Columbian High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Tiffin, OH)

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Evhimiinn We, the Class of 59, dedicate the twenty-fifth anni- versary number of the Tiffin Columbian yearbook to the pioneers who began it-the Class of 1914. X A W2

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7 hiturial just twenty-five years ago Tiffin Columbian High School published its first yearbook under the name of .- . The Columhif' The freshman class i E fl of that year first conceived the idea 7 of publishing the book. However, it was decided to be too great a task for the little freshies and was taken from them and given to X the whcle school, especially to the nnflrm seniors. They hoped to make this T H S an annual affair, but nothing more ' ' ' I was done until '17 when the first xi: Blue and Gold appeared. ia -Uni fb - . fi-G22 --' -- - S- In a few particulars the classes of 1914 and 1939 are similar, but 1 9 1 4 in most respects there has been a marked change. Like the class of 1914 our motto is Onward and blue and white and their flower was a white rose, whe silver, with the white rose also as our fiower. The number of seniors today more than trebles the increase in members has also come a natural increase in The courses, too, have changed. At that time thre offered, known as the Latin, German, and English preparatory, general, and commercial courses are given Throughout the following pages we hope to show in the twenty-five years from 1914 to 1939. C C W pwardf' Their colors were eas our colors are blue and number in 1914. With the activities. different type courses were ourses. Today the college hat progress has been made

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Cfrvvtinga frnm the imp Imvntg-fiuv 152 Mr. Clmrlcar A. Kront umm' the .vuperifzlendent of .rclao in flair mpnfily for lbirty-one yemzr. rexignirzg in 1931. Following ix rt nzervtige from him, mgerber with I .1ppro.x'iu1ale1y lzz'enzy-fre yen:-,r nga. The announcement that you are observing the tw annual makes me realize that time marches on. The Class of 1914 was the twenty-fifth class to g C, A. KROUT in oratorical contests and in debating. life which formerly appealed only to four years of Latin began to interest The high school of today with its manual arts, music, standardized games, and its variou structor in Tim will be the fifti the classes of 1 stones in my li development an Fifty years curricular activ PI' intrnhrnt nf aura gn lr in 1914. He Jerifed Tiffn 5 pirmre wbirla um taken nty-fifth anniversary of your High and the Class of 1939 h class since that date. Thus 90, 1914 and 1939 are mile- and assist in appraising the growth of Columbian High. raduate after I became an in- ll ' , t . ago there were no extra- ties, and the only physical training received by the youth was on the Union school acted as coach, gZ1fl'1CS. Soon after en ing, the baseba. interscholastic round where Miss Herbig umpire, and referee of all tering the Columbian build- l and football teams played ames, but one Saturday our squad appearedqnn the gridiron at Clyde with only ten men, a completed our te Changes, h rapidly, and be conservatives w attitude on th , e school students, not interfere wit was justifiable. Earlier than had won a repu Dramatics also those who were all the youth of tions, offers opportunities little realized by the Class o visualized in 1890. No activity that develops the life of youth is no You have had an im aluable ex erience in Colui ' P of the Class of 1939 owe much to the social and po May you never falter in meeting these obligations. courses in comm s vs, n li volunteer from the side lines wever, were taking place ore the close of the century re wondering whether the part of the college and high that the curriculum should h the activities of the school, 1914 the Columbian High iation in Northwestern Ohio ceived attention, and school willing to struggle through ercial subjects, domestic and social and cultural organiza- 1914 and that had not been considered extra-curricular. ian High, and the members ical life of the community. C. A. KROUT