Deer Park High School - Antlers Yearbook (Deer Park, OH)

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Throughout the entire four years members of the class participated in athletics, worked in the school cafeteria, entered all musical organizations and their events, wrote for the school paper, and made themselves useful in the school. The Senior Class Play, Stray Cats, was an enormous success. Ruth Thornton and William Stanforth were starred in this royalty play which at- tracted wide attention. Other members of the cast were: Bill Corell, William Kopp, Agnes Neiderhausen, Audrey Thesing, Virginia Gruber, Raymond Gas- ton, and Robert Cooper. As we look back we shall always remember with great pleasure the trials, triumphs, and experiences that were ours. And we leave our be- loved school with sadness in our hearts, but also with the joy of realizing that we have a firm foundation to aid us in our l fe's work. We owe sincere thanks to the Faculty. We regret parting with our many friends here and hope they will carry on with the same pleasure we have known. We leave with many pleasant memories of our dear Alma Mater. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT Ladies and Gentlemen, Board of Education, Superintendent, Teachers, and Fellow Students: We, the Senior Class, have felt that school was beginning to disagree with us and that the members of the faculty had conspired to accomplish the death of the most astonishingly brilliant class the walls of Deer Park High and the teachers thereof have ever frowned upon. The bitter doses of lessons we have taken with daily regularity, have hastened rather than prolonged our class demise, and we know with sorrowful certainty that the hour of our departure is near at hand. Therefore, being so soon to pass from these scenes of educational activity, being in full possession of alert minds and memories that put the most extensive encyclopedias to shame, having faculties -keenly sharpened by many contests with flinty instructors, we publish to you upon this funeral occasion. the last will and testament of the Senior Class of 1939. To the entire school we leave the example we have set as worthy scholars and blameless students. Our record has been spotless and in all the annals of our career we have done no deed as a class, that we need blush for. We do hereby appoint and charge Mr. Warner, the lawful custodian of the class funds, to faithfully attend to, looking up the numerous bills we owe and to settle all accounts of the departing class from the exhausted pennies of and already depleted treasury. No money are we taking with us from this expensive institution, neither shall we leave any debts behind us. We give and bequeath to our beloved superintendent, Mr. H. H. Bodley, our sincere affection, our deepest reverence, our hardiest graditude, and the whole unlimited wealth of our eternal memory. ln an attempt at partial playment for all that he has done for us during our long years at Deer Park igh School, we make over to him, here and now, a heavy mortgage on me 1939 NTLERS 21 l

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Left to right, Audrey Thesing, Henry Turck, Mary jane Winkleman AUDREY THESING, Track 1, Ath- letic Association 1, 2, S. A. A- 3, 4, Girl Reserve 2, 3, 4, Dra- matic Club 2, 3, 4, Operetra 1, 2, 3, 4, Class Play 3, 4, Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4, Dramatic Revue 4. HENRY TURCK, Hi Y 2, 3, 4. MARY JANE WINKLEMAN, Girl Reserve 1, 2, 3. Basketball 1. 3, Track 1, 3, Commercial Club 4, Tom Tom Staff 2, 3, 4, Letter Club 3, S. A. A. 3, 4, Athletic Association 1, 2, EDWARD WOLF, Tom Tom Staff 2, 5, Softball 1, 2, 3, Baseball 1, 3, Track 1, Hi Y 3. 4. Memoirs Of The Senior Class Of '39 The class continued to grow smaller in the junior year, the shrinkage reaching fifty percent. Our home room teacher was Mr. C. Grove, and our tirst class officers were: President, William Kopp, Vice President, Hilda Freudenthaler, Secretary, Dorothy Massman, and Treasurer, Carl Mason. Although the work in the Junior year was some what harder, we our- selves were growing older and wiser, and the school days were just like those of preceding years. During this year our first class play was given entitled, Here Comes Charlie . Starring Hilda Freudenthaler and Bill Kopp. Other members of the cast were Dorothy Massman, Ruth Thornton, Audrey Thesing, John Goettke, Raymond Gaston, Bill Holmes, Virginia Gruber, and Robert Cooper. Also the nrst prom was given. It was held at Hillcrest Country Club. Audrey Thesing was prom queen. Days, weeks, months passed swiftly on. We knocked at the senior door and were admitted. For the Senior year the following were elected for office: President, William Kopp, Vice President, Ruth Thornton, Secretary, Agnes Neider- hausen, and Treasurer, Virginia Gruber. At the beginning of the year, how- ever, Ruth Thornton became president due to the resignation of William Kopp to accept the presidency of the S. A. A., and William Holmes was elected new Vice President. .7lze 1939 NTLERS 20

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our future in the Great Unknown beyond. lt shall be his to watch of our upward and onward fliting .... to note each trial, each attempt, each victory, each success and honor that we may achieve in the arena of the world .... and to accept for himself, as interest on our deathless debt, every ou-Bite of the praise, every iota of the honor, knowing that it is all due to his faithful instructions. We give and bequeath to the dear faculty the satisfaction which comes from duties well performed. We bequeath them a sweet and unbroken succession of restful nights and peaceful dreams. No longer need they lay awake through the long watches of the night and worry over the uncer- tainty of whether this one is doing his nightwork, or that one will have his mathematics in the mgorning class, or the other one will remember every iron .glad rule of compositional-,technique in the preparation of an essay. lt has been a hard strain on tibemr, for seniors are said to be at all times under all conditions difficult towmanage. We also leave them a large amount of sympathy for their depressing attempts to pound knowledge into ,Our craniums. 'ln addition we bequeath themnour regrets that the work- will us. was so barren of results-we leave them-,but we don't leave them much. We give and bequeath to the Junior.1.Glass all such boys as were not able to keep pace with such brilliant girls as compose the majority of our class, trusting that the jun'or girls may be able to hold firmly to them and steer them firmly next year through the gates of commencement. We also leave them our senior dignity, our excelling wit,'our superlative brilliancy, our good looks, our charming manners, our favor with the teachers, our splendid grades, and our triumphant exit as the most popular class our school has ever seen. To the vivacious and exuberant Sophomores we leave the rIght to prev upon the Freshmen, out of season and without reason, to unceasingly tor- ture them-with the liabilities thereof. To the Freshmen Class, we bequeath our goodwill and ability to per- severe through all unfavorable circumstances. Bill Kopp leaves the future S. A. A. presidents his power to preside .with dignity that would do honor to a chief justice of the Supreme Court. To Mary Colthar, we bequeath Helen Andrew's ability to put on a Hne complexion, Save the surface and you save all. -. To Albert Meyer, we leave Hilda Freudenthaler's ease in using long and ,high-fluting impressive words. , . .r Carl Mason gives his gum to whoever has known and persistence enough to pry itloose. , . To Ray Rieke, Bob Cooper's gift of gab. . .To Bernard Schmidt, lra Ferr simethods of playing, baseball. 'To' R.ose,Mary Ryan, Betty Jane'fSl13lUJ7S 'se.wingjability. To Bob Langhorst, we bequeath'Qprdong,,Be:jna.rd's.habit of spending two hours a day on his physics lessonfiby'si,ttif1g,ron the book while he reads Hunting and Fishing . j , j , ,' I Bill Holmes 'leaves his musical talent to John Schenck. He needs it muy. .. , . H 'To Kitty Dunnigan, Ruth Thornton leaves t-hebalance in her penny book to buy more trinkets for her jitterbug jacket. ' 5' ' je 1939 NTLERS