Dennison High School - Leader Yearbook (Dennison, OH)

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THE CLASS OF '24 The Class of '24 is a very lively subject for even an expert to attempt to sketch. They are never any of them twice in the same place or position. Even a snapshot could never catch them in anything better than a blur. Besides, I am only one person, of decidedly individual opinions, and can only look at my classmates through my own eyes. I can not see them as they see themselves, nor even as you might see them if you might stand for a time in my position, and be able to look at them from my point of view. I can only paint them in such words as appear to me to express them as I see them. Then this, dear friends, is the class of 1924 as I see it today. QI am sure you will pardon exact measurements, as I am studying Advanced Algebra, I speak in figures? The Class of ,24 is made up of thirty-two members. We range in height from Flora lVIurphy's 4 feet, 101f2 inches-high heels, long hat, feathers and all-to James Bowers' 6 feet, with or without his silk socks. Taken altogether as the one in body that we are in spirit or in anything else that is within our grasp, we make up an individual of sufficient age, weight, height, wisdom, power, and dignity, so that we are able to look down on the lower classes. Our head is of sufficient capacity to hold even the vast amount of knowledge we have been cramming into it for the past three years, for we require large hats. Some say this is due to the enormous ear puffs worn by some of the girls, but we pass this over in the silence we feel that it deserves. And if we do not make the success in life that we desire and expect, it will surely not be because we can not get foothold upon the world's battle-ground by way of our colossal understand- ings, for you ought to see the size of Raymond's feet. This is the Class of '24 in her big moments. Even her class picture had to be taken on the installment plan. But we have not at all times such a mighty sense of our vastness, sometimes our pride sinks to a mere average capacity, and Mr. Cooper assures us that we have splendid capacity for averages. We have been investigating this line, too, but will not here bore you with a recital of the resultant statistics. We are accomplished in all things. We have often proved to you how well we can sing, recite, and perform in many entertaining ways before the public. We are beginnlng to prove our prowess in athletics, and hope to win future honors for our class and school. We have within our ranks poets, musicians, actresses, preachers, statesmen, philosophers, professors, judges, physicians, authors, artists, warriors, and one United States President. Do not ask me to specify the which or the who. Ask me thirty years from now, and perhaps I may be better able to say, for, of course, they are still in a state of partial develop- ment, and while I can not tell you who they are now, It doth not yet appear what they shall be. :so

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THEJUNIUR ,676 z Q G if , ligtfnvixx V , 'f M , ',img5v Q QB V ' ll ,V 'Ti I , 1: X . Q. if UW i xt 1 J N. 1 6- 1 CLAss Or FICERS W X Q f X 4 xx v4 l, it M Pres dent, Junior Williams Secretary-Treasurer, Mari Cowar Class Editor, Elsie Beatty Sponsor, Miss Harbouit Class Colors-Green and White Class Motto-Deeds, Not Dreams Class Flower-Mrs. Aaron Ward Rose Elsie Beatty Alice Bryan Ellen Burroway Mary Cowan Mary Crupe Helen Gatchell Evelyn Hillyer Mabel Hite Clarice McGuire Katherine McLandsloorough Fannie Probert Flora Murphy Ruth Parr Helen Rock Martha Whitaker Anna Mae Young Mabel Shaw Dale Balo James Bowers Thearin Evans Floyd Gatchell Ralph Hall Howard Long Hugh Long James McElroy Vernon Miracle Boone Moore Frederick Quinn Burl Rainsberg Raymond Rausch Eugene Wenger Junior Williams Bert Woods Howard Wright 29

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But this, friends, is a subdued picture of the Class of '24, crudely sketched from my present perspective. I did not use the brilliant colors of my imagination, lest I should lay myself open to the charge of exaggera- tion and we do not care to run any such risks, for this is a class of Deeds, not Dreams. ELSIE BEATTY, '24. JUNIOR - SENIOR BANQUET The annual Junior-Senior Banquet was held as usual in the I. O. O. F. Hall. The room was beautifully decorated in the Senior colors, purple and white. Welcome, Junior Williams Response, . . Amelia Gray Vocal Solo, Raymond Rausch Toast, . Professor Angel Reading, . Helen Rock Piano Solo, . Ruth Parr Toast, . Miss Harbourt Toast, . . Miss Hart A Charge ,...... Mr. Cooper Mr. Cooper closed with the following toast to The Juniors : Oh, the Junior boys are heard to beat, Duda, Duda, And the Junior girls are strangely sweet, X Duda, the same. We've sat right through this glorious feast, Spiritualizing the natural beast, And all of us say, as the very least, We'd like to stay until morning. But the law has gone forth that we must go home, A sensible law, though marrow bone Tingles with pain, yet we seize the refrain And we'1l sing it and chant it and sing it again, Oh, the Junior boys are hard to beat, Duda, Duda, And the Junior girls are strangely sweet, Duda, the same. So home we go, very full of the buzz That handsome is as handsome does. And when it shall happen, as surely must be, That word goes forth to you and me To meet once again this coming year, With a shout will we answer, We will all be here, For the Junior boys are hard to beat, Duda, Duda, And the Junior girls are strangely sweet, Duda, the same. And folks! their Sponsor is decidedly neat, Dudaf The same again. 31 1 ,