Middletown High School - Optimist Yearbook (Middletown, OH)

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. THE OPTIMIST ' Away back in the eighties when the graduating classes of M. H. S. numbered about two score each year, these enterprising students decided that their school, like many others should have a school annual. Accordingly they set to work and for several years annuals were published. A few of these are still in existence, and are regarded as family treasures in the homes in which they belong. discontinued and in its place was issued a monthly publication, The Purple Advocate' . With but few breaks this monthly magazine was continuously issued for twenty years. In 1912, a change was deemed advisable, so once more the annual stunt was tried, and succeeded. These first Optimists were paper cover affairs bound on the short side and containing but few cuts. To be sure, they were thought to be very wonderful in their day but when we compare it with the present volume, a decided contrast is evident. The Principal had always acted as advisor to the annual staff until in 1924 when the new High School was occupied. Miss Jones acted as advisor for the 1924 edition which marked the transition from the old to the modern idea of school annuals. With its binding lengthwise, the book offered many new schemes of arrangement. Under the advisorship of Miss McCarty, these were further elaborated in the 1925 Optimist when a real Molloy cover was used. The 1926 book added the new feature of individual pictures for everyone. The improvements in this volume need no mention for we feel -if a n Sf K . H . J 4' - Q R 'gs - I l N, , 'ha' .I , QI -4, is Ili But the venture was not a Lpaying one financially, so about 1892, the annual was xx , ll 7 al Y W I Ng I Wt . Y Y I 5 1 O . 0 X K 1. i' ' A that they speak for themselves. We have done our best to make this the best Optimist of all, and we are justified in our hope. Every committee member, as well as the nine major chairmen, editors and advisor, has done whatever was asked of him in splendid spirit. We all feel justly proud of our work. The staff this year was composed of: Advisor, MISS MCCRAY Editors-RICHARD MILLER and MARGUERITE ABBOTT Literary Committee Ruth Busseer, Chairman Helen Hoover Francis McMahon Eleanor Thompson Oleda Augspurger Madeline McMahon Bessie Johnston Bertha Schneider Alberta Lauderback Louis Selby Activities Committee Charlotte Stahl, Chairman Howard Voorhis Marylou Holst.ein Ruth Shively Elmer Barker Mary Williamson Mary Selby Robert Aupperle Jean Stratton Clifford Wilson Advertising Committee Alvin Deiss I - Melvin Epstein S' Chalfmen Richard Wertz Ralph Butterfield Harold Rhoads Mollie Finkleman Henry Purcell Sam Selby Thomas Vradelis Jonathan Freeze Fillmore Cohen Ralph Snider Athletics Committee Clarence Miller, Chairman Monroe Davis Dorothy Moon Daniel Eppelsheimer Ruth Hannah Helen Gwilliams Tom Wilson Robert Teckmeyer Kodak Committee Humor Committee . . ll- lglgtlflllllfgggifman flE3aSEl0.XidSha man Mildred winkleman gjlfgcyligfrfm 4 Lenora Price Ben Sebald James McDermott Jane! McGraw E Stanley Crist Bus M otzer In my g?S'L,3f::'S Paul Pardonner 2 Howard Harmon Alma Palmer , gh George Ralston Aff Commute? ...- 13 Circulation Committee Ngra Vian de Venter, Chairman E ,n Burton Upton, Chairman Eezlgnwglzgg g. , Home Room Agents Wlllard Daily 5 1 Typist Committee Marjorie Woods - Louella Efaxwell l'1rgin1aHKltchen ' E Opal Me ey au me a . Geneva Rhoads Donald Kelley L5 J q s' V at

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