Rowe High School - Viking Saga Yearbook (Lakeville, OH)

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Juniors Top Row—Donald Cline, Secretary; Arlowene Goldsmith, Treasurer; Earle Poole, Phyllis Whipple, Vice President; George Rector, Dorothy Bankston, President. Second Row—Marjorie Wright, Marvin Andes, Josephine Prolong, Leonard Christopher, Peggy Kennedy, Louis Palagyi. Third Row—Hugh Dixon, Regina Stephenson, Fred Ollila, Margaret Langdon, Martin Ojajarvi, Doris Thompson. Fourth Row—Georgiana Groff, Harry Kirkwood, Helen Hirsimaki, Melvin Barker, Clara Kellogg, Henry Brooks. Fifth Row—Oiva Kangas, Edna Jones, Bruce Clark, Catherine De-chau, Merl Childs, Shirley Paananen.

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Juniors

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The Class of 1940 This year the Juniors under the leadership of their President Dorothy Bankston were active participants in sports, dramatics, musicals and scholastic activities. Our stairs in the sports world were Louis Palagyi and Helen Hirsimaki. Louis was a member of the champion basketball team and on the track squad. Helen was a forward on the girl’s cage lineup and a member of the track team. Fred Ollila was the find of ’39 as he played the slow-witted constable in “Small Town Romeo.” Donald Cline played the superstitious “Bud” to perfection. Literary laurels were carried off by Phyllis Whipple who won awards for her essays in a local merchant’s contest and the annual W. C. T. U. temperance contest. Margaret Langdon and Regina Stephenson did an excellent job of taking care of paper selling. Of the group representing the Juniors in the elimination tests at Jefferson, Marjorie Wright and Fred Ollila won honors with a first in typing and a second in physics. V The Junior Play “Small Town Romeo”, under the direction of Miss Tobin and Mr. Curie, proved to be a high spot in the entertainment year at Rowe. This wholly delightful production played to a capacity audience in early March. In the story the charming heroine (Shirley Paananen) is about to lose her hotel to the greedy villain (Henry Brooks). The resourceful and witty hero, (George Rector) saves the day, the hotel, and the heroine. Brilliant comedy relief comes into the play on the part of Sly Perkins (Fred Ollila), Bud Williams (Donald Cline), and Aunt Sarah Higgins (Marjorie Wright). For all his sleuthing. Constable Perkins uncovered nothing but the enthusiastic goodwill of his audience. Sarah did more discovering, for she found her long-awaited love in old Sly. Bud did tangle with his dreaded ghost, as we thought he would. Mr “Ay” Lloyd (Merl Childs) was but a sheep in wolf’s clothing, a detective, not a crook like Miss Gates (Doris Thompson). Margaret Langdon and Edna Jones played supporting parts, and the entire cast was congratulated on the best mystery play of the past three years. V The J unior Red Cross The Rowe High Junior Red Cross Chapter supervised by Miss Watson has completed many worth while projects during the ’38-’39 school year. During Thanksgiving time the group made favors and nut cups for patients at Brown Memorial Hospital. As their Christmas project, food was collected and distributed to needy Conneaut families and games were given to the Kiwanis. Sick patients were cheered up on February 14 by Valentines received from the club. Rowe was a leader in contributing money to the Red Cross fund. A way of securing money for various projects was selling donated candy at the different school functions. On March 18 our club sent a representative to the Junior Red Cross Rally at Edgewood High School and the Ashtabula Hotel. President George Rector Vice President June Britton Secretary Ethel Bennett Treasurer Shirley Blood Sponsor Miss Thelma Watson