New Haven High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (New Haven, OH)

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CLASS HISTOR Y Twelve years ago, the senior class of 4-8 , or most of it, walked through the doors of various school buildings for the first time, and optimistically demanded an education. Of the twenty-eight first graders who started here in 1936, only three--Clair Buckingham, Donald Gurney, and Cloyce Slessman have completed , their entire twelve years of school in the New Haven School. The rest of the present Senior Class has joined this trio, either in the grades, or in high school. We started our high school career with an enrollment of nineteen eager freshmen, briming with that naive self-assurance that only freshmen possess. The class were as follows: Bill Adams, Clair Buckingham, Elmer Clark, Stanley Cok, Donald Gurney, Donald Jamison, Zoe King, jennie Newmeyer, james Mitchell, Martha Ann Phillips, Ruth Ritz, Robert Robinson, Patty Roe, Don Sharpless, Ronald Shirey, Cloyce Slessman, john Turner, Dora Turner, and Norman Wiers. We had a lot less of IT after initiation. However, we recovered in time to enjoy four parties during the year. We were greatly assisted by our sponsor, Mrs. Kathyrn Roe. We entered our Sophomore year with fifteen. Our sponsor this year was Miss Kuhn and our president was Donald Gurney. We had several parties, and we also were active in sports and other extra activities. When we came to school as juniors, with an enrollment of thirteen we missed several old faces. We had a new Superintendent, Mr. Wayne Townsend, and a new coach., Harry Duffy. Our junior year was a period of steady activity. Six of us went out for basketball, some of us in the play, and our wonderful trip to New York, Niagra Falls and Washington D. C. We had a few parties during this year, which was satisfactorily concluded with a picnic by the entire school. Our Senior year, which began with an enrollment of twelve, has been a busy one. Mr. Russel Heisler was hired as our coach this year. All of our acti- vities were pursued with the help of our sponsor, Mrs. M. Roe. We are looking forward to the banquet which the junior Class is to prepare for us. Since we started as Freshmen, we have lost one member of our class to the armed force, Ronald Shirrey. We will always be grateful to our parents for providing us with the oppor- tunity to receive an education, and to our teachers for the patience and consider- ation they have shown throughout the years we were with them. Our faith is our home and our school is the basis of the of the confidence with which we face the future. Donald jamison Cloyce Slessman Jennie Newmeyer

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CLASS PROPHECY One day while sitting at my desk at City Hospital in Denver, Colorado, I was admiring a beautiful bouquet of white roses. As I gazed at them my thoughts reminded me of the twelve white roses pinned on twelve blue and white gowns as the members of my class went forward to receive their diplomas on graduation night. My thoughts carried me to the many places my classmates had drifted to in the ten years. Elmer Clark,after graduating had taken up amateur basketball and football at Heidelberg College. Then in 1959 he returned to New Haven and become foot- ball coach for New Haven's top billed, football team. Cloyce Slessman whom everyone thought would be just a plain farmer all his life, surprised everyone by becoming a construction engineer and is now in charge of building two extra stories to the Empire State Building. Donald Sharpless had become a garage mechanic in Willard where he worked for eight years. He then bought alarge garage in Michigan where it has grown into a large and successful business in just two years. Stanley Cok whom everyone thought would be Celeryville's next minister rather shocked and surprised us all by becoming, of all things, the Ringmaster of the Barnum and Bailey Circus and is traveling around the country all the time. Jennie Newmyer has settled down and is happily married to Bob jaynes and they are living in Ontario, Canada. Patty Roe went to Miami, Florida and has become a teacher of Political Science and has just announced that she will run for Mayor of Miami in the fall election. Dolores Saunders has gone to South Africa and is the missionary to the people in a village in the Congo Valley. The chief of one of the main tribes there, I learned, has made her White Princess of his tribe. She seems to like it because she has cancelled her trip home to the U. S. indefinitely. Dean jaminson had gone to the University of Great Lakes where he took up Naval Engineering. The last I heard from him he was onia little island in the .prpxip-ings and was arranging to have his wife, june, brought down there with him. They were going to live there as Dean liked the climate so well. Clair Buckingham has moved his' Allis-Dhalmers business to Illinois and is successful there. He has opened his-branch officesin six states so it looks as if he is doing very well for himself since graduating.