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

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HISTORY OF CLASS OF 1975 We've grown up in these past four years. We began at LHS as children and left in June 1975 as adults. This changeover didn't just come about because of the passage of time. It took lots of events and sharing of good and bad times alike between '75ers to cause us to grow up. In the fall of 1971 we all came together for the first time as classmates, disregarding the differences which had previously divided us into young Panthers and Vikings . Freshman waited till fall to elect officers; president Carol Steffan, vice president Armondo Hinojosa, secretary Karen Wilson and treasurer, Dave Arreguin. Our adviser for the next four years would be Leo Schroeder. Everything was new, courses, clubs, big time sports and we seemed to fit naturally together as a group. We proved this in small things like winning first place at Christmas when we decorated the school library. We proved our strong unity even more by winning the Putnam County basketball tournament against Kalida in the final game. This was one of our all time big moments! We celebrated at Bernie Shively's victory party, and well we could since we were the first freshmen to take the title since 1957. By the time sophomore year rolled around we all felt ourselves an integral part of the high school, and class rings were visible proof of this belonging to IHS. Our contributions to the school at large became more substantial that year as boys saw much varsity sports action and four members of the varsity cheerleading squad were from our class. Our lockers became much more of a nuisance when we had an armload of books this year because locks were installed, thereby curbing the happy practice of locker stacking. Possibly the man who had the most influence on your young lives that year was our own Mr. Lambert. Even today when we come down the ramp when driving on an interstate highway his voice stays in our minds saying, Accelerate, accelerate! He helped us to get what we wanted more than anything, a driver's license. The pace quickened even more as juniors. We had to work as a team all during the year. This sharing of work first payed off for us at Homecoming, when our plaque won first place. In Debbie Snyder's garage we spent long but fun hours creating a ferocious 3-D dragon ship plaque for the victorious Vanlue game. Soon after this we began work on a dramatics production. We didn't realize the ambitiousness of our decision to put on Fiddler On the Roof until we were well into rehearsals. Oh, the dances were graceful that first month! Backstage was a bedlam of woven baskets, beds, wedding candles, milk carts and the call props! was the byword of the rehearsals. Our efforts were rewarded to an extent that we never had imagined. The applause on opening night was something new to most of us and the song La Chaim (To Life) expressed our feelings exactly. On May 31 we quickly spent our magazine sales money to put on the prom at Ohio Northern. Red roses and the group Harmony playing Blue Suede Shoes or The First Time Ever were prominent memories of the night. What can be said about our senior year - that it was all things to all people? Or course not, but it certainly was a full year, and overall a great one. People in the news were homecoming queen Barbi Schroeder, Student Council president Chris Mattern, Halloween queen and king Carol Steffan and Dave Kratzer, as well as so many others. Again we took on the huge task of preparing a musical, Funny Girl , a very different plot, but the action backstage was reminiscent of Fiddler . We experienced for ourselves that course mentioned by older students with bated breath, American Problems , but decided that our superior minds could handle the worst Mr. Lambert could dish out, as all 111 class members graduated in 1975. A serious adult world with scarce jobs waited for us, but we put worries at the back of our minds till after June 1. Our class trip to Hueston Woods was two days of swimming, sunburn, sports and homemade cooking in our cabins. Many a blister was acquired on the two mile trek to the lodge, but what was such a minor thing in the midst of such a vacation from books? Though the trip came to a rather abrupt close, it will always be one of our happiest high school memories. Back home it seemed only hours till we sat in the sunshine of Edwards Field, receiving our diplomas and singing Today . The class motto rang true that day and it still does, Of all the memories we've shared, the most precious could not be chosen. 28