Ottawa High School - On Ottawa Yearbook (Ottawa, OH)

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SENIUB UFFICEHS AND BABY PICTURES Secretary Pres1dent Vice President Treasurer Margaret Anspach Allan Gulker Ierry Salisbury Mae Beth Wmkler HU? Allan Gulker Iack Nusbaum Ierry Salisbury Eddy Kersh Mary Now Pat Maidlow Mae Beth Winkler

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CLASS HISTURY The numerals, 1948, will be written into the records as just another graduating class, but to those who were in school with its members and to the class itself, these num- erals will be symbols of good comradeship, loyalty, unity, and originality. Way back in the year 1936 we started on a trip that was to endure twelve long years. Miss McDowell and Miss Martha taught us the fundamentals of readin', 'ritin', and 'rith- metic in our first two years of school. Looking at an old class picture, we find that our class looked quite a bit different when we all got together in the third grade. Included in the picture are only six members of the present graduating class - Allan, Eddy, Margaret, Mae Beth, Pat, and Grace. From the third grade to the seventh, school was rather uneventful with each year's new subjects holding our attention. In about the middle of the fourth grade Ianell Groll came into our class. Then came the seventh and eighth grades -junior High School! At last we were at the East Building, getting closer to high school all the time. Don' McGinnis was added to the class of '48 in the eighth grade. Finally we got our diplomas and were in high school at last. Our freshman and sophomore years passed and our heads were still swimming with basketball, initiation, music, operettas and hundreds of other things, not to mention studying a little on the side. During these two years our class picked up four new members-Lydia, Mary, lack, and Ierry. And then our class was greatly grieved by the death of Tommy Maidlow, a willing worker and a swell fellow. We will always remember Tom and as we look back on this book we will think of Tom as one of us. 1947-upper classrnen at last! Miss Stauf- fer was our advisor and under her careful planning and direction things began to take shape. Allan Gulker was elected class presi- dent and the work began. The Iunior play, 'Sing for Your Supper , was presented and went over big-We think. And then the big event we had all dreamed about for years- our junior prom . The theme was based on a night club with Bones l:'rey's band enter- taining us. From there we looked forward with ioy to our senior year. We had gained another member this year in the person of Iarnes Howard. ln September of l947 fourteen young men and women came trudging up the steps and into Miss Frey's room. Seniors at last! Were we dreaming? No, it was true. Iohn Wil- loughby had joined our class and now our big Utopia was graduation. The endless repertoire of activities came in full force: but, through it all, emerged fourteen persons ready to go out and try to find their places in life. And so we go out into life thinking of many memories fathered throughout the years. This closely-knit class of 1948 came to school to learn, and they found one of the things that the whole world needs, true and lasting faith in their fellow workers.