Norwood High School - Silhouette Yearbook (Norwood, OH)

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WWW W'''wwfwwwwwllwwwfwlwmwwwvflwewfwf f- W-WWW ,mmm-Wfw IW W Qwwlwwwwafwa ew A The Gift of the February Class HROUGHOUT the last two years, the February Class of l926 saved nickels and dimes which we gave into the keeping of our Treasurer, Austin Barrows. Then, when we were preparing to leave school in January, we found that we had a nice little surplus accumulated during this time. After we had paid all our expenses, we had sufficient funds to make our Alma Mater a gift in slight return for all the educational advantages and the many splendid opportunities offered us. After a short discussion, we decided to buy two basketball score boards. These, we thought, would prove a very suitable remembrance, as the school had long been in need of a device of this kind to record the scores of the fine games which the teams of Norwood High always play in basketball. We, of the February Class of 1926, sincerely hope that in the future years Norwood will continue to have good basketball teams,-teams which will always iight hard and play fairg and that when the final whistle blows for any game played on the home floor the points recorded on our score boards under the name NORWOOD will always be the greater. CARL SCHMUELLING. 25

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