Middletown High School - Optimist Yearbook (Middletown, OH)

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R. W. Solomon, Superintendent Wiade E. Miller, B. A., OHIO NoRTHERN B A PH. B., UNIVERSITY or CHICAGO Solemn and wise as is his lame His v speech is Tr as n ed cator he h woli fame. a I He wc the ot' each girl To The Students f hcl The year 1931-1932 is drawing to a close. This causes serious.reHection. for with each succeeding year new faces come. and old familiar ones disappear in the stream of life, as mankind marches on. when they depart we wonder. Whither bound?- Then as the years come and go, and we remain in the house by the side of the roadii. we observe that men travel as they think. Wie are today where our thoughts have brought us. ive will be tomorrow where our thoughts will take us. Wle cannot escape this result. We will rise. remain. or fall with our thoughts. Life will be what we make it. for in our hands are placed the exact results of our thoughts. no more, no less. Our school life has been pleasant in its associations. and successful in its achieve- ments. YVe have labored hard and long to accomplish the desires of our hearts. Our football team was animated by this csontrolling desire. Our basketball team realized the vision of their hearts. Our debating teams won great renown because of their dominant aspiration to succeed. Our Middletonian and Optimist stalls have experi- enced the thrill and glory of renown. Excellence in achievement has been the goal of our dramatic clubs, but not without great labour. Our band, orchestra. and glee clubs have added their lustre to the glory of achievement. Scholastically our students are welcomed in any college and are making good everywhere, just as they succeeded in high school: some good, others better. and some not so good. according to the desire of their hearts. The foundation of it all is the desire to succeed. As you have thus thought and laboured together during your school days, so may you dream and strive to make your dreams come true in all your days to be. May your life be rich. full, free. and abundant. Hay you achieve that which you desire most. May you gravitate toward the things you love, and have strength sufficient to accomplish every worthwhile task assigned you. 1 wish for each of you every good thing that you may desire for yourself. Affectionately, WADE E. MILLER. I 7 1

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Message from Coach The 1931 football season is now his- tory, but long will it stand out in our memories as one of the greatest in many years. No team in the past had so many boys who could do so many things well. Our blocking was better, our running more deceptive, and our passing attack far superior to any previous season. The Lockland game gave our practi- cally new team just the right kind of work-out to prepare us for the Kiser game the next Saturday. The Kiser game, to my way of seeing things, was the best game of the season. We were harder pressed in that game than the score indicates. The following Satur- day we were to meet Steele of Dayton. Steele had the heaviest team, perhaps. in the State. We had very little hope of doing anything to their line, particularly their tackles. who weighed 208 and 216 pounds. Our only hope was going around end. You, who saw the game, will remember the long jaunts by Romans and McMann. Wendt and Strong gave as good a demonstration of blocking in that game as any one could hope to see. Our better running attack and the completion of a fine forward pass found us leading, 19 to T, at the end of the game. For years we have been fearing Hughes, our next. week's opponent. Hughes had its best team in years, an d we were all set for another real battle. Had Hughes been permitted possession of the ball more in that game, they would have caused us no little trouble. They had a good running attack but were quite weak defensively. We surprised our- selves more than we did them by win- ning 45 to 7. Lioej The season was half over and from the fact we had met with such success, our followers had begun to predict an un- defeated season. This feeling, I think, crept into the team. The things we had been doing so well up to t.his time were conspicuous by their absence at Ports- mouth. Don't forget, however, that the Portsmouth team was mostly responsible for our lack of doing things, as in the previous games. Their team was by far the best we had met. They were a well coached, good blocking, great defensive team, and that day, de- served to win. We came home, of course, with heads bowed, but not dis- couraged. Lima Central, the fol- lowing Saturday, met a different and better team and was defeated, 41 to X 0. While we were doing 1 g battle with Lima Central, ' Roosevelt, our next opponent, was downing Stivers, 24 to 13. We had not met Roosevelt in three years and to learn they had handed Stivers such a drubbing looked anything but promising for us. The Portsmouth defeat was still doing good. We had no trouble defeating Roosevelt, 38 to O. After eight years we were to renew athletic relations with our ancient rival, Hamilton, the following Saturday. No doubt a good many people went to that game expecting a renewal of scenes which took place several years ago on our own Field. We had a beautiful day, no disturbances whatever. and a good ball game. I have nothing but praise for the fine way which our boys conducted themselves on the field and I shall always remember that fighting spirit of the Ham- ilton players. We won this year, but re- member, next year is another year. Let's get ready now!