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

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eleventh grade we welcomed Richard Pfahler, Alice Siefker, and Helen McCullough. During -our last year of school, Don Welsh and Norma Brown of Belmore were welcomed to our rank as seniors, making our total number forty-six. During our junior year, we were very busy planning the banquet in honor of the seniors and in producing our class play, Cone Gut of the Kitchen. During our senior year we were very pleasantly entertained by the Juniors at the Junior-Senior Bancuet which was held on May 6. Our class play, It Pays to Advertise , was given on Aoril 30. On May 10, a senior dance was held in the gym,and on May 15, we took a trio to Detroit to see the Ford plant .and the Detroit Tines newspaper plant. On May 16, the Baccalaureate services were held, and the commencement exercises on May 21. Gur class picnic was held on May 18, at Catawba Islands. Our class officers for the past year were Gilbert Dick, president; Steohen Kaple, vice president; Leila Jean Ackerman, secretary; and Joan Ottenweller, treasurer. During our junior year, our officers were Gilbert Dick, president; Robert Wagner, vice president, Florence Bennett, secretary; and Eugene Kinusing, treasur r. When sophomores, Eugene Klausing served as president, Robert Wagner as vice president, Leila Jean Ackerman as secretary and Elizabeth Keeran as treasurer. Our officers for our freshman year were Francis Frey, president; Eugene Klausing, vice president; Mary Jane McLaughlin, secretary; and Edwin Inbody, treasurer. Our class colors were scarlet and white and our motto, Find a Way or Make One. Our flower was the red carnation. Although we have been together for only a short while, many friendships have been formed which can never be broken. May the thread which holds this grouo closely together be strong and firm so that it may always last.