Kenton High School - Echo Yearbook (Kenton, OH)

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HOMECOMING 1980 SENIOR ATTENDANT, USA HOLIDAY, ESCORTED BY SHAWN MOORE. SENIOR ATTENDANT. KRISTI POLAND. ESCORT- ED BY VIC OSBVN. 8 — Homecoming 1980 SOPHOMORE ATTENDANT. LOU ANN HASTINGS. ES- CORTED BY GORDIE CA- TIEN. im m THE JUNIOR ATTENDANT. TARA LANCE. ESCORTED BY GREG McKEE. Homecoming queen, Stephanie Hughes, escorted hy Mike Holmes. Special friends are hard to find, hut you’re extra special and one of a kind This uas part of a poem I wrote for a very close friend and it expresses my feelings toward ev- eryone here at Kenton High School for making Homecoming and my senior year very wonder- ful Thank you again. — Stephanie

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The school crest is believed to have originated from those designs that the early Kenton High School classes used to represent their in- dividual years. Each class, as it en- tered the high school, would de- sign a crest and use it for the four years they were in the high school. Badges, pins, rings, and other items were made by local jewelers with these designs. When using the second Kenton High School KENTON HIGH SCHOOL CREST building, each senior class was permitted to paint its crest on the stage curtain in the auditorium, covering the one from the pre- vious senior class. Sometime in the late 1920's or early 1930’s, the lo- cal jewelers tried to sell the idea of each school having one official crest to facilitate the making of school items. Whether or not this is the real reason for the adoption of a school crest remains to be seen. However, one school design did emerge from this period and the classes stopped designing their own. Who actually designed the crest is unknown but it was in use on high school items by the late 1930's. It is on the cover of the 1846 yearbook and can be seen on the bass drum of the band in 1940. The crest has been changed only once since it was designed and that was in 1963. In that year, Kenton High School moved into a new building, and the grade align- ment was changed to a 10-11-12 arrangement, thus making Ken- ton High School Kenton Senior High School. The crest was altered by moving the wildcat to the up- per portion of the design and plac- ing a letter “S in the lower por- tion to indicate senior. Established in 1906 as a school newspaper, the Echo was pub- lished to put parents in touch with the doings of the school. The Echo also served as a vehicle for students to express themselves by submitting articles, essays, jokes, and other items for publica- tion. These articles were to be short, simple, original, and clear- ly within the range of the writer. The early issues were almost com- pletely dependent on these stu- dent stories. The first student es- say to appear in print was one en- titled Hiawatha” by James H. Al- len. Jr. The new publication was published monthly and cost ten cents or seventy-five cents for the year. To help fill the pages, the Echo staff carried on a correspon- dence with other schools and re- printed articles that they ex- changed with them. The editors from the beginning had been male, but in 1911 the first female was elected to serve in this office. When publication was changed to semi-annually in 1916, the first step was taken that began the change of the Echo into the tradi- tional yearbook format of today. In 1921 and 1922, the book became an annual issue with pictures of the students in each class now in the book. Athletics, clubs, and oth- er information about Kenton High School was expanded from 1921 on, and the yearbook as we know it was formed. Not many changes were made in the book until 1946 when a journalism class Itegan the task of publishing the book. This continued for about twenty years until the class was dropped from the curriculum of the high school. Volunteers were again asked to carry on the publi- cation of the book and to take over the financial planning for it. This arrangement continues to the pre- sent. The first use of color print- ing in the books was the printing of flags, designs, and ads in the l?ooks almost from the beginning. The first full color page of student activities was in the 1960 book and was of sports and homecoming ac- tivities. From about 1968 on, each yearbook has had one or two color pages. The present book contains 31 color pages. Over the years, class histories, wills, and a class prophecy have been included in the yearbooks. Sports records and teams have been a part of the yearbook from its very origin as has advertising by the local mer- chants. Since 1906, the Echo has changed a great deal, but it is still a student publication and pro- vides a place for expression of stu- dent literary ability and with con- tinued support of the faculty, stu- dents, and community. It will con- tinue in this tradition for many years to come. Traditions of Kenton High School — 7

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CAT SPIRIT POWER Homecoming 1980 — 9