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

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H L During the freshman year we gave Shore Leave . a dance that will not soon be forgotten by the members of the school. The programs which were given in core each liriday of this year gave the males of the class a clear understanding of why vaudeville was dead. During the next two years our activity steadily increased as we gave a public speaking assembly aping advertising and as the boys infiltrated the basketball team. As sophomores, we discovered what enlightening excursions biology field trips could beg and lndian Summer was given as the class dance. XVe really hit our stride during the junior year as john Mack started things off by filibustering in the first class meeting. 'l'he Class of Fifty predominated the sports scene as the Hills copped the district basketball trophy. Mr. Barber directed the junior class thespians in their rollicking production of Ramshackle Inn. This histrionic milestone and the Prom brought the year to an eventful close. Now, as seniors, were leaving Ottawa Hills butg in the future when some of us get together. the conversation will automatically swing around to the good times we've had here. There is an old saying, livery dog has his day , and so l guess it's off to the collegiate kennels with the Class of 1950. 15

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HTl9e whole drama of life if zvritten in the rand! of time. -The Clock CLASS HISTGRY It all started back in l937 when our mothers brought us to the school door and bid us a fond farewell. We were actually going to kindergarteng and for the next year we made friends, played games, and HIC graham crackers under the watchful eyes of Mrs. Thompson. Time passed and so did most of us into the first grade where Miss Bramble intro- duced us to the interesting and sometimes difficult study of reading. The next year in the second grade we learned the elements of arithmetic from Mrs. Anderson and even more important, we were introduced to the fascinating pastime Museum and its cultural surroundings. Once each month our brave rive at school to take us to the Museum and would valiantly get us despite our urgings that they race In the third grade we learned of the European countries from was especially well-versed on this subject because of her extensive of trips to the Art mothers would ar- there in one piece Miss Franklin who travels. In the fourth grade, Greek mythology was the watchword and each day we waited anxiously for Miss Rogers Cnow Mrs. Harrb to tell us of the latest episode of Ulysses and his adventures in the Trojan War. A year later we were fifth graders and each morning we would climb the long flight of stairs, eager UD to begin our work in Mrs. Beachlers room. In Mrs. Nettle- man's grade the next fall, we learned The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Gettys- burg Addressu so that we could recite them from memory. In our seventh and eighth years at O.H.H.S. we invaded the high school for half of each day and in our spare time gathered milkweed pods for lifejackets. This was the era which produced bulging brief cases and theatrical extravaganzas like the operetta Tom Sawyer. 12

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A MORNING WITH THE SENIORS 8:00 . . . Healthy, wealthy, and sleepy. 1 . l wx , I ' x . ':'-5 . 8:25 . . . 'Swonderful! 10:47 . . . Know spelling, mean- ing, and pronunciation. 14