Ironton High School - Owl Yearbook (Ironton, OH)

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SENIORS Gerald Walker—General Course: Owl Staff 4: Latin Club 1; Spanish Club 3,4. Dolores White—General Course: Girls' Glee 1: Latin Club 1; Tri'Hi'Y 2,3; G.A.A. 1,2,3,4. Roberta Willis Classical Course: Owl Staff 4; Mixed Chorus 3,4; Girls' Glee 1,2; Latin Club 1: Spanish Club 3,4; Tri'Hi'Y 2,3; Senior Scholarship; Junior Class Play. Mary Alice White General Course; Girls' Glee 1,2,3; Latin Club 1: G.A.A. 1,2,3,4; Usher 4. Betty Jo Williams—General Course: Girls' Glee 1,2; G.A.A. 4. Mary Wolfe—Classical Course: Student Council 1,2,4; Owl Staff 3,4: Editor 4; Gryphon Staff 1,2,3: Mixed Chorus 3; Girls' Glc'; 1: Latin Club 1; Spanish Club 3,4; Tri HiY 2,3,4; G.A.A. 1,2,3,4: Cheerleader 2,3,4; National Honor Society 3,4: Senior Scholarship: State Scholarship 1,2; Senior Class Play; Valedictorian. Villa Woods—Commercial Course: Mixed Chorus 3,4: Girls Glee 1,2. Gerald Walker Dolores White Mary Alice White Betty Jo Williams Roberta Willis Phyllis Wilson Mary Wolfe Villa Woods 29 Phyllis Wilson Commercial Course; Girls' Glee 1,2.

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SENIORS Janet Strong—Commercial Course: Owl Staff 4: Gryphon Staff 4: Mixed Chorus 3,4; Girls' Glee 1,2; Tri'Hi'Y 2,3,4: National Honor Society 4; Senior Scholarship: State Scholarship 1,4; Usher 2; May Queen's Court. Joyce Sutton General Course; Findlay High School 3: Findlay, Ohio; Latin Club 1; G.A.A. 1,2,3,4; Band 1,2,3,4. Jill Taylor General Course; Ashland High School 1- Ashland, Kentucky; Spanish Club 3; Tri'Hi'Y 2,3,4; G.A.A. 2,3,4; State Scholarship 2,3; Usher 3; Senior Class Play; Band 2,3,4; Majorette 2,3,4; May Queen's Court. James Terry—General Course; V.I.C. 3,4. Danny Thomas—Vocational Shop Course; HuY 1; Baseball 3; Track 1,4; Usher 3; V.I.C. 3,4. Janet Strong Joyce Sutton Jill Taylor James Terry Danny Thomas Ronald Tipton Constance Marlene Unrue Gerald Wade Laura Wagner Ronald Tipton—Vocational Shop Course; V.I.C. 3,4. Gerald Wade—General Course; Usher 3. Constance Marlene Unrue—General Course: Gryphon Staff 1,2; Mixed Chorus 3,4; Girls' Glee 1,2; Latin Club 1,2; G.A.A. 1,2,3,4; Usher 2,3. 28 Laura Wagner—General Course; Senior Scholarship.

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CALENDAR 1953-1954 SEPTEMBER 4—School opened. Back to the old grind but it's fun. 11—County Preview. Eight schools of Lawrence County participated and we made a good showing. 18—Gallipolis football game. We got off to a good start by a great victory, with the score 13 to 7. 25—Lancaster football game. Score 26 to 6. (They won.) OCTOBER 3— Bellaire away. Oh well, we can’t win them all. 9—Ashland game. Maybe we’ll win the next one. 16— Catlettsburg football game. Homecoming game. Tied 7 to 7. 23—Huntington Vinson. Away. WE WON 26 to 0! 30—Huntington Central. Another victory 6 to 0. Chris finally caught one! NOVEMBER 13—Portsmouth football game. We put up a spirited fight but they downed us 44 to 0. 20—G.A.A. Homecoming Dance with Frances Bryant reigning as Queen. 25- —Miss Urick's Thanksgiving Day Assembly. Also the Sophomore Sock Dance. DECEMBER 11—Oak Hill basketball game. Our first home game of the year. 13—Our very impressive, annual “Christmas by Candlelight presented by Miss Urick and her vocal department. 17— Sophomore Christmas Party. Those Sopho- mores really know how to give a ball! 18— An assembly presented the “Christmas by Candlelight.” 18— The Christmas vacation began. WOW! at last. We needed the rest. 14 to 18—The most worthy project was the preparation of Christmas baskets for the needy by the Sophomores. JANUARY 4— Back to school again. 8-—The basketball team travelled to Rock Hill. 19— Freshman skating party. Those who were lucky enough to attend this affair had an entire evening of fun. 23—The Great Senior Class Play, Melody Jones. This was one of the greatest class plays ever presented at 1HS. 26— Thrilling Ashland basketball game! In two overtimes we beat them 61 to 60. 29—The 1HS Band put on a fine performance in their first concert of the season. Many thanks to Mr. Minelli, who made the con- cert a success as guest conductor. FEBRUARY 5— Tri-Hi-Y Dance. Everyone really had a V' marvelous time. Rose Marie Markins was crowned “Queen of Hearts.” 12—Lincoln Assembly. Portsmouth basketball game. We scared them in a 52-54 loss. 19— Last basketball game and dance. Marda Ainsworth was crowned Basketball Queen as Portsmouth West was defeated by IHS. 22- Free day thanks to George Washington. MARCH 2— The basketball team beat Coal Grove, win- ning the first tournament game in years. 3— Character Education Assembly. Rev. Chris- tensen spoke on the subject of “Truth and Honesty.” 20— The Band travelled to Athens. The Varsity rated an “Excellent” while the Cadet re- ceived “Superior.” 23— Skating Party. “Tremendous!!” APRIL 3—Junior Class Play, I Remember Mama. “Good setting, good play!” 9—The Owl Hop.” Donna Abel's orchestra furnished the music for a terrific evening. Congratulations to Mary Wolfe and the staff for planning a wonderful dance. 14—Annual Easter Assembly with Rev. G. C. Fohner, Rector, Christ Episcopal Church, as guest speaker. 14—VACATION BEGINS! 20-—Back to school again. MAY 1—Now entering the last month of school, the seniors began to realize the things to come! 1—The scholarship team travelled to Ports- mouth. 3 to 7 National Music Week. Awards were made to deserving people in both depart- ments — David Nash and John Shelton. 5—Cheerleaders for 1944-55 were chosen. Congratulations, girls! 10— Remember Skip Day ? Truly the first Senior Skip Day at IHS. The G.A.A. Ban- quet was held at Presbyterian Church. The excellent banquet was prepared by the group of Presbyterian women. 11— Spanish Fiesta. Spanish parties are always fun under the direction of Miss Ruth Cronacher. 14—Annual Open House. This always proves a challenge to many departments of the school. 23—Baccalaureate Service for Seniors. 25 The very beautiful May Crowning Cere- monies. This year Frances Bryant reigned as Queen and Sue Sagar was Attendant. 28—Junior-Senior Prom, the night you never for- get. This year’s Prom Queen was Peggy Mayer. She was escorted by Gary Hogsten, class president. JUNE 1— -Class Night. All Seniors gloried in this night. 2— Commencement Exercises. 127 Seniors walked across the stage to receive diplomas after twelve years hard labor.