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

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CR I 'X-HI-SKA N - The Senior Story - Many of the classes of Crooksville High have boasted and quite justly so of their great athletes of their outstanding actors and actresses or of their talented songblrds We have some claim to all of these honors but few classes in the history of C H S have had a scholastic record to compare Wlth the proud M1d Century Class Last February at the Semor Scholarship Tests held in New Lexington the class of 1950 proved this book larmn Out of eleven members on our team six placed in the first twenty in Perry County Nmety seniors from all over the county competed Lois Darling was third in the county and first among thc girls Carol Hughes was close behind with a fourth in county competition and Jo Anne Bowers ranked 7th Ann Hull Jack Rarick and Carl Newlon all rated honorable men tions Our Crooksville team had more place ments than any other team in the county and the total score for the Crooksvllle students was more than double that of the next hlghest school This IS only one example of our special prowess Through our high school career we hive always been well represented on the winning l1sts in the state scholarship fest Many times we have led the s hool honor roll in students placed and we have always ranked high Enough of that' We shine out in the world of music too' For the past two years Ann Hull has gone to the district and state music con tests She has always made the first rating Carol Hughes made a first ln the district vocal contest in her Jumor year Carol Hughes Inge Blechschmidt Jo Anne Bowers Sally Heskett Ann Hull Jeannine been 3Ct1V6 members of the C H S Eard for over four years Oh the drums go bang anu the cymbals clang and the horns they blare away' Twelve of the glrls of the Cl ss of 50 and five of the boys have helped to make M R msey s and Mr Birds glee clubs and mixed chorus the best vocal groups in years As to masters of the grease paint art we have them aplenty Our dramatic talent got its first real tryout under the expert dire tion of M1ss Ewa Coulter when as Juniors we pre sented L1fe of the Party The story was 1n terestlng and the cast superb Our senior pro duction was a rlotous mystery Dead of the Night Under the capable direction of M1ss Carolyn Dlllehay the play was fiawlessly pre sented on May 12 1950 The between acts entertainment showed off some more of our musical and dramatic talent Unfortunately for us football and basket ball at CHS were in one of those periodic slumps during our Junior and senior years The classes of 49 50 and 51 were woefully wanting in athletlcally mlnded boys but our few athletes did their darndest and deserve loads of credit for sticking to their guns in the face of a parade of strong Muskingum Valley T eague foes Our senior football season was winless de- spite the hard work of our co captains Donny Trout and Gerald Hammer our galloping half back Trigger our big boy Porky our 1 and our Red Harding There Just werent enough of them and the hard trying Sophs were too little Our 1949 homecoming football game was the New Lex game here Our class was well represented by two of our most attractive girls Queen Sally Heskett and Attendant Dona Leasure They made an otherwise drab game rather colorful Fortunately our boys didnt always have to eat crow Six of them were members of the famous Un defeated Un tled Un disput ed Champions of the M V L in 1948 They were Trout Russell Harding Nelson Watts and Luman Jack Rarick was a manager that year Our basketball season was a series of heart breaks as our smaller boys fought all the way against overwhelming odds Don Trout ended a four year career as a Ceramic basketeer Now hes down now he s up Russell and Jay Harding furnished the backbone for our Cer amlc team For the first tlme in many years we had an all girl National Honor Society Ann Hull Jo Anne Bowers Betty Ann Channel Carol Hughes and Lois Darllng were the honored ones Like classes gone before us were active in s holastic activities such as