Hamilton Township High School - Hamiltonian Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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933 it Q A A if iw? Rowl Mrs. Iune Thomas, Directory Grace Perry, l. B. Row 2 Martha McGre-w, Betty Edwards, Margie Reese, Moore, Eugene Beard, Walter Mapes, Patricia Reed, Ray Fisher, Sidney Major, Raymond Helsel, Kath- Betty Overstreet. erine Schneider, Barbara Wyatt. enior Cfafifi lgfag A mystery comedy of high school life by Orville Snapp was presented by the Seniors March 19 to a capacity audience. At Eagle High School, where the entire action of the play took place, it had become a tradition to celebrate Youths Day once every year by revers- ing the procedure and having the students change places with the teachers, the teachers taking the places of the pupils. Shortly before the play op- ened, Mr. Southard, the principal of Eagle High School had been run over by an automobile result- ing in his death. Two other unexplainable accidents occurred adding to the baffling mystery. Lights are flashed on and off, eerie noises emanate from de- serted classrooms, and characters were suddenly missing without warning. Eighteen A detective was summoned, but his bungling ef- forts only succeeded in complicating matters. The school board finally decided to close the school until the mystery is cleared, but the students determined to solve this thing themselves and proceed to do so in a series of comedy scenes. Not until the last cur- tain fell was it known what had brought about the strange events at the high school. The entire Senior class worked hard to produce this play and much credit is due to the behind-the scenes individuals as well as to the cast for making its presentation a success. s This play was under the direction of Mrs. june Thomas.

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body has to do the job, so it might just as well be Ray Helsel . . . and that is just what he is doing. He says that he makes good money. Walter Mapes holds the position of yard bird in this Man's Army. You know those ladies that eat fire in the circus? Pat Reed always thought that would be an inter- esting job, so she took up The Art of Fire-eating as a career. She likes her work a great deal. There is a certain house that belongs to a cer- tain famous artist in New York that is decorated in a way in which you have never seen a house dec- orated before. The artist is none other than Dave Tyndall. He has his kitchen decorated in Bright Red. His living room is in black and white checks. It seems that he still likes the colors of those two shirts that he wore when he was a Senior in High School. For many years the nations have been working on an organization called the United Nations. At last it has been agreed upon, and Evelyn Claytor holds the honored position of First President of the United Nations. Senator Ernest Obert from Ohio is having quite a debate with another senator about the use of schools. Senator Obert thinks that schools should be demolished. It is said that those debates will go down in history as the Obert and Obert debates, as Mr. Obert does not give the other Senator much time to say anything. .james Ross has invented a wa-y to make rain. He calls it The Ross Way of Gumboozlement If You Don't Think Things My Way Apparatus . In other words, if jim doesnt have his way, all he has to do is make it rain and he soon has everybody agreeing with him. I always wondered what that thunder- storm was for and now I know. lt was getting late and Marcia said that she just had to leave. It seemed that some one in the Senior Class of '48 had not been mentioned, but Marcia had little time to contemplate this matter. She bade farewell to Katherine and departed by way of the front door. As she was leaving, a lady went flying down the street calling Fire!! Fire! ! Marcia turned to Katherine, who explained that Betty Over- street was fire chief in this section of town. When she needed help, all she had to do was to call Fire , Marcia's visit now seemed complete. She hurried to her dressing room, leaving the sun to sink, unaid- ed, behind the little glass house of eighteen rooms. Cfaaa .jsbafory 214- 218 As Hamilton opened her doors on that September morning of 1944, she saw 75 boys and girls enter with their eyes wide and a lost look on their faces. But these characteristics of the freshmen were gone as the weeks passed and everyone made new ac- quaintances. Under the direction of the class ad- visors, Miss jones and Mr. Ice, the election of offi- cers was conducted with the following results: Pres- ident, Margie Reese, Vice Pres., Charles Davis, Sec., Grace Perryg Treasurer, Greatha Strouse. The following year there were only 59 students to carry the title of sophomores. This year found a little wiser look on their faces as they peered down upon the new freshmen. The class advisors for the year were Mrs. Sutton and Mrs. Cole. while the class officers were: President, Raymond Fisherg Sec.. Grace Perry, Treas., Glen Brignerg Student Council Members, Margie Reese and Raymond Fisher. They also had the privilege of nominating one member for Queen. Betty Surber was a member of the Queens court during football season while Judith Lewis was a member of the basketball Queens court. Several of the boys were by this time participating in many of the sports. During the third year, as juniors, the school was more aware of the presence of these students, who now numbered 41. For they were now active mem- bers in many activities