Mount Vernon High School - Forum Yearbook (Mount Vernon, OH)

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'1' H E F o R U M enior Class Organization This Senior Class experienced early in the school year a typical election procedure similar to regular elections of a national or state character. This pla11 for the Seniors to select and elect their class officers provided a two-fold opportunity for them, namely, a proper and fair method of choosing their class officials and a very appropriate means of comprehending the significance of one of the most responsible duties of citizenship. The preliminary development of this election began with the student who desired an office or who desired to throw his hat in the ring politically speaking, by circulating or by permitting the circulation of his nominating petition. This petition had to be properly signed by a required minimum of eligible voters and filed with a general board of elections at a fixed date pre- ceding the primary election. This procedure naturally divided the class 1nai11- ly into two groups, College and Commercial, and thus provided for the need- ed political factions and fervor to permit a typical party election. Individual campaigning 9l1l13,l1C6Ll the inclination of students to align themselves into definite party affiliation. The primary was held strictly in accord with state primary elections, with regular precinct officials performing the general duties and eligible voters voting according to party preferences. Wlieli the results of this primary were announced the strength or weakness of the party was plainly evidenced and a political scramble began now to win votes for the respective parties in the final regular election. A general mass meeting of all Senior voters was called in which the candidates were introduced and their platforms and policies made known. This afforded the voters a fair chance to acclaim their favorite can- didates in as much political enthusiasm as they desired to show. The regular election followed in due time. Again the opportunity was presented for the civic participation of all eligible members in the class in a vitally interesting, important, a11d privileged duty. ln this last step, the civic lesson of responsible voting was clinched. The Seniors now practiced their real experience of secret voting, marking of ballots, and rules concerning elec- tions. This class, therefore, may justly feel proud and grateful that they have all shared in an impartial method in selecting their class officials. By such procedure also, it is hoped, that each may have gained a worthy respect for the proper use of that civic duty which is his in whatever endeavor his fu- ture course may lead. LL. O. Page Forty-Three

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THE FORUM lass Will 1 Jack tSt00gej Fink bequeaths his passion for closely cropped lot-ks to Jack Fribley. 2 Dorothy VVest regretfully leaves her poise and equilibrium to the de- siring Isabel Dubinsky. 3 Ned Cochran is unable to leave anything: because ot' Miriam. 4 Rosalie llalo wills her extreme interest in religious plays to Nancy Blue. :i -lack ttioonj Jenkins tenders his dominance to Alice Dickenson. ti Ruth Nelson reluctantly entrusts Charlie to the eare ot' the Junior girls. 7 Hllank Chambers and Jack lleck leave their basketball garb to the up-and-coming star, Lowell Perkins. 8 The trusty dandruff-proof steel eomb which has been a eonstaut eom- panion to Edgar Terry, we entrust to llud Deeley, hopefully. 9 Raymond Lahn1on's magnetic personality and appeal is willed to Joe Beaver. 1.0 Jim Miller's Herculean stature we bestow upon Ralph Lipscomb. 11, Sara .lane Eckert bequeaths her menu secrets for reducing' bigger and better Girl Reserves to her successor. 12 Our interpreter of the English lang'uag'c, Flo llanningr, tenders her colossal, stupendous vaeabulary to the promising' lexieographer, Mar- garet Simpkins. 13 Paul Mclllanis and Andy , Anderson will their intense interest in 1Vooster millinery shop and brush factory to lllurray Loekard and Billy Levering. 14 Don 1Voolson leaves his other half in the tender care ot Miss Koons. 15 The angelic behavoir of Jack Workman is willed to Elizabeth Smith. 16 Bob Chilcotels frequent attendance at evangelist prayer meetings is left to Jim Boyd. 17 Eileen Kirkpatrick bequeaths her unruffled disposition to Ilelen Lynde. 18 Bill Black and Lynn Thuma will their philosophical research to Gor- don Sperry and Mary Stauffer. 19 VVe, the Senior Class, present a bushel of uninhabited red apples to the faculty, in care of the daring' sleuth, 'tIlawky Corwin. Witli this our last Will and Testament, we, the Seniors, in witness here- of subscribe our name 011 this, the seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred thirty-four. The Class of 1934 VVitnesses: Jane Fettig Katherine Olvey Emily Deeley. Page Forty-Four

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THE FORUM sooiated with it. Many a man there is who still recounts his climbing' the creaking stairs to the dusty bell tower and lending a hand to the ringing of a victory bell or to the floating of class colors to the breeze. In reminiscing we are reminded of tales of other days: of warm radiators convenient for pungent cheeses, of an awesome skeleton, brought to light on special oecasionsg of triangular platforms in each rear corner of 17, where supervisor sat behind a tall desk, of daily chapel service with every teacher seated on the platform, the ladies in stiffly starelied and uncomfortable shirt- waists and heavy woolen skirts neatly touching the much-greased floor, of class newspapers really printed by upper classes, of annual spring displays of elass colors, the girls with yards of ribbon streamersg the boys, with variegated l ose- of all dav micnics bv llav-rig-fin' and night oyster suppers by bob-sled. l 1 f. l. . . hh :- The history f1'om 1925 to 15150 in this really new building will be much the same but very different, a not impossible paradox. I-ly that time we shall have built to the west and to the east, there will be a Junior High School to take care of seventh, eighth and ninth and our sophomores, .juniors and seniors will have room to spread. The history of the present besides high scholarship attainmeuts and n1uel1 hard work must record Music of many kinds, athletics of various types, Girl Reserves, Student Council, National Honor Society, Hi-Y's, and clubs galore, all functioning in well-lighted and ventilated class-rooms and in an auditor- ium of unassuming dignity and beauty, of which we may well be proud. il -Ji Z S ff b L4 Y' Page Forty-Two