Pandora Gilboa High School - Mirror Yearbook (Pandora, OH)

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Dedication Melvyn Arthur, Superintendent of our school for the past 13 years, resigned the first of this year. After spending 21 years of his career with the Pandora-Gilboa schools, he is missed very much by everyone. Before Mr. Arthur came to our school, he was at Beaverdam School and at Moulton School, Auglaize County. Mr. Arthur has covered many areas of teaching and administration, from bus driver, cafeteria manager, junior high teacher, industrial arts teacher to principal and superintendent and past president of the Principals Discussion Group. Besides his career in education, Mr. Arthur served with the U.S. Army from 1943-1946. He is very active in church work at the Gilboa United Methodist Church, and is past commander of the American Legion Harter-Williams Post 536 in Gilboa. We wish Mr. Arthur much good luck and happiness in his new job as Allen County Curriculum Coordinator, where he works with Bath and Perry Elementary Schools and at the Allen County Education Office in Lima. 4

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Table Of Contents Board of Education.................5 Faculty...........................11 Seniors...........................33 Senior Directory .................47 Underclassmen.....................49 Sports............................65 Organizations ....................79 Special Events....................91 Junior High......................101 Elementary.......................115 Advertisements...................129 3

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Historical Events Of Pandora-Gilboa PANDORA Pandora, was first called Columbia, laid out in 1837 by John Stout. In 1850 the town was renamed Pendleton and in 1882 the name was changed to Pandora. The township's first settler was Samuel Gray, who settled three miles southeast of the present site of Pandora in 1833. Shortly afterwards, he built the first grist mill. Many of the early settlers were Mennonites, who had come from Wayne County, Ohio. Originally they had emigrated from Switzerland and France, although they spoke German or German-Swiss. By 1840 they had a substantial hewed-log church. Christian Steiner was the first pastor. The first school-house in Pandora was a log building. The first high school building was erected in 1895 at a cost of $15,000. The first graduate from the high school was Mary Davy in 1898. The first house was built by John Sigafoose. He was molested by the bears before it was finished. The first road that passed through the townwhip was the Williamstown Road, which passed along the west bank of the Riley Creek. The first bridge was built over Riley Creek on the Ridge Road, it was a hewed-log bridge and washed away in February of 1865. There were many businesses in Pandora, but the largest one was the Overall Factory. It was organized in August of 1901. G1LBOA Gilboa derived its name from the Ml. Gilboa mentioned in the Bible. From 1840 through the early 1850's the village grew rapidly. Among Gilboa's earliest prominent citizens were Elisha Stout, who owned the first grist mill and the first saw mill. William McClure who built a tavern in 1832; Matthew Chambers, who built a brick hotel in 1840; and Edward Mercer, who opened a general store; Nelson McAllister was the one to build the first frame house. The first Putnam County Fair was held in Gilboa in 1854. Gilboa's one and only newspaper, “The Gilboa News, began to publish in 1898 and continuedfor two years. A disastrous fire destroyed several business places on the north side of Main Street in April, 1909. Another large fire on April 27,1926 swept away the businesses on the south side of Main Street. The brick hotel was destroyed by fire in December, 1932. The village has never recovered from these losses. However, Gilboa has several thriving businesses today. 5