of the school such as G.A.A., Hi-Y, Student Council, Future Teachers Club, Mixed Chorus, Band and Orchestra. Many of the boys ex- celled in sports while five Junior girls were leading the school cheers for their third successive year. Other events of interest during that year were: Girl Shyn, the play, and our Junior-Senior Banquet, both under the direction of Miss Muir. Six members of this class were selected for the Honor Society. They were: Betty Edwards, Ray- mond Fisher, Martha, McGrew, Betty Overstreet, Marjorie Reese, and Barbara Wyatt. Faye Frazier and Grace Perry were members of the football Queens court, and Barbara Wyatt and Patricia Reed were members of the basketball Queens court with Grace Perry as Queen. Eugene Beard, as president, led the class through this eventful year with Judy Lewis as Vice President, june Barthelmas as Secretary. and Betty Edwards as Treasurer. Then came the morning in September, 1947, when these students entered the doors of Hamilton for the last time with a full school year ahead of them. To begin this year, Raymond Fisher, Eugene Beard, Betty Overstreet, and Patty Foreman were elected as President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, respectively. Early in the year five addi- tional members of the Honor Society were elected. This year they were John Balzer, Wilma Costlow, Sena Decker, Grace Perry and Mary jo Tope. Many of the members of this class were leaders and officers in the various organizations. Some of the few are: Barbara Wyatt as head majoretteg Mar- cia Everett as President of Tri-Hi-Y, Marjorie Reese as President of G.A.A., Editor of the Annual and co-editor of the school paper, Betty Edwards as co-editor of school paper, Eugene Beard as captain of the football team, Raymond Fisher as captain of the basketball team, and Wilma Costlow and Imo- gene Smith as members of the Queen's court of foot- ball. Basketball Queen was Sena Mae Decker with Mada Martin in her court. Seventeen

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Cara 'UM We, the Senior Class of l948, being fairly sound of mind and body, in this our last will and testa- ment, bequeath to the following persons our most prized possessions. SECTION I Article 1-Patty Reed leaves her cheerleading to her sister. jackie. Article 2-To George Hoover and Helen French, Grace Perry leaves several dark places on light nights. Article 3-Betty Edwards and Margie Reese leave their soft talk and fast thinking to the next office slaves. Article 4-Raymond Helsel leaves a can of red paint to jay Slagle for reasons all his own. He also leaves his body guard, Mr. Cole, to Paul Peck. Article 5fRaymond Fisher leaves his pineapple cut to Oliver Fields. Article 6-Patty Foreman forces her wet experi- ence in an alley at Groveport Centennial on Martha Clark. Article 7-Sena Decker wills her share of Bill Nott to Clara Weik. Article 8-Evelyn Claytor leaves her courage to enter a class of all boys to any girl brave enough to accept it. Article 9-Wilma Costlow leaves her reserved manner to Pauline Reed. Article 10-Ernest Obert and Ralph Bethel, the he-men of the Senior Class, leave their gorilla tactics to Paul Baier and Wilbiir Strait. Article 11-Walter Mapes leaves his ability to get out of classes by hand shaking, fast talking and other means to Marvin Olney. Article 12--We have obtained from Eugene Beard a booklet Trials of an Amateur I.ovemaker , which we will to Roland Carman. Article Z3-Ish Crabtree wills his Sinatra voice to Jim johnson so that he may acquire an audience somewhere-we don't know where. Article 14-J. B. Moore leaves his ability to get into trouble to Donnie Eisnaugle. Article 15-David Tyndall leaves jack Crabtree his arm-strong heater, which comes in handy on cold nights., Article 16-Catherine Hafey wills all her bottles of peroxide to Annabelle jones. Article l7iKate Elam wills her ability to ref- eree G.A.A. tournaments to lla Baum. Article I8-Mary Jo Tope and Barbara Wlyatt will their Civics class motto, United we pass, di- vided we flunkn. to Sally Johnston and Marie Iot- dan. Article I9-June Barthelmas passes on her strong left leg kick to Nancy Overstreet. May she never break any fingers as June did. Article 20-Bob Geedy wills his ability to warm the bench in football to Attree McClish, so he will keep the basketball bench warm. Article 2liMarcia Everett bequeaths her por- tion of the rest room as a loafing place to June Mange. Article 22-Rosetta Estep wills her slim waista line to Julia Brown. Article 23-Kate Schneider wills her false tooth to Ruth Elam. Article 24-Martha McGrew wills her share of the fellows at Rollerland to any lucky girl who can get them. Article 25-fKa.therine Armstrong wills her quiet- ness to Barbara Monway. Article 26-Mada Martin wills her bunny rabbit nose to the Columbus Zoo. Article 27-james Ross wills his artistic affliction to Doyle Scarbarry. ....Article..28fKathleen Puckett wills her bashful- ness to Trilby Mitchell. Article 29-Judy Lewis leaves her athletic phy- sique to Mary Bentley. Article 30-Lois Baker wills her dates to June Foreman. Article 31-jean Becker leaves her shortness to Ralph Osborn. Article 32-Faye Frazier wills her gossipy nature in home economics to anyone who wants to annoy Mrs. Phillips. Article 33-Sue McGarvey leaves her love of bookkeeping to Geneva Hann. Article 34-Betty Overstreet wills her standing place in the hall at noon by Donnie Smith to her sister, Nancy. Article 35-Sidney Major wills his intelligent an- swers in Chemistry to Ivor Rutan. Nineteen