Medina High School - Medinian Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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Wallace Jones Alice Kingsbury Max Koppes William Lentz Fred Lowe WALLACE JONES “Wally” Baseball, ’19. “Imagination saved this man from many an aching brain.” ALICE KINGSBURY “A-licy” Glee Club. “Who broken no promise, served no private ed, who gained no title, and lost no friend.” MAX KOPPES “Kopp” Baseball, ’18-’19. Football, ’18. “An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute action. He is neither hot nor timid.” WILLIAM LENTZ “Bill” Baseball, ’19. Glee Club, ’19. “He doesn’t like to study, it hurts his eyes.” Izora Miller Helen Mott FRED LOWE “Freddy” Baseball, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’19. “He has power of thot, the magic of the mind.” IZORA MILLER “Izzie” “Doing nothing to repent, watchful and obed- ient.” HELEN MOTT “Mut” “No harsh thot is hers.”

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Carl Waite Fannie Welton Clifford Weltmere Arthur Huffman Zelah Stuart Frances Van Epp Lois ZELAH STUART “Susie” “So delicate with her needle.” FRANCES VAN EPP “Eppie” “She closes the gates after one wooer, and opens the portals to another.” LOIS VORHEES “Loie” “So calm and quiet you don’t know she is here.” Vorhees CARL WAITE “Slats” Football, ’18. Baseball Captain, ’19. Cadets, ’16. “I have never yet seen anything worth get- ting mad at.” FANNIE WELTON “Nie” CLIFFORD WELTMERE “Whiff” “You can trust him in the dark.” ARTHUR HUFFMAN “Ikey” “A man’s task is always light if his heart is light.” “How modest and forgiving and gentle she is.”

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June Class History By MARGARET RANDALL If you had happened to have been in the vicinity of the pri- mary building on a warm September morning in the year 1906, you could have seen many children, accompanied by their moth- ers, making their way to join Miss Ella Canavan’s kindergarten class. They were an unusually attractive group as you can well imagine, when I tell you there were Katherine Shane, Katherine Hemmeter, Elizabeth Spitzer, Violet Pelton, Beatrice Kongacre, Louise Jones, Wanda White, Frances Van Epp, in their prettiest dresses and smartest hair ribbons. Carter Bennett, Vernon Stouf- fer, Paul Jones, Robert Ferriman, were also among those who formed the circle around Miss Ella on this memorable occasion. There was a little question as to whether Vernon Stouft’er hadn’t come without his parents’ knowledge, as he was so tiny he ap- peared to be about three and a half years old, but when asked as to his age he boldly answered in a manly voice: “I was five in August,” so he was allowed to stay. Miss Ella told our mothers in confidence, that we were the cutest class she had ever had and we have always kept the idea that she spoke truly, and Mr. Conkle will testify. At this time the Kindergarten had no regular place to meet and as the schools proved to be crowded we soon took up our work in the dining room of the new Odd Fellows Building. It was a splendid place to learn to “skip” as we had plenty of room. We then went back to the primary building with Miss Gladys Harrington as teacher, and slowly wended our way upward in the primary grades. V r e remember the patient care Mrs. Wright gave us and the confidence she gave us in ourselves as we left the “little school house” for the big one. But for some of our hopes were to be dashed to earth for we were not allowed to stay at the old school house as it was a year when every room was crowded to its capacity and something had to be done with part of the fifth grade pupils. It was finally decided that all of those living in the northwest section of the town be sent to the Waters Building at the corner of West Liberty Street and Elm- wood street. Miss Smoyer was secured as our teacher. This arrangement had many drawbacks and one of the strongest ones was the insufficient heat during the winter. Day after day we were excused and sent home as it was too cold to stay. Finally the parents complained and a gas stove was put in the center of the room. This arrangement was far from satisfactory, but it made it possible for us to go to school. When we were again with our original class in the sixth grade the effect of our fifth grade experience was most keenly felt, but we were soon to enter the new Garfield School Building in 1913. By this time we began to think that we were hoodooed for our class was never able to stay together after our fifth grade experience. It was at this time that we first heard of the half year promotion plan and when it was carried out instead of being