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

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II11' Eiyuan efdataa Welcomes Quest The scene opens in Room IOS of lflyria High School at 2 230 on a spring afternoon diary IX-IIi,Yt'I'I ls everything ready for lllayor Petro's tour around the school? Bill Lord: Yes. lt's all set. Phyllis Christnian looking out of window: Here he eonies now. .lmn Cri,fp: llow do you do, lklayor P lflyrian. Hlzzyor Prim: How do you do, jean. l 1. .ll'.'llII l'n1 going to he your guide this afternoon. Let's go to the auditorium first. Guide: The Senior will always reinember the auditorium when they think of gradu- ation. l'd like to introduce to you, Lawrence Forbes, our President for the past two years, who is usually called Ozzie. He will tell you about the Senior Class and their oHieers. etro. 1,111 -lean Crisp, lfditor-in-Chief of the

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9 .ilu Hllvmnriam ,james EE. Agate .lames lf. Agate, known among his friends as Jimmy, son of Clerk of Courts H. lf. Agate and lllrs. Agate, died on August 13, 1033 from burns received when a gasoline- lired steamer exploded when he was removing wall paper. He played guard and tackle on the football team. He had lived in Elyria all his life and l1ad attended the public schools here throughout his educational career. illllr- Cllharlez M. Zlinppes Charles VV. Koppes, science and mathematics teacher at Elyria High for 26 years, passed away February 5, 1939. He was a graduate of Ohio VVesleyan University. Prior to his teaching here, he had been superintendent of schools at Kingsville and at Sullivan for there years and eight years respectively. He took an active interest in the activities of the lllethodist Episcopal Church, especially the Sunday School. His widow, lylrs. Ma1'yf Koppes, survives as do llwight and XVayne, both gradu- ates of lf. H. S. Dwight is in the advertising department of the Curtis Publishing Company at Philadelphia. Several of his short stories have been published. YVayne is professor of achitecture: at Renssalaer l'olytechnic Institute at Troy, New York. mr. Cllharlez 2113. millianm Charles RI. VVilliams, attendance olzlicer of the Elyria Public Schools for the last ten years, passed away February 5. He served as teacher and principal at the old Lake Avenue School from 1890 to IQOI. lfntil 1917 he was busy helping to organize the manual training work under the direction of Superintendent VV. R. Comings. He served as County Clerk of Courts for six years, spent a year in Florida, and was teacher and principal at the Lake Avenue County School from 1026 to IQZS. He is survived by his wife and one son Ralph, who lives in Detroit and who is an lf. H. S. graduate. Eight

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Jllnyor P1-tra: 1'm very glad to meet you, Ozzie. Ozzie: How do you do. fllayor Ozzie: fllayor Ozzie: fllayor Ozzie: Petro: You have four class ollicers, don't you? That's right. Dorothy Nau is Vice-President, Bernie Fobes is Secretary and the Treasurer is jean Crisp. They are all very capable and reliable people. Petro: How large is the graduating Class? There are 338 who will graduate. Half of them will receive their diplomas on june 8 and the other half on June 9. l'd be glad to show you the pictures of our Senior Class if you'd like to see them. Petro: I think that would be very interesting. Beside each senior's icture information about him or her is iven. This is , , . . . g as follows: student s name, address, course, and activities. Here is a picture of our class adviser, Miss Edna Iones. l'7l