Student Counc1l and Ifka Pres1dent of the Student Counc1l this year was Don Trout vice president Dona Leasure and secretary Jo Anne Bowers Lester Lucas vocal support Twelve senior girls Joined with the Juniors in putting over one of Ifkas best Washington Teas The executive committee of our class should not be forgotten for one minute They guided us through this money making era with an intelligent hand Thanks to them we hav? a lovely tour planned for our class trip une Jack R8I'1Ck President, Duane Watts Vice President Dorothy Watts Secretary Sally Heskett Treasurer Various factors have reduced our class from the 35 freshmen that entered senior high in September of 1946 to the 28 that received diplomas on the evening of May 31 1950 Leva Lewering Phyllis Pryor and Nellie Dunwoody have all transferred to other schools Leva and Phyl to Mount Vernon High and Nellie to Corning Delbert Spider Nelson prefers working at Sowers grocery to keeping com pany with us Delores Karr Iris Luster Mary Sparks and Ned Stalter have abandoned us for the blissful state of matrlmony Madeline Campb ll has crapp d back to the Junlor class and IS now working hard to promote their cause NINE? ble V FIFTY , . l Y 4 . - . v , - . 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QIILOT INGE BLECHSCHMIDT BETTY ANN CHANNEL JO ANNE BOWERS LOIS ANNE DARLING PAULINE EVELAND ROSALEE GOTTKE CAROL HUGHES SALLY ANN HESKETT ANN HULL DONA SUE LEASURE JUNE POLAND BARKER LAURA MICKEY JEANNINE PRICF MARY SMITH DOROTHY WATTS 'NIANCY PHILLIPS JACK RARICK DUANE WATTS I ARRY WILLIAMS JACK RUSSELL LESTER LUCAS DAN LUMAN CARL NEWLON EARL WATSON RAYMOND TOWNSEND DON TROUT GERALD HAMMER JAY HARDING Clxl XIIISKIX mlles 01 Groans The dlmpled damsel from Dutchh1ll Alvxavs Wllllng to work or plav Our best dlSpOSltlOH First in war first IH peace I mean first in shorthand first in typing first ln bookkeeping Our beautiful valedictorlan Our bralny blonde bombshell The smartest dame in Perrv County if you can believe those test results A queer combination of temper and sunshine She stuck to her class desp1te a real handicap That red hair reallv means DUSIDSSS She likes her friends and tells off all others Our Ideal Ifka Girl Did she reform ' Money bags She kept track of more funds than some banks do Our piano xirtuoso CLook that one upl The best cheer leader in the history of C H S we claim She chose Joe someone to look up to Our quiet little marrled woman Its off to Join the Army or June in June The beauty of the Mid Century Class we thlnk When s he comin home Our gift to vaudexllle or will It be ICIBVISIOHV Wheres Raymondq Whats he dolng now Another of our songbirds Our mald of the mountains well hills anyhow She gets thmgs done and 1S noted for her musical talent Always ahead of the crowd She sprmted away from the class of 51 to graduate with us She ran away w1th Ron and got married when most of our glrls think of matrlmony as some thlng ID the distant future Our prexy Always the ham with the harem Tall dark and hard to catch He believes in taking life easy especially in English class Our hard charging half back He never gave up C H S s own labor organizer Will he be preacher forester boss or what? Dapper Dan Our best dressed young gentleman How he loves to pile words on more vsords That boy can think when he isnt too tlred He was always willing to help Wlth the stage duties We thlnk he should be xoted the Ideal Ifka Boy of 1950 Long lean but not lazy except when he fell asleep in Amerl an History class The Mighty M1dget of our recent football teams He nexer tackled anyone hls SIZE they were always bigger Hammer was what he did agalnst the opposition 11ne He even knocked h1mself out hammering that Roseville line Rated as the best cha1r gang boss to graduate from C H S in mam a year Hovx he could work that gang NLXLII I-X FIFTl , W ,.. I 7 V ' 7 '1 ' 'L 1' I 0 o A A - -v u - . . V . . Y 7 M , . . , . ., Y V , y. . . ., . , . . - 7 . , . ll 1 ' v u ' ,' ' ' A . . ll ,v s ' 'Q , . , . . 1 . I . v . Y Y ' U , . v V - - . . . . , , . 7 v . ' 9 , , . 1 7 Y 3 - r 1 Q,- - - 7 1. . 1 4 41.

