Poland Seminary High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Poland, OH)

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10 THE PIONEER 1934 -AC 'imp l A KID'S PROPI-IECY Ulkllf weeks ago a friend of ours wl1o was cleaning o11t her attic 'if came 11pon a flat package wrapped in an old yellowed newspaper. N -fig Tl , , .,. -1 Q77 ' , .k .I ,, IC date on tl1e paper was l --. Upon opening tl1e pat age sie discovered a first grade pict11re of the Senior Class of W3-l, and also a blurred and childish manuscriut written hy an exceedinfly farsifhted younfster in the u I . Y . L - Ll - L 4 first frade class of 1022. lhe ncture is sl1own ahove and tl1e IIIZIFILISCTITI reads lo l l as follows: l XVZIIIY to go to high school h11t l don't think tl1e kids will he much different tl1en than tl1ey are now except they will he lots and lots taller. Bud will he a president hecause l1e is dignified. He says Jean n111st he :1 talker 'cause we like to hear l1er talk. Freddy teases the girls and my mother says he won't grow out of it. Ahie laughs at him and 'llillie writes down what he does hc-cause sl1e l1as to make her writing more easy to read and more prettier. Peg Hurd and Helen Boyer will die young hecause they are good, lillt Dick, Leon, and XVallaee will live longest, in order named. llly daddy thinks Steve will he a heart- hreaker--Iane thinks so too. Helen Mitchell is such a nice hig little girl, she prohahly will he center on tl1e haskethall team. Verda tells us jokes when the teacher is gone and Jinny la11gl1s at them. Helen Churan is going to make chewing g11m so she will have Cllilllgll. Nlary Alyce ll1lS :L giggle tl1at will he famous. lfleanor read a hook when sl1e was supposed to he drawing. l think sl1e will keep on doing that. June spells tl1e hest. l tl1ink she is bright. Dorothy june is a good drawer. She can make posters for high school. 'l'helma can make speeches except she is always whispering when she talks to anybody. YVilliam knows wl1o tl1e Father of Our Country was and l1e wants to learn a lot lffolrlfnr l1'1 1 on puifr .263

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1934 THE PIONEER 9 'OU in IN TI-IE MERRY MO TI-I OF MAY VValking in the park one day ln the merry month of May l was taken by surprise By a pair of roguish eyes, Raven locks in curls he wore- l had seen those eyes before- Looks like those one can't disclaim I'm sure that he takes after jane. Bashfully, my hand he took- Showed to me his little hook, Children's Verse the title read, By Tillie B. below it said. VVon't you come to school with me? Teacher's nice as he can be. VVhat's your teacher's name? l said. Oh, his name is Mister Fred. At the little school on the edge of town No kids nor teacher could he found. The celebrated King of Mars fllis name was Budl had left the stars And crashed behind the school near a lake. The pilot, Dick, had made no mistake- 'Twas Mr. Leon who made the thing And on the rocketship had placed nm' wing. Through the crowd arose several hearty stirs NVheu disemharked President VVilliam Meri, NVho with his honor, the Monarch of Mars, llad returned to lfarth from the Land of Stars. And lo and hehold Ambassador Sloan NVho picked himself up with nary a groan Before the marvelous Mayor McCord Could' suulmon the city's first aid hoard. Two uniformed nurses now arrive. Do l recognize them? Oh, sakes alive! janette and Thelma, l do declare- l couldn't help knowing janette's red hair. The morning waxed late and our hunger grew. Let's eat at the lun, l'inderella's Glass Shoe. The suggestion was good, cause they'd go without meat lf Cass K'unning's cooking could ever be heat. MeKechnie and Logan, the candy that's good - That's how we were tempted when we'd finished our food. At the Opera House, Margaret jane was the Star Being wooed hy Bob johnston, a muscular IZIF. The ad Better than Garbo-Doonie the Swede At john Eisler's theater, caused a stam- pede. In fact, the head usher, whose name is Mcilarry, Said that Donnie the Swede captured Tom, Dick, and, Harry. In the local edition of Present-day News A glance at the staff made me quake in my shoes, eau oised the hlue mencil assisted hy lil l une VVith a column hy Sherrill called Dust of the Moon. Martin and johnston, attorneys-at-law, Had the spiH'iest ofhce that ever l sawg They were gahhing with Mitchell who'd just dropped around To say she and Boyer a new metal had found. l see by the papers that just yesterday A couple explorers returned from Cathay. The names? Yes, indeed, Helen Churan was one, Mary Alyce the other of these maids of the sun. The famed radio team of Osborne and Steve LFrom the glances they castj have some trick up their sleeves. And it seems for A. Gailey it didn't take nerve To challenge Al Einstein on Space doesn't curve. And now, l declare, l've met all and sundry Of the kids who were with me at dear old Sem Hi, Do they ever, I wonder, look hack on those days, And for much of our fun give our teach- ers the praise? l lorrmr .lIrKttln1ir '34

