Piqua Central High School - Piquonian Yearbook (Piqua, OH)

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1 ,7.,.F,v ,.XL ,A ront of the high school building. Then, again, the editor-in-chief and most of the staff 'of the PIQUONIAN were chosen from the Senior class, all of them have done their work well. Two new musical organizations, the Glee Clubs, have drawn members from our class this year. In the debate between Greenville High School and P. H. S., three 1911 boys proved to be very good debaters. Moreover, a Girls' Athletic'Association has been formed in the high school and therefore the Senior girls have had the privilege of entering somewhat into athletics. While thus we have been enjoying all these things and have been studying hard, at the same time we have not failed to miss several of our class-mates whom we have lost from our number. During this year three pupils have left school and one has moved to California and is attending school there. Now there are thirty-three pupils who have reached Commencement Day, the time to which we have looked forward for many years, the time when we should complete our high school course. We stop now and think if we really have gained that for which we have been striving these four years, an education that will fit us for other duties, when each one will, perhaps, take up a different field of work. We stand on Commencement Day, happy, because we have all the opportunities of the future before us, yet sad, because we have closed the happy days of our high school life. MARGARET COATE, 'l1. 6 . ,- HR X Q 4. xii ' 5' ,- :J 1 NJ: H 4, .3 H gL f il ' ' . ffg-,D X ...iff '4,: l ,, S - AA,..'A'K' Hy. ., ,1Ds::g::e-lit' f .:EE.!:F:q,4.f9:, . 1 L-

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History of the Senior Class N A SEPTEMBER morning in 1907, sixty-five pupils wandered for the first time through the halls of P. H. S. How long we had dreamed of the day when we should enter upon the work of the high school! In fact, some of our dreams in those days placed before us ideals far higher than we have actually attained, and on the other hand some, per- haps, were mere visions of study over-balanced by a good time. However, whatever our ideals may have been concerning our high school life, we were at last, after a long search through the halls, seated in Miss McKinney's room ready to begin work. Of course, like all other classes, we had a struggle to remember our dif'l'erent recitation rooms. Almost anywhere in the building some strag- gling Freshman might have been found in search of his class. These diffi- culties, however, were settled when the number of each room was given us and we were required to learn it. Thus a-t the end of the first week we were able to find our places very readily, the strangeness of things wore away, and wc found ourselves really started in our high school career. One great event of tlhe first year was Freshman Day, when a program was given before the whole school in the Assembly Room. Ive did our best to make the iro fram interestin 1' and as food as those of other classes, there- P- fore, we worked harder than anv of the others to make it so. Durin 1' this . 5- year several pupils left school, while two entered our class. When we reached the,Sophomore year we felt more important for having taken one step toward the goal for which we were striving, that of getting an education. We now mingled more with the Juniors and Seniors, and on the other hand really sympathized with the Freshmen: for, recollections of the year before and of our own mistakes were still fresh in our minds. This year, too, we found a change of several members of the faculty, among them a new Principal, Mr. Ellabarger, who for three years has heard and settled our difficulties. Domestic Science was added to our high schoo course, and this, in addition to the Manual Training and Commercial work which had been introduced in the two previous years greatly increased the interest of our school life. At the beginning of this year we found our lessons rather hard to get, hut, after a few weeks, we once more became accustomed to study and worked hard from day to day, all the while drawing near the time when we could call ourselves Juniors. Our class that entered the Junior year was changed a little in numbers, some having joined us from preceding classes, while others had been added to the ranks of 1912. Now that we had reached the last half of the high school course, we felt that we were fast approaching the end of our school career, and thus we realized that we must make the best possible use of the time that remained. 1Ye soon found that to be Juniors meant hard study on the part of each one. In fact it required our best efforts to accomplish the work. During this year the Rhetorical Societies were organized and these have proved to be of real help to us both in composition and in debate. Under the direction of one of the boys of our class, the High School Orches- tra was formed and a number of the class have been members of the orchestra, also. The orchestra has played many times for the high school as well as on occasions outside of school and their music has been enjoyed by all who have heard it. 1Ve feel honored in having an organization that plays so splendidly under the leadership of one of the boys of 1911. At the end of the Junior year three pupils had been added to our number, while one mem- ber of the class had moved away. We entered our last year wondering what it meant in the way of work and study to be a Senior. 1Ve soon learned that it meant a very busy year for each one of us, and yet one which all have enjoyed. In the first place our class with the entire student body had our pictures taken last fall in

