Napoleon High School - Buckeye Yearbook (Napoleon, OH)

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- B U C K E Y E - Fow'Qj'Yea'rs H a'uew,Gone By The race is won! Now that we have reached the long desired end we pause a moment to look back over the race we have just completed. We entered the iirst lap of the race of higher education in 1934. Dur- ing this first year we spent much time adjusting ourselves to the newness of our situation. We were honor participants and proud of it. Besides concentrating on scholastic achievements, we took part in outside activities such as the Glee clubs, Girl Reserve and Hi-Y clubs, Band, Orchestra, Triangular and of course all the sports. The second lap saw us sprinting more vigorously. We had a previous rec- ord to uphold and more goals to reach. The third bend found us experienced sprinters and quite capable of hand- ling the duties which fall upon Juniors. We again had representatives in thc various organizations, sports and clubs and many of the members of our class had leading roles in the Operetta presented by the glee clubs. The junior class also staged a very successful play, displaying both dramatic and financial abilities. Our junior year was climaxed by the Junior-Senior Prom, a gala farewell to the Seniors. T We entered the fourth and final lap of the race with high hopes and eager- ness for the year and its contents which stretched invitingly before us. As Seniors we took the place of honor and lived up to it. The outstanding achievement of our Senior year in the way of sports was the record made by the basketball team which was composed almost entirely of seniors. Senior boys also took part in many of the other activities, winning glory for themselves as well as for the school. The Senior class was also well represented on the debate squad and the Glee Clubs which took part in the Henry County Music Festival and the local May Festival. A newly added feature during our senior year was the Student Council suggested by a member of our class which proved to be very successful. The last few days of our final lap are the fullest. The Junior-Senior Prom, Baccalaureate, graduation all follow in rapid succession. Graduation day marked the end of our very successful race but it also signilies the beginning of a new race-the race of life . Let us all resolve to run the race fairly and square- ly. making the most of our opportunities and living life to the fullest. NEVAH MOHLER

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-BUCKEYE-- Bernadine Van Streader Dora Belle Vonier Ruth Vorwerk Donald Walters Madalin Welso Norma Wcschc Evelyn Willard Fred Winseman Willis Yackee lilenor Young Bernadine Van Streader Commercial Course Class Basketball 3-4. . , . Her open eyes desire the truth: the tuisrlom of mana tfears is in them . . , All lrunqtiilila and smiles 4 , . ronsitlerule . . . Dora Belle Vonier Commercial Course Xklauseon l: Glee Club Zi. . . . A bil of llaree in her' name and smile . . L'liL'lli'10US lady . . . Ruth Vorwerk Science Course News Stall: Glee Club l-2-3-4. , . . willing worker . . . a ralm and plafirl totintenumre , . . tupalrle. . . Donald Walters General Course Class Basketball -l: liootball l: Band 4, , , . Llllillt' grins . . . igneous hair . . . mechan- iculltf minclt-tl. . Eleanor Young College Course Triangular l-Z-3: News Staff: Annual Staflg Girl Reserves l-2-'Se-l: Glee Club l-2-'Sz Class Basketball l-Z-3: Junior Class Play: Senior Class Play. l:'llic'ienc'a , . . poise . . . Vogue . . . gifl o' gala . . . she wears her few years with cligniltf . . vivid, 24 Norma Wesche College Course Class Treasurer 3: Annual Staff: Glee Club 2. . . . Naturalness . . Semper eudem . . . candid in discourse . . . Hjocund as a field of cotuslzps' . . . opinionated . . . Evelyn Willard Commercial Course . . . A mind ar peace wilh all below . . . jorular . . . a pleasing rounfentlnre is a silent reconvnwndalion'' . . . Fred Winseman General Course Passive in manner, slrong in deed . leisurely industry. . . Willis Yackee General Course Holgate l-Z: Annual Staff: Class Basketball 3--la Senior Class Play. , . . rougish wil . , . the original Wee Willie. . . ll's hard Io keep a good man down . . . u paroxysm of nervous elferuesrenfeu . . Give me more work, l wan! my money's Luorlhf' Madalin Welson College Course Annual Stall: Girl Reserves 3-4: Glee Club l-2-3-4. . . , u keen and ready Lui! . . . gdiely . . arafia placenali , . .

