Kollar Scannell. Remembering Spike, I only wondered that it took the poor boy so long to find out. 29