Harbor High School - Mariner Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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E ACH succeeding Spring is witness to another class casting clearer eyes about old stairwells and doorways long since regarded as dull and commonplace. The old doors are the same doors that have always stood arching between rooms and halls, but in this last look they take on a new aspect, they no longer represent passages through which students file to class - now they are exits and entrances in the true sense of the words. There is always something magical about doors and stairways. The magic lies in the strange paths which lead from them, nor is any path like another. Our lives are woven through strange doors and wind- ing stairways, an unknown blending of exits and entrances, and our lives, too, retain some of that magic even after our last mysterious exit. il ewmfh When suddenly we are faced with yet another door to open, having reached the termination of high school, there is one moment of hesitancy in which we seem to be visioning old sights in a differ- ent light. lt may be on the last day or perhaps dur- ing the last year, but there comes a moment when we stare hard at each door, as though by such in- tent dwelling on every splinter of wood or time- worn knotch, we could absorb the whole picture of the school in Fine detail and lock it forever in our memory. That is the moment when the old doors become exits and stairways entrances, for in June we walk down the stairs seniors and as magically are seniors no more. We offer this 1951 annual as a magical volume to any and all who have contributed to, strength- ened and loved Harbor High School. But especial- ly to the class which has left this Spring, may this book be an ever-present memory of the doors and stairways we have passed through and an inspiration for those we have yet to enter. 6

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Board Gt Education PAUL E. HAKALA ---- ------- P resident JAMES G. LAIRD ---- --- Vice-President DR. W. M. ORQVIST DR. CARL G. PEARSON CAPT. FRED BROWN THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING T HIS year the citizens of the Harbor have chosen to do something about providing for the growth in the population of school children. It has become necessary to have a grade school class in the high school building, thus pushing classes together to make room for the grades. The Bond Issue, providing funds amounting to S650,000, will enable the school to build a much needed gymnasium at S357,000 plus 537,000 for furnishings and fixtures, as well as the addition to the Washington Building and remodeling of the present building at S256,000. The gymnasium will be built facing West Third Street, and the addition to the Washington Building will be constructed at Lake Avenue and West Ninth Street. Slogan and essay contests were held to stimulate the students to talk and think Bond Issue in the homes. The prize winning essays, of 400 words or less, were read over WICA, or printed in the Mariner. Winners whose essays were read over WICA were Suann Smith, Lynn Clark, and Tim McDonel, all seniors. Those whose essays were printed in the Mariner were Bernie Nordgren and Marian L. Johnson, seniors, and Norma Krans, sophomore. Community progress was assured by a seventy per cent vote in favor of the Bond Issue on November 7, 1950. Hearty thanks to Harbor's citizens! 8