Geneva High School - Aquila Yearbook (Geneva, OH)

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Class Hustor IX years ago, on a warm September day, a group of curuous seventh graders entered the halls of G H S eager to pass through the years ahead wuth as luttle work and study as possuble, and eventually to gaun the funal reward of beung bug senuors We duscovered that thus goal was not easy to attaun and ut was necessary to devote more tume to studues and less to muschuef Durung our freshmen year we entered untocompetutuon wuth the upper classes, and for the furst tume chose our own sublects The maun prolect of the class that year was sellung greetung cards As sophomores, the enture class was together un one room for the furst tume Under the leadershup of Bob Mc Guure presudent, Eugene Eller, vuce presudent Januce Dean secretary, and Gary Cruttenden, treasurer, our class sponsored a donkey basketball game whuch developed unto a hularuous affaur wuth over sux hundred fullung the gym to capacuty Our second sale of greetung cards proved to be very profutable and a popcorn machune was purchased wuth the earnungs Returnung as lunuors we elected Preston Pollock presudent, Frank Castellu, vuce presudent Margue Patterson secretary, and Gary Cruttenden, treasurer, and promptly chose our class rungs The lunuor play Strange Boarders, unearthed great talent among members of the class The maun events of the year were the Junuor Senuor Prom held at the Maduson Country Club and the banquet whuch was a success due mostly to our wonderful mothers who served a very delucuous meal and were responsuble for all the detauls Senuorsl Long had we wanted for the day when we could look back over three happy years and realuze that we had qualufued for our funal year at G H S The offucers elected for the year were Ray Bender, presudent Frank Castellu, vuce presudent Morgue Patterson, secretary and Don Duglua, treasurer, wuth Mrs Ward and Mr Sherman as sponsors After our puctures had been taken and the announcements ordered, plans were made to rause money for the Aquula by sponsorung several dances after the games and sellung magazunes We operated the concessuon stand at the football games and our ever fauthful popcorn machune remauns ot the school as o guft from the senuor class Early un May our senuor play was produced and met wuth great success May rolled around whule most of us were stull un a whurl of actuvutues Thus year we were the honored guests at the Junuor Senuor Prom and the banquet whuch were very enuoyable events At last come Baccalaureate and Commencement Some were happy to graduate, whule others regretted that they were to leave G H S We all realuzed we had to go but through musty eyes whule we sang our beloved Alma Mater, our thoughts wandered back to what us lust hustory to most, but to the senuors has a value that cannot be weughed Some of us thought of the wonderful guudance and learnung from our teachers some, the fun we had but regardless of what we thought, ut us what G H S has guven us that enables us to face the world as young adults wuth determunatuon and courage It us the hope of the Class of T952 that we have contrubuted somethung whuch wull be of assustance to those who wull follow, and that we may repay those who have guuded and counseled us o S ' ..- F ' ' 1 f ' P ' ' 1 f . D . .. ,, ' 1 ... , ' , ' I l I I ' ' 1 . I f ...

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W1-If OFFICE WORKER NAVY JOE A STUART IRVIN TILLER 'L-1.3-54 'M PROJECTION IST DRAFTSMAN ALBERT R PULSIFER OTTO J ZECHNER General Course Academic Course APPRECIATIO HE class of I952 would I'1ere Inke to express nfs apprecnctnon to The patrons of :ts edufron of the Aquula for I1eIpnng to make the publnshung of thus book possible Theur names w1II be found an the adverhsung section 24 5 Q0 I ' U fir- ' A 5 'f ,R - l f General Course General Course NQPJJYR A ' s X T . . . .

