Lima Central High School - Annual Mirror Yearbook (Lima, OH)

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Senior Sideliglmts HE senior year of high school is the culmination of four years during which we have changed from children to adults. We have been meek freshmen, gazing awestruck at the broadening horizons of life. We have passed the stage of ithe sophisticated sophomore who has just begun to realize his ability and has gained the proverbial air of worldly wisdom. Our junior year, during which we discovered that we had only begun to understand life or appreciate what it can offer, has also passed. Now we have attained the summit, realizing the value of each stepping stone on the way. We stand today on firmer ground, having formed, as a result of experience, a more flexible philosophy of life. We have combined 'the curiosity of the freshman, the poise of the sophomore, and the throughness of the junior to make a dignified senior who has a better perspective and a keener understanding of value. Many things combine to make our last year the busiest of our high school career. It is the realization of everything we have built in our previous eleven years of schooling. Many a moment will linger long in our memories, bringing enjoyment of things we pass unnoticed today. The first experience is the gathering of our entire class in 307 as a sort of final reunion for the last year. There we become more conscious of our position as a class and our attainmenvts or record in Central. All too soon we become aware of the fact that graduation is relentlessly drawing closer day by day. We hear talk of college, graduation clothes, credits, and kindred subjects. We have begun to lay definite plans for the change we will undergo in environment, social relationships, and routine of everyday life. The exclusive social function of the year, the Junior Prom, has become one of Cen+tra1's finest traditions. All juniors and seniors look forward to the Prom as one of the big moments of their lives, at which time the greatest talent is employed to decorate the hall and provide something different. All things seem to depart from the ordinaryg there is an air of dignity and sobriety which everyone seems to feel. The Junior Prom will be long remembered as a sincerely enjoyable occasion. The social climax of our high school life is the Senior Dinner Dance. Here our whole class gathers in final reunion to renew and further friendships of not only high school but grade school days. Meeting as one family, we throw aside the worries of class-room and daily routine to enjoy the friend- ships school has privileged us to make. Perhaps we are more conscious of our existence as a group than at any other time. As guests of honor we have those members of the faculty whom we have come to know and admire during our stay at Central. We are deeply indebted to all the faculty for the inspiration of .their fine character as well as their unceasing efforts to educate us in the broader sense of the word. At last the moment of graduation is actually here. Much is said about what we have accomplished and how much more we have before us, but above all we remember receiving our diplomas and the solemnity of the occasion. It seems unreal, but the cold reality of it won't be as disconcerting as we think. We have come a long distance, but we have a much longer distance to go. May we profit from our past experiences and accept the most that the future will offer in a finer, richer life. . twenty-two

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Bob Offenhauer, Craig Pursley, and Eugene Stoner. Two juniors who helped junior year and we wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to her for the Warren Miller. Miss Jones was an ever present, tried-and-true help to us during the junior year and we wish to express our heartfelt fratitude to her and for the aid that she gave us. At last the supreme achievement is a thing of reality, and the green fresh- men of four years ago sit comfortably ensconced on the regal throne of seniority: through tedious hours of waiting and burning the midnight oil, we have emerged into the hereditary right of distinction that each passing class has enjoyed to its utmost and then laid down its place for those to come, Although the dis- couragements have been many and the clouds of gloom dark and sombre with foreboding, we can glimpse a crystal beam of promise that will guide us in the life to come after we doff our commencement trappings, and after we forget our petty heartbreaks in the struggle for wordly attainment. For our senior year, the best we shall ever remember, we elected as our class officers Forest Moor, president: Eugene Stoner, vice president: John Walters, secretaryg and Clarence Frey, treasurer. Our eight Student Council members who worked like monstrous Calibans 'throughout the year were Margaret Guernsey, Shirley Kinzer, Bob Rohn, Bob Offenhauer, Carlton Mead, Bob Hay, Don Roberson, and Marshall Rodgers. The following committees were chosen by our president, Forest Moor, and Miss McClurg: Memorial: Don Roberson, Helene Stonehill, Eugene Stoner, Philip Kessler, and Mary Elizabeth Swegerg Graduation outfits: Jack Rapp, Mason Blosser, Helen Hossellman, and Coy Pepple: Dinner Dance: Margaret Guernsey, Dorothy Kershaw, Bob Hay, Carlton Asher, Jean Ransbottom, Ernestine Molden, Margaret Schnabel, Margarita Doan, John Bidwell, John Charles Crites, and Wilson Staples: Announcements: Carlton Mead, Betty Basden, Paul Jones, Ellen Benner, and Harriet Aultg and the Senior Play: Oliver Smith, Bob Snook, and June Whittington. Those senior huskies who donned the moleskins and shoulder-pads for the great day-Thanksgiving-and who Went out to suffer beneath the none too gentle digits of the Tigers were Bob Rohn, Forest Moor, Paul Brown, Warren Miller, Bob Offenhauer, Joe Petree, William Porter, Craig Pursley, George Radulovich, Warren Staup, Eugene Sltoner, and John Walters. These gridiron gargantuans were all seniors and all received football letters for their sparkling work afield. Basketball saw these seniors getting letters: Bus Moor, Warren Miller, Bob Rohn, Bob Offenhauer, George Radulovich, Walter Manley, and Eugene Stoner. Many seniors took up the ponderous tome and slipped the well-worn reportorial pencil behind their ears this year. In other words, there were quite a few seniors who were on the Annual and Weekly staffs, and the volume and content of the work turned out, speaks for itself. Those on the Annual staff were Marshall Rodgers, Coy Pepple, Kathleen Baxter, Mary Kathryn Mack, Bob Snook, Bill McGriff, Virginia Fenton, and Don Roberson. On the Weekly staff were Betty Freshwater, Helene Stonehill, Margaret Schnabel, and Richard Reid. Those seniors who were on the honor roll every, or nearly every time, were Kathleen Baxter, Iona Campnell, Virginia Fenton, Blanche Green, Mary Ann Dawe, Margaret Guernsey, Mary Martha Koch, Dorothy Kilgore, Bernice Rothe, Margaret Schnabel, Helene Stonehill, Jean Yazel, Rufus Saylor, Carlton Mead, Harry Gossard, and Bob Rohn. Three senior boys, Don Roberson, Marshall Rodgers, and Philip Kessler represented their class more than ably in debating this year. The following students ranked among the highest 25 per cent in Allen county, in the state scholarship tests: Marshall Rodgers, Harry Gossard, Margaret Schnabel, Robert Offenhauer, Anne Calvert, Robert Rohn, Margaret Guernsey, Blanche Green, Mary Ann Dawe, Helene Stonehill, Carlton Mead, Don Roberson, and Charles Silver. twenty one

