Oberlin High School - O High Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Seventh Grade We were at frrst overwhelmed by our new surroundnngs but rt drdnt take us long to become ac customed to them We wondered how we could ever be as old or as bxg as those semors Our class valentrne party was a brg success and we felt that we had a rrght to be proud when our Engllsh class presented for an assembly an orrgrnal productron called Rlp Van Fowler Ezghth Grade Most of the grrls had a crush on the new assrstant football coach Dean Behr Some poetry even resulted Patty brought toy tops to school and they became almost as great a menace as the paper wad Who wrll ever forget our Treasure Island projects or The Walrus and the Carpenter from our musrc classes? Frerhrnan Year Our ABC football team ended the season wrth three wrns and three defeats and we resolved to have a champronshrp varsnry team rn our senror year Green and grey were chosen as our class colors and we went through the old old struggle wxth the upper classmen seelng who would have frnal pos sessron of our freshman caps At last we were allowed to attend school dances and we took an rncreased rnterest nn all school affarrs Mrs Kelly told us that we behaved lrke chrldren but thrs dldn t dampen our sprrrts and we retalrated by brrngrng toys to school We publrshed a booklet of frosh personals Included among the frosh celebrrtres were Mary Ann Hunsrcker Elrzabeth and Ruth Young Robert Coleman Davxd Mabry Barbara Bradshaw Joe Semeny Martha Robertson Patty Worcester Theron Burnett Mary Ann Srngleton and Rosalrnd Kennedy people who are now gone but who wnll never be forgotten as members of our class There was a record number of freshmen rn both O Hrgh Lrghts and glee club Who can ever for get our GAA 1n1trat1on9 Several of the grrls were rn O High Players productron A Cup of Sugar and everybody was grven a chance to dxsplay hrs talent rn the skrts on Dawd Copperfreld Sophomore Year Our brology trrp to Toledo was one of the hxghlrghts of thus year Yo yos became the fad and we took up cheer leadrng rn Lat1n class We composed our autobrographres Cvolumes of frfteen chapterslj and slaved over Sala: Marner and Mrdrumrner Nzghtr Dream Sprmg came and a good many of us trled our hand at the drstrrct scholarshlp tests junzor Year Thrs year H1Y Club was started agarn Of course the new members mxssed IHIIIHIIOU but the Fme Arts grrls werent so lucky and they ll never forget those blue pulls Our football team won the Loranne County Champlonshlp CRemember the Beat Medlna campa1gn9D Thrs was the frrst year for jumor Hrgh Grrls Glee Club and the second for our school dance band The Senators In GAA the yumor grrls were vrctorrous rn all four sports A Panel made up of srx members of our class drscussed How an We Improve Our School? Other class projects mcluded the Junror Carnrval our productron of the first act of Thornton Wrlders Our Town and the Jumor Senror Prom wrth the audrtorrum dec orated to resemble an underwater scene The Frne Arts weekend Macbeth the hrstory essay contest and drrvers trammg frlled our junlor year wlth actrvrtres Whlih make many happy memorres Senzor Year It seems xmpossrble that we have frnally reached our last year of hugh school Wxth George Peabody as senate presrdent and Kerth Wrllrams as class presrdent we start off our frnal year Before we gather at the senror rarlmg and we revel rn the phrase Senrors out frrst' as we leave assemblxes Class rmgs semor sweaters rn our new colors of blue and whrte and our class song all help to rncrease our class sp1r1t Our prcnxc at Mohrcan was a day we wrll long remember Under the dnrectron of LOUISE Sxmpson and Kerth Wnllrams we worked hard on our annual and we started off our sales campalgn with an assembly rn whxch was shown a serres of flashbacks on Oberlln Hxgh School rn 1952 Our dream came true As our football team tred for flrst place rn the league the grrls had to carry out therr part of a bar garn and dress up for a week of school Another class proyect was a trrp to see the play Bzography The Bzg Potato was chosen as our senror play Memorres for thrs year rnclude the Atlantzc Monthly essay contest Hamlet the H1 Y Chrlstmas trees another successful year for our GAA grrls, and the many scholarship and rnterest tests Wrth each new actrvrty we are remmded that thus rs the last ttme Our dreams for the rest of the year rncludes the junor Senror Prom a trrp to Washington and of course the grand frnale our graduauon . . . . , D 7 . . . . ,, . ,, , . . , . . - .. U - . . . , ' a 9 9 ' ' 1 . . , , . 1 s x a a a 1 a 1 , , . . . . . . . . , . ,. ,, I a . s ' - , ' - 7 - 4 7 u . . . I . . x - a Q . , , . . , . . . H . ,, . . . . - - 1 -1 n - - , . . . . . . . . . . ,, P ,, . . . . . x., . , 1 v - ' . , . - s 1 7 , . . . . . ,, . . ,, . . 1 1 ' ' 1 7 3 I n , - . , . , I ' , . u . . , . ' 9 J 3 s , .