Middletown High School - Optimist Yearbook (Middletown, OH)

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ENGLISH AND LITERATURE.. Oh My Aching Head! Dictionaries and Thanatopsis may sound pretty uninteresting to us now, but by the time we're all settled into our various professions and enterprises, we'll be thankful that we have that strong foundation in the use of the English language, for it is necessary to everyone of us, no matter what career we may choose. A secretary, for instance, who tells her boss that she never didn't get no letter from they, isn't never going to have no job for long. And what kind of doctor would a man be if he couldn't spell? Clerks in stores, traffic officers, professional artists and Fuller brush salesmen - none of them can do their work without talking, and they'll thank their English teachers that the right words are being used at the right time. The library of M. H. S. is something to be very happy about. Novels and short stories, newspapers, biographies - all are there, and all are important in teaching us the true value of good literature. 8

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ASSETS VALUEU. the , HH. .f7 W N, Q W' - RQ Q How often we'll look back, recalling the glorio:s days we spent at M. H. S. We wonlt all remem- ber the same things. Some will remember the gang, the notes that were passed in the halls, the crowd around the bulletin board each morning. Others will recall the crazy fads that started, Schmoes and the new look, the times we had to stand on the track at the basketball games because there wasn't room downstairs, the eternal homework we had to do, the teachers that put up with our pranks. Some will know by heart the poems they learned in English literature. Yes, we'll not remember the same things, but we will remember, for M. H. S. is well worth remembering. 7 IllllIIlllllIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll:

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Research? F A C U L T Y X EDNA ELAM ' ' A. B. Antioch Collegeg M. A., Ohio 1 j State University l ' if f English ELLEN EASTON A. B., Wittenbergg M, A., University of Michigan English ELEANOR HAUEISEN B. A., B. S. in Ed., Ohio State, B. L. S., Western Reserve Lilnwrrizzn BESS MARIE HOOVER A. B.,Miami University Erzglfish DOROTHY JOHNSON A. B., Ohio Wesleyan English, Mathemaffcs All The Perfumes of Arabia Edna Ellen Eleanor Bess Dorothy Elam Easton Haueisen Hoover Johnson 9