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inn ff L Si' N .X For reference to word s heretofore unknown or uncomprehendable consult Carl Desko s Condensed World Encyclopedta or Shurley Barrett s New Standard Drctronary both publushed un 1969 OHN Neul Bob Curtus, and Frank Castellu sat hunched un theur contour chaurs amudst the throng of people un the statuon whule wautung for the passenger let to take them to theur deshwllloybu lusten to thus! exclaumed Bob, wuth hus ears and eyes glued to the portable televusuon The newscaster lust reported that Barbara DeAngel us won the Natuonal Women s Sports f T962 ChmEgh?1nrl:gphfJ have responded favorably to the news had he not been suddenly engrossed un an artucle wrutten la smate Delores Shafer by onThla?eCwds a turfue back un 1959 when such celebrated men un government as John McSpadden deluvered soul l f n messa es of ho e and encoura ement to the ople I hF?ank ha?l funushed: readung Bull Rggner s comuc gtiup un the funnues when he heard Bob whustle GT fhe Sflfeen on the portable set Now what'-' ' he asked Loo I l l The all gazed un pleasant surpurse at Marlene McFarland who was modelung gowns un the Statler room for the Hug e Co un Cleveland Muke Pasqualone wuth hus famous all gurl orchestra appeared before the muCr0 hone to announce that lrvun Tuller, as guest star, would sung for them hus new song that had gust been released y R C A Vuctor but our reporters pleasure was crudely unterrupted by the announcement that theur plane had arruved They hurrued to the our fueld where they saw that another plane had landed to unload some passen ers A sugnufucant thung about thus plane was that Ronnue Hawes was the pulot One man, bruef case un han , stepped from the boardwalk and began amblung toward them Who s thus? saud the three Hello, saud Otto Zechner when he had stopped before them How us everyone back home'7 We hear you have quute a large farm now Yes and Don Duglua has a successful daury farm near mune You have probably heard of the brand of mulk products he manufactures You wrote us some tume ago saud Bob that Martun Mclnnerney was runnung for cuty mayor agaunst Ray Berruer Who won'7 Martun was elected by a close margun but Ray has a very good real estate busuness, especually now that the town has grown to be so large He went on to say that Preston Pollock had been asked to take the contract to desugn the new school buuldungs that are badly needed In Geneva When they funally parted the three reporters left for the rescue plane to cover a story about an F T06 pas senger let that had developed engune trouble and was forced to land un the Pacufuc Ocean They notuced upon steppung unto the plane how famuluar lookung were the hostesses Of coursel They were LaVerne Wullus and Carmelo Marquette The gurls smuled greetungs and surprused them wuth the news that they had met Lunda Blough yesterday who was accompanyung some of her students from elementary school on an aur excursuon trup of the Unuted States You can see everythung by plane un lust about twelve hours now they saud We covered another trup saud one un whuch Audrey Gornuck who teaches school was returnung from a vacatuon trup un Hawauu Whom do you thunk she saw'7 Ray Herbat and Duck Anchor naval offucers wuth the atomuc submarune duvusuon She saw them at a dunner party where they were surrounded all evenung by beautuful Hawauuan dancung gurls The hostesses bade them be comfortable and told them that another old fruend was accompanyung them on the rescue trup Lookung around them whom should they meet but Gary Cruttenden He explauned that he wascg6oung along to decupher the cause of the faulty engunes, beung a specual let mechanucal technucuan for the F I s They rode smoothly along stoppung only once at the unterspoce refuelung statuons suspended un the aur at hugh altutude It was an amazung councudence that Paul Novak supervused thus one, and hus co owner was Joe Stuart who checked the engunes and cleaned the wundows No sooner had they waved good bye than out of the must of clouds they saw a solud speck bobbung un the ocean They descended, landung smoothly besude the destutute shup and ummeduately the emergency rescue squad began to help the passengers on board Among them was Thomas Duke, a college hustory professor, who was returnung from a trup un Tubet to get un formatuon from Davud Holmes author and explorer, who had uncovered the remauns of a strange new ancuent cuvuluzatuon And there was Ray Bender, an enguneer supervusung the constructuon of a huge new power dam un central Afruca Hus specual secretary Joanne Kummy had accudently swallowed an oversuze Afrucan rung she was holdung un her hand at the splut second the plane had hut the water Havung been flown back to the aurbase, Joanne was ummeduately taken to the cuty hosputal Frank accom panued her to cover a story of the uncudenr and the other two were sent out on varuous mussuons They agreed to meet for dunner that nught at the famous Esophogus Dunung Room and Hotel 26 ,z II k ' U i U tr II ' U ' A T I' ,Y . . . . . . 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