Perry High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Perry, OH)

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nit-. After tramping through the caverns, it was a pleasure to sit down to eat, before it started to rain, as usual! We kept the same home room in our junior year, with Mr. McKenna as our sponsor. Or should we say Guardian Angel, considering all the trouble we got into! Hut don’t take us wrong. We really were an enthusiastic class that year. Besides the usual falling over pop cases, and the overcooking of hot dogs, we sponsored two very, very successful paper drives which added to our treasury, for the Prom. And what a Prom!! We held it at the Manakiki Country Club with the music of Jack Horwitz. It was a beautiful night with a full moon and the whisper of lilacs and apple blossoms in the air. Because of the coolness of the air, there was little “golfing” done that night! Although everyone worked hard, the worry fell on the shoulders of the officers for that year. Hill Hutchins was president, Helen Kurtz, vice-president, Lester Elliot, treasurer, Robyn Von Lehmden, secretary, and Jim Mackey and Herbert Simmons, student council representatives. One new member was added that year, and she was Joyce Nv-berg. Several members of the class, who belonged to the Scholarship Club, took a trip to Washington, I). C. in April. Always searching for something new, we went to Lake Shore Park in Ashtabula for our class picnic. For variety, it didn’t rain! At last the long awaited fall of ’51 arrived. This was to be the best year, the climax of our days at P. H. S. Our address this year was room 22, which had now been changed back to study hall, with Mr. Inscho as our sponsor. Jim Mackey took up the gavel as president, with Hill Hutchins serving as vice-president. Nancy Williams was chief pen-pusher (alias secretary), and Lester Elliot served his third consecutive term as treasurer. He deserves a pension for that1 Sally Mantle and Herbert Simmons were our student council representatives. Emogene Bickel became our 40th member of the class, as we had lost Tom Nevlon and Jo Carter. The year was full of activity. The boys played their final season in all sports and .several received special recog- nition on All Star teams. Again the girls won the hockey trophy and at last captured the basketball award. Robyn Von Lehmden was crowned Homecoming Queen by Football Captain Jim Mackey, with Sally Mantle and Jessie Clark as her attendants. Due to the snowbound conditions, the Christinas Luncheon this year was canceled, but the Seniors braved all, and went ahead with their plans for the Christmas Alumni Dance, which was held on December 20th. They even went so far as to obtain, (or should we say borrow) a Christmas tree from the top of Blair Hill! The decorating crew held their own Luncheon in the Home Economics room with the main course being hamburgers and pop. After our extended holiday vacation, we all came back to school and settled down to serious studying as exain time wasn’t too far off. After the report cards were out and the dust had settled, it was noticed around town that several new drivers were in our midst. This was due to the newly organized Driver Education course. In February, the Seniors were very busy trying to meet the Annual deadline. The pictures had been taken in October and we had received our “glamor shots” in December. School days seems to be flying by and all the preparation for our caps and gowns, and orders were taken for personal cards, and announcements. Tentative plans were made for Senior day, that unbelievable time when we took over the school, and all the students in it. Now let’s return to the present. It is now May, 1952, that year that seemed so far away in our minds. On June the first, the Baccalaureate services will he held in the auditorium, with the Rev. Snare as the speaker. And then June the second, the red-letter day in our lives. We have been looking forward to this day for years, but when it arrives, don’t you think everyone of us will feel just a little bit sad? The pianist will start to play the traditional “Land of Hope and Glory,” and we’ll walk down that long aisle for the last time, with our diplomas in our hand. For we will be proud graduates of our Alma Mater, Perry High School. fifteen

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CLASS HISTORY Pirate's Log Here it is, the spring of 1952, when we as Seniors of Perry High, the largest graduating class in its history, are almost through our formal education. Doesn’t it seem strange that only six years ago we were a large group of 62 scared seventh graders. The study hall of 22 was our home room and Mrs. Corwin our sponsor. Jo Carter was our class president and Helen Kurtz our vice-president. Ruth Uhrman, Edward Wolf, George Schlauch and Alex Barbato entered that year and added to the class. We presented an Amateur Show at the P.T.A. Carnival and made a good profit to he added to our treasury for our Prom. Jean and Jack Hawkins left us that year to journey to Keokuk, Iowa, and we all were sorry to see them go. We ended the year by having a picnic at Perry Park which was a huge success if judged by baseball scores and stomachaches. Due to the crowded conditions of the school, the study hall was divided into three rooms and the library became the study hall which was also our home room with Miss Few as our sponsor. That year Bob Stephens was added to the flock. Helen Kurtz was promoted from the vice-presidency of the year before and served as our president with Edmund Kulinski as her aid. Following the footsteps of our “elders”, we sponsored a skating party, but being a more “modern” class, we held it in the newly opened Roller Drome in Painesville. Not content with just a fair amount in the treasury, we also presented the Log Cabin Boys which the public seemed to like. Due to the damp weather outdoors, we held our picnic that year in our room. What a racket!! And do you remember, the ninth grade when we as Freshmen could at least look down on a few classes? We all felt more grown up that year and felt that now we were getting somewhere. We hung our hats in room 22, with Mr. Harrington, the new Industrial Arts Instructor as our sponsor. Did you notice that the poor man’s never had a homeroom since? Following the tradi- tion, Edmund moved up a notch and became our President. Nancy Williams served under him as vice-president, and Ruth I’hrman was secretary, and Robvn Yon Lehmden treasurer. Do you remember those noisy classroom meetings? How could you forget! Leaving our class that year were Shirley Hendrickson, June Heath, Joanne Cross, Florence Bittig, and Donna Freidel. Sally Mantle, that Southern Belle, entered our class. That year the boys played football and basketball while the girls played hockey, basketball and walked away with the baseball trophy. We sponsored the Alumni Christmas dance and we were the first class to make money at this affair. Of course, to accomplish this we had to sell the refresh-mentts, instead of giving them away, true to tradition. Remember when the girls served at the Football Banquet? Aren’t you glad nobody poured hot coffee down the speaker’s neck? That year Ed Kulinski received his football letter. He was one of the first players ever to earn his Varsity letter in his freshman year. We again went to Perry Park for our picnic and true to tradition it rained! Although only a few members of the class attended, enough ice cream was consumed for all. The next year we traveled to the other end of the hall and camped out in room 27. Mr. Inscho, our class sponsor, started the year as a bachelor, but along about the end of October he took a vacation. We wonder why. That year the tradition was broken as a newcomer in the line of succession moved into the presidency. Leonard Trubiskv was president, Bill Hutchins, vice-president, Lester Elliot, treasurer, and Jim Mackey, secretary. Lida Martin entered that year along with Paul Janos and Wilson Judd. Mitchell Robertson, Geraldine Rossv and George Nemeth left. Some of the class helped out on the newly revised “Peri-scope”, tried out for plays and the girls won the hockey trophy and also the baseball trophy. We ended the year with a hang, by traveling all the way to Nelson Ledges for our class pic- fourteen

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JUNIORS Top Row, left to right—John Cunningham, Shirley Wyant, Rose Petrowske, Lois Frost, Dorothy Jackopen, Anton Schlauch, Gordon Rudd. Second Row, left to right Vida Loveland, Marjorie Smith, Gerald Varner, Judy King, Phillip Spiesman, Philip Chapman, Donald Hall. Third Row, left to right- Ted Salkeld, James Raker, Lowell Peterson, Frank Janos, Carle Christian, Donald Crawford, Ralph Mattice. Fourth Row, left to right—Wesley Brown, Donald Barto, Carol Brainard. sixteen