Clarksburg High School - Chanticleer Yearbook (Clarksburg, OH)

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-26- EIGHTH GRADE When the school bell rang in September, 1950, about thirty boys and girls marched in and took their seats in the first grade room. Only eight of the thirty have continued together into the present eighth grade class. These eight include Jane Garrison, Dorothy Mossbarger, Tommy Eycke, Effie Lee Prince, Jack Ater, Ellen Roll, Freda Furniss, and Galen Penwell. The total enrollment of the class at the present is twenty-three. This is the smallest eighth grade class for several years. Those of the class who have had perfect attendance this are Norabelle Adams, Jane Garrison, Freda Furniss, and Dinkler. year Carl Our Junior High Basketball Team played seven games this They lost everyone, but a good time was had by all. They also played West Fifth in the tournament at Bainbridge, the score being 51 to 8 in West Fifth's favor, year. In the Clarksburg-Atlanta music contest Jack Ater and Edna Sommers were first in the class in solo work, The honor students for the first semester include Effie Lee Prince, Edna Sommers, Jane Garrison, and Dorothy Mossbarger. SEVENTH GRADE We have an enrollment of thirty-seven in our class. Five new pupils have come into our grade during the year, and five have gone to other schools. One of our members, Genevieve Penwell, died in University Hospital January 5, 1958. Both the junior and senior high school gave a spray of flowers and the entire seventh grade attended the funeral, This was the first schoolmate we have lost by death. Except for this bereavement, we have had a very pleasant year. In January, twenty of us with Miss Peecher attended the Clare Tree Major presentation of NLittle Menu at the Arch Stree Auditorium, Chillicothe. We are proud of our attendance record this year. We have won first place one month and second place for three months. As a reward we have been given one half day of school time to play ball, visit, etc, Eight of us, namelyg Mary and Marjorie Norris, Martha Jane Richardson, Janet Overly, Jean Bowdle, and Joe Martin have had perfect attendance records this year, We are looking forward to our high school days and hope C,H.S. 1943 to be the best class ever to be graduated. t