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

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THE GRADUATES Next came our sophomore year, again under the guidance of Bill Mercer, president, and Barbara Kemerer, vice president. With Ron Phillips as president, Dave Harper as vice president, Phil Marlowe as secretary-treasurer, we marched on to a most memorable junior year. Here we surprised everyone (even ourselves) with our dramatic ability as shown in “The Boonville Band Concert,” our junior assembly, and the hilarious junior play, “June Mad.” Our artistic ability was given a test by arranging the prom and we came out with one of the most beautiful proms C.H.S. has ever seen. Then came the day we had been waiting on, September 6, 1947, the day when, we, the class of ’48, would become seniors. We have worked hard these past years and are proud of our a-chievements and believe that we have set a good example for our underclassmen. Our greatest achievement was our Undefeated Football Champions of Muskingum Valley League of 1947. Although the team was not composed wholly of seniors, we are proud to say that ten members of the squad were. These members were: Joe Wilson (captain), Bob Freriks, Brian Gibbs, Dick Barnett, Dave Harper, Bill Hull, Tom Brannon, Bill Woodward, Ron Phillips, and Don Rarick. Our varsity basketball team boasted five seniors; Joe Wilson, Bob Freriks, Brian Gibbs, Bill Hull and Don Rarick. All four were outstanding players. The class of 1'948 probably will not go down in history but we have tried to participate in all activities, co-operate with our teachers and underclassmen, and do everything we could to be worthy of the title, graduates of Crooks-ville High School, class of ’48. Joe Wilson, Dick Barnett, and Bob Freriks made the All M.V.L. Team and Bill Hull, Ron Phillips and Brian Gibbs made second M.V.L. Team. Dick Barnett and Joe Wilson, both seniors, made honorable mention on the All Ohio Team. Twelve seniors have been active in the Crooksville High School Marching Band, and fourteen appear regularly at glee club. The senior play, “Me and My Shadow,” presented on May 7, proved that the class was not lacking in dramatic ability either. Barbara Kemerer, Georgene Leasure, Ron Phillips, Marybelle Giles, Virginia Gibbs, Jackie Knerr, Ruby Trout, Jane Grubb and Don Rarick made up the cast, with June Watson as assistant director. Ruth Wolfe was understudy and Ruth Moore was prompter. The seniors were also active in extracurricular organizations. Most of the senior girls belonged to Ifka, and many of the boys belonged to Hi-Y. Student Council members were David Harper, president, and Ruth Moore, secretary. National Honor Society members were Barbara Kemerer, June Watson, Jack Snide, Georgene Leasure, Marybelle Giles, and Donna Luster. We are extremely proud also of our valedictorian and salutatorian; Barbara Kemerer and June Watson.

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 C2xux- zHi- £(zan HZZZI THE GRADUATES ROW 1— Kellenbarger, Trout, Grubb, Ashley, Brown, Luster, Wolfe, Moore, Henning, France. ROW 2— Mercer, Waymer, Phillips, Thomas, Snide, Barnett, Brannon, Harper. ROW 3— Watson, Moore, Giles, Moore, Marlowe, Searles, Kcmerer, Knerr, Gibbs, Leasure ROW 4— Dillehay, Rarick, Gibbs, Hull, Freriks, Wilson, Williams. When the class of 1948 reached the junior high, there were quite a few in number. Oh, how big and important we felt that first day in the seventh grade! But as the weeks went by, we realized that we were just a small wheel in a large machine. While struggling through junior high school, we learned that although we were small and insignificant much was expected from us. We tried to live up to the teachers’ expectations, but sometimes during lectures given (frequently) to us on our behavior and sundry other subjects, I wondered if it were possible that we would ever become dignified seniors. We stumbled through our freshman year with Bill Mercer, president; Barbara Kem-erer, vice president, and Marlene Henning, secretary-treasurer at the helm. = 19 4 8

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