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

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SOPHOMORE CLASS Back row: Gerald Ashcraft, Billy Betts, Leo Schor, Fred Osborne, Ray Fogg, Don Schlaich, Claude Loomis, Bill Sanger, Chuck Woodworth, Dorothy Hibler, Rose Lewis, Dorla Dean. Betty Harke, Ruthanne Brauch. Third row: Mary Groff. Betty Mam, Carol Reets, Doris Kantola, Mary Lou Usher, Barbara Ritonen, Arlene Gee, Opal Markell, Imogene Crawford, Rosemary Zappettella, Anna Elonen, Wilma Blood, Katherine Bought, Virginia Brewster, Mr. Hopper. Second row: Carolyn Cole. Blanche Brady, Gladys Harmon, Doris Butts, Chuck West, Marjorie Emerson. Ruth Holdson, Duane Punkar, Doris Beckwith, Ruth Armstrong, Virginia Mullen, Marjorie Hazeltine, Marcella Ross, Jane Fisher. Betty Jean Torrence. First row: Russell Peck, Robert Smith, Robert Cole, Steve Bosick, Paul Swann, George Dixon. FRESHMAN CLASS Back row: Charles Reets, Tom Haddle, Keith Olds, Joe Karal, Stanley Ring, Jim Bennett. Dick Skillen, Bob Bessant, Richard Greer, Robert Cole, Fred Bristol. Third row: Keith Bennett, Lois Blood, Audrey Ahlberg, Joyce Calkins, Rowena Parris, Kay Sotuhern, Joan Curtis, Lucille Guy, Phyllis Kent, Pauline Dalrymple, Caroline Myers, Pat Mook, Eleanor Taylor, Jean Nichols. Second row: Merle Bunnell, Joyce Childs, Carolyn Pier, Georgene Curtis, Betty Auger, Betty Rapose, Carlie Ann Wheeler, Erla Woodworth, Sally Coblentz, Jane Ring, Patty Brown, Mary Huston, Rose Frigic, June Potter. First row: Arlin Champlin, Billy Bort. Bryce Blood, Don Torrence, Chuck Colver, Larry Johnson, Garland Hopkins, George Nash, Bud Picard, Frances LaBounty, Clifford Flemning, Mr. Hirshey. Page 26 But blow, proud bugles, sweet and silvery soft.

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Junior Class History The juniors will always remember their first day in high school. We walked into Mr. Hirshey’s room looking like scared little rabbits, but by the end of the day we had a grim and determined look on our faces. It was only a matter of a few weeks until the senior class made us official high school students! The night that we were initiated was one we will never forget. Soon after this we settled down and elected our class officers: Don Horwood, president; Cleo Rhoads, vice president; Elizabeth Montgomery, secretary; and Maxine Reets, treasurer. By the end of the year we realized that we had made wise choices. Our freshman boys who entered into athletic activities were Cleo Rhoads, Ted Hirsimaki, and Douglass Wood-worth, all of them being on the basketball squad. The A Capella Choir chose six of our class to join its ranks: Elizabeth Montgomery, Cleo Rhoads, Shirley Emhoff, Shirley Swartz, Raymond Usher, and Donald Horwood. Toward the end of January our class sponsored a dance for the students and alumni after the Edgewood and Rowe basketball game. While our learning might be questioned our experiences were great and we ended our freshman year with a picnic at the Township Park. In three months’ time we were back in school. It did not seem possible that we could be sophomores, for it had not been so long before that we were only in the grades. Our class started out under the management of our president, Donald Horwood, and secretary, Martha Lou Harr. The first highlight of the social season of Rowe was a party given by the sophomores. Our assembly play was “The Pampered Darling” with Cleo Rhoads portraying the pampered darling. It was considered a masterpiece of humor in a one act play. The rest of the cast were Douglass Woodworth, Shirley Emhoff, Donald Horwood, Earl Healy, Pat Daggitt, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joyce Childs, Shirley Swartz, Doris Joslin, and Raymond Usher. Many members of our class again re-entered the A Capella Choir, band, and orchestra. We were proud to have supplied the largest number of basketball players to the squad: Earl Healy, Ted Hirsimaki, Donald Horwood, James Kan-tola, Cleo Rhoads, and Douglass Woodworth. Also we supplied the Pilot Light with an ample number of workers. We were glad to receive two new members to our class this year, Jane Coblentz and Duane Hackett. We hoped the rest of our school years would go along as smoothly as this year had. “JUNIORS!” This was a word which sounded very grown-up to all of us. When we walked into the junior room at the beginning of the year, we found that we had a new home room advisor, Miss Munger, a member of the Rowe faculty. It was not long before we realized how grand she was going to be as our guide. Again the junior class sponsored one of the first parties of the season; it took place in October and the Hallowe'en theme was used. At our class election time Donald Horwood was re-elected as president; Earl Healy, vice president; Martha Lou Harr, secretary; Douglass Woodworth, treasurer. We were very happy this year when one of our class was voted a cheerleader. We know her as Jane Coblentz. With her untiring efforts she has won our favored praises. We were glad to offer the following boys to the basketball squad: Don Horwood, James Xantola, Earl Healy, Ted Hirsimaki, Edward Thayer, Douglass Woodworth. We were very sorry when Cleo Rhoads broke his leg in the summer so that he was unable to be on the squad, but he served as a scorer at the games. In November we presented our junior play entitled “Poor Dear Edgar,” a riotous three act comedy. Douglass Woodworth took the lead part of Edgar with the following as his supporting cast: Martha Lou Harr, Earl Healy, Pat Daggitt, Shirley Emhoff. Elizabeth Montgomery, Donald Horwood, Cleo Rhoads, Shirley Swartz, Raymond Usher, Jane Coblentz, and Dottie Hews