Medina High School - Medinian Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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Class 4A History 1924 By ETHEL CLEMENT In September, 1911, a wild bunch of youngsters tripped up the steps to meet Miss Ella at Kindergarten. This was the class of 1924, four of whom are still left in our ranks, namely: Kathryn Gayer, Ethel Clement, Harland Shane, and Robert Gable. From Kindergarten we passed into the Second grade, due to the fact that the class was so large it had to be divided. Here, three more joined us: Pauline Fisher, Esther Freeman, and Lauraette Sedgwick. All the way through the grades we lost a few and replaced them with others — and were a very industrious group of scholars. September 13, 1920, marked a great day for Medina High School, when thirty- three “Green Freshies” were escorted into the Assembly room by Mr. Conkle. “Fat” Garver invited us to the stage and there we received our first “great scare.” For the first few days one might see any of our band wandering around the building trying to find his teacher and class. Upon entering High School we immediately organized our class, the officers elected were: Erastus Simmons, president; Esther Freeman, vice- president; Ethel Clement, secretary, and Helen Ridiker, treasurer. These officers served until our Senior year. During our Sophomore year -we studied very hard but still found time for three parties. As Juniors we published the Medina High School Annual which proved to be one of the best ever put out by M. H. S. At the beginning of our Senior year Rae White, Ethel Crofoot, Erwin Eastwood, Eddie Cox, and Lawrence Maple, the remaining ones of the January class of 1924, joined our ranks. We then elected officers again, choosing: Robert Schamp, president; Harland Shane, vice-president ; Ethel Clement, secretary, and Ethel Crofoot, treasurer. Our last year was taken up with various Senior activities, such as: Junior-Senior reception, Senior parties, and plans for Commencement. We also put on the movie, “A Tailored Made Man,” which proved to be a success. Now, June 5th, as we, forty strong, leave Old Medina High for the last time, we wish to express our appreciation for all the efforts put forth in our behalf by the faculty, and hope that each succeeding class will maintain the standard which we have striven to attain.

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Lucille Mildred Leatherman — M illy Hobby — Sewing Girls Glee Club ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24 High School Chorus ’24 “This kind of girl it’s hard to find She’s happy, virtuous, thoughtful and kind” Lawrence Irwin Maple — Fat Hobby — “Bell hop for Case” Football, ’20, ’21, ’22, ’23 Baseball ’23, ’24 Captain ’24 Basketball ’22, ’23 “IV e know that he would be very nice If we could only break the ice.” Walter Allyn Roshon — Babe Hobby — Being Cop Football ’20, ’21, ’22, ’23 Captain ’20, ’21, ’22 Baseball ’22, ’23, ’24 Basketball ’21, ’22, ’23 Track ’22 “A strapping youth that takes the Mother’s eye.” Leora Elizbeth Tomkins — Lee Hobby — “Be good-sweet maid.” Helen Rozanne Ridiker — Rink Hobby — Being a Wallflower (?) Glee Club ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24 High School Chorus ’24 Annual Board ’23 Class Treasurer ’21, ’22, ’23 “She’s sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet And soft as their parting tear.” Rae Wliite — Stowe Hobbv — Singing Glee Club ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24 Fligh School Chorus ’24 Basketball ’22, ’23 “There’s ne’er a flower that blooms in May That’s half as sweet as our own Rae.” Erwin Guscott Eastwood — Gus Hobbv — Being wise Basketball ’21, ’22 Fottball ’21, ’22, ’23 Glee Club ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24 “Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was” Clayton Aldis Hartman Hobby — Shooting pool High School Band ’23 “A man whose silent days in harmonious joys are spent.” Margaret Helen Nold — Jake Hobbv — Studying High School Orchestra ’23, ’24 Glee Club ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24 Debating Team ’23, ’24 Annual Board ’23 “Few hearts like hers with virtue warmed Few heads with knowledge so informed.” Sixteen

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Class President’s Address “Our Aim Success, Our Hope to Win” By ROBERT SCHAMP We, the Class of 1924, after twelve long years of diligent work, have completed our High School course. We come tonight to celebrate the event, which we have so long anticipated, our High School Commencement. We are now ready to engage in that larger field of endeavor, for which we have been preparing ourselves. It is to our Parents, our Teachers, our Superintendent, the Board of Education, and the Citizens of Medina, who have made this occasion possible for us, we owe a deep debt of appreciation and gratitude. It is our wish that we may be permitted to pay this debt not by words, but by our lives as fellow citizens and loyal workers in the service of the world. We realize that the value of our High School work does not lie alone in our achievements in the Class Room, or in the athletic field, but in the ambition, courage, and will power, which have made the se achievements possible. In the character formed, in the preparation for right living, and in our ability to meet hard knocks with a smile and with a determination to conquer circumstances: — in these are the Characteristics of true worth which will endure through the years to come. These are the traits of true manhood, the acquisition of which will be a reward to you our kind friends, who have nourished, counselled, and guided us. Some of us will continue our education in higher institutions of learning; others will go forth immediately to take their respective places in the world. Whatever may be our fields of endeavor we will carry with us our friendships, our ideals and aspira- tions of our High School days. During our High School career, we have experienced the passing from an old school building to the new school building. We have observed the gradual, yet effect- ive weeding out of the things in our school system which were inferior ; the retaining of the good and the addition of the better things, all of which have resulted in a plan and system, which is far superior to the old. Even as we have observed this change in our High School life for the better, may we in our own lives, have the wisdom to retain the good, to cast out the bad and to select the best of the new things, as they present themselves to us. Our lives then will be a constant change for the better, a constant endeavor to reach our aim, true success. May our motto in life be our Class motto in the truest and fullest sense, broad enough to meet the demands of the unknown future; “Our Aim, Success; Our Hope, to Win.” May the success, which we hope to win, be success in doing the thing for which we are best suited ; Success in filling our place in the Creator’s infinite plan ; Success in giving ourselves for others. Whether our place be great or small; whether we gain fame or remain unknown to the world, may our presence be felt by the burdens, which we lighten for others, by the joys we spread, and by the spirit, in which we perform our humble tasks. Whether we be Presidents or tillers of the soil, whether we be inventors, and designers of magnificent buildings or mechanics and carpenters, whether we be the first ladies of the land or the makers of the humblest homes, our success is to be measured by the same standard — that of a life well lived, duties well done, and talents utilized, the reward for which is eternal. As we, the first class to graduate from the new Medina High School, go forth into life’s great school, we leave for the future students this building, a heritage of which we can well be proud, honest, hard work, and a high school spirit undaunted by defeat. We are at the beginning of life, we cannot see far into the future, but we trust that we are prepared to meet whatever joy or sorrow, whatever of pleasure or pain, which may cross our pathway. Ever may our motto be instilled in our minds and hearts, Our Aim, Success; Our Hope, to Win. Eighteen