Goshen High School - Yearbook (Damascus, OH)

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1- - Li, ,, G 0 S H 0 N I A N..gf::1g::::.,.-..- History of the Class of 1955 On the morning of September 6, 1951 seventy-two green but not yellow freshmen gathered at Goshen High School. The faculty was used to freshmen but not seventy-two of them. Fifty was the usual number and at once the teachers began to plan for the biggest and best class Goshen had About vited to a we were to ever graduated, Next day the number was seventy-five. the time we began to feel we knew the ropes, we were in- party. It sounded good but to our sorrow we learned that furnish the entertainment. Drexel Knoedler was chosen president, Donald Borton, secretary, and Genevieve Holloway, treasurer. We gave one party at the school building. we returned from Thanksgiving vacation to learn that Kiss Richards was ill and that Paul Friezc had taken her place. He led us through the maze of algebra until Kiss Richards returned after Christ mas vacat ion . Time passed quickly and soon we were no longer freshmen. At the beginning of the sophomore year we had the pleasure of seeing another Class initiated into high school. We also gave five new teachers a hearty welcome. The size of our class was somewhat reduced but it was still so large that we had to use the science recitation room for a home room in addition to the sophomore room. Eula Hersman, Marion Grooms, and Bob McDonald entered our class during the second year. Evelyn Long was president and Arthene Bye, secretary. We left school in 1955 already looking forward to our junior year. The first day of our third year in high school we chose our rings and at once began to plan for the JuniorMSenior Banquet. On November 25, 1955 we presented our class play HApple Blossom Time.U we exchanged programs with North Lima and alsoasponsored Pamahaska's Pets, a group of trained dogs and birds from the World's Fair. The class officers were: president, Evelyn Longg secretary, Margaret Hobsong treasurer, Genevieve Holloway. We managed to crowd in one party with all of our other activities. The banquet was at Wyoliffe Manor, May 29, 1934. Returning to school in September, we were given the coveted tin chairs in chapel and established ourselves in the senior home romn. The sophomores started a school paper and a member of our class, Dorothy Bricker, named it HThe Tattler.H -- 50 --

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' ...-,. ..----...-.-4 '- , ---F -.------G O S H. O N I A N -- - - '- ' ......... .....-. -...1........--- v SIETIOR PLAY -TIGER HGUSET' may 17, 1955 Dorothy Patton. Director CAST OF CHAIIACTEILS Ernie. Lowrie . . . . . . Evelyn Long Yami, a Hindu . . . Grant Reichert Mrs, Iiurdock, . . Martha Mather liaclntosh . . . . Donald Wyse Arthur Hale . . , Bob McDonald Oswald Kearns . . . Drexel Knoedler Peggy Vail 'Ess . . . . . Islarthe, Alice West Thompson ..,.. . . . Joseph Batzli The Eystery ','fomo,n-2 . . . Eula Hersman The 'rigernan ............. ........ ? 'P '? 'e '? '? Aunt Sophie ....................... Arthene Bye Scene: A lonely country estateg two miles from the nearest village. Time: Late September. If you were o poor young girl and suddenly found yourself in possession of a lovely country estate, but by the terms of the will you were obliged to live on it constantly for a. period of one year, you wouldnt hesitate to do so, would you? But on the other hand, if you were told that the house was haunted by your deceased aunt and that a phantom TIGER appeared at midnight in order to regain possession of a, mysterious collar of jewels that had been stolen from its necfz years before, what would you do THIZTN? That is the situat ion which confronts ERHA LOWRIE, heroine of the great mystery thriller, HTIGER HOUSE. Just what is behind all the strange and weird happenings and how Erma. manages to retain possession of her inheritance go to maize as exciting an evening as one could desire. .gk ..- 29 ..-

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Mildredityers who makes an exceedingly capable s 'Y 1-an 1 G O S H 0 N I A N Early in the,year we decided to edit an annual. Margaret Hobson was made editor-in-chief: Evelyn Long, assistant editorg Bill Geiger, business manager: and Oren Jones, assistant business manager. The annual was named NThe Goshoniann by Helen Greeneisen, a sophomore. It is a new project at Goshen but it and UThe Tattleru have our best wishes for a continued success. The officers of our class now are: president, Evelyn Longg sec- retary, Margaret Hobson: and treasurer, Letha Venable. The size of our class has greatly diminished. One half of the seventy-two wide- eyed freshmen who gathered that September morning have become Seniors. As the Goshonian goes to the printer's we are looking forward to the presentation of our class play nTiger Housen on May 17: baccalaur- eate on May 19g JuniorqSenior Banquet on Nay 20g and the last event of our school lives--Connmncement on Nay 24. Our class has been well represented in the different phases of school activities and we feel we have made a creditable record in all of them. - Margaret Hobbins Class Prophecy A particular custom Cand one which seems very unnecessary and bothersome to the writer, at least? is that of giving a prophecy of the great things to be done in the near future by the brilliant graduating class and so I will wipe the dust off the crystal sphere of time and will try to rob it of its secrets. As the curtain lifts a bed appears, a hospital bed, a doctor and nurse stand with anxious frowns on their brows gazing desponde ently upon a patient in the bed. Oren Jones, after many years of struggling with the deadly Hsleeping sicknessu has succumbed under the watchful and careful eye of the doctor, Drexel Knoedler, and and sweet looking nurse. And, oh yes, lest we forget Joe Batzli, is at his bedside either hastening Oren on his awakening him. The scene shifts and reveals a vast panora In the distance is a ranch-house. As one goes deal of bustling and hurrying and scurrying is the village priest, long journey or ma of desert land. closer, a great perceived. The annual roundup is just over and a large dance and entertainment are being held here for all the vicinity. Bob McDonald is the -- 51 --