Middletown High School - Optimist Yearbook (Middletown, OH)

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14 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 29 30 1 3 5 7 9 10 13 14 15 16 10 t 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 ., 1 .J 2 9 'J 4 5 7 0 10 11 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 Calendar SEPTEMBER Alas! Our doom is sealed. School started today. Such long faces in the hall! Sandwich Girls sign up. Sandwich Girls chosen. Now we're settling down in earnest. First game with Lockland. We won, 56 to 0-and how! Sandwich Girls prove pep by selling 78 dozen Brown Giants . First Chemistry lab today. If that's all there is to it, it's fun. fOnly it's notj. A blue and rainy Tuesday. Wish it were middle of June instead of September. First Chapel Day. Mr. Miller gave us a big pep talk, etc. Sandwich Girls have pow-wow, and oh, the plans! Senators for Student Senate chosen. At last this week's over! Beat Kiser here 18 to 0. Sandwich Girls break all records for selling hot dogs. First Student Senate. And look who's president! Tryouts for Dramatic Club. Scared and knees shaking. Demonstration of liquid air in chapel. Very interesting-and it caused in Chemistry Class! what a discussion OCTOBER No school tomorrow. We're going to the fair! Played and beat Washington Court House badly. Another week started. Oh, um! First Purple Masquer's meeting with elections. Junior Dramatic Club tryouts and Senior Dramatic Club initiation. Such a time! All Middletown was in Dayton for the Steele game. We won, 19 to 7. First time a team has scored on us. Optimist Staff chosen. My, my, my, and to think that I got on. Well, well, well! We have fewer lessons. Mr. Schulz tells us of Psyche's banquet in Chapel. Bring on the football banquet! Girls' Hi-Y starts once more again yet still already now. Hughes yields on her own territory. The What a day! Optimist Staff almost asphyxiated. We'll never be the same again. Socc and Buskins suffer greatly to the delight of the older members. If Stan had only opened his mouth when the pie was thrown at him! Coach gave us a talking-to in Chapel. His tackles were especially interesting. Spelling again! Oh, well, you can't get less than D! A dime goes toward our worthy activities. Less eating in cafeteria today. And another team bit the dust. Springfield was defeated there. Many groanings heard from Chemistry students. Mr. Valentine gave back test papers. Another Bank Day and again we hesitate. Too many banks are failing. Miss Metzler's room late to Chapel to hear Happy Jack Moore but not happy Mr. Miller. Hooray! No school tomorrow except for the teachers. What a break! Well, our first defeat at the hands of Portsmouth. But it was some game! NOVEMBER We've decided to have the Optimist a fade out-including the staff. Bank day, and reports tomorrow. Shiver, shiverg those exponents! What varied Chapel programs! From radio singer to chief of police! And oh, those reports! Sophs suffered saying sonnets seeking entrance to Dramatic Club. Yes, we all got in. Lima was conquered here, 41 to 0. Great old game, and all for Sweet Charity. Some crowd! How's your ring fit? You all know who's a senior now. More fun making our transfers stick to our activity cards. Great show of tongues in first period. A minute's vacation at eleven is all that we got for Armistice Day. Big pretzel party-false alarm-what not. Reason: Optimist Staff meeting. Ask Edith if she likes pretzels. Roosevelt had the best time trying to keep up with our boys. Score 38 to 0. All the football boys and otherwise saw themselves as the hero in The Spirit of Notre Dame . The only difference between Lew Ayres and various members of our team is that Lew Ayres is good looking. Seniors break camera for last time today. Juniors have their turn tomorrow. Glee Club renders a few good numbers. Gee! What lovers some of them would make! Sophs practice smiling in the mirror, but you'd never know it to see their pictures. Are we going to Oxford tomorrow! Big pep meeting, much yelling, etc. Have you a shaker? Akron takes us out of school early. 51021

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Everyone was at Oxford with bells on iand fur coatsj to see the Middies trounce the Hamiltonians, 38 to 6, in their last game. Horace nearly commits suicide in Optimist oflice. Ladies faint and bold men pale. Hoo-ray! We picked the cover for the book. How do you like it? Home at last to sleep-sleep-sleep land give thanksl. How did you like Touch- down ? Yes, I saw you. I ate too much turkey. How about you? My, but we're sleepy in school! VVhat a week! DECEMBER First day of December. Christmas seems near at last! A New Zealander tells us of her native land. We liked Felix, the cat, especially. She said it was for the babies . ' Senior nominating committee met and fought as usual. Football banquet is enjoyed by all-especially the Sandwich Girls at the round table. M boys have swelled beyond recognition. Many white sweaters and M's seen around school. Wish I had one. Senior officer election. Must be a lot. of Irishmen in our class. Community warble in Chapel. Dramatic clubs in evening. Ruth seems to have had lots of fun with her dolly. Sophomore girls are official Hi-Y'ers now. We think they are a pretty nice looking bunch. First basketball game of the season. Franklin 15, Middletown 30. Not such a bad beginning considering. What a team from Greenville! Big, little, fat., thin-well, anyway, we won, 20 to 3. No Optimist meeting! Imagine! We are exposed to Dust of the Road in Chapel. Quite nice. say we. But not our reports. Much complaining over grades and exponents. Teachers say it's our fault, but we know better. Everybody escapes. Good will to all and peace on earth and in the hereafter to all teachers who give quizzes the day before holidays. Miss Chessman killed on way home to celebrate Christmas. Merry Christmas! JANUARY All good things have an end. School gets under way-by hearsay. Participate! Thus we are extolled by Miss Helene Schmidt, and in an interesting way, too. Game of Hunt the Picture by the Optimist Staff. If some of these seniors only knew what their physiognomies cost us in time! Eaton came, saw, and was conquered. We didn't cry. Score 20 to 3. Resolved: That the Optimist Staff shall not wash windows. Dr. Gardner tells the senior girls of the trials of a doctor. Middletonians today. Debate team before Rotarians. We resent that crack about Mr. Miller, Walker. We are warned in Chapel by Mrs, Wetzel to be very careful when we cross the streets. Aha! We buy activity tickets today. Now I know I can't eat tomorrow. Ado and harangue in home rooms about prohibition pro and ante. We lost to and at Norwood, 21 to 15. , Miss Allen gives the life story of a nurse to the senior girls. Another good profession gone wrong. Miss McCray is sung to heartily, if unharmoniously, in home room period. Debate in Chapel by affirmative against Oakwood. We won-need we say? Debate at Sidney by negative. Again we won. Paul Warner risks his life to represent his school. Miss McCray recovers after an apple roll in home room. The Optimist Staff profits most and will instigate further doings. Beat Kiser there by one point. Miss Evans paints Social Service in charming colors for the senior girls. Lowered prices in cafeteria. What big dinners were eaten! Miss Metzler approves of sample plate lunch except that it was a bit cold, Old timers tell of the good old days . We wish we had the stile of those times. Troy falls again-this time before our negative debaters. Hamilton beats us here 19 to 23. What a game and what a crowd! FEBRUARY A secretaryis job is to tote water to the boss, so we learn. fThat is-the senior girlsj. Spring is coming soon. Mr. Groundhog couldn't have seen his shadow with specs on. fC0?IfilZZlf'd on Page 1655 N031