Johnson St Paris High School - Parisian Yearbook (Saint Paris, OH)

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Induced by these persuasions they determined to provide such things as were necessary, not only to do this, but to establish peace and friendship with the other classes. They reckoned that one basket ball season would be sufficient for them to execute their designs. It was the law that to be on the basket ball team, a person should have a good academic standing and should be an expert player. At the time appointed for the try out the majority of the men chosen for the team were from class ’20. After the choosing of the team, these men went forth to do that which they had resolved on, namely to go forth and win every game. When they thought that they were at length prepared for this undertaking, having been coached by Professor Turner, they began to meet teams from various places. There were in all many games, in which this team was victorious. And thus it hap- pened that it became feared by all its opponents. Meanwhile the remainder of the class, who did not figure on the basket ball team, did much for the class along other lines and also supported the team in whatever manner they could. At the close of the basket ball season, there was left one way, namely a class play, by which, on account of its talents, the class could pass on to greater glory. As it could not of itself give this play without a director, it gave to Miss Mary Newton the supervision of the play. She, therefore, undertook the affair and arranged that they should give a Shakespearian play, somewhat modernized. Attacking this and rendering it with incredible stage fright, the class made another step toward the close of its High School Career. Thus in June, whether by chance, or by the design of the immortal gods, that part of the High School which was called the class of ’20 enjoyed a single honor to graduate in the new Johnson- Saint Paris school building. Their first great battles fought, the members of the class moved on into the greater struggles of life. They are now eagerly pursuing these paths. Some have already made a success in the business world, others have not only done this, but have also taken a hand in matrimonial affairs; still others have taken part in the perpetual wars of the higher institutions of learning. —Martha Taylor.

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the following evening the long looked for, anxiously awaited Commencement exercises took place at the Union Opera House. Out of all the events of our Senior year I’m sure this stands out in our memory more clearly than the rest. The Opera House was filled with the largest audience that had ever assembled to witness the Commencement exercises. The old stage looked its best that mem- orable night. A beautiful stage setting had been accomplished by profusely covering all surfaces with green branches. While our class flower the old fashioned wild rose, was used to splendid advan- tage, completing our color scheme of rose and green. As the curtain slowly rose the gaze of the audience fell upon our ten Seniors namely, the Misses Lucille Pence, Gladys Tomlin, Ruth McMorran, Olive Kizer, Thelma Kite, Kathleen Kite and Messrs. Allen Taylor, Harold Lewis, Raymond Apple and Laurel Gibbs, and our three faithful teach- ers, Superintendent Clifton Coleman, Corena Jackman and Ruth Maxwell. John Kite, President of the Board of Education, J. C. Neer, County Superintendent, and the speaker of the evening, Mr. John Davison director of the Normal Department of Ohio Northern University of Ada. Mr. Kite then presented our Diplomas and Superintendent Neer awarded the class honors to Miss Olive Kizer, and after a selection by the Arion Quartet, the memorable evening came to an end. Since that evening which now is nothing but a memory, five long years have elapsed and time has wrought many changes. Today those six girl graduates and four gallant young men that sat before the footlights as Seniors, are now scattered out in the world playing a part in that drama called life. Two of the girls have chosen for themselves careers. Miss Lucille Pence is now a graduate nurse from Grant Hospital and is practicing her chosen profession in the city of Columbus, and Miss Ruth McMorran will also finish her training course at Grant Hospital in July. The rest of the young ladies of the class were captured by King Cupid with his darts, and today they are members of the Ancient and Honorable Order of housekeepers. Mr. Apple is today one of our most reliable and busi- ness like young groeerymen. Mr. Allen Taylor is now stationed at Thomasville, Ga. in the state highway department. Mr. Harold Lewis is now completing a course at Ohio State University and Mr. Laurel Gibbs is located in Columbus with a railroad position and hopes to finish his course at Ohio State University next year. Thus we see our class of 1916 is a class worthy to be proud of and though our school days are now past, we hope the lessons we have learned will be perfected as we journey along life’s pathway. —Kathleen Brown. The Class of ’20 LL High Schools are divided into four classes. All these classes differ from each other in size, customs and wisdom. In our High School the Freshmen and Sophomore classes are separated from one another, being in separate rooms; a hall separates them from the Study Hall, which is inhabited by Juniors and Seniors. In the school year of ’19 and ’20 the Seniors were the wisest because they were farthest re- moved from the state of Freshmanism and those early stages which tend to contaminate the mind, and they were nearest to the Alumni who are beyond graduation and to whom they were constantly looking upward. Among this Senior Class there were found many noble personages, in fact the entire class had a noble tendency, as most Senior Classes do have. Class spirit persuaded the class to go forth in its leadership since all its members excelled in valor, to acquire the supremacy of the whole High School. 34

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Alumni Roster and Year of Graduation 1870 Llewellen Scott T. J. Frank (deceased) 1871 Ada Musson (deceased) Elizabeth Furrow Baker, Lillie Grafton Pence (deceased) St. Paris, O. 1874 1877 W. H. Walborn (deceased) Albert Fromme, St. Paris, O. Frank Fromme, Elcanto, Cal. I. N. McAllister C. E. Buroker, Urbana, O. Forest James, Tiffin, O. Amoretta Flowers, Port Orange, Fla. Grant Fromme, Urbana, O. 1879 Emma Northcutt Talbot, 158 Exchange Bldg., Omaha, Nebr. 1880 J. H. Biddle, St. Paris, O. A. E. B. Helmick, N. Y. Life Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. 1883 John W. Millette, Reibold Bldg., Dayton, O. Ida Knull Smith, St. Paris, O. James T. Hamilton (deceased) Estella Riker Fromme, Elcanto, Cal. Effa Furrow Fielder Johnson, Kent, O. U. F. Pond, St. Paris, O. 1884 Claude DeW. Kelley, Box 105 Hot Springs, Ark. 1885 E. O. Furrow, Fletcher, O. George C. Paxton (deceased) J. Truman Nixon, Tulsa, Okla. Harvey R. Nixon, Goodfield, 111. I. E. Rhynard, Ithaca, N. Y. Burt L. French, Marion, Ind. A. C. Bolinger, St. Paris, O. A. W. Bull, Boone St., Piqua, O. Ella Leathley Kinsinger, DeGraff, O. John Baker, 834 First Nat. Bank Bldg., Chicago, 111. Logan Carlo, St. Paris, O. 1887 Mary Spitler Wood U. S. G. Mitchell, El Dorado, Kansas. Maggie Klapp Bull, Boone St., Piqua, O. 1888 B. E. Thomas (deceased) Mary Gordon Holleran, 316 W. Main St., Chanute, Kans. 1890 Frank Zimmer, Urbana, O. 1891 Nellie Carlo Greiner, Culver, Ind. Clara Cromwell Richeson, 509 W. 121st Bancroft Hall, Apartment 6, N. Y. City. Iola Batdorf Kizer, St. Paris, O. Alice Nixon Robinson, Bloomington, 111. Emma Zimmer, Ironton, Mo. Maggie Huddleston (deceased) Elizabeth Neff Wheeler, St. Paris, O, Minnie Hendrickson-Petticrew, Springfield, O. William Hockman, China. John Richeson, 509 W. 121st Bancroft Hall, Apartment 6, N. Y. City. Frank Richeson, Sidney, O. 36