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LAWRENCE W. ADAMS General Course- C. ROBERT ASH Science Course-Camera 2: Senate 4, 3: Field Day 4, 2, 1: Athletic Association 4, 3, 2, 1. CARLTON R. ASHER Foreign Language Course-Masqueraders 2, 1: Trou- badcrurs 4, 3: Senate 2, 1: Baseball 1: Interclass Track 4, 3: Intramural Basketball 1: Interclass Basketball 2, 1: Weekly Mirror 4, 3, 2, 1: Sports Editor 3: Quill and Scroll 4, 3: Student Council 2, 1: Assistant Honor Study Hall Monitor 3: Field Day Committee 2: Junior Class Play: Senior Dinner Dance Committee: Mama's Baby Boy 2: The Whole Town's Talking 3: Riddle Me This 3: The Thirteenth Chair 4: Interclass Debate 2. MLRLYN AUGSBURGER ' , , 'of College Preparatory Course - HARRIET MAE AULT College Preparatory Course Blue Triangle 4, 3, 1: G. A. A. 1: Circulation Department of Mirror 4' Announcement Committee 4: Study Hall Monitor 42 Honor Roll 2, 1. PAYE LAVONNE BAGGS Commercial Course -Intramural Basketball 1 : Volley- ball l: Deck Tennis 1: Chorus 4, 3, 2, 1: The Dragon's March, Composer. DONALD D. BAKER Commercial Course 'Interclass Basketball 4: Intra- mural Basketball 4, 3, 2, 1: Volleyball 4, 3, 2, l. GORDON E. BAKER Foreign Language Course Troubadours 3: Intra- mural Basketball 4, 1: Intramural Volleyball 4, 1: Football Reserves 3: Field Day 4, 1: Floor Hockey 3, 2, 1: Junior Senior Prom Committee 3. JACK EDWARD BAKER Commercial Course-Track 4, 2, 1: Field Day 4, 3, 2, 1: Cross Country Track 2. WOODROW HERIVIAN BARCLAY Commercial Course Intramural Volleyball 1. BETTY ANN BASDIEN College Preparatory Course-Troubadours 4, 3: Blue Triangle 4, 3, 2, 1: Chorus 1: Announcement Com- mittee 4: Honor Study Hall Monitor 4, 3: Junior Prom Committee. ' . f JACK VERNON BATTLES WI 1 1 5 General Course- Intramural Basketball 1 : Intramural Volleyball 1. RICHARD FRANKLIN BAUGHIVIAN General Course A KATHLEEN BAXTER V I l A : - ' College Preparatory ClJUTSL4M3SflUCT8d9TS 1: Foreign Correspondence 3: Blue Triangle 4, 3, 2: Program Committee 4: Field Day 1: Sr. Orchestra 3, 2, 1: Eisteddfod 2, 1: State Orchestra 2: Sr. Chorus 2, 1: Literary Editor of Annual 4: Honor Roll 4, 3, 2, 1: Honor Study Hall Monitor 4: Senior Scholarship Test 4, HOWARD K. BEADE General Course Science Club 2: Intcrclass Basket- ball 4, 3: Intramural Basketball 4, 3, 2: Field Day 4: Reserve Basketball 4: Volleyball 4, 3, 2, 1. EARL il. BEILHARZ College Preparatory Course-Camera Club 2, 1: Jr. HiY 2: Sr. Hi-Y 4, 3: Intramural Basketball 1: lnterclass Basketball 4: Field Day 4: Volleyball 1: Chorus 4: Boys' Glee Blub 4: Quartet 4: Lelawala 4. MARY EILEEN BENDER College Preparatory Course -Masqueraders 2, 1: House of Representatives 3: Blue Triangle 4, 3, 2, I: Interclass Basketball 1: Sr. Chorus 4, 1: Girls' Glee Club 4, 1: Honor Roll 3, 2, 1: Member of Annual Staff 4: Senior Scholarship Test 4. ELLEN ARDELLE BENNIER College Preparatory Course?-Blue Triangle 4, 1: Troubadours 4, 3, 2: Program Chairman for Blue Triangle 4: Field Day 4: Interclass Basketball 1: Volleyball 1: Honor Roll 3, 2, 1: Member of Annual Literary Staff 4: Lost and Found 2: Library 2: Senior Announcement Committee 4: Honor Study Hall Monitor 4: Senior Scholarship Test 4.