Lodi High School - Tiger Tales Yearbook (Lodi, OH)

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CALM Maier? , Where you there? The date is September 14th in the year 1944. Thirty-three quiet C75 children are sneaking to the school building, which to them is a place of fear and an end to their freedom. We were met by Mrs. Fuller, who found us to be almost too large to handle. Of these thirty-three only seventeen are left. They are: jack Bittner, Matthew Davis, Janet Fetzer, Connie Gilbert, Donna Luecht, Rodger Mack, Roger Martin, Keith Massie, Linda Milkey, Lois Norton, Rita Padgett, Junior Repp, Tom Seal, Larry Scott, Barbara Snader, Ronnie Stewart, and Graydon Williamson. We showed our ability to act by putting on Billy Goat Gruff '. In the second grade we were met by Miss Loomis. Pat Allenback, Jack Yost, and Bill Daly joined us this year. We gave Miss Loomis a hard time and a few years later she decided the married life was better than teaching children like us. Roger Martin got slapped this year by Kathleen Lowe, didn't you, Roger? Ronnie Stewart threw a birthday party this year. Peanuts and gas masks were the highlights of this gay party. Miss Grimm took us over this year. With the addition of Charlene Benton, Cecil Crittenden, and Loretta Eglin, we were becoming almost out of hand. This was the year of the great Indian up- rising ln which all the children were terrorized by the fierce third grade boys. Remember, boys? The fourth grade moved us over to the other side of the playground, but our teacher, Miss Morton, had trouble finding us some of the time.' Here we put on the great production of the Court- ship of Miles Standish . Matt and Connie were the main actors this year. We looked forward to moving upstairs as did our new members, Marcene Orr, Pat Lee, and fightin ' Don Darrah. We were big shots now. Mrs. Marshall didn't believe that neither did Mrs. Harmon, who taught us writing. Dave Samsa was the only new memberl This year we re-wrote history by giving a great skit on Columbus and his discovery of America. We leamed a lot about California this year also. We were 42 strong now. Mrs. Harmon taught us this year. We all got our turns with the board of education and Billy Friend and Charles Mull caused nothing short of a riot. The loss of these boys was greatly felt by everyonef This year we gave the operetta Rip Van W1nkle and bought many things, some of which we didn't get to use because we left so soon. We built a paper match castle also this year and'then off to high school, a well disciplined f?j and educated f?j class of rough kids. jim Egbert joined us this year. In the seventh grade Mr. Baker- took over our home room. We were the model class, quiet and studious. It was a big change from grade school, but we got adjusted to it. . Roy Harris joined us. We were put in room 11 because of our large class and we remained there until we were seniors. We tied the eighth grade in football this year. Mrs. Schafer took us over this year. We were considered adolescent snots by some teachers weren't we, Mrs. Schafer? We made a little more money KSZSD and proceeded to be established and referred to as the noisiest class ln the history of the school. We learned about many war experiences first hand from our history teacher, Mr. Skurvid. Sonya Miller joined us this year and she added a I little refinement to what was becoming the best looking class in high school. Miss Gosden was our home room teacher. We were back in the same room again, Lucky number 1l . Carl Moore, Dick Farnsworth, and Paul Skidmore joined us from Layfayette. Barbara Hall, Tom Arters, and Lois Clifford joined us from Chatham. What a class! Thirty-eight rowdy kids. Mr. Pietrzak thought he could handle us this year. I g uess he could because he stayed with us the rest of the way. We started to make more money this year as we were a large class . Bittner and Davis got caught tossing a globe. Don't those paddles hurt? We started our now famed skipping excuses which can be purchased from any senior for only one dollar. It also includes places to hide. We ordered our rings and then off to the Iunlor Class . ' This was our big year. We got our rings this year. We gave the best Prom ever, but financially we cou1dn't have swelled chests. Dave Lanigan and janet Burnside joined us this year. We earned a lot of money but put most of it into the Prom. We gave Home Sweet Homicide , which was a great hit, and then at long last the 12th grade. ' ' We finally made it. Monty Blough and Bob Holcomb joined us this year. We are now members of the Senior Class of 1956. The class consists of bullies and rude people but that is what seniors are like and always will be. We worked awfully hard and got to take a lovely trip to Washington, D. C. and New York City. We gave our last play The Boarding House Reach'P in which Rita was , quite a hit as a silent old lady. It seems that some of our boys got into trouble with the new'sopho- more jackets. I guess they had too much of the senior spirit. The school is nowla thing of the past to us , but we have many happy memories . We have no regrets except that now we would like to come back, as work doesn't seem to be as much fun as school was.

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SS GLADYS SECHRIST, B.A., M.A. MRS BE'I'I'Y HASTINGS B S . , . . MRS. MIRIAM DOWDELL, B.S rarian, Eng11sh,lFore1gn Languages Hgme Egonomms English my xx gg R MRS. LOSIA SCHAFER, B.S. MR. RICHARD BURTON, B.S., M.A. MR. GRANT SHIBLEY B A Commercial Industrial Arts Sc1ence,Matn l 1 MR. DELMAR GRAFF, B.S. Orchestra MR. WILLIAM FISSEL, B.M., B.S., M.A. ' Band ' L, ll 4 ' 'TWU 5 Q?

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