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

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THi2P1QUoNI.-xN 31 March ends ilze basket ball season greaig A prilslrikes up line tune o ' ilze basket ballplaieg May liurries school life ai a marvelous rate, Since Seniors in fune wish lo graduate. MARCH MAR. 1 -l-leinie VVallburnn has the mumps. MAR. ZW-lVlr. Ferguson brought a college friend to civics class this afternoon. MAR. 4-Senior class organized. MAR. 5fStivers game. XVe lost 48-11. MAR. 8-Selected invitations and class pins at Senior meeting. MAR. Ohrlistory and civics classes had pictures taken for the Literary Digest. AMR. 12-Our fellows beat the faculty 24-18. MAR. 17-St. Patrick's day and every one is wearin' green. MAR. 19-Hurrah! defeated Sidney 41-17. MAR. 20a-VVe cleaned up Anna Station. MAR. 22hCeorge Foster was too hoarse to recite in English. MAR. 24-German Glee Club presented pictures to the school. Charles French has a patch on his shoe. MAR. 27-Poor Anna Station again beaten, 62-14. Spring vacation begins. APRIL APRIL 5-Miami University Glee Club sang in the auditorium at 3 P. M. APRIL Sf--Dwight Fisher had five linger marks on the back of his coat. APRIL 12--Mr. Patton brought a man visitor to school. Seniors select motto. APRIL 16-First base ball game of the season was played with Union Pity. Score Piqua 11, Union fity 1. APRIL 19---Mr. Patton has his hair cut. APRIL 20-In the sixth period George Holmes took a bath in an ink bottle in the assembly room. APRIL 23-Ralph Kerr had on a new spring suit. APRIL 243-Good! VVe walloped Steele 6 to 1. APRIL 27-Forrest Reed nearly broke his jaw on some chewing gum the sixth period. APRIL 28-Seniors are to give a play for graduation. APRIL 30f-Sam Dunn blew Ray C'hronerberry's typewriting copies out of the window. Union fity again was put in the shade, 13-3. MAY MAY 3- -At Senior meeting the class colors were chosen and the minister to preach our bac- calaureate sermon. MAY 4+No one seems to know why Mr. Hensler has a swollen lip. MAY 7-f-Urbana was licked 7 to 3 by Piqua. MAY 10gAt Senior meeting the class Hower was chosen. MAY 13-Mr. Squire ushered in the spring by adopting a new straw hat. MAY 14--Sl. Paris was unable to defeat our team. Score 8-2.

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30 THE PIQUONIAN DEC DEC. DEC Old winter comes 'round with jolly good cheer, Then ushers in brightly the happy New Yearg But the mid-year exams bring lrouble to mind, And the danger we fear-of falling behind. 1 DECEMBER '. 4-The girls gave a dinner to the football boys. 4MlVIr. Patton looks like a schoolboy in his mackinaw. '. 10-Charles Holloway and Lester Flowers held a secret conference in the hall. DEC. 11iDo Cano wore her hair down her back. DEC DEC '. 12A-Bob Himmelright has a date with Dot, Sunday night. '. 23-Several high school pupils gave a little play in the auditorium to celebrate the be- ginning of our Christmas vacation. JANUARY JAN. 4-Wlizit a sad returning after our vacation. JAN. 6-Seems as though the gum ehewers are becoming more numerous every day. JAN. 7-Rumor has it that Chester Wolcott and Garret Kirby play checkers every night at the Y. M. C. A. JAN. 8-First game of basket ball in several years was played with Greenville with a grand victory for us, 35 to 19. JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN F E B F E B F E B F E B . F FB F rf B FEB. FEB FEB. FEB. F EB FEB. FEB. 15-Lost game with Steele, 62 to 30. 19-Senior and Junior girls game of basket ball. Tie score 11 to 11. 22-By football tactics Lima beat our boys 39 to 12. 2-ifllnion City defeated 42 to 20. 25AHarold Schmidlapp has a hair cut. 28-'Pleasant Hill received a jolt by losing game, 31-7. Exams this week. FEBRUARY. 1-Last semester of school begins. A lot of infant Freshmen start in. 2fJoe lVicCurdy needs a shave. S-Piqua sported out their new suits at St. Paris game but lost by a score of 45 to 31. 8-Do tiano is worrying about Charles French, because he injured his leg last Saturday. 114Carl Retterbush wore a green carnation to school. 12-By a fast game, our boys lost to Union City 22-20. 15AW'eenie Holloway said he was with the prettiest girl in Union City last Friday. 16-Mr. Johnson of Case School, Cleveland spoke to the Senior English class. 19-German play tonight. Sidney defeats us, 16-12. 22-Charles French came back Iimpimg. VVasl1ington program in auditorium at 2 o'clock. 24--Bus VVilkinson said that Marion Jessup spoke to her on her way to school. 25fSwitch engine took the teachers to Cincinnati for the Institute. 26-Defeated by Springfield, 29-19.

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.zz THEPIQUONIAN flttffnfll CLASS OF 1865 N May 12, 1865, the first public commencement of Piqua High School was held in the High School Hall, under the Superintendency of jonathan Fairbanks. The following year an Alumni As- sociation was formed and a reception given wel- coming the class of 1866. There had been four graduates from the school, two in '63 and two in '6-1. The commence- ment exercises were held in the High School room on a Friday afternoon. The class of '65 numbered eleven, ten girls and one boy, james li. Brooks, Laura T. Benson, Florence Butler VVells, Hattie Griggs Turner, Mattie Geyer Lee, Sallie Hall Pinkerton, Emma Hardenbrook Fordyce, Cornelia Mitchell French, Dottie Morrin Darnold, Lizzie Moody Rowe, Belle Rouzer Barnett. Our experiences were different from any class that followed us. Our country was in the throes of the civil war, and six of us had brothers at the front. Less than a month before our graduation, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the members of our class sat up all night making a flag to Hoat over our building when the funeral cortege of Lincoln passed through our city. ln such times as these less attention was paid to graduating gowns than now, and we were simply and inexpensively dressed. None of our members have acquired national fame, but all have filled places of trust and usefulness. Six have been teachers in Piqua Public Schools. Five, james Brooks, Mattie Geyer Lee, Cornelia Mitchell French, Dottie Morrin Darnold, Bell Rouzer Barnett, have turned their faces to the wall of time, have bidden adieu to the world, and have set sail in the great un- measured sea of the unknown. EMMA H. FORDYCE, '65, A MEMORY OF 1875 Forty years may impress us as being either a long or short period of time. It depends entirely on the viewpoint. Forty years in the future seems almost limitless in its duration: forty years in the past, to those who can remember so far back, seems to have vanished as a dream of the night. And so, today I am looking back forty years to the memorable day of June third when the class of 1875 appeared before the footlights in the old Conover opera house and made its bow to the people of Piqua, and it seems like yesterday to me. This was the first class graduated under the superintendency of Prof. C. VV. Bennet who for so many years was the faithful and efficient head of our schools. The other teacher of the High school was Miss Cornelia Bowers, afterwards Mrs. E. H. Butterheld, who we all rever- enced and loved and who many years ago passed to her reward. An idea of the growth of Piqua may be had by a comparison of our high school of today with its various departments and ex- tensive corps of instructors, with the high school forty years ago when the faculty consisted of but two teachers. But they did their work thoroughly and well and made the paths of learning very pleasant to our feet. There were seven members of this class of '75. I can see their faces today, just as they looked then and the individual characteristics of each one is still a vivid recollection with me. VVhere are they today? Ah! indeed, quoting from our valedictorian, The leaves of memory