Delta High School - Del Hi Yearbook (Delta, OH)

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We'1l begin right away and this much confess: We don't want any Juniors mixed up in this mess: A Sophomore introduced would surely be a crime: The very young Freshies would certainly spoil the rhyme: Only the Seniors will dare be admitted: And no other classmen will 'ere be permitted: The year is 1950. I went to call on Mr. Heischman the other day fremember him? He was our sponsor in 1940i and can you imagine, he was grey! Although it was a rather delicate question, I inquired about this little matter of his hair, and he said he thought it was caused mainly by the Class of 1940. fAnd I didn't consider that any complimentj. He then started telling some of the various reasons why this came about, and was my face red! It seems the whole thing started in algebra class. He said the very first day Robert Prentiss carved his and Hazel McArthur's initials on a desk, thereby staking his first claim in D. H. S. And every day it was the same old story! Burley Clay and Junior Williams mistook themselves for pigeons and con- tinuously perched on the window-sills. He also declared that he thought Robert Falor, Milton Langel, Chalmers Spiess and Paul Spengler should be awarded medals for their good marksmanship in throwing erasers. Then there was also science class, and every day Earl Irish, Max McArthur and Floyd Young had a race to see who could run the best scale on the revolving seats. Well, then we all became Sophomores fmuch to our surprise, not to mention many othersl. That year Mr. Heischman taught plane geometry. Even though Tom Bowerman, Earl Harris and Robert Churchill were always going off on a tangent, or getting the wrong angle, they did manage to get through. Just then Mr. Kibele came in. fYou remember Kib, don't you?l Instead of being grey, he was bald. He was feeling fine, thank you. We told him what the topic of conversation was and he had some interesting bits to add. He said although we were a rather noisy class, Ruth Essex, Lucille Vondran, Loraine Miller, Margaret Krauss, Helen Schiavone and Floyd Meridew were always rather quiet. We also discussed Frank Fraker, Burley Clay, Robert Morr, Bob Geiger and Bill Bauman who were our star members of the gridiron, not to mention Raymond Dick's and Junior Williams' ability on the basketball Hoor. Mr. Kibele said he remembered Beatrice Raker's cheerleading when she was a Senior, and he thought she was one of the best cheerleaders we ever had. And by the way, wherever there was Beatrice, there was Bernice Albin. Two other girls who were good friends were Margaret Danser and Edith Mae Horn. Mr. Heischman commented on the scholastic ability of Genevieve Bernath. He actually thought she was a genius. In our senior year there were several romances, such as Gerald Hines and Beatrice Double, and Chalmers Spiess and Mary Willey. Then ' SENIOR HISTORY