Grafton High School - Graftonian Yearbook (Grafton, OH)

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BACCALAUREATE ORDER OF SERVICE PROCESSIONAL . . . Mrs. Geraldine Winsper “THESE THINGS SHALL BE” . . . Burney High School Chorus INVOCATION . . . The Rev. Fred Stroebel SCRIPTURE READING . The Rev. Fred Stroebel “THE GREEN CATHEDRAL” . . . Hahn Girls’ Trio ADDRESS .... The Rev. Fred Stroebel “GOD OF OUR FATHERS” .... Warren High School Chorus BENEDICTION . . . The Rev Fred Stroebel RECESSIONAL Mrs. Geraldine Winsper COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM “MAVOURNEEN OVERTURE” . . F. Buchtel High School Band PROCESSIONAL .... High School Band IN OCATION . . The Rev. Wm. Kopiczenski PLEDCE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG . Audience CARDINAL OVERTURE” C. Johnson High School Band INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER Principal Edna Finlayson ADDRESS ..... Dr. Blair Stewart Dean of Men - Oberlin College PRESENTATION OF CLASS . Superintendent B B. Cox PRESEN IATION OF DIPLOMA . Mr. George Edwards President of Board of Education BENEDICTION . . The Rev. Wm. Kopiczenski “WASHINGTON POST” .... J. P. Sousa High School Band CLASS RECEPTION Stage of Auditorium

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Class jHistorg As the year 1940 came around it saw a group of excited and anxious youngsters being brought to school. Miss Tran took over and taught us the three R’s. At the end of this year jacaueline Sandusky, Marilyn Dent, Bessie Kelly, Arnold Collins and Robert Lawson left us. We again had Miss Tran in our second grade. Our class gradually got smaller as Robert Richards and Norman Butler left us. Miss Adams took ‘us’ in the third and fourth grades. Here we were taught how to read the big clock on the wall. In the fourth grade we said ‘hello’ to Charles Willman, Violet Weitzel, Richard McCracken and Marjorie Meyer. We said'farewell' to Shirley Lower who moved to South Amherst. In the fifth grade we welcomed our new teacher, Mrs. Mitchell, who taught us long division and started us on history. This year we bid farewell to Betty Kazmierczak. Mrs. Rust had us in the sexth grade. She took the hard job of training us for high school. Ann Blackburn left us to go to St. Mary’s in Elyria. Seventh grade at last! We thought we were really big because we had different teachers, changed classes and had our own lockers. We said ‘hello’ to Nancy Fling. In the eighth grade we were still trying to adjust ourselves to the changes we found upstairs. At the end of this year we said ‘good-bye’ to James Knechtges who went to St. Thomas Academy in Minnesota and to Charles Willman who moved to Green Springs, 0. Freshmen! We had finally made it to high school. Now we could choose the subjects we wanted and select our class officers. We also started thinking up ideas to enlarge our class treasury. Violet Weitzel left us to attend Andrews School for Girls in Willoughby. In our Sopho- more year we found it to be kind of dull except for the selling of pen- cils and magazine subscriptions. The big thing this year we selected our class rings from Bastian Brothers. With our Junior year we found it the busiest of all. We sponsored two successful dances, sold pop and popcorn at the basketball games and helped publish the ‘Purple and Gold’. We also helped to put on the Junior-Senior play, ‘Desperate Ambrose’. The most important event was the Junior-Senior Prom, which we gave the Seniors. This was held on May 12th in the school auditorium and was decorated in a Hawaiian fashion. Music was furnished for dancing by Rocco Trombetti and a delicious banquet was served by the Junior mothers. We said ‘good-bye’ to Donna Jarkowski, Marcia Glover, Gerald Overy and congratulated Norma Brehm on her marriage to Edward Fildes. Now that we are Seniors we look back on the long twelve years and we find that they were very happy and gay years. The last and final year was another busy one. We had our individual pictures taken by Indicoot’s Studio in Elyria and we selected our announcements and name cards from Herff-Jones. We sponsored two dances and a play, ‘The Lucky Penny’ with the Juniors. We also kept helping to publish the ‘Purple and Gold’. The Editor-in-Chief of our publication was Carl Filipiak. The last three events and the most important were the Junior-Senior Prom which the Juniors gave us, Baccalaureate and Commencement. The Rev. Fred Stroebel delivered the Baccalaureate address, and Dr. Blair Stewart, Dean of Men at Oberlin College, gave the Commencement address. Our last day in school, Class Day, was spent saying eoodbye to our classmates and teachers. We now are going out into the world to make a place for ourselves and we will look back on those twelve years with happy memories.

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IJropij rg I graduated from Grafton High School with the class of 1952. Like most of the other members of the class I found it hard to decide upon a vocation, but by the year of 1957 I had finished my business courses and had found a terrific Job with a large law firm. With report- ers coming in every day for stories you will never guess who I ran across one day, - one of my old classmates and friends, Wilma Schwed, who is a reporter for the ‘New York Times’. She had come to find some facts from my employer about a recent investigation of a bank robbery. Sur- prised to see each other we planned to go out to lunch and talk over old times. We spent a wonderful afternoon reliving our school days, as you may well imagine. Much to our surprise we found that our husbands, Bill and Art, were both stationed at the Naval Base in San Diego, Cal- ifornia. With our vacations coming we made plans to drive out to spend the remainder of their training period with them. To our joy our vacation time finally arrived, and with our last minute arrangements taken care of we were on our way. Our first stop was Pittsburgh and while looking for a place to stay we saw to our great surprise, Carl Filipiak walking down the street carrying a large suit- case and sample brushes in his pockets. Immediately we stopped the car and rushed over to talk to him. When we asked what he was doing, he re- plied that he was working as a Fuller Brush salesman. He told us that he liked it a lot. He invited us over to his home to meet his wife and have dinner with them. During dinner we talked over the good times we had had in school, and he told us to stop and see Carl Jantz who lived in Indianapolis, Indiana, and that he has entered the 500-mile racing classic on Memorial Day. We thanked Carl and his charming wife for their hosDitality and said, ‘Good-bye’, with a promise to return. We followed Carl’s advice and went directly to Indianapolis. Immediately we headed for the Speedway. While driving through the grounds, we noticed many posters with ‘Slink Jantz’ written in big letters. When we saw the picture of him we recognized it as the ‘Slink’ we knew in high school. After pushing and shoving through the crowd we managed to obtain two admission tickets with the idea of find- ing him in the ‘Pits’. When we reached the ‘Pits’ there was ‘Slink’ working over his car. Very surprised and glad to see us, he rushed over. With the time for the race drawing near he had to leave us, but gave us passes to his box seats and told us to go and sit with Linda. The seats were wonderful, right at the last curve and from there we could see plenty of action. The race was a thrilling one with ‘Slink’ coming in third. We went down to the ‘Pits’ to give our congratulations and and to say ‘Good-bye’. While driving through junction City, a small town in Kansas, we happened to see large posters showing a familiar face and the slogan, ‘Vote for MCCRACKEN FOR MAYOR’. We stopped auickly and asked the first person passing by where we could find Mr. McCracken. He told us that Mr. McCracken owned ‘the’ barbershop down the street. Yes--there he was, ‘Milt’ McCracken. Milt asked us if we had noticed the posters, then he invited us to stay and hear his campaign speech at the Town Hall, that evening. Milt was full of surprises because when we arrived at the Town Hall he introduced us to his wife and his two-year old sons, - triplets!