Elyria Public High School - Elyrian Yearbook (Elyria, OH)

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ifiatnrg nf the Qllaaz 1515 The year of 1915 will always be remembered by the Class of 1919. In that year 233 Freshmen entered High School. We were fresh, green, anything you will, but we didn't feel it. We all felt that the life of E. H. S. depended upon us. We started out to keep it going. Whether we did or not this history will tell. Our Freshman year has little of historical value in it beyond the daily routine of school life. Yet we entered a few activities and thus identified ourselves with High School life. The Freshman- Sophomore Girls' Y-Hi elected two of its officers, Georgia Burt and Helen Holcombe from our class, the Freshman-Sophomore Boys' Hi-Y chose Paul Stewart of '19 President. We were off the ways and started at last. With the coming of Sept., 1916, we held our heads a little higher and pitied the incoming class. We could do so now because we were Sophomores with all the privileges that the name entails, but, alas! we were only 143 in number, 90 having fallen by the way. This year we entered every branch of school life. We were repre- sented in the English Club by Mildred Corfman, Secretary, in the Girls' Glee Club by Gladys Williams, Secretary, in the orchestra by nine members, in the Freshman-Sophomore Hi-Y by Allan Bates, President, and Ray Baker, Secretary, in the Freshman- Sophomore Girls' Y-Hi by Florence Starr, President, and Mar- garet Klein, Treasurer, on the Elyrian by Eva Mackey and Robert Savage, and in Athletics by Ray Baker. A large majority of the class were active members in these various organizations. We even tried our hand at interior decorating and all who remem- ber the auditorium, Christmas, 1916, know the results. In the spring of 1917 we lost four of our fellows thru enlistment. They were: Tom Greer, Jimmy Dillon, Don Barber, and Edwin Morgan. We are all proud to call these fellows classmates. Yet while we were active in all the activities in and about our school we did not altogether neglect the class room. Any of our teachers will tell you that Eva Mackey was our honor student for this year. Nineteen Seventeen found us Juniors, 132 in number, ready to carry on for another year. Our class was organized this year, the first meeting being held Oct. 31, 1917. At this time the fol- lowing officers were elected: Allan Bates, President, Ray Baker, Vice-President, Helen Holcombe, Secretary, and Mildred Corf- man, Treasurer. As usual the Class of '19 was represented every- where. In the Glee Club by 15 girls with Isabelle Robson, Presi- dent, in the Orchestra by eleven members, in the Literary Society by twenty-four members, while almost every girl belonged to the Friendship Club KY-Hij or Patriotic League. We were represented on the staff of the Elyrian by Don Savage and Ray Baker, man- 10

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1912! One fine, Warm day, four years ago, Went passing thru our door, Twelve score Freshmen, No less Wise-men, Their voices all a-roar. Confusion reigned in E. H. S. They could not find their rooms. But soon that fall, Was settled all, Then tests began to boom. The lessons, tho strange, so hard and long, Were conquered by them all. These Freshmen true, Tho Wise-men too, 'Came Sophies in the fall. And so they strove from year to year, Some dropping by the Way, That goal to see Which was to be Commencement as their day. The time has come for this Class of ours Nineteen hundred nineteen, To bid adieu To this dear school To teachers, pals, and team. The efforts of the faculty That helped us to this day, We'll ne'er forget This one great debt, As victors will We pay. In leaving you, dear E. H. S., And speaking all in truth, You are the best By every test, Is what we say to you. We now go take our places there With the Alumni folk. Our Work here done, Another begun, We start with cheer, not loath. Georgia M. Burt, '19 9

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agers, Eva Mackey and Mildred Corfman, editors, while in ath- letics we were represented by Art Lockard, Allan Bates, Ray Baker, Perry Daly, Harry Armstrong, and Glen Davis. The last big event of our Junior year was the J unior-Senior Reception given by our class in the High School, April 26. This affair was a big success, and our class was justly proud of it. Yet, again, while our Junior year was full of work outside the Class Room, We, nevertheless, maintained our record there and exhibited the same spirit that had characterized our Work of the preceding years. In closing our Junior year let me mention the enlistment of Arthur Lockard and William Head. September, 1918, proved the goal reached. We were now dig- nified and studious UD Seniors, seventy-one in number. To the Faculty We largely owed our position. Their kind help and care eased our Way considerably, and We realize that no Words of ours can adequately thank them. Yet We hope to show by our after lives that their teachings were not in vain. Members of the Faculty of Elyria High School, we try to express our sincere thanks to you. We now occupied a high position, and one which carried much work With it. We were into everything. In the Senior-Junior Hi-Y, With Ted Smith, President, and Herman Lovejoy, Secretary, in the girls' Friendship Club, with Gladys Williams, President, in the Senior French League, with Naomi Marsh, President, Josephine Lockard, Vice-President, Helen Holcombe, Secertary, and Mildred Austin, Treasurer, in the Spanish Club, with Louise Johnson, President, and Glen Davis, Treasurer, in the English Club, With Eva Mackey, President, and Muriel Reisinger, Secretary, in the Orchestra, with Walter Hines, Ass't Director, and Helen Holcombe, Sec. and Treas., on the Elyrian, with Eva Mackey, Editor-in- Chief, Leo Martin, Business Manager, and Mildred Corfman and Walter Hines. The outstanding event in Athletics this year Was the defeat of Lorain in Football, Oct. 6, 1918, with a 9--0 score, which left no arguments. On the Varsity were Ray Baker, Allan Bates, Robert Savage and Perry Daly. Baker was also Captain of the Varsity Basketball Team. The Senior class this year had a basketball team captained by Herman Lovejoy and second to none in the Inter-Class League. Practically all the members in the class were active in these various organizations. Social life during our last year was rather conspicuous by its absence. This was due largely to the prevalence of Flu -in the first part of the year. The first dance held was an impromptu one, celebrating the defeat of Lorain. Our reception to the Juniors, which was to have been held Oct. 31, 1918, Was postponed on ac- count of the afore-mentioned Flu, and was held March 14, 1919, in the Tech Building. The Reception Play, A Case of Suspensionj was ably presented by a talented cast. In April the Juniors ten- ii 7 B ,J