Crooksville High School - Crux Hi Skan Yearbook (Crooksville, OH)

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HISTORY OF CROOKSVILLE Crooksville was in 1846 known as Reed's Station”. The first small blue bird pottery shop was founded by Larzelere Burley in the same year. When Joseph Crooks arrived in 1867, he found but four houses. In 1869 the post office was established, and Reed's Station donned the name of Crooksville after Joseph E. Crooks, who was the small town’s first postmaster. By 1900 the population had grown to 835. The population outgrew the number of homes and in 1903 Guy E. Crooks ac-quired the 71-acre Elizabeth Brown farm, plotted it, and began to sell the lots. Potteries multiplied and coal was mined and shipped on a large scale. By 1925 the population was estimated at about 4,000. Five school buildings furnished the means of education, and four practically new churches existed. Paved streets, electric lights, a $5,000 fire department, modern water works costing $100,000, were in existence by the dawn of 1928. The oil boom struck the town in '28 and many residents became wealthy overnight. And now in the year 1937, Crooksville is lacking just nine years of being a century old. In those 91 years she has grown from a small blue bird pottery town to a medium-sized industrial city. Let us hope she continues to grow and prosper. CROOKSVILLE HIGH INSTALLS POINT SYSTEM When school closed for vacation last year, plans were being made by the Student Council and coaches for a point system to be used in awarding letters to Crooksville High athletes. The system was installed to make the letter mean more to the boy who had earned it. Now with the point system in effect in order to receive a monogram the boy must play in at least two varsity sports and must have a total of not less than 1500 points per season. This last requirement may be overruled by the Point System Committee when a boy is injured or is handicapped by illness and does not have a chance to earn his award, if he has been an outstanding athlete. The Point System Committee is composed of Mr. Zollinger, principal; Mr. Pap-ritan, football and baseball coach; Mr. Walter, basketball coach; and Gilbert Barker and Bob Fleming, members elected from Student Council. 19 3 7

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CRUX-HI-SKAN EIGHTH GRADE HISTORY One of the eighth graders' chief interests this year was the hope for a corridor between the high school and the junior high school, which naturally, would bring them in closer contact with the high school students. This year improvements in their scholastic schedule, a prepared course for high school, were made by the purchase of new math books which gives them a wider background for algebra and geometry. As a result of limiting home economics and manual arts to the eighth grade, these students could spend two periods each day on then-projects and thus accomplish much more than in former years. Another of this class's chief interests was intramural games. Many members ot the class were very active in intramural sports. The Student Council representatives were Janet Bonifant and Gene Hill. This group was well represented in the Crooks-ville High School Orchestra. A happy and successful high school career for you, eighth graders. SEVENTH GRADE HISTORY East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet. Not so in the case of the seventh graders for that grade brings together the boys and the girls of the east side of town with those of the west side, and they meet in grand fashion. The seventh grade is represented in Student Council by Jean Swingle and Douglas Talbot. Several of the members performed in the grade school carnival program last year. The upperclassmen are expecting big things from these students so, don't disappoint us, seventh grade.

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CRUX-HI-SKAN BOOK II 9he ylthletictf The Crooksville High School is well represented in sports such as football in the Fall, basketball in the Winter, and baseball in the Spring. Above is pictured Billy Kenny, the first boy to receive the senior athletic award under the new point system. Billy has actively participated in all varsity competition and intramural games throughout his four years in this school.