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

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Senior Class History 1947 After twelve years of education over two hundred and thirty of us will leave Central to enter into a new faze of life. We seniors have achieved one important goal toward success-graduation from high school. From the time of our entrance into senior high school, our freshman class showed capa- bility in music, drama, and athletics. This wasn't all, for we also excelled in scholastic achieve- ments. Late in the month of September the class officers were elected by the student body. Jack Sweeney was chosen president, .lim Lyle, vice-presidentg Dick Dillon, secretaryg and Bob Brickman, treasurer. Of all the years this was the most exciting and most bewildering. We were green, green freshmen, and how we loved it! Many students entered the activities open to freshmen, and many of them made names for themselves and for their class. The freshman year went much too quickly, and before we knew it, we were gazing at our last estimate report cards and making plans for our summer vacation. We were sophomores! As sophomores more names were added to the ledger of success and still more were to be added. As is the custom at the beginning of the year class officers were chosen. Jack Sweeney was again chosen president with .ludy Baker, Joyce May and Bill Komminsk filling the positions of vice-president, secretary, and treasurer respectively. No, we weren't the babies anymore, we were growing up! We tried as best we could to follow the examples of our older classmates, the juniors and most dignified seniors. We now had girls on varsity cheerleading, boys on varsity athletic teams, and other class members in many extra-curricular activities. ft was a grand year, so grand that we all hated to see it end, but it did and there we were juniors. Upper classmenl What a wonderful feeling! We no longer followed'-we led. We had an outstanding debate team'-'so outstanding that they placed third in the state debate tournament. This meant added laurels for Central. ln athletics we also held a key position. We boasted boys like Bill Sharp, who in the opinion of Ohio sports writers was worthy of being selected on the Greater Ohio basketball team. Every boy on the various squads worked hard to accomplish all that they did last year. The junior-senior prom was a grand success. We were indebted to all the students who gave up their time to decorate and plan for the big occasion. The prom rounded out our school affairs for that year. We were seniors! 'W Yes, after three wonderful years of high school, the fourth and most glorious year had ar- rived. We owned home room 307 for nine months, and we intended to make the best of it. We did. Bill Komminsk was elected senior class president, an honor Bill well deserved. Judy Baker was chosen vice-president with Connie Stover and Joyce Reynolds hlling the positions of secretary and treasurer. in the field of athletics Central played the leading role by winning the mythical state cham- pionship. It was a perfect season with no losses and no ties. Bob Brickman, Bill Sharp. Park Blubaugh. and ,lim Shaffer were given state recognition when they were selected for the All-Ohio Football Team. lt was an all senior eleven including such names as Lyle, Ballinger, Turner, Hoff. Nice, Komminsk, and First. The basketball team also boasted five senior boys. ,lack Sweeney, Dave Temple, Jim Hoff, Bill Sharp, Joe Ballinger, and Bob Baer climaxed their careers by winning ten out of fifteen games. We also had outstanding boys in baseball, track, golf, and tennis. Athletics wasn't all that we were good in. Pat Swineford. Myron Teitelbaum, and Frank Miller were well-known for their oratorical work. They repeated their 1946 performance by placing third in the state debate tournament. Their many hours of hard work were not ill spent as their record has shown. The Senior A Cappella was directed by Paul Koch, president and student conductor. John Katterheinrich led the senior band on the football field and in the band room. ln the journalistic field Virginia Meredith was appointed editor of the Weekly Mirror. Letitia Sharrits and Joyce Reynolds were associate editors. Ed Ulrick was editor of the sport page. Judy Baker and Dave Temple were appointed editors of the Annual Mirror. Other staff heads were .fune Hookway, Dean Stearns, Marceil Nesbitt, Herbert Francis, Carol Cisco, and Wilma Wright. Some outstanding dramatists were Joan Spellman, Connie Stover, Frank Stewart, Bill First. Frank Miller, and many more. These students were members of the National Honorary Thespian society. The governmental body of the school, the student council, was headed by Peter Wheeler. The co-chairmen of the social functions were Virginia Meredith and Jean Alspaugh. Marilyn Mertz was appointed president of the girls' council with several other senior girls holding major offices. These are only a few of the many outstanding members of this graduating class. It took team work on the part of every student in every activity to make our four years the success they were. This is not the end of the senior class history. We have written only the first chapter. The book is started but many more pages will be added before our span of life is run. JUDY AND DAVE twenty-eight

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TWELFTH CLASS OFFICERS Supervisor ------- MISS BONITA JAMISUN Presidenz - - BILL KOMMINSK Vice-presidclll - JUDY BAKER Secretary - CONME STOVER Treasurer - - - - JOYCE REYNOLDS twenty-lzine