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--BUCKEYE- S0 THEY LIVEI lf anyone had said to me a year ago, George Thistlewaite, you're going to win the 1948 Mehring prize for outstanding research in the field of education. why I would have questioned the person's brain capacity. which certainly proves that you never can tell. I was sitting in my raoio room before my combination television newspaper radio set. listening to the clicking of the newspaper apparatus and televiewing the China Bowl football game. When the clicking stopped, I reached over for the paper as usual, but what was my surprise to see on the front page, Millionaire Baseball Player Offers Prize for Educational Re- search. I remember it as plainly as though it were yesterday. It went on to tell about how the famous Lute Mehring whose Baberuthian prowess is so great that he has more money than he can use, was offering five hundred thousand dollars to the person supplying the most infor- mation about his former classmates of Napoleon High School, Class of 1938. When question- ed as to his motives for this strange act, the star replied to the effect that not only was he curious to see what had happened to his old classmates, but he wished to further educational research by showing what had happpened to the graduates of a typical high school during the time that had elapsed since graduation, and thereby prove whether or not the old educational methods were better than our modern system of doing away with the classroom and putting the student on his own initiative. This was the sum and substance of the article which started me on the road to fame and fortune. for I determined then and there that my mission would be to find the 1938 graduates of N. H. S. and incidentally win the S500,000. Well all I can say is it was a hard fight, Ma, trackin' 'em down. but I won. Here you may see the results for yourself. Among the elite of good old Mehico and points North, South. East and West, that amazing young toreadorette. Signora Emilia Arrisona, Cas she is known around her chosen abodel has started a social commotion. No red cloth, only a few well-chosen, rapid right-to- left movements of her powerful eyes and the situation is well under control. Lately it's rumor- ed that bulls are not all to fall under her spell and that Seignors W. Ruetz and W. Reinking have flown down to Rio with other than oil interests in mind. Using her early training to good advantage. Marcella Forney has become No. l G-Girl and with able assistants B. Van Streader and G. M. Armstrong is a force to be felt. The girls attribute all their success to their motto-which they borrowed from the Royal Mounties. Just off Broadway stands the picturesque Little Gypsy Tearoom run by the Misses Becker, Franz and Slagle. Besides delicious food. they have an exotic fortune teller. Madame Mystero, who can see everything in a cup of tea leaves. It is not generally known that the Madame is Dot Bernicke and that she hails from Ohio. Last year she was visited by Dorothy Riessen. Madame told Dorothy that a dark man would come into her life. Today the head- lines announce that Prince Rober Kolbk Cfrom that mystic kingdom of Nertzapotaniaj has taken for his bride an American girl. Miss Dorothy Riessen. Of course, everyone knows about that noted New York barrister, Lynn Woodward, President of the New York Stock Exchange. President of the International Music Association, President of the National Alumni Association, and now a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Recently, Betty Marie Rettig. employee of the Russell Rohrs Amalgamated Airlines. was chief stewardess on the plane which Jane Withers took on her return trip to Hollywood. Both Miss Rettig and Mr. Rohrs graduated in 1938. Andre CBillJ Brubaker, internationally known canine beautician, has just received patent No. 296,378,542 which insures his exclusive right to the process for making French poodle's ears stand up. Luther Durham, remarkable horticulturist. is famed for his new flower, the gladiolamum, with which he is decorating the homes of the best families. All Toledo and points West are thrilled with the news that Leo Shondell, leader of the Sweet Symphony Swingers has signed a 5-year contract for weekly engagements at the Trianon Ballroom which he frequented in bygone days. Autograph hunters have been bounding him almost as much as they hound his famed clarinetist. Red Walters. Bets are equally divided over that football battle of the century between N. Y. U., coached by Lymie Lymangrover, and Southern California, under Skinny Deblin. Dora Vonier, Parisian correspondent for Vogue, has just sailed for Paris on the S. S. Seasick, to view the latest summer styles. She hopes to meet Florence Funchion. who is model- ing in the Au Printemps, and Marcella Bowerman, who is traveling companion to Miss Norma Van Wesche. Miss Wesche has been touring the seven continents. Clayton Knepley has been elected President of the P. F. A. for the 10th consecutive year. Genevieve Lowry. the skating star, biggest sensation since I-Ieinie, begins her twenty- third week at the Iciclonia. She's a genius-and awfully easy on the ice -or eyes. Take your choice! Wonder why our classmate. the presidential candidate, always seems to rate a ringside seat. Eleanor Higgins, the bowler who has just completed a coast-to-coast tour exhibiting her prowess, will sail tomorrow for England in search of new worlds to conquer. We hear from reliable sources that Jeree Reichert will receive the Academy Award for her portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara in i'Gone With the Wind, the picture which has been promised us for the past eleven years. Could it be that directors were waiting for La Reichert to grow up?