Ottawa Hills High School - Mesasa Yearbook (Ottawa Hills, OH)

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HISTORY I By The Time Those EighTh Graders became Treshmen, The very ThoughT OT ThaT long Trek over The hill To DeVilbiss sTruclc Terror' in Their hearTs, caused Their ruddy liTTle cheelcs To Turn pale. The easy ouT was obviously a new high school building which They could reach in one minuTe TlaT. l-lence, a peTiTion To The Board. hence The vigorous cam- paign, and lperish The memoryll The subsTiTuTion oT pro-school propa- ganda Tor anTi-school diTTo. IT Took a li++Ie Time beTore Their idea clicked-buT iT did cliclc. WiTh The passage OT The bond issue, The iubilaTion oT The Village, aided by The Tom-Toms, bonTire, and parade oT The class, knew no bounds. Gleeifully This class in SepTember I939 leTT cramped quarTers in The elemenTary building Tor spacious classrooms across The Tield. Since This was The year I l3.L. lBeTore Landscapingl, noT so gleeTully They oozed Their way Through grade A mud. Now, OT course, They walk on The grass. The Tinal Two years oT The Class oT '4I have been chuck Tull oT evenTs-Tour successTul plays, impressive honors in sporTs, memorable parTies, scholasTic honors, complicaTed romances, scoreboard and oTher campaigns, assemblies, The TirsT Mesasa. And now They graduaTev These cherulos. More power To Them! 25

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0 SENICDTQ ThirTeen years ago Tour members oT The Class oT '41, nibbling The ineviTable apple, skipped up a winding gravel paTh. Their beaming liTTle Taces were Turned Toward an old Tea house which was now To be school . The liTTle dears bounced over The Threshold, raised Their pip- ing voices in Good Morning To You , and smiled complacenTly as Teacher recorded FriTz, Jean, Phyllis, and Jim among oThers in The kindergarTen. Tsk! Tsk! LiTTle did Their innocenT liTTle brains know whaT lay ahead -spankings, TexT books, exams, deTiciency slips, broken hearTs, prom Tormals, colleges, and careers. Being brighT, They graduaTed Trom kindergarTen in one year. Soon They skipped over To a new building, The presenT elemenTary school, To conTinue The learning process, There, wiTh mixed emoTions, They waTched The growTh oT The Class oT '4I, The nucleus oT which was well Tormed early in grade school. Soon, aTTer a very deTiniTe espriT de corps grew, The class leTT The years sprinkled wiTh such noTorious inci- denTs as The ceiling which was plasTered wiTh mashed poTaToes, The eleganT Table linen which was spoTTed. rides in Jay's Truck, Friday nighT geTfTogeThers, and oTher incidenTs which may be classified among The unmenTionable. 24

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