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CRI X' lll QKXV We G1 uduate The final actlvltles of the Class of 50 w1ll begln ulth the tradltlonal Junlor Senlor Plom on Max 19 The JUDIOIS wlll entertaln the SEDIOFS wlth danclng and rcfleshments IH The Blue Room As usual the Junlols and Senlors have pledged themselvts to stay f0I the whole lf falr Thu vtlll then no doubt take OIT for Columbus L lncastel Zanesvllle Buckeye Lake and varlous othtl polnts east north west and south Next on the lgenda IS tht SLDIOI Assnmblw Wexe planned tht usual thlngs lol the plo gram Cl lss Wlll Class Prophecy md Cl s Au ards An added lttlactlon vtlll be the pre sentatlon of awards to the 51X senlols who Febluarv Wlth these thlngs vxell honor oul mothers the facults and oul sehoolmates on Max 24 Gl xduatlon Weak btglns on Max 28 Vtltll B Lqllauleatc Ruelend John MacDonald of the Clooksvllle Chulth of Chllst vtlll d0llVEI the sumon m tht Methodlst Chul h M Elrds Glrls Glee Club mlnus those loxelx SLDIOIB vxlll slng Pralse YQ The Lold and God ls a Splrlt Rexerend Charles Melvln Coultel ont ot Crookstllles outstandlng gladuates vtlll QIVC our tllss addless at Commencement Wednes dav Lvenlng Max .31 Rexelend Coultel glad uated ID 1916 IS the brother of Eva Coulter Cl ooksxllles Engllsh and Spanlsh lnstructol He IQ now the mlnlster of the Flrst Methodlst Chulch ln Oak Park Illlnols Our plesldent Jack RdllCk xxlll preslde md Bettx Ann Channel and Carol Hughes vtlll leplescnt us as valedlctollan and salutatorlan lcspectlxelx Delmar Hoops presldent of the Board of Edutatlon and Mr W0lth1HgtOH Wlll hind out dlplomas Once agaln the Glrls Glee Club wlll per fOIlN vtlth Ours Is the World As the senlors much ln VLIV dlgnltied ID thelr maloon and Vtllllu lobes the CHS Bind xnlll play War Mdlth of the Prlests If lt dglCCS wlth the llorlt offce we ll have ln favor of anothr tl lp to Lake Hope bv school bus Alvuaxs befole weve come home XV1ll'l numerous cases of sunburn But that wont be the case thls yeal not us semors' Follovlmg CHS s one yeal tladltlon of a class tllp we ll end up oul actlvltles as a Class xx th an Eastern bus toul Plans are all set lol a thlee dax stop at the Commodore Hotel ln W'ashmgton D C to see all the slghts and then on to Annapolls to see all the mldshlp lllcn AtldHtlL Cltx to see all the bathlng beau tlts and home bs the Pennsvlvanla Tulnplke to see all the bl g long tunnels lncldental lx Henrx Saunders dass of 26 vtlll be OU1 dllx er NIXLIILX 1lFll X N 1 4 ' 'L 1' A . 1 V! f 1 . . . y ' , , ,- v , ' ' ' , .Y - . l ' 'l ' I Q I 1 I h ' U X H . 5 Y , . . . y , 2 7 3 1 I Y. . . , ' . ' . ' 1 f 1 m v 1 m ' - 5 ' ' 1 . , , ' ,A . . . 2 - ' 1. ' y 1' 1 yy ' . ' ' gil 1' x , Y ' ' ' A , . ' . . 2 ' - 3 ' , ' S - . ' , v ' - . . , , , , u I U 7 I - , ' . . , ,V .1 , H - 2 t s ' 1 B-nf 1 vv. I , I ' ' 1 .I ' ' ' ' . ' 7 1 1 1 nf ' ' L' ' ' ' ' - r ' 'x - 1.-y i . I Q v' lv U l - 5 2 ' , X ' ', 2 asp - -- X ' 3 gf' v x-. I y 2 'I x I Y' H . . . . A l , - -, v placed in the tests held in New Lexington in H C1355 day OH May 26- Talk 01115 fal' has been 1 - 1 - 7 1 , ' Y .' , . , . A ' v- 1 - l ' . K , . . V . , ' l . I y, ' . Vg . ' , , ' 5. . I, , ,' V' ' ,h . . . ' ' I , , , . . . .' , ' 1 . . ' ' ' f 3 -' ' 1 'Q ': . lx 'I ' 5 l - ' l' . A 4 I u X . i i 7 , ' , Z . 4 - . Lv , , . . , 1 . I ' .- V' ' ' 1 , - f' . A - - - - -q A . A 4 I ' H ' . y . . - ' l ' A I ' v I - 7 u. 1 Y I - I la ' l l 'fu r .1 . - V I 1 ,' . . , ' . , , ,' ' , ' , ' - - ' ' ' 's - ry . ' l 23' l 'l l X v A xl' .yy .V 'y h l 1 V. l . x w -Y I ' Y l lv W ' ll 7 ' 5 V V 7 1' A I Q 7 I ' ' ' f ' L L - L 7