Roosevelt High School - Rough Rider Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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CLASS I-IISTCDRY EnTering RoosevelT in SepTember I94I and grad- uaTing in June I947, The class oT '47 has been The only class in The hisTory oT RoosevelT To see a world war come and go. In TacT, The war had a direcT bearing on all oT our school acTiviTies. We are also The only class since The class oT I934-35 To have The greaT honor oT acquiring Two champion- ships, one in TooTball and one in baskeTball, in The same school year. This, above all, will sTand ouT in our memories oT our years aT R. H. S. AlThough The years number six, iT is noT hard Tor us To remember The TirsT day we enTered RoosevelT as sevenTh graders. Things were very conTusing Tor quiTe someTime. New Teachers, new schedules, and especially The new building which seemed To be as big as Tour hoTels. Odd as iT may seem, The rooms had a way oT losing Themselves Trom day To day. We sTruggled on bravely, however, unTil low and behold we were 8Th graders! This enTiTled us To see less oT The caTeTeria and more oT The TirsT Tloor. As we progressed Through our second year oT school aT R. H. S. we could noT help buT noTice The changes in our school and our surroundings due To The war. The mosT noTable change being The wiTh- drawal oT many upperclassmen To serve in our armed Torces. Then in The beauTiTul SepTember oT '43 we Tound ThaT we were 9Th graders??? HORRORS-NO! HFRESHMENH is The TiTle now. All sorTs oT new acTiviTies had To be TiTTed inTo our schedules. Oh yes-NOW we were imporTanT! Now we were no- Ticed! ATTer all, who would The MIGHTY seniors Tower above if There were no Treshmen? AnoTher year passed and we Took our place as sophomores. WiTh This new TiTle came harder sub- iecTs and added privileges. Yes-we HAD ad- vanced in our presTige as sTudenTs! The prooT??? Why, beTTer seaTs in The audiTorium-whaT else- seaTs in The balcony, ThaT is. l945!!!! Our Junior year . . . Our one ThoughT ThroughouT The year was- JusT Think, nexT year we will be SENIORSI' WiTh ThaT ThoughT in mind, we worked hard Tor our class and school. We added our sTrengTh To sporTs: joined more social and musical clubs and we also gave a play, Three Days oT Gracie, which was a huge success. Along wiTh all our accomplishmenTs Tor This year we can noT TorgeT OUR Junior-Senior! THE dance oT our school years . . . SENlORSlll!l77?? Can iT really be True? Why. iT seems like only yesTerday we were -L--. These were iusT a Tew oT our 'lhoughTs as we began our lasT year aT RoosevelT High. We had much To do beTore we could leave: add our sporTs Trophies To The Trophy case, publish The Colonel and The Annual, and make our annual Tormal which was called The Senior Rendezvous a dance To re- member. While we labored on These Things, The Senior Class play, January Thaw was presenTed on May l5Th and l6Th, and Thanks To Miss Walker's un- ceasing eTTorTs, iT was well received by The popula- Tion oT KenT. Then beTore we knew iT, iT was June 5Th, I947, and we were marching down The aisles oT RoosevelT Tor The lasT Time. As we walked The lasT mile and paused Tor a momenT To look back, our ThoughTs were cenTered on The many experi- ences we had had aT RoosevelT. Yes, The school wiTh iTs sober, locker-lined halls, quieT rooms, spacious grounds, newly painTed audiTorium, and A.J.'s library, will always be very dear To us. We Then Tully realized The greaT conTribuTion made by The TaculTy oT R.H.S. To our lives-a con+ribuTion which can never be repaid wiTh maTerial Things. Then as we Turned and conTinued on our way, The TruTh oT our class moTTo really came home To us- TT-TUS ENDS OUR FIRST LESSON.

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her A.B. degree af Mounl' Union MVK 'ffw MARGARET BERRY DORIS GRAY .. cya SPONSORS Miss Margarel Berry and Miss Doris Gray were chosen co-spon- sors of +he iunior class lor lhe year l94-6-47. The mosl imporlanl of fhe many problems fhese sponsors laced was raising money for 'rhe Junior-Senior Prom. This was Miss Grays lirslr year as a memloer of Jrhe Roosevell lacully. Miss Gray gradualed from Ravenna High School and received her B.S. degree in music af Ken? Sfale Universily. Miss Berry leaches Freshman English af Roosevelt She received College. BOB HUGHEY TOM LINNEN Presideni Vice-Presiden+ ELAINE MOLEDOR EUGENE NEWTON Secreiary Treasurer