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

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65444 Zfimw- ,AvA. -.-.- - -. --AYA -+-+,+-A-+-+Y+v4,---,A,Av-v+.-Y - v+vAvA - Y+-A-A .-.A - The history of the class of 1949 is so dramatic and colorful that it resembles a play - one of those modern plays that so skillfully disregards all the rules of the drama. With your kind per- mission, we will review the play called The Class of l949 in an absolutely unbiased man- ner. This is a play in four acts, with three all too brief intermissions. Throughout the actions, there is very incidental music by the high school orchestra. The play was written by the actors as they played their parts under the direction of the superintendent, principal and faculty. It is produced by the board of education with the cooperation of the taxpayer and is given by an all-star cast. The beginning char- acters are: Ieannine Archer, lla Baum, Bernice Belford, john Bond, Patty Bond, julia Brown, lack Cain, Harry Cannon, Roland Carman, Martha Clark, Dolores Conley, lack Crabtree, lshmael Crab- tree, Delores Cremeans, Ruth Dailey, Marjorie Donaldson, Ruth Elam, Robert Easterday, Marvin Elkins, Iames Enyart, Clarence Eseman, Betty Farmer, Charles Farthing, lune Foreman, james Fleak, lean Freeman, Helen French, Millie Fullen, Faye Gaines, Mary Gernovich, Richard Grubb, jack Harris, Geneva Hann, lmogene Harper, Iames Harvey, Pauline Holsapple, Eureka Hughes, Betty Hutchinson, Robert johns- ton, Marie jordan, Donald Koenig, George Lock- ett, Helen Luther, Becky Luther, Iune Manqe, Margie Mapes, Naomi Martin, Oakley Martin, Trilby Mitchell, Barbara Monway, james Moore, jerry Moore, Richard Morehart, Ruth Morrison, Florence Niemann, Wilma Noble, Bill Nott, Harold Obert, Marvin Olney, Roland Perry, Bonnie Reed, Betty Rodgers, Iayne Roller, Ralph Root, Kathryn Sheets, Wendell Shoemaker, lay Slagle, Emma Southall, Pauline Start, Charles Turley, Clara Weik, Iack Williams, Frank Wil- son, Wilma Wilson, Priscilla Zakany. Two weeks later in the year we had three new additions to the class, Vivian and Paul Baier, and Ioanne Sallee. HISTORY The scenes all take place in the high school building, corridors, classrooms, auditorium, gymnasium, and assembly hall. Act I shows the arrival of the class in the halls of learning. Their timidity and curious mistakes furnish some bright comedy moments. There is rapidly rising action and the villian gradually puts in an appearance. He is called Study and is of alarming size and proportion. lt is evident that he will interfere sadly with the enjoyment and leisure of the actors, now known as Freshmen. Page Twenty At the close of the act, tragedy is imminent, as there is a desperate affair - a mental crisis created by Study's brother villian, Examina- tions. The curtain of the first act falls on the rejoicing Freshmen. The actors are pleasing but decidedly amateurish. After an intermission of twelve weeks, during which the actors go away on vacations or stay at home and help with the work, now the play is resumed. Act ll shows the same people in the same place, but they are now known as Sophomores, owing to an advance in rank. A touch of pathos is found in the absence of the following actors who were disabled and were not permitted to appear in the second act: Marjorie Donaldson, Marvin Elkins, james Enyart, Betty Farmer, Richard Grubb, Becky Luther, Oakley Martin, Betty Rodgers, Robert Easterday, Helen Luther, VV'ilma Wilson, Frank Wilson, Ioanne Sallee, lack Williams, lack Harris, Roland Perry, lack Cain, Charles Turley, Bonnie Reed. The addi- tional ones were Sally lohnson, Violet Fugitt, Wilbur Strait, Ray Henson, Florence McCracken and Marian McKenzie. Robert Easterday had been killed shortly after school was dismissed in May. ln this act the members of the cast seem to have achieved a charm, an ease of manner, and a feeling of security that were noticably lacking in Act l. Incipient love affairs are noticed, and the costumes are much more elaborate, as is also the use of make-up. Yet the mention of Study , casts a gloom over the brightness, the action continues to raise until the end of the act, when we again have the inevitable struggle and the crisis brought about by Examinations. As the year went by the actors participated in a play, under the direction of Mrs. Belcher. Another twelve weeks intermission, and the cast stagger in for Act lll. Again the same people in the same place which may make the play sound monotonous to you, but I assure you it is not. The actors are so changed that each act seems like an entirely new play. They are now called juniors. Their position and their pride have both advanced, but there remains the haunting dread of Study, the villian. All the former actors have returned with the ex- ception of Trilby Mitchell, Wilbur Strait, Delores Cremeans, Ruth Dailey, Clarence Eseman, Charles Farthing, Faye Gaines, james Moore, Ierry Moore, Emma Southall and lames Fleak. There are many delightful interludes to make this a cheerful act. They are junior banquet, junior class play, football, basketball, G.A.A., future teachers, Tri-Hi-Y, and Honor Society. By this time some of the actors, all of whom entered the cast on a footing of equality, have

