Medina High School - Medinian Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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utye Annual 23 enjoyed a lively evening at Louise Starr’s and returned home quite “early,” as we were rather young to stay out too late. (Notice. — Advice bequeathed to Freshmen by the Sen- iors.) Of course, the class was that year joined by many new “ Seekers of the Fruit of Knowledge.” Twelve of these, Beatrice Blakslee, Ruth Burkett, Harold Burnham, Mabel Chidsey, Guy Chamberlain, Alsetta Fretz, William Gates, Ethel Krieger, Dessie Leather- man, Otto Morloek, Hazel Roberts, and Emanuel Tintsman are still with us. At the beginning of the second year a very “ ' gay” troop of “young Sophomores” began holding down the Assembly room, aided by Miss O’Connor. It was this year that we welcomed Emily Clark to our midst and began training Mr. Edmund as our superin- tendent. We likewise made ourselves famous this year by planning a High School Masque Ball which was pulled oft to the enjoyment of all participating therein. In September 1913 we assumed the responsibilities of Juniors. Miss Beech now took charge of us and helped us over one of the highest fences of our high school life, the stone-wall of editing a successful Annual. Howard Warner returned to us this year and we found him very efficient as a business manager on the Annual board. Perhaps this year was graced by fewer social functions; but we took out our fun in private parties in our “ little room downstairs.” A month and a half after the outbreak of the great European war we took our places in the northeast corner room and began our duties as “ grave and reverend Seniors.” Prob- ably to most of us this has been the shortest year of all. Albert Gill, Grace Hartman, Victor Gates, Karl Jenks, Dwight Derr and Rhea Rounds joined us this year swelling our number to forty-five. This number, increased by nine of our class mates who are also taking the normal course, makes the total fifty-four, and we are proud of the fact that we are larger in numbers than any class that has ever graduated from Medina High School before us. We celebrated the anniversay of our Freshman sleigh ride with another of the same nature and again at Starr’s. You may judge from the picture as to the pleasure connected with it. We are now leaving dear old M. H. S. for ever, leaving behind us four of the happiest years of our life. We are going with a feeling of regret that our eomradship has thus come to an end, but with the certainty that the bonds of friendship formed here can never be broken. J is for Jenks with his topknot so gay. K is for Kernan who plans to teach. L is for Lloyd who is nobody’s fool. M is for Marjorie once loved by Earl. N is for Nichols still Fat Garver’s girl. 0 is for Orlan, may his good luck ne’er wane. P is for Pierce with the three-decker brain. Q is for question, which every one fears.

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Annual ZB i’pntnr (Class His turn BY EDITH SHEPARD When Mr. Van Epp was mayor of Medina, and Mr. Nash was governor of Ohio; when Theodore Roosevelt, the president of the United States, was exciting the nation with Ins Big ' Stick policy and Race Suicide question, and while the terrible Russo-Japanese War was raging, Genevieve Nichols, Edith Shepard, Branch Pierce, Alfred Dannely and William Hobart, the nucleus of the great class of U5 (the largest that has even been grad- uated from M. H. S.) started to kindergarten under Miss Ella Canavan. After a year of learning to play systematically, we added two more of our present number, Dana Whipple and Manly Burgin, and entered the first grade. Here Miss Smith started us along the “ path of knowledge,” and taught us to read and write. The next year found us ready for the second grade with Howard Warner and James Thayer as new companions. The former has since traveled far from us, but, ever tilled with a desire to return, he overcame all opposing circumstances and last year again became one of our number. During our second year we were saddened by the death of our teacher, Miss Sanders. Miss Harrington fin- ished the term with us and we started into the third grade ready for our Geographies. It was some time that year that Doris Searles discovered our merits and, in her eagerness to join us, left her accustomed duties behind and became one of us. Miss Tubbs experimented on the class this year and, finding the result satisfactory, passed us on to Miss Eshleman in the fourth grade. We now had three new recruits, Dorothy Bradway, Sadie Neman, and Ralph Waters. During our fifth year we opened our arms to receive Majorie Kindig, who came to us from Paradise (Road). The next year we were cruelly separated. Miss Warner held forth in the I. 0. 