McClain High School - Dragon Yearbook (Greenfield, OH)

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Cl-41 JW 'z 5' ci I 8 6 I 11 5' I 9 3 4- 1103 Koo Those eligible to wear the Scholarship M were: Robert Adams and George Waddell. The Sophomore Class took an active part in the Operetta, t'Hulda of Holland , and the one-act plays given during the year. junior Class, composed of forty-six girls and fifty-four boys, held its election during the first few weeks of school. The class officers for the next two years were: john Smith, President: Janice Handley, Vice-President: Dora Emily McWilliams, Secretary-treasurerg Student Senate representa- tives, Dorothy Louise Ashling and Ernest McCullough. The members who received football M's were: Lawrence Lucas, Ernest McCullough, Arthur Harris, Dudley Moon, John Smith. Our class president, john Smith, was the only one permitted to wear the Basketball M . Those who received Swimming Ms were: Robert Kyle and Homer Chaney. Robert Adams was the only member of our class to wear the Scholarship UM . Ten mem- bers of our junior class took part in the Operetta, Don Alonso's Treasure , which was given during the school year. According to custom our class gave a farewell banquet and dance for the seniors Friday night, April 28. Another summer rolled swiftly by and we returned to school bearing the dignified title of Senior , This year we sent six members to the student senate. Those students were: Janice Handley, Lucile Ervin, Benton Duckworth, Robert Adams, Robert Kyle, and Alphonse Schinner. Ten seniors took part in the class play, Broken Dishes presented on April 3. Our class was represented by Ernest McCullough on the All-Ohio Football team. The gold football and basketball given the most ideal football and basketball player went to Dudley Moon and john Smith respectively. Seven members received football letters, they were: john Smith, Ernest McCullough, Dudley Moon, Arthur Harris, Manzorr Glassner. and john Paul Watt. john Smith, Ernest McCullough and Glenn Winfough received letters in basketball. Three swimming letters were earned by Robert Kyle, Homer Chaney and james Schmidt. Ten members of the class were elected to the National Honor Society this year. Membership in this society is based on scholarship, leadership, character, and service. They were: Evelyn Hudson, Robert Adams, Benton Duckworth, james Schmidt, john Paul Watt, David Worthington. Georgian Dreher, Sarah Moomaw, Robert Kyle, and Max Badger. The Senior class members of sixty-four, thirty-two girls and thirty-two boys, who have struggled ever upward and have received their hearts' desire. To fifty-three who have entered the larger- school before us, we give our best wishes. The junior-Senior Banquet and Dance, was held on May 25. The Faculty Reception on May 29. Commencement on May 31. O Sad No More! O Sweet No More! O Strange No More! But what is this? I turn about, I find a trouble in thine eye, Which makes me sad, I know not why, Nor can any dream resolve the doubt. 4T6l1lZ'VS0II. :ALPHONSE SCHXNNER. INIARGARET MooMAw. w i' rrrf rr'n- rr rr Q Ei' if I 95' , ff' :mantle ,, nun lp. . THE DRAGON n- lllit' ' I' 'A F ' P A G 1-Q 9 7

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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

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xfcmw 4' J ' rg I 8 6 ' 1 S Z I 9 3 4 ' 1,03 406' CLASS WILL 1934 WE, THE Senior Class of Nineteen-hundred and thirty-four of The Edward Lee McClain High School, Greenfield, Ohio, do draw up in the presence of this audience this 28th day of May, a Will, in which the most outstanding talents of our classmates will be distributed to underclassmen. Although we know they will not be used as we have used them, we hope you will make the best of these be- quests. so dear to our friends. I. We leave to next years Senior Class the profound dignity and undoubtedly supreme posi- tions as seniors. possessed by this class and all succeeding senior classes. II. To the juniors we leave a memory of us, that they may still have something inspiring to worship, even after we ourselves are gone. III. To the Sophomores we leave our record of attendance and tardiness. IV. To the incoming Freshmen, we leave that completely lost feeling we had upon entering high school. Y. We bestow to our most worthy faculty, all chewing gum that has been thrown into waste paper baskets. stuck on desks and chairs. all initials carved upon desks, and all paper wads upon the ceiling. YI. To all the coming graduating classes, we leave the right to break our record of being the best class in the history of McClain High School. YII. Robert Adams bestows his scholastic ability upon Isaac Karns. Sarah and Margaret Moomaw will their twin-like ways to the Mercer twins. Rosemary Harkins and Morris Montgomery leave their love and friendship in high school to Rosemary Daniels and Larry Yoskuhl. Evelyn Hudson leaves her good marks in the commercial course to her sister, Helen. Alice Evans and jesslyn Hammond will their giggles to Sara Binns and Gertrude Schinner. Max Badger leaves his ability to blush at any time to Sarah Sharp. Upon Jane Cockerill, Florence Bryant bestows her quiet ways. Margaret Alexander leaves the right to stand all noon and talk to her boy friend to any one who can stand that long and not get tired. I I john Paul Watt requests that his strenuous activities in the F. F. A. be taken up by George Lee Ji tz. Martha Whaley wills to Tom Cope. the habit of being accused of any undue happenings in Miss Owens room. Marguerite Swisshelm wills her ableness in getting a diamond ring and keeping it, when only a sophomore, to any girl who thinks she can. Miriam Plummer, Dorothy Redkey, and Lucile Wolfe leave to Leone Washburn, Madge West, and Annabel Locke, the distinction of being the Seniors from Petersburg . Homer Chaney wills his speed as a swimmer to his brother, Marion. To Jimmy Harps. Charles Colar wills his bowed legs. B. R. Duckworth Il, leaves to Virgil Hazlett the honor of holding the unquestionable position of being the laziest person in school. Donald Dodds bequeaths his bashfulness to Irvin Blackburn. Dorothy Ashling descends from her throne as the beautiful Halloween Carnival Queen in order to make way for Betty Hamilton. Louise Countryman wills her avoirdupois and lack of height to Sarah Roberts. James Schmidt leaves his position on the swimming team to John Starn. Homer West leaves his kittenish ways to Frank Hill. Alice Douglass leaves Howard johnson to carry on by himself. rr rr rr' riff? ri' il Mgt: I Ll, Lt. .rr -A IME. 1.115 , . rr Iifwl rr rf f ff Q' Vu lm nn num J.. . THE DRAGON ' 'llllt' ' tim' l I P A o E Q s lik