Leipsic High School - Le Hi Yearbook (Leipsic, OH)

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CLASS HISTORY By Florence Bennett On a bright September morning in 1925, 40 small students came to school to begin their first school term. Miss Flo Brumley was our teacher in this grade. Of this number, there are five girls .and six boys remaining with us. They are Mary Jane Barton, Gilbert Dick, Thelma. Compton, Robert Eichar, Helen Hayzlett, Jimmy Kuntz, Dolores Mack, Robert Paul, Robert Prentiss, Paul Shreck, and Florence Bennett. We were Joined in this grade by Leila Jean Ackerman, Isabelle Powell, and Dorothy Smith. After safely passing the first year of our school life, we were promoted to the second grade where Miss Helen White taught us. Here we added John Perry to our list. We were very proud to complete successfully the next three grades under the supervision of the Misses Gladys Wagoner, Helen Starling, and Maxine Leffler, although no new members were added to our rank in these three years. While in the sixth grade, 'with Miss Mary Mapel as teacher, we welcomed Elizabeth Keeran to our list. There were now seventeen in our class. In the seventh grade, Clyde Finfrock and Floyd McDougle Joined our rank and Mary Draper joined us in the eighth grade, making twenty of us ready to enter high school. Mr. Foltz and. Mr. Shaffer were our teachers during these two years. When we entered high school in 1935, v e 'were joined by Elizabeth and George Evers, Richard Kretzer, Margaret Mullett, Dorvin Ritz, and Wayne Rayle of Liberty township; Esta Nesbit, Arlene Stevens, and Virginia Young of Van Buren township; Lewis Klass, Eugene Klausing, Joan Ottenweller, Dorothy Scheckelhoff, Carl Schroeder, Dora Siefker, and Robert Wagner of St. Mary's School; Nora May Morris, of Henry County. We were joined in the tenth grade by Madge and Mabel Newell from Belmore; Stephen Kaple from St. Peter and Paul; and Margaret Moore from Wheeling, West Virginia. In the