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

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OT BLE EVENTS OF '48-'49 September . . . Back to the mines, kiddies . . . Such a misery. Only one hun- dred seventy-nine school days 'til June tenth. Football team collapses en masse from heat prostration . . . seniors initiated into mysteries of weekly theme and book report . . . first issue of new improved Arrowhead comes out as scheduled for first time in three years. October . . . Athletic field development under way . . . we beat Monclova in football game . . . seven gambling syndicates go bankrupt as result. School strains brain on Iowa Tests . . . Ottawa Hills declares war on state of Iowa. nj. R.'s shop class constructs miniature Eiffel Tower on football field, for benefit of O. H. movie addicts . . . first grade-cards come out . . . Oh, well, we didn't want to go out nights anyway . . . November . . . Football team contracts frostbite . . . Mr. Barber threatens seniors with collective homicideg seniors produce What a Life under duress . . . Four Discords sing After Dark on WSPD . . . Basketball season opens with customary flourish . . . school shuts down as students stuff selves with Thanksgiving turkey . . . what a pleasant way to die. December . . . No snow yet . . . suits us . . . Lee Slayton sells picture and immediately begins planning impressionistic mural for 'gym ceiling . . . Salvador Dali goes into voluntary exile. Basketball team loses to B ----- g G - - - ng entire school assumes mourning . . . seniors told Mesasa won't be printed on pages of beaten gold . . . burn editor in effigy . . . choral groups give Christmas Concert . . . Fred Waring, alarmed by unexpected competition, adds seven New Jersians to his glee club. Student body given ten-day reprieve from school for Christmas holidays . . . spends entire time studying for exams. january . . . Well, here it is 1949 . . . I firmly resolve . . . Senior speech class gets on the air for the second time this year . . . Basketball team studies too hard for exams . . . loses to DeVilbiss . . . still no snow, so O. H. bob-sled team prac- tices in Bjelke's basement . . .exam grades announced . . . five seniors volunteer for Antarctic Expedition . . . 6

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February . . . Ottawa Hills has plenty of sun on Ground Hog Day, but no groundhogs . . . Arrows beat WVhitmerg sportswriters eat hats . . . Sophomores give Sadie Hawkins Danceg suffer extreme financial embarrassment . . . Entire school rolls in aisles as , Mama Meeksxspeech class gives vaudeville show . . . O. H. teams walk away with county tournament . . . varsity has hard time with Montclovag scores only ninety-six points . . . seniors dunned for Iifty cents for State Scholarship Testsg demand money back when no lottery tickets are forth- coming . . . Illarch . . . Students exposed to culture in the person of Piero Pierotic, bari- tone . . . entire live population of Ottawa Hills watches Arrows win tournament at Leipsic . . . student body given cold shoulder at liquid air assembly . . . senior basketball stars bow out in grand style at Regional Tournament . . . Plenty of snow in Toledo area now that spring is here . . . senior class comes out of winter hibernationg starts counting days 'til spring vacation . . . seven eighth graders, two freshmen, and one sophomore report for first day of baseball practice . . . April . . . student body dead tired after thirty-one day March . . . Memorable April Fool's issue of Narrowhead published . . . Narrowhead staff hides out under counter at Bean's Beanery QOrchard Drugs, to you Aristocratsj . . . juniors begin practicing for epic production of Ramshackle Inn . . . senior class afflicted with attack of studiousness during week of College Board exams . . . advised not to worry . . . basketball team begins practicing for next season. May . . . Ottawa Hills radicals clog-dance around flag pole in gigantic May- Day celebration . . . Pravda prints note of protest . . . parking lot blossoms with all shades of convertibles . . . most of them belonging to teachers . . . Student Council holds elections with usual fanfare . . . N. Y. Times dramaicritic present for opening of Ramshackle Inn . . . seniors begin taking life easy-after all, they didn't want to graduate anyway. june . . . Ah, june! - - - rhymes with moon, spoon, and school's out soon. . . . exams are with us again . . . such fun . . . seniors use Vigoro to give ivy good start . . . final assembly . . . It's been a good year . . . . seniors say auf Wiedersehen . . been nice knowin' ya . . . 7