Middletown High School - Optimist Yearbook (Middletown, OH)

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AMANDA EUNICE ADAMS You're seen and not heard. RUTH ALDERTON Boots and saddles. Girl Reserves. HARLAND ALEXANDER Strike up the band. Band, German Club, Hi-Y, Orchestra. LAWRENCE ALEXANDER Throw away your music and just swing. German Club, Hi-Y. LONNIE ALEXANDER Alexander's ragtime band. Band, Biology Club, Camera Club, Debate Club, Football, Glee Club, History Club, Hi-Y, Optimist, Orchestra, Track, Tempo Club. STANLEY ALLEN l'm dependable. SENIORS MARGARET AMATULLI Mama, I want to make rhythm. Glee Club, Sandwich Girls. MARGIE M. AMIOT Three cheers. Charm Club, Cheerleaderr, Class Secretary, Glee Club, Home Ec Club, National Honor Society, Middletonian Optimist, Purple Masquers, Student Council. EDWIN ANDERSON Born to dance. MARY E. APPLE An apple for the teacher. Charm Club, Optimist. CHRISTINE ASHCRAFT Rendezvous with a dream. Girl Reserves, Purple Masquers. BRUNETTA BAGGETT Sunshine of your smile. Girl Reserves, Home Ec Club, Personality Club, Tempo Club. THOMAS BAIRD, JR. Go it while you're young. Band, Camera Club, Chemistry Club, Hi-Y, Student Council. LAURA BAKER I live the life I love. Art Club, Charm Club, Girl Reserves, Purple Masquers. BOB BALES Footloose and fancy free. Biology Club, Glee Club, Hi-Y, Spanish Club, Student Council. Q J :Ml Ebb We' the classy of 171

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Senior Class Officers Lawrence Da Rif, President Bob Heil, Vice President Margie Amiof, Secretary Bob Nickell, Treasurer SENIOR CLASS HISTORY On the record for the Class of '40 is a series of events and activities of which we may well be proud. Scholastic endeavor occupies the First groove of our class record. We have competed with other scholarship teams at Oxford, Ohio and have received honors in the district and in the entire state. The activities in speech deserve special mention in the next groove. Our debate teams have worked diligently, winning second place in the district. jim Sheets and Bob Heil, the negative team, have made an extraordinary record. Bob Heil has also placed high in the extemporaneous speech contests which have been held in the last two years. This year he was voted the best speaker in the district. On the record for dramatics are the splendid presentations of Green Stockings, our Sophomore Class Play, and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, given the following year. A number of our classmates have been outstanding in art and music. Bonnie Murray and Bob Burkhardt placed high in the national music contest held at Anderson, Indiana. Our band is elated over the invitation extended to them to play at the World's Fair in New York City this summer. . By no means can we omit from our class record the many social activities which filled our school life. The Junior-Senior Prom of 1939 held in the spacious ballroom of the Hotel Manchester was a never-to-be-forgotten affair. Among the leap year dances given this year was the formal given by the Senior Girl Reserves, the first group of Girl Reserves to be organized in Middletown. We were also the iirst to initiate the plan of having the same home room for three years and introduced a new design for our senior class rings. Our football squad with Lawrence Da Rif as captain won every game but one. Captain Carl Daniel led the basketball team in establishing a record surpassed only by the team of 1927. What is to be recorded in future years by the members of the Class of '40 we do not know, but if they continue at their present pace, the record of this class will not fall into oblivion. It is with hearts full of sincere appreciation and deep regret that we bid fare- well to dear old M. H. S. E161

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i t if , I f- ViyViL Q'q,.l11g.l JJ! for? ty , En-tered 18 GRACE BALLARD You took me over in your own quiet way. Purple Masquers. HELEN ALOHA BALLARD Don't ever change. Girl Reserves, Junior Class Play, Optimist, National Honor Society, Purple Masquers, Sandwich Girls, Socc and Buskin, Sophomore Class Play, Ye Merrie Jesters. GOLDIE BALSER Sweet like you. Girl Reserves. LEATHA BANKS TerribIy attractive. Girl Reserves, Glee Club, Home Ec Club, Optimist, Personality Club, Student Council, Tempo Club, ESSIE BARBER I got a poclcetful of dreams. Girl Reserves. LAWRENCE BARKER Dreamer of dreams. SENICRS GLORIA BARNES Good morning, Glory. Biology Club, Charm Club, Girl Reserves, Middletonian. JACK BARRETT The sheik of Araby. Art Club, Hi-Y, Track. CHARLES BARTON Af your beck and call. Chemistry Club, Hi-Y, Minute Men. JUNE R. BAUER I can go wherever I please. Camera Club, Chemistry Club, Girl Reserves, Purple Masquers. ROBERT BAUSMAN I laugh at Mr. Art Club. i BECKETT dance. 11 worry high and dry. Girl Reserves. LARA MAE BELLE -4 Smile the clougzls away. Girl Reserves. R 1 - . , .i dl Ric:-:Arlo c.'.mgNDEL V his glluitar played a tune. Band, Football, Purple Masquers, Tempo Club, Track.