Washington High School - Massillonian Yearbook (Massillon, OH)

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EDICATICN On February 13, 1957, the senior class voted for the dedicatee of the '57 Massillonian. He can be found outside Room 208 each morning with a cheerful smile to passing students. To his math students, he is a very helpful and understand- ing teacher. He has shown friendliness and a cheerful person' ality to the entire student body. ln his thirty years of teaching, he finds that students have not changed much through the years. We are proud to dedicate this year's annual to an out- standing teacher at Washington High School, John Morgan.

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Wednesday September 5, 1956, was the first full day of school for almost fifteen hundred students. The school year started off with a bang at the Annual Board dance. The year was hardly started before football season was almost over. The team played hard all season. The heartbreaker at Mansfield was the only loss until the day we met McKinley. Judy Shanklin reigned as Homecoming Queen and cried with the rest as mighty Massillon went down in defeat. That evening the Victory dance with all its beautiful decorations helped us get over the loss. The football season was over all too soon fespecially for the Seniors! and plans for the holidays filled the air. This was a busy time as everybody rushed to committee meetings to plan the gala affairs. The morning P.A. was loaded with campaign announcements as the members of the political parties vied for the votes. Socials were held by all the classes and all sorts of chapel programs were held as school was dismissed for the Christmas holidays. The Y-Teen Formal, Hi-Y Formal and the Womans Club Formal all combined to make this a glorious holiday season. The week before the presenta- tion of the Messiah, the Choir rehearsed in the auditorium every evening. The entire student body became familiar with snat- ches of the work because the choir members hummed parts of it while going to and from class. All of the practice was worth while as over two-hundred voices combined on the night of the performance to make it a moving and inspirational presentation. Bill Glendenin and Dick Froelich listen intently as Mr. Morgan explains the trigometric functions. This explanation is characteristic will explain something as many times as necessary until all un- derstand it. January 2, 1957, school again started. The new year saw a slow-starting yet promising basketball team take the floor for Massillon. This team turned in one of the best records in quite a few years as it played and improved all season long. We lost a few games by one point yet all had to agree that a season of basketball could hardly be more exciting. Washington High had a few foreign visitors this year and they all were impressed by the caliber of the school. The Hopi indians and their snakes provided entertainment at the first chapel of the new year. The open house was well well attended and it gave the parents a chance to meet the teachers and find out about their teen-agers. The choir sang atanother assembly using as their theme the Ivy League schools. Chick Watkins and the Keynotes were Guests at the Miss Massillonian show. Their singing and selections were a big event in January. Not to be outdone, the band provided us with an excellent chapel. They used a typical teenager as their theme. The Hi-Y and Y-Teens were meeting iointly about this time and all the other clubs in school were also hard at work on all their proiects. ofall his classes, for Mr. Morgan M