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come more prominently into the spotlight, and their parts are assuming almost stellar propor- tions, in the following manner. Dolores Conley was elected football queen and Ruth Morrison a member of her court. Vivian Baier and Barbara Monway were elected to the basketball queen's court. Honor society members are lla Baum, Dolores Conley, Ieannine Archer, Wendell Shoemaker, Ralph Root, Mary Gernovich, Pauline Start, Imogene Harper and Donald Koenig. Many who came in the first act with enthusi- asm and high hopes have wearied of the struggle and left the cast in search of positions offering speedy remuneration and less brain fag. Again an intermission of twelve weeks, which both audience and actors greatly enjoy: perhaps because they realize there is but one more act to follow. HISTORY 4 Act IV arrives at last and is warmly received. By this time, the actors are so matured, so at ease, so changed for the better that they are difficult to recognize. The action is more rapid and more complicated than in preceeding acts. There is more comedy than before and there are some delightful interpolations, such as, the initiation, seniors taking over the school for a day and home economics class cooking in the cafeteria. Early in the year, Imogene Harper and Mary Cfernovich were missed, along with Millie Fullen, Sally Iohnson, Margie Mapes and Naomi Martin who withdrew. Dane Wampler entered for the first time and Wilma Wilson and Iarnes Fleak returned to our fold. The actors who showed promise of being stars in the preceding act have fulfilled that promise and shine brightly. They are as follows: Betty Hutchinson, Priscilla Zakany, Iean Free- man, Iayne Roller, Ruth Morrison, Martha Clark, Paul Baier, Kate Sheets, George Hoover, Iulia Brown, Geneva Hann, and Vivian Baier. The talk back stage runs to trips taken to the zoo, water works, Penitentiary, State Institution for Feeble Minded and Dispatch. At last the fatal hour arrives, and the Final Examination raises his sinister head. The attack of the Seniors is brave and well organized. The result of concentration is apparent. The play ends in a burst of glory, with flowers, music, and congratulations-in short, graduation exercises: and we have the well known and ever popular happy ending. senior play, junior and senior banquet, freshmen END FF ' I I eww of Me Qafufq - It is the year l965, and a beautiful evening in Cctober. Everywhere in the town of Scraylet, are huge posters reading, Return of the Forty- niners . The town's name was derived from the class colors, scarlet and gray, back in 49 at Hamilton High. Many days ago invitations were sent to all who helped lay the corner stone of the little town, urging them to attend and stress- ing particularly this evening when a wonder- ful entertainment is to be given. All the talent for this program is strictly from members of the class of 49 . The hour for the great event has arrived. Every seat in the vast new auditorium is filled, and all are eagerly awaiting the performance in which many delightful surprises have been promised. The platform is a mass of beautiful flowers and autumn leaves and the walls are hung with garlands of pine and laurel. It is truly a festive occasion. Seated in the audience are many celebratives. As I look around me, I see a number of my old friends of the class. There is Donald Koenig, our kind-hearted friend, who became very wealthy through wise investments, and is now a noted philanthropist. His money is paying for much of the evenings expenditures. The ladies in the front seats are all so stylish- ly and becomingly dressed that they arouse my curiosity. I am told that their beautiful garments come from the very select, not to say expensive, Ye Beautifier Shoppy , owned by Kathryn Sheets, who designs gowns for all the best dressed women in the country. She is here her- self and looks the glass of fashion and the mold of form . Seated near her is Ralph Boot, a real estate dealer, who owns so much property that he has to keep a card index of it in order to know it himself. He has given the use of the auditorium and the spacious park, both of which belong to him. At one side, watching with interest, I see Iayne Roller, dignified and haughty. I asked about her and am told that she is the head mistress of a very fashionable girls' school in New York and has never married although she has suitors innumerable. Standing in the door, looking for old friends, I find Bay Henson, editor of the largest daily paper in the state, and very active politically. Except that he has grown a trifle stouter and looks more cheerful, he has not changed one bit since high school days. Two people, entering, receive a warm recep- tion from the commtitee at the door. They are Dr. Wampler, a famous surgeon in a large hos- pital, and attractive as ever, Vivian Baier, super- intendent of nurses in the same hospital. If there Page Twenty-one