Clarksburg High School - Chanticleer Yearbook (Clarksburg, OH)

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29- THE SESQUI-CENTENNIAL Clarksburg High School had a prominent part this year in the celebration of the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Northwest Territory. Chillicothe, the first capital of the Territory, and also the first Capital of Ohio, planned a celebration that would eclipse all former efforts, and be superior to any other celebration in the State. All anticipatjons were fully realized when the four day program had ended on May ll. Colonial balls and teas, oratory and music festivals, a grand parade, and the spectacular pageant staged by the schools of the county brought at least fifty thousand people to the lines of march, the ball rooms, and ' Herrnstein football field where the pageant was held. On Sunday afternoon, May 8, the choruses of the county high schools sang in a massed choir of at least three hundred voices. The chorus was led by Prof. Mark Evans of Lima, Ohio, a veteran director who has guided both youthful and adult choruses to many victories. Clarksburg High School was represented by fifty boys and girls, The main speaker of the afternoon was Judge Carl Weygandt, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. The spectacular pageant which was to have been presented both Sunday and Monday nights was presented Monday and Wednesday nights because of rain Sunday. For two hours the young people of the schools of Chillicothe and Ross County presented NAS the Years Unfold.W Clarksburg High School was assigned the episode, HPioneer Life,H which consisted of a husking,bee and a square. dance. Featured in the husking bee were Mr. William Anderson, Mr. George Reisinger, and Mr. Homer Conaway, the three men of Deerfield Township who together had won five first places in the state husking-contests, Mr. Anderson won the shock event in A 1951 and the standing corn event in 19535 Mr. Reisinger won the shock contest in 1955 and 19345 and Mr. Conaway won the shock event in 1935, These men had the center of the stage, but back of them and on either side were twenty-four high school boys and girls in gay costumes, also husking and conversing. The caller, Willis Taylor, and the three musicians, Russell Goldsberry, Carl and Harry,Holloway, men from the west end of,the Township, com- pleted the group which, after the husking immediately swung into a square dance to the tune of.UThe Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane.H The episode was well received, and.cauSed much favorable comment. . 2 . i m The participants in the dance were: MaxineaCarter, Donald Harmount, Jean Eycke, Joe Ater, Jennie Mae,Weidinger, Robert Anderson, Nell Martin, Donald Mossbarger, Martha,LQuise Carter, Ralph Anderson, Opal Bethel, Jack Minser, Mary.Ann,Driapsa, Paul Willis, June Faye, Robert Dawson, Gretchen.Gra.ham,-Har'0ld Mace, Jane Van Horn, Grant McDonald, Martha Weidinger, Morris Templin, Anna Louise Bryant, Ben Kearns. Clarksburg High School was represented in the County Queen's Court of Honor by Dorothy Garrison and Joan Graham. Nell Martin, also chosen by the school for the same Court, preferred to take part in the episode of the pageant.

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-gg- Edna Sommers gives and bequeaths her seat in the chalk- dust atmosphere to George Hamman III. We, the eighth grade class, will our books to the present seventh grade and those whom we leave behind. We ask that the history books may be generation. preserved for the punishment of the next SECOND: We will to the sixth grade of the year 1957-1958 the chewing gum found underneath the seats. LASTLY: We hereby nominate and appoint our teacher, Mr. Elbert M. Dennis, and our janitor, Mr. Grover C,.Hicks, to be the executors of this, our last will and testamqnt, hereby re- voking all former wills by us made. ' In witness whereof, we have hereunto set ear hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousanc Nine Hundred and Thirty-Eight. HOW Barbara Rosenberry . Dorothy Mossbarger . Effie Lee Prince . . Frederick Overly and Frank Ater . . . Glen Maughmer and Eugene Norris . . , Norabelle Adams , , Doris Sullivan . . . Lea Ora Conner . . . Roy Hawkins and Howard Bryant Jane Garrison Freda Furniss Eugene Overly . . Galen Penwell Edna Sommers Carl Dinkler C O U 0 Tommy Eycke .. , Freda Payne , , Nedra Faye.. , Ellen Roll . . Jack Ater . . Ruth Ater . , The Eighth Grade of C.H.S. WE IDENTIFY OURSELVES Later than the tardy bell. One continual squirm. Always wearing a smile. So Innocent! Saying the wrong thing at the right time. The book worm. The living example of, NIt is better to wear out than to rust out.N The class dignitary. The two Alibi Ikes. NJeanie with the light brown hair.H Blonde and beautiful. Nworry wort,N always in trouble. Practicing for Ucross countryn in the r school room. An answer for-every question. At the barber shop waiting for a sale on haircuts, Just coming out from under the shower. Always on time, Day dreaming. Talking with her eyes. One who can get away with murder. Always caught passing notes.

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