Medina High School - Medinian Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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Annual 20 W« Da res t+p for cut pY i) y ttt uxfit y FRE5HMEN-R iFrcshmatt A liaturg tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiimiiiuiiiiiiiiii The present Freshman Class started its career under Miss Ella, the kindergarten teacher. The following - made up the original number. Leo Bartunek Dale Coons Telford Kirkpatrick Helen Bigelow Fern Mush Glen Chatfield Metta Dell Green Dwight Shepard Helen McDowell Esther Werts Elizabeth Lentz Arnold Bushnell Raymond Morgan Ruth Hoddinott Carl Shane Wynne Boyden Lucile Smith James Carey Oretta Shaw Arthur Lockard Louis Bartholomew Oral Watt Louston Hurlebaus Otis Wheeler Mary Bailey Leland Longacre Ruth Turner Thelma Case The next year we began our school life under Miss Dawley. During the year, Inez Brockway came into our class. In our second year several were promoted into the third grade, and, at the same time, Margaret Borger and Amy Slater entered the class. The following year, Lester Campbell and Harold Baque were added to our number, but several others were taken from us so that the total remained nearly the same. The year after, our last in the primary grades, we lost several of our former classmates, but none which are now with us entered the class at that time.

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28 Annual A glance at last year’s Annual shows that our original Freshman number was forty- seven. Many of these are gone, and at the present time we boast only thirty-five; for Raymond Case and Lloyd Leatherman dropped out about the middle of the year. When we came into this High School in 1912, the Board of Education, realizing that an exceptional class was entering, made every effort possible to provide for our comfort. They carried this careful consideration to the extent of putting Miss Pearl Sellers, now Mrs. Wm. Hammerschmidt, in charge of our room. That first year was a sad one to us for at every turn some Junior like Fisher was continually scaring us, or hitting us with a wooden eraser. That is all changed now. You ought to see how we make those “ Eighth Grade Freshmen ” “ walk chalk.” They even shine our shoes and brush our clothes with- out our bidding. We have our Best girl always with us. Our Faith never falters. We learned in Latin that rex means king; so we rejoice that we have two scions of royalty amongst us. We have a Shepard to watch our flock, a Sargeant to drill us, a Leach to cure us; in fact, we will not Hyde from you that we consider the Class of 1916 the bright and shining light of old Medina High!

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30 Annual In the fifth grade, Welthene Fenn and Ethel Sprankle joined ns. The next year we went to the High School building for the first time, having been in the I. 0. 0. F. Temple the previous year. Elizabeth Branch and Raymond Bennett entered that year, but as usual we lost several others. During our seventh year eleven pupils left their former class for ours. The names are as follows : Mahlon Walker Helen Hunt Marie Hurlebaus Harold Hedges Gladys Shepard Derwin Nettleton Mabel Thompsett Not all of the above came to stay, however, as we have only six of them with us now. In our last year in the grades we began school in the High School building, but soon moved to the newly finished Garfield building. That year also a large number joined the class : Ruth Gill Ruth Gilbert Bryan Case Zola Turner Floyd Baylor Harold Waite Bryan Gray In the spring we were saddened by the death of Floyd Baylor. During our eight years in the grades we had three superintendents: J. R. Ivennan, C. C. Carlton, and W. S. Edmund. Our regular teachers not already mentioned were Miss McDougall, Miss Tubbs, Mrs. Wright, Miss Warner, Miss Lacy, Miss Drake, and Miss Wheatley. The September after our graduation from the eighth grade we found our way into the Freshman room where Miss Feeney was given charge of us. As had happened once before a large number left their former class of school for oui’s. Three of them, Neal Rosbon, Gertrude Sprankle and Paul Taylor, have since left school, and one, Wilbur Arick, denies that he is a Freshman although he prefers to sit in our Freshman room. All through our school life our classmates have been constantly changing until now very few of the original group remain. At the end of our Freshman year we have the following fifty members : Margueritte Simmons Welthene Fenn Dewey DeWitt Florence Carlton Ruth Carlton Marie Hurlebaus Jeanette Chidsey Edith Barry Glen Woolridge Raymond Bennett Lester Campbell Seymour Hoddinott Ruth Gilbert Franklin Elder Harold Waite Velma Carlton Mahlon Walker Mabel Thompsett Irene Bostwick Metta Dell Green Walter Coleman Ethel Chidsey Dale Coons Derwin Nettleton Zola Turner Leland Longacre Amy Slater Elizabeth Branch Oral Watt Ethel Sprankle Kathryn Bartholomew Harold Baque Wilbur Arick Rena DeMay Luella Kern Letha Wightman Elizabeth Hass Beatrice Smedley Margaret Borger Ruth Bartholomew Leo Bartunek Esther Hoff Ruth Gill Bryan Gray Howard Stanley Wynne Boyden Henry Hass Bryan Case Inez Brockway Margueritte Simmons Let us hope that each one may safely finish his course and receive his diploma. Irene Bostwick Claude Snyder Pearl Coen