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'lass rophecy tN0'l'l'I.4'I'lie following is taken from Mr. G. ll. l5ull's Personal Recollections. Mr. Bull is too well known as the President of the Interoecan Monorail Vompany ' ' ' ' 1 ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 4 ' l' Yf l's health which to need any il had been impaired by too close application to business.-'I'he I'Iditor.j had just come up from the south, and one bright spring morning found myself seated on a bench in a park in Piqua, my old home city. As I was sitting there I noticed a card which announced a game of base hall between Piqua IIigh School and some other school whose name I have forgotten. The sight of the name of Piqua High School brought memo- ries of my own happy care-free days in that institution, and somehow I got to thinking of my class mates who graduated with me in 1911. I became so occupied in trying to remember that I completely forgot my business, for, I believe, the first time, and did not think of it again until I had found all of the class. , At first I did not know how to find them, for I did not want any one to know who I was. lVhile I was trying to devise a plan by which my incog- nito would not be discovered. a gust of wind blew a paper in front of me. I picked it np. and the first thing I saw was a cartoon showing a woman with a large pair of scissors and a large blue pencil, seated at a table and marking up a bundle of papers. It was drawn by Rodger Emmert and represented Elizabeth Boyer who had just been elected to the position of ofiicial critic. At once I saw a way to find out what I wanted: I decided to look thru the newspapers and in that way to find all I could about the class. This pleasant form of recreation occupied me several weeks, and I believe I en- joyed myself as much then as at any time in my entire career as a tramp. One of the first papers I picked up contained an article written by hliss Boyer criticising the l'rosecut.ing Attorney for not doing his duty. Her criticisms were just as strong and scathing, as they always were, and as usual a little over drawn, for she accused Martha Gano of being a boss. I will admit that Martha always was just a little bossy but I don't think that she would do all that Elizabeth said she did. However when I saw that the object. of her criticism, the l'rosccuting Attorney, was Ray Levering, I knew itroduction to our readers. Let it be sufficient to say that the incidents described here, octurrm d while lu was a tramp, tr nc mg or u that something would happen if he took her advice and started an investi- gation. Another person who had become prominent in politics N was iNIabel Dill. She was running for some office or other, A. and I thought that she would make it until I heard that x I Raymond Piper was campaigning for her. VVindy was I just like he used to be. He could defeat anything by ar- A guing for it. wir,pr'P1l l- Just at this time VVarren Breidenbach was in the lime light, and there was a great discussion about him. The question was in regard to his sanity: he claimed to have perfected an automatic orchestra, and his friends hailed him as a genius while his enemies said that he was crazy and ought to be locked up. I learned that several of the class were in business. Donald Miller, who had been the manager of the PI- QUONlAN,,' was managing a business of his own, but no one, not even himself, knew what kind. Marion Bailey, our class treasurer, was the treasurer of several corporations and was making good use of the training he received earlier in life. Others were also profiting from their training in sehoolg Ruth Brown and Irene Hockenberry were united in a firm of commercial chemists, working together, I sup- pose as they did in tl1e chemistry class in school, and I wondered when I saw their advertisement if they had ever ' finished McPherson and Henderson's lab. Manualg Cleo Walkup, who always had so much trouble with her hair, was helping others in her hair dressing establishmentg and Helen Simon had become a beauty doctor.