0. F. building, while Miss Drake presided over those re- maining in the old school building. The latter also piloted us through the seventh grade and helped us to add six more to our number, viz., Earl Arick, Jeannie Rickert, Mildred Pettit, Ralph Stuart. Helen Tubbs and Glen Weiz. Our friend Glen spent three years away from us, but could not resist the temptation to have his name go down in history with this most renowned class and so has returned to us again, only this year. Separation was again necessary during our last year in the grades, on account of our number, and so at this most bashful and self-conscious age, the girls went down to the old Kindergarten room under Miss Smoyer, while Miss Wheatley ruled over the boys in the high school building. Four new girls (Louise Starr. Julia Bailv, Lucile Allen and Anna Holcomb) regardless of the lack of young gentlemen, sought our educational edifice; while Loyd Heath (for all his weakness for the “ fair sex ”) joined the boys. After all the terrors and delights of ren- dering a musical cantata for the eighth grade promotion exercises, we were actually ready foi high school . We entered the building as Freshmen, with “fear and trembling,” and yet we had little cause for nervousness, as we numbered seventy-seven, almost as many as the other three classes could boast of when combined. Mr. Carlton was our first high school superintend- ent, and our always-remembered Latin teacher, Miss Sellers, faithfully endured our faults and failings and watched over us carefully during this critical period. Our idea of high school was class parties and other jollifications, and this we carried out to a full extent, as we successfully carried out five class parties and planned several others. Perhaps one of the most successful was a sleighride taken on one of the coldest nights of that winter. We

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30 (Dip Attmtal CIUihs of ’15 tatiatira LOUISE H. STARK The Class of 1915 is the largest that has ever graduated from Medina High School. It consists of fifty-four members, thirty-one girls and twenty-three boys. It certainly has quantity; and as to its quality- any one who knows will say it is of the very best. Pardon my bragging, but it is hard to refrain, altho I am not much more than an atom of the whole mass. The oldest girl is Mabel Chidsey, 21; the youngest, Grace Hartman, 16 yr. 8 mo., and the oldest boy is Joseph Seymour, 20 ; the youngest, Dwight Derr, 16 yr. 6 mo. The age of the whole class together is 1002 years, which subtracted from 1915 leaves 913 years, and that takes one back to the time when Europe was divided into the different kingdoms as they stand today. Our heavy weight champion is Fred Bohley who weighs 190 lbs., and our lightest member is Edith Shepard, who weighs only 98 lbs. The whole class together weighs 7232 lbs. or about 3.6 tons. The average weight of the boys is a little over 151 lbs. and the girls 121 lbs. The tallest student of the class is William Gates who measures 6 ft. lbo in.; the tallest girl is Mildred Pettit who is 6 ft.; the shortest Senior is Jennie Rickert who is 4 ft. 10 in. and the shortest boy is Ralph Waters who measures 5 ft. 4 in. The average height of the girls is 5 ft. 4 in., and the boys 5 ft. 6 in. We have thirty-three brunettes and twenty-one blondes. Of course it was rather interesting to me to know how many suffragettes and anti- suffragettes we have. There are 25 of the former, 17 of the latter, and 12 who are neutral. So you see we are a progressive class, too. There is not much use of bothering over the political parties as no one of us is old enough to vote except Mabel Chidsey, and she must wait until the men give her permission. We have 22 Congregationalists, 15 Methodists, 5 Baptists, 3 United Brethren, 5 Lutheran, 3 Disciples, 1 Church of Brethren, an Episcopal- ian, a Presbyterian, and a Catholic. Now if any pessimist tries to tell you that the world is getting worse, inform him that he is decidedly in the wrong because, as perhaps you remember, last year in the little class of 1914 there was a real, live heathen reported, while this year the big Class of 1915 boasts that every one of its fifty-four members are devout church-goers. Thirty-two Seniors come to M. H. S. from the country and twenty-two live in Medina. The student who comes to school from the greatest distance is Nellie Stroupe who lives I 6 V 2 mi. from town, and the one having the shortest distance is Genevieve Nichols who just walks ‘ around the corner.’ The class all together has the distance of 176 mi. to travel which is about 49 mi. less than the width of Ohio. Seventeen class mates have taken the four year Latin course; thirteen have carried German all thru high school; nine have taken the teachers’ Normal course; and t lie rest have taken mixtures of Latin, German, French, Commercial and Agricultural courses. Fourteen declare German to be their favorite study; eleven, Chemistry; ten, English; seven, Domestic Science; four, Latin; two, Geometry ; two, Psychology : one, History ; one- Mat hematics ; one, Stenography ; and Howard Warner says lie had rather write themes than do anything else in school. Well, everybody to his own notion! The favorite amusements of the class are interesting because the character of the students may be judged by their most loved diversions. But, do not take this too seriously as I fear some of our fair seniors are inclined to joke. Eighteen like athletics best ; eleven,