Norwood High School - Silhouette Yearbook (Norwood, OH)

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22 THE MIRROR Qllazz Ell-Iiatnrg 1 922 tOUR years ago, one bright September morning, one hundred and some odd lads and lassies, full of the importance of being high-school pupils. marched proudly down Sherman Avenue. We entered a new world .with fear and trembling and vague anticipations. We were received with a royallt welcome by the other classes. who hazcd us umnercifully. Some of the boys were even taken to foreign parts of Ohio and left to the mercy of the elements and their own feet to return to home and nmama. The first year was one long struggle to adapt ourselves to new conditions. XYe lost our individualities and were merged into a pliable mass known as the uD Grade. We struggled desperately to learn the varying dispositions of our teachers. We had scarcely become accustomed to one when the bell rang and we would ascend or descend to conform to the ideas of our new instructor. However, our first year passed swiftly, for it was the year of the influenza epidemic and we were cheated, shall we say, of attending school for several months. We were not noted for much the First year but causing trouble, and the only notable thing we did was to ithunk. We closed the year llunwept, unhonored and unsung? The Sophomore year was a vast improvement over the Freshman. We con- ducted ourselves creditably this year, and we all studied hard enough to make up for the failures of the preceding year. We regained our individualities and self- respect. and no longer felt so frightfully inadequate to the demands made upon us. XVe won a few honors, which we thankfully accepted and enjoyed in our humble way tthough we always did believe in getting all that was coming to usl. We were Juniorseupper ClassmenenTest cc pas? We were now allowed to have our own class organization. We held our first class meeting and elected the following officers: Ray Wilson. President; Martha Bennett, Viee-President; Thelma Adams. Secretary, and Alfred Porter, Treasurer. Some time later our Class Colors. Blue and Gold, were chosen. This year was marked by our first lttaste of social pleasure, and the start was made by a party at the Y. W. C. A. During the Christmas holidays we entertained the Seniors with a dance which was sparsely populated until about 10 olclock, when a regiment of classmates of the male species arrived. The Erst semester examinations came, but due to the new regime many were fortunate enough to escape the miseries. With the new semester came new ofhcers, as: Clark Valentiner, President; Ethel Chamberlin, Vice-Presi- dent: James McPherson, Secretary; Chester Osterman, Treasurer. After much raking and scraping together of hard-earned cash we were able to finance the Junior issue of the MIRROR, and did very well, considering our inexperience in such things. lVe also began to shine in athletics, as Valley tC. Valentinea and Jimmy 0 Me- Phersonl were on the basket ball squad as well as the baseball team, but on the latter team we had one more man in the form of John Knudsen. Moreover, we must not forget Sara Metzger on the girls, basket ball team, and we know she would not have done nearly as well had she not taken Domestic Science, in which she learned to juggle hot biscuits in the air in order to cool them. The hnal examie nations were our ttadieull for the year, but we looked forward to the coming year with hope and longing.

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A Reflection of Norwood High School 23 Our last and our best year of our sojourn at Norwood Hi. The officers for the year were: Edward Mottern, President; Catherine Doll, Vice:President; Mile dred Kahle, Secretary; Walter Emmerling, Treasurer. Second semester: Alfred Porter, President; Anna Rees, Vice-President; Rachel Latham, Secretary; Joe ylaspers, Treasurer. This year we explored a new fieldaChemistryeand, being brilliant chemists, there were no czlsualtiesl We also developed a dearer friendship with Messieurs Frazer et Squair than in our Junior year. One of the biggest social events of the year was the Freshman Reception, which, in our opinion, was a sub cess. The MIRROR was talten over. as is the custom, by the Seniors, and it has progressed in all lines of its activities. We were entertained in February with 21 dance given by the Juniors, and it was at this affair that one of our most honored Seniors endeavored to empty the punch-llowl by himself. Later the Seniors enter- tained the Juniors by :1 simiiar :1..air. Essays, if they are to be judged by Carlylels Essay on Bums, are certainly dry, Lut we sincerely hope that our csauays, with which we struggled, were not dry for Miss Jacob. Although our days at Norwood High are fast drawing to a close, the days spent there will remain happy memories with us throughout life. We leave with thoughts of tender affection lor our school and all it means. The precepts which have been inculcated here will never be forgotten, and in the future, tlwhen manhood totters and success wretlts with honor, we shall be haunted by the memories of gentle. firm, strong meniour teachersiwho never lost the vision of virtue and culture, and in our darkest hours their shadowing hands shall seem to beckon us upward. JULIUS HALL, JOSEPH JASPERS, ELIZABETH MCCARTHY. LE! Q