Lyons High School - Roar Yearbook (Lyons, OH)

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CLual lOUms We the Senior Class of 1948, beinq of sound mind, and outstanding in scholarship, do will, give away, force upon, or whatever you might call it, th s our last will and testament. Garry O'Neill wills his qood looks to Howard Gallup and his ability to get around Fulton to Sammy Onweller. Rosemary Schneider wills her ability to have a soldier to write to, to Glenna S:out. and her bashfulness to Betty Clark. lack Leonard wills his '28 Chevrolet to Dick Peebles and his mustache to Ncrman Rice. Watch out qirls. Warren Nichols wills his baseball ability to Bob Hallett and his good graces in conduct to Elwood Bough and hopes he takes good care of them. Arlene Rathbun wills her natural, curly hair to Alice Nichols and her ability to qet the family jalopy to Ronnie Lehman and Ivan G. Bill Hoops wills his nickname to anyone who can bear them and his straiqht A” ability in English to Ralph Meeker. Alyce Crowell wills her fast typing ability to Erva Shaw and her perfect attendance to Charles Crowell. No excuses, please! Dick Hartsell wills his quick temper to Miss Penrod and his basketball ability to Lyle Gephart. Martin Richardson wills his class ring to Phyllis Markley. Take good care of it for him. He also wills his ability to get good grades in bookkeeping to Alice Wool. Don't take it seriously, Alice. Shirley Miller wills her ability to get on the honor roll to Marvin Damman, and her lonq hair to Miss Ame3. Paul Vanderdonck wills his ability to win the heart of all the girls to Mil- lard Waldron and his curly hair to Bob Cleghom. Dale Gleckler wills his love for children to Mr. Sieren and his numerous qirl friends to Herschel Enqebretson. Arden Hallett wills his blond hair and rosy cheeks to Doyle Gillispie and his ability to hold the office as President of F.F.A. to Charles Potes. We the Senior Class will our ability to keep calm and have perfect control of our temper, to the Junior Girls. We also will our neat and tidy Senior Room to the Junior Class. We hope you will take good care of it for us and keep up our qood record. Rosemary Schneider Bill Hoops Paul Vanderdonck

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QLoaa. dthiohif Attention students, were the first words spoken to us by our pilot, Miss Kail, as we boarded our plane, way back in September of 1945. We were starting our long journey through the United States, when our captain, who was Richard Hartsell, took attendance. There were 17 happy faces counted. As we left the landing field, Arden Hallett punched our ticket for the first time. When we reached New York City, we were all very tired and decided to take a three month vacation. After our vacation, which went very fast, we started on our second lap of the journey. Our new captain, who was Arden Hallett, took attendance and we found out that we had lost two members. George Cleghom had fallen by the way and Kenneth Jackson was serving the Stars and Stripes. Dale Gleckler punched our tickets for Miami, Florida, and we realized our journey was al- ready half over. Miss Penrod, our pilot, announced that we were ready to land at the Miami airport. Every one was suffering from the heat so we decided to take another three month rest by enjoying ourselves on the beach and taking in all the carnivals and fairs. At the end of the three months our new pilot, Mr. Benedict, told us that we were ready to start on our third lap of our journey. Our captain, who was Gary O'Neill, took attendance and found that we had lost two members: Marion Driskell and Clarence Felkey and also found that we had gained two passen- qers who were Jack Leonard and Alice Crowell. Our pilot had set our course for San Francisco, which was a good many miles away. We had to make a stop to refuel so we thought that it would be a good time to give a banquet for the departing Seniors of Lyons High School, as a token of farewell. After the banquet we continued on and arrived in San Francisco early in the soring. The airplane had developed motor trouble and so we decided that this would be a good place to stay for our vacation. In the fall of 1947 our pilot, who was still Mr. Benedict, told us that we were ready for the fourth and final lap of our trip. Our captain, who was Gary O'Ne'll. took attendance and found that we had lost Marjorie Conrad and Sarah Howdyshell. We had gained one member who was Rosemary Schneider. We had set our course for Toledo, Ohio, and over Chicago, the Junior Class of Lyons Hiqh School qave a banquet as a token of farewell to us. When we boarded the plane again, Rene Victor had left us. We landed in Toledo in time for our Commencement exercises. We received our diplomas and finally realized that we were ready to face the world and try to solve life's problems by ourselves. Warren Nichols Dale Gleckler Dick Hartsell

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Uahdidtnhi Tonight is the beginning of a great adventure for us seniors. We are starting out on the rocky road of life. This time we go alone. For twelve years now, we seniors have been working, playing, and studying together. Now we must separate, each going his own way. Some of us may reach the height of success while others will never be well-known. But wherever we may go, I am sure none of us will ever forget the happy years we have spent together. Today the world is in confusion. There are many serious problems that must be solved. We seniors and all the rest of the young Americans stepping out into this world must help solve these problems. 1 hope that we have enough intelligence and courage to do this. The future for world peace is clouded and uncertain. A menacing war is looming ahead. Maybe, soon our boys will be in the armed forces again. No one knows what the future holds, but we all hope that it holds world peace and security. Once we obtain this security, it will be the duty of all of us young Americans to keep it. I think that we are all willing to accept thi3 responsibility. We seniors wish to thank all the teachers and parents for the patience and understanding they have given us through these twelve years. We realize that we should have accomplished very little had we not had their advice and cooperation. It seems that we have been waiting years for this wonderful night of grad- uation, but now that it is here and we realize that our school days are over, we do not want to leave. We have spent almost all our life here in this school; then suddenly we find we must leave it and go out into a strange world. At first we were bewildered and uncertain, but soon we shall become good citizens of the community. Now, it has come the time to say good-by to all our teachers and class- mates. May the coming classes hold as many dear memories of their school years as we do. SHIRLEY MILLER.