McClain High School - Dragon Yearbook (Greenfield, OH)

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C L41 L .fc 2, 1 8 6 I e g l ' . 9 3 4 703 400 CLASS HISTORY IN THE year Nineteen Twenty Two there entered, the Old Elementary School Building a group of children tthe last to enter that buildingj anxious and eager to be called First Graders! Almost a new world was created within their minds. And to think it was this-our class of Thirty Four. As First Graders we spent most of our time on our A, B. Cs , taught us by Mrs. Pearl Hiser and Mrs. Beatrice Russell. This being well done, we were given three months vacation. The following year 1922-23, we attended school in the janitors cottages, while the new build- ings were being constructed. The county students went to school in the morning and the town students attended the afternoon sessions. In our Third year we had the privilege of attending school in a new elementary building and endeavored to find our way about which was no easy task. We also had many new classmates. due to the fact that the Greenfield Public school had been made a school. In Junior High, the basketball team met with a very successful season, playing eleven games and losing only two. They also won the Annual Junior High Basketball Tournament. and received a cup. The girls also played an important part, in the first Girls Swimming Carnival, held in the McClain pool. Something's coming back to School-something missing since last june. Bareheaded boys. Bareheaded girls. History, Latin, Algebra, for me. Who! these one hundred and seventeen fresh- men registered, of course, we did not receive our distinct title as freshmen but were called Fresh- ies. A few weeks later we held our first class meeting and elected our class ofticers. Betty Skeen was elected our class President: Hope Miller. Vice-president: Dudley Moon, Secretary-treasurer: and Frances Hall, student senate representative. Miss Lucille johnson was our advisor. This year two members received Scholarship Ms they were: Betty Skeen and George Waddell. Onelof our beloved members, Harold Lemon, met an accidental death on October IO, 1930. Our class was well represented in athletics, members of which were on the football. basketball CAJ, CBJ, Swimming and track teams. Arthur Harris. Charles Cook, Winston Price were mem- bers of the M club. A large number of Freshmen took part in the operetta. Pickles , which was given on May 14. 1931. In September there returned one hundred-six girls and boys which made up the Sophomore Class. Class election was held at the beginning of the school term. The class officers were: President, Alice Evans: Vice-President, Robert Kyle: Secretary-Treasurer. Robert Adams: Student Senate Janice Handley. The class selected class rings at the beginning of the school year. Those of the Sophomore class elected to the National Athletic Scholarship Society were: Law- rence Lucas, Ernest McCullough, Homer Chaney, Arthur Harris, Benton Duckworth. and Robert Kyle. Members of the M Club were: Footballg Arthur Harris, Ernest McCullough, Lawrence Lucas: Basketball: john Smith: Swimming: Benton Duckworth, Homer Chaney, Robert Iiyle. .IJELI rrrfrt'rrl'l'r? 1 l at 1- fihiui tiiul I - , llllll' Will ff l- H .. P t THE DRAGON ii- ,ix ' ' . G E 9 6