Jefferson Township High School - Criterion Yearbook (New Paris, OH)

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-- --nineleenpaf4fad- - CLASS HISTORY It was in September of the year N1neteen-Hundred-and- Thirty-Four that 54 l1ttle,w1stful,sh1n1ng, faces appeared in the First Grade Room at good old Jefferson Township School. As you have probably guessed by now, these little 'Angels seeking Wisdom' were starting to school on that famous date long, long ago. Of those who started out in this class there are some of us who are still going. They include: Opal Knn Steele, Phyllis June Stegall, Madeline Thompson, Marte Jo McCarty, Bob Black, Charlene Burden, Jim Burtch, Donald Coblentz, Irene Crawford, Bill Hal1er,Arthur W1sehart,Rcse Ann Reid, Paul Brawley, Junior Duffield, Jesse White, Marilyn Laird, and Marilyn Day. Barbara Jean Reid and Pauline Zurwell also started with us but Barbara entered Miami this year and Pauline was married during the Christmas vacation. Doris Jean Miller and Mary Jane Shock Joined us in the second grade, and we added Addie Bell Borden to our list in the third grade. Let us skip a few years in our downstairs Journey and go up to the seventh grade where we were viewing, for the first t1me,the upstairs and where we received our ambition to become Seniors someday. In the eighth grade we acquired some more new pupils. They were and are: Patty Culbertson, Phyllis Turner, and Jim Middaugh. Here we met Mr. Edwin H. Young,a very grand person to know. We all soon learned to love him and great- ly respect his teaching. He was famous for his: 'I'll thump your wooden head for being dumbl' We are very sorry to say that our beloved teacher passed away last year, but never will we forget him, and his presence in this school is everlasting. Here we are!! Freshmen at last! We're in high school now! Bud Holthouse came to Join us this year. Aren't we important, though, now? As we go through the Sophomore Class, we are begin- ning more and more to anticipate what we will do next year and for years to come.

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-- - wwdweiaau fhaly diab- With all of these things in mind, we pass quietly on to the Junior Class. Here we are made happy by our class play entitled WMama's Baby Boy.W Then came the BIG event for each and every one of us--the Reception! And, last but definitely not least, we become digni- fied Seniors. Irene Martin joined us this year. The long years have been hard but now we have reached the goal of which we have dreamed and hoped for all of these years. We were again looking forward to Reception and our class play 'Swing Fever.W As we turn to look back over these past twelve years, we realize that these will, no doubt, be the best times we shall ever experience in life and may we never forget the good times we have had together. We all realize that .the companionship which we have had, is stronger than any other bond in the world. As we make our journey outward from our beloved school and friends, may we carry with us the sweetest mem- ory of all of our good times. Just one more glance over our Senior room, all of the familiar broken articles, the old bookcase in the corner, the desks without boards in the bottoms of them and every little thing that character- izes the famous graduating class of Jefferson High School in l9L6. Looking back over all of these things we make ours, a hasty exit from our school. Irene M. Crawford IF 4 lk 'Are you a good student?' 'Yes and no.' Wwhat does that mean?' 3 WYes, I am no good.' Ik Ik 8