Granville High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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Senior Class POBHI 1. Our sojourn here is finished Our task is now complete We go to face a wider field In which we must compete. The track will not be easy The hurdles will be high The prize will go to those Who work To those who bravely try. To you who follow after We wish the best of luck Now keep the faith and play the game And show the Granville pluck. So here's to Granville High School And the spirit that it's shown And here's to Granville teachers And the knowledge they have sown Here's to honor and to loyalty And may they ever stand A monument in years to come Of His great guiding hand. -Harriett Gibbens 21

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, Senior Class History Going, twice a day, to the schoolhouse was more or less a pleasant pastime fer the first four years of our education. Of course we began to study Geography in the Fourth Grade but that wasn't .half as bad as seat work, which became our horror the next year. In the Seventh Grade we had different teachers for different subjects. This was quite novel, at first, but when we had Mrs. Norris in the Eighth Grade it was nit quite so much fun, although we did rather enjoy seeing her shake a person. In our Freshman year, which was full of new things, including fears, wcrrics, and good times, there were forty-four of us. One of our fears Cwhich most of us soon c 11- queredj was Harvey. Our main worry was trying to get the gist of things for Miss Shigley. The High School Hallowe'en party was the first of our new good times. The one thing that we learned was to refrain from eating peanuts in Mr. St. Clair's presence. Have we forgotten it? 'Ask him. The best thing that happened to us in the year of 1922 was to be called Sophomores instead of Freshmen. By the time that we became .thoroughly used to being called by this new name we thought that we were really accomplishing something for our schcol. Burr Owens brought honor to our class when he was presented with a white sweater at the close of the football season. The main feature of our Junior year was the purchasing of our ciass pins and rings. Some of the class still have them! Did we win prizes? Well 1 rather imagine so-we won all the prizes offered! G. H. S. won the County Basketball Tournament and of course the center helped a great deal. We helped the school in the County History Essay Contest for two of our members carried away prizes-the first and third. The Junior-Senior Banquet, the outstanding social event of the year, was a success too. Now after four years in High School we are Seniors-said by some to be dignified. During this time our class has diminished in membership, some new pupils being added, however, until just thirty-six are to make up the first graduating class from our new School Building. The latter has been a great joy to us in cur last year. This has been to most of us the hardest as well as the best year for there have been quite as many new things as there were when we were Freshmen. There have been gym classes, basket- ball games, which we were able to attend in our own building, plays put on by our Dra- matic Club, laboratories to work in, assemblies to enjoy once a week, and a large study hall in which to study. -Iris Holmes, '25. 20

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Senior Class Prophecy May 29, 1944. I hope you will forgive me, dearest diary, for forgetting you these last four days but I have been so busy that I have hardly had time to eat or sleep. - Now instead of writing down the record for each day I am going to sum it all up to- night, if I can stay awake long enough. Strange as it may seem I have seen or heard from every member of my old class. of '25. And it has been nineteen years since we graduated from G. H. S. I am Writing down every thing I've heard so that I can remember it all in future years. 1 So you see being a well known woman detective has its compensations as well as its dangers. To start with I was put on the trail of two dan!.I91'0US Cfiminals Wh0 had FCC' ently robbed New York's social leader, Mrs. Alfred OWOHS, fOF1'I19FlY Ruth 0X,1'19dG1', Of all her jewels, It was Suspected that her maid, Alison Grubb Was 3.11 21CCOIT1pl1Ce of the thieves. On the morning of the twenty-fifth, I boarded a street car. Fare, lady, I heard a voice say and turning, looked right into the eyes of John Smith. He called the other con- ductor, who was unmistakably Thomas McLaughlin. I made five trips, back and forth, to hear all that they knew about our old classmates. I learned that Wayne Lantz was a Boston policeman and that Roy Bishop was the inventor of the famous Bishop's Non-Skid Soap. his pretty wife who demonstrated the beautifying qualities of this invention was Ruth Broughton. Ralph Van Atta and Clarence Hankinson were residing in Chicago and conducting a chain of Van-Hank Groc- ery Stores throughout the country. When I arrived at the home of Mrs. Owens I demanded a private interview with the maid, Alison, and after a long talk was thoi oughly convinced of her innocence. Then we began to talk of old times. To a reader of this diary, although I hope there will be none, it would seem that I was more interested in discovering my old classmates than the criminals. And to you alone, diary, I will confess that I was. But to resume my story, Alison inform ed me that Mary White was a famous movie actress. She has been married five times. Her third husband was Thomas Bucy, who is a director at Hollywood. Chessie Young is touring the country giving lectures on Platonic Love. I under- stand that Burr Owens is her advertising manager. He got his start on the old Blue and White Annual. A As Mrs. Owens was out I left with the message that I would return the next day. Then I settled down to work. I went down to the underworld and started search- ing. There I met Harriet Glbbens and Evelyn Richardson doing social settlement work. They told me that Ruth Owens was now the manager of The Beauty Parlor of the Harem of the Maharajah of Myhowmuddy, India. She does all the marcelling and bobb- ing of the women's hair. Imagine my surprise to learn that Stephen Tuttle was the Maharajah. l I finally left them and decided that I really must start working. So after twelve hours of trailing I captured the lawbreakers. I Won't go into detail about the capture but will cut out the Writeup out of the paper and paste it in. Then with just as much vim I started to uncover the past and b present of my old classmates. . I learned from Ruth Oxrieder that Mary Latta and Ruth Dern had made a fortune from their books. The title of Mary's book is The Art of Handing a Line and the title of Ruth's is How to Attract the Male Species. Of course I already knew that Thelma is Secretary of State in the present cabinet, with Frances Fulton as her private secretary, and that Lucy Hankinson is in the United States Senate. Then, too, I had recently learned that Johnny Welsh is the World's Champion Football Player. While I was at Ruth's, who should enter but Marian Pierson looking as though she . CCn'-'ire' on page 651 22