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

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1 1932-1949 Miss Nancy Myers, a iunior in Elyria High School, lost her life in a tragic automobile accident on Friday, November 25. Nancy was a member of the Senior A Capella Choir, Rainbow Girls, Senior Girl Scouts and Christian Alliance Church. Nancy had been granted the wisdom of a loving heart that she might say the right thing rightly each hour of the day. She had a quick perception of the feelings and needs of others and was eager-hearted in helping them. She had a quick eye for little kindnesses and was always ready in doing them and gracious in receiving them. Her pleasing personality, genial manner and good school citizenship will long be remembered by students and teachers. Nancy is sadly missed by her friends and family, but it is not rightly a matter for sadness, but rather a matter for triumph. It is we in our human weakness. who manufacture the sadness, not she. 1881-1950 Mr. Philip Hofmann, a teacher of English, Latin, German, History, Algebra and journalism at Elyria High School for 29 years, met his classes as usual April 13, 1950, walked to his home at ll5 Charles Court, and died there a few moments later. He will be remembered for his scholarly attitude and attainmenrs, as a student at Oberlin College, as a graduate student at the University of Chicago and the Leland Stanford University, at which universities he was a student of English, Greek, Latin, German, and science. He received an M. A. from the Univer- sity of Chicago. Born in Germany, he had come as a boy with his parents to this country. In China he taught at Szechnen Provisional University eight years. He also taught two years in California. His manner was always kind and gentle: he was always humble and self-effacing. He was admired for his honesty, humbleness, simplicity, love for humanity, and a relentless determination to do his work well. His fellow teachers and his students found in him the marks of a gentleman. He leaves to mourn his sudden passing his wife, Elfriedag his son John, a professor at Ames, Iowag and his son Bill, a business man in Los Angeles, California. His son, Philip, a navy airman, lost his life in a plane crash in the Pacific in the war.

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