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193+ 'l'lll2 Pl0NliIiR ll -dl 'Ihr lfuurlh rn-:ci Floyd lfonner, Steve Chuey, Kalrl Kollus, llalrold RllllllllCl, Fred Nlclialrry. Thrill ru-:l-: George Conklin, l.ouis lxlillllff, Kenneth Colgaun, llenry fXlcCrone. George XNlJllk4'!', 'llony '1'l'lilg0. Sltnnal rn-al: SilIHllK'l Nlorron, lirmat l'alden, Ruth l'llrsons. ixlill'QlllfCl lfinslley. xlilflilll Slalgle, Elvira Cl'llllllHlCllt'f. Georgealnnal Smith, -Iilfk Lltllllllfylllilll. lfirxf race: joseph l'etrek, lfleamor Ushorne, Vtilnm Shalrp, julian Salkely. lilval Nlilzel, Gertrude Cunning, xl1ll'gill'l'l Nloore, lillllill' Nlort. JUNIOR CLASS Nli nigllt when the juniors were Iillilllg Il lyzllk Illlj' met aln ZlStI'0I10ll1l'I' who lvals studying the stalrs. 'lilley stopped alnd alsked him lllillly ques- ,of tions alhollt the stairs. He told them tllalt Clltfll Still' hald St'VCl'1ll lIlll2llH- italllts who hald won their plalces hy some honoralhle deed illlll fllllf the more honoralhle the deed, the llrighter the stalr would sllille. The .lllIll0I'S llCL'Zlllll' very much interested Zlllll 1lSlCl'd the 2lSfI'llI'lUIUl'I' if they might see the lIlll1lllll'1lIlIS hy looking through the telescope. 'l'lle alstronomer salid tllalt they might alnd 1lLl.lllSICll the telescope upon il very bright stair alnd invited them to look through it. 'l'hey looked amd salw some odd llllt interesting creat- tures tquoted from one of the falcultyl. Hy studying the crealtures more closely. they recognized the seven nlemllers of their clalss who represented SCllllIl2lI'y High in the SClllll2lSIlC contest, alnd who tried very llllfll to hring honor to tlle school. 'lille ZlStI'UI1UlIl9I' turned the telescope upon alllotller stalr alnd they salw the memhers of their clalss Illill' represented the junior clalss on the llalskethalll amd tralck tealnls. By Zlgillll Zltl-illSlflIlg the telescope the IISYVOIIOIHCI' showed them the ones who galined ll plalce on the STZII' hy representing their clalss in the glee cluh amd orchestral. 'llhey tllen flllllllied the alstrollomer for his trollhle alnd halde him falrewell. 'he slllllltll' LllIlSS then allld tllere resolved fllllt it would halve more alnd brighter stairs in the coming yealr fllllll they llild hald in the palst. 'lille clalss oflicers alre: President, George lfVZlllCC'l'2 Vice President, hiatt- galret hlooreg Secretary, lflviral Cl'llIIll72lCllCI'Q 'l'realsllrer, lxlilfgfllfft lfindley. '1