Grafton High School - Graftonian Yearbook (Grafton, OH)

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BACCALAUREATE ORDER OF SERVICE PROCESSIONAL .... Mrs. Ruth Dunham “I HEAR AMERICA SINGING” . . . Wilson High School Chorus INVOCATION .... The Rev. Fred Stroebel SCRIPTURE READING . . The Rev. Wm. Kopiczenski “THE PRAYER PERFECT” .... Stenson Girls Sextet ADDRESS .... The Rev. Wm. Kopiczenski “LED BY MY SAVIOUR” .... Scholin High School Chorus BENEDIC riON . . . The Rev. Fred Stroebel RECESSIONAL Mrs. Ruth Dunham COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM “LEXINGTON”.............................K. L. King High School Band PROCESSIONAL .... High School Band INVOCATION . . . The Rev. Fred Stroebel PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG . Audience “STOUT HEARTED MEN” . . Sigmund Romberg INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER Principal Edna Finlayson ADDRESS ..... Dr. Walter A. Zaugg Professor of Education - Bowling Green State University “WHEN DAY IS DONE” .... Katcher Boys Trio PRESENTATION OF CLASS . Superintendent B.B. Cox PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMA . Mr. George Edwards President of Board of Education BENEDICTION . . . The Rev. Fred Stroebel “WASHINGTON”.............................. Sousa High School Band CLASS RECEPTION Stage of Auditorium

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LAWRENCE GERALD BYCZYNSKI “Larry Class Reporter 2 Basketball 1,2,3,4 Football 1,2,3,4 Basebal1 1,2,3,4 Masquers Club 3,4 Purple 8i Gold 3,4 SHIRLEY MAE Shi r 1 ” NEITZEL Class Reporter 1.2.3,4 Band 1.2,3.4 Softball 1.2,3.4 Girls Glee Club 1.2.3.4 Mixed Chorus 1.2,3,4 Girls Sextette 1.2 Y-Teens 4 Masquers Club 3.4 Purple k Gold 3.4 Horae Nursing 2. 4 CLARENCE FREDERICK WOIDE Clancy” Basketball 2,3 Football 2,3 Mixed Chorus 2,3,4 Bo ysChorus 2,3,4 Masquers Club 3,4 Purple A Gold 3,4

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(Elaes JUatorg As the year 1939 came rolling around, September saw a group of ex- cited youngsters go tripping off to their first year of school. We got our fine start under the supervision of Miss Tran, whom we also had for our second year. In our third and fourth years, we had a different teacher, Miss Adams, who taught us how to tell time and all the multiplication tables which seemed hard to us at the time. At the beginning of our fourth year we welcomed Harry Jantz and bade farewell to Alice and Frederick Stanislawski, Doris Brown and Ted Collins. Our fifth year took us into Miss Knechtges’ room where we started history and long division. At the beginning of this year Steve Stefanik joined us. In our sixth year, with Mrs. Mitchell as our teacher, we welcomed Robert Meyers, Catherine Coyne, who both left us at the end of the year, Monda Lee Farnsworth and Shirley Neitzel. We also said Good by to Steve Stefanik. Seventh grade! At last we were upstairs. It was wonderful to have a different teacher for each subject and have our own lockers. During, our seventh and eighth grade years Geraldine Sumpter joined us. At the end of the year we said “Good-by” to Monda Lee Farnsworth. Freshmen! Now we were really in High School and could select the subjects we wanted to take. This year we welcomed Betty Pitts, who was here for only the ninth grade and said “Good-by” to Geraldine Sumpter. Our Sophomore year wasn't so full of exciting things to do, but we did select our class rings and were happy to have Clarence Woidejoinus from Cleveland. At the end of the year, Russell Stanislawski left us to live in Lorain. As Juniors we were the busiest we have ever been. At the football games we sold pop and “hot dogs”, and at the basketball games, pop and pop corn. We also sponsored two dances and at the end of the year we gave the Seniors a Prom, which was greatly appreciated and enjoyed by everyone. At the beginning of the year Dolores Pokopac joined us. We are Seniors now, and although it has seemed like a long time everyone of us has enjoyed all of the past twelve years. We look back over the years and see the brighter side of most of the incidents that at the time were embarrassing. The pleasure of working on the Purple and Gold, the dances that we held in the gym, and the work on the annual were also fun. The Draqa Club play, “Desperate Ambrose”, directed by Mrs. Finlayson, was among our last activities. The three most important events of our last year were the Junior- Senior Prom, Baccalaureate, and the most important of all Commencement Day. It was there that we said our last “Good-byes” to the teachers, and our classmates, and remembered all of the fun and hardships that we have been through together in the past twelve years.