Mansfield High School - Manhigan Yearbook (Mansfield, OH)

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CLASS OFFICERS NEIL ROLLER JOHN AUER . . . President . . . Vice-President JACK KNIGHT . . . Treasurer NANCY WARD . . . Secretary Embarking on the submarine “Knowledge” approximately 500 students in September 1940, started their “Operation Underwater.” Through this operation, the students hoped to obtain their desired goal—graduation. Many leagues below the surface of the water, the submarine lodged on one of the group of small submerged islands of Brinkerhoff, Prospect, etc. Here, upon leaving their submarine, the students were separated into various elementary groups and began the first steps in their explorations and experiments. After completing six long years of toothless smiles and gangly legs, the group once more boarded the submarine “Knowledge” to continue the operation. Submerging several more leagues, their next stop was the twin islands, Appleseed and Simpson. 217 students were sent to Appleseed, and about 221 went to Simpson. Such competition and rivalry developed between the two islands. Football and basketball teams were organized, and both teams underwent rugged seasons. During the third year on these islands the two teams clashed. Appleseed came out victorious winning the championship in both sports. As was the custom, a queen was selected to represent each island. Pat Daugherty did the honors for Appleseed, while Shirley Yoakum was the royalty chosen by Simpson. MISS MARTHA WEIMER . . . Class Advisor The Appleseed Press was published under the leadership of Joan Brunn as editor, and Janet Neal as assistant editor, while on the other island, the Simpson Times went to press directed by Harlan Burns, and assisted by Warren Worthley. For their third and final year the students organized on their respective islands, and elected officers to serve as administrators of the group. Joan Truax was elected to lead the group at Simpson, with Harlan Burns and Lowell Hess as co-vice presidents, and Bill Seminoff as secretary and Vivian Uhl, treasurer. Appleseed elected John Auer as president, assisted by Tom Goodhart, vice-president, Nancilee Clark, secretary, and Tom Brittan, treasurer. At the closing of this third and final year on the twin islands, the students from Simpson and Appleseed united and again reembarked on the submarine “Knowledge”. Going down still another league under the sea, the group in the submarine began the last part of “Operation Underwater.” After traveling for a period of time, there was discovered right in the path of the submarine, a more massive underwater island than any that had been encountered thus far. It was decided that the last three years in the operation would be spent here on the island, Mansfield Senior High. The group, now consisting of 420 members, set about electing Neil Roller, Lowell Hess, Janice Smith, and Harlan Burns as officers to direct the operation. Needing funds to finance the senior year in “Operation Underwater”, the class with the able assistance of their advisor, Miss Eva McCurdy, held a circus dance in the spring of 1950. 24