Medina High School - Medinian Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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The First Twelve in Senior Scholarship as of September, 1942 SENIORS Left to right, in order of xtliolauic average: Top Kew: Ethel Nosker, Craig Penn. Jeannette Burris. Kenneth judkins, Macy Hallock, Robert Roawden. Bottom Row: Eugene Uihson. Ted Elliott, Esther Papp, Sue Keefc. Vfade Barnes, Clara Drotos. THE GREMLINS COME TO MEDINA As everyone knows, those aerial pixies, the gremlins, first appeared in England from some ShangrifLa of their own to harass airfmen. ?k The1n attached themselves to the R.A.F., and every British pilot soon knew whom to hlame if he had unexpected engine trouhle, snapped ailerons, suddenly jammed machine guns, or holes in wings or fuselage. Some time after Pearl Harhor the gremlins first made their appearance among the American Air Forces. By the summer of 1942 them were strongly entrenched with us and husy drinking up the contents of gas tanks, icing wings, climhing into gun harrels to deflect hullets, and making motors sound as if they had suddenly nconked out. Last Decemher them heard of Medina. Many promising lads could he found there who were fine potential victims for their mischievous designs. How much hetter these future fliers could he harassed and hefdeviled if them first looked the ground over carefully and hecame thoroughly acquainted. The very next afternoon them got their chance. The pilot of one of a formaf tion of homhers was out of sorts and defying the rule that gremlins must he treated with respect, he gathered up several in his hand and threw them out the window. To our misfortune them landed right in the 1943 Nledinian and set up headquarters! Neither pleading nor threats had any effect. The gremlins were here to stay, losing copy, hreaking plates, and hlurring artists' sketches in their insatiahle quest for inf formation ahout the lwoys. The staff has hrushed and erased in vain, for, as you see, some still remain. Perhaps you have had moments of uneasiness or have heen the victim of an un' explained prank. You have? Ahfh yes, it's them - the gremlins! izhvllfll referred to as a species or a group, grcmlins prefer to he spoken of as them. When their wishes are slighted in this matter, them are likely to become vindictive. Twenty-Three