New Lexington High School - Lexingtonian Yearbook (New Lexington, OH)

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TO SOME A PRISON— TO SOME A JOY— TO ALL AN OPPORTUNITY.

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LEXINGTONIAN Lexingtonian Staff 1925 Editor-in-Chief............. Assistant Editor Business Manager............ Assistant Business Manager Athletics................... Society..................... Jokes....................... Advertising Art......................... Mary Irene Bennett Dave Nash John Austin Hickman, Jr. Kathryn McCollister ............ Paul Robinson ...........Dorothy French Isabelle McDonald ..............Loy Greene ..........Frances Cooper .....Catherine Courtright Mary E. McCann Pearl Sherrick Zeta E. Coulter Class Historian Class Prophet... Class Poet...... Advisor

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mi: OLD HIGH SCHOOL Our own high school, founded nearly half a century ago, represents a long period of education and character building. Two score and eight years ago, in the year 1877, our high school was established. From an humble beginning, with one teacher and a handful of students it has grown into a community institution. Its growth and importance has been commensurate with that of the village, in which it was founded. Its sons and daughters are scattered over the length and breadth of the globe, some six hundred in number, and embracing every walk of life. In the professions, in business, in politics, social and home life they are found. To follow the life history of every important alumnus that has finished the work from this institution would require an endless task. Back in the first fifteen years of its existence the graduating classes did not average over four or five and in the year of 1880 only one, Samuel Chappelear, now and for many years last past a prominent banker of Los Angeles, Cal., was the only graduate. Prominent among the persons, who early finished their preparatory course here, were J. W. and W. J. Dusenberry, prominent lawyers, real estate men and capitalists of Columbus. The former finished in 1877 and the latter in 1881. They are loyal members of the alumni association and always respond in a substantial way at each annual gathering. Standing out among the girls, who have graduated in that period, is Miss Mabel E. Colborn of Columbus, class of ’85. Miss Col-born is head of the office of the American Insurance Union in that city, and is said to be the highest salaried woman in the State of Ohio. A brief survey of the roster of the alumni of half a century reveals the names of a host of men and women prominent in every walk of life. Besides those already mentioned, we might refer to John F. Ward, prominent Columbus attorney, class of ’93; Charles Mc-Gonagle, wholesale druggist, Honolulu, H. I.; Commander Glen Burrell of the class of 1900, high officer in the Navy, stationed at Lake-hurst, N. J.; James B. Yaw, well knowm Columbus attorney, class of ’02; John W. Dugan, present prosecuting attorney of this county; Fred H. Tracy, Cleveland attorney, class of ’05; Dr. James Dunn, ’06, dentist, Zanesville; Taine G. McDougal, one of the most brilliant lights that has gone through the school in recent years, now with the General Motors, Detroit, Mich., class of ’07; Rev. David S. Lamb has gone through the larger schools in the east and now occupies a pulpit in a Methodist church, class of ’09; John D. Clark, of Columbus, Ohio, a nationally known musician, class of TO; Ralph W. Pyle, a brilliant young attorney rising in prominence in Cleveland; Mell G. Underwood, class of ’ll, former prosecuting attorney, and now holds the honored position of Congressman in Washington; Dr. Geraldine Courtright, class of T4, one of the young ladies who has made her mark as one of the comparatively few lady dentists in the country; James Stinchcomb, class of T4, a thorough scholar and former principal and now holds a responsible position in the schools of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Attorney Paul Tague, class of ’05, and former prosecuting attorney Vincent Tague, class of ’ll, both prominent local attorneys; Emerson and Carl Wagner and Harold Powell, all three in class of T5, have completed the law course at Ohio State University, passed the bar, and are prominent in the local field. Numerous others could be cited but the above only have come into the mind of the writer.