Medina High School - Medinian Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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Sylvia Sedgwick Glee Club, ’19. ‘She has a sweet, at- tractive kind of grace.” Elizabeth Spitzer “Slats” “Her very frowns are fairer far, than smiles of other maidens are.” Earl Stoupe “Early” “Sing away sorrow, sing away care, I am off for a good time, come if you dare.” Otis Wheeler “Pete” “Hand sorrow, care will kill a cat, and therefore let us be merry.” Wanda White “Flirtation is like a circulating library, and which we sel- dom ask for the same book twice.” Anna Burgen “Like the water still she is very deep.”

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Mildred Campbell “Bill” Theodore Ewing “Teddy” Robert Ferriman “Bob” Elmer Fulmer “Elm” Katherine Hemmeter “Pigmy” “A maiden that is mild and meek, Swift to hear and slow to speak.” “Much I know, but to know all is my ambi- tion.” “A little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men.” “Honor lies in honest toil.” “Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

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January Class History By SYLVIA SEDGWICK In September, 1906, nine five-year-old infants started to kin- dergarten under the careful eye of Miss Ella, this intellectual group consisted of Katherine Hemmetter, Louise Jones, Eliza- beth Spitzer, Sylvia Sedgwick, Wanda White, Elmer Fulmer, Robert Ferriman, Lucille Hunt and Beatrice Longacre. We were taught to sing “Good Morning, Dear Teacher, to skip, march, draw, etc. Some of us were rather stiff in one leg when it came to skipping but managed to get around the circle. We then went thru the four primary rooms and by the time we entered Mrs. Wright’s room, we could name all the countries of Europe, South America, states and capitals, do long division, etc. It was in this room that we received a half bushel basket full of stick candy from the janitor for keeping our room so clean. In this room Mildred Campbell was added to our number. In the fifth grade we were separated. Part of us were sent to the High School Building and others went to the Watters Build- ing. We started our sixth year in the new Garfield Building and were very proud indeed. Occasionally some one would be sent to Miss Wheatley for marking on the immaculate white walls or for some other equally terrible offense. In the seventh grade, due to crowded conditions, all the extra bright students were put ahead and got thru the seventh grade in one-half year. All of us were included in that exclusive bunch. Nondas McNeal was added to us here. In January we were sent to Miss Drake. Here we learned to write notes, checks and everything there was to know about running a bank. In this room we started our theatrical stunts which occured every few weeks on Friday afternoon. Everyone had to have his turn in reading an essay, singing or speaking a piece. We went to Miss Wheatley with trembling feet but soon found out that she was the best in the bunch. The girls started domestic science this year and treated Miss Wheatley, the janitor, and the boys with their culinary concoctions. Earl Stoup came all the way from Lester, Ohio, to join our noted group in this year. As the year drew to a close and we had finished our 150 “best problems,” the SB’s gave us a farewell party and we were the finished pr oduct of Miss Wheatley’s careful training. She took us on one cold morning to our future abode, the High School. We had heard terrible stories about getting lost in this huge edifice of learning and other awful things that hap- pened to Baby Freshmen on initiation day and we were surely scared. We marched down the aisle amid much applauding and laugh- ing and had to be introduced and otherwise made fools of. Teddy Ewing came from the County Infirmary to join us. We soon learned to enjoy life here and worked hard on our new studies. We didn’t have many parties, due to the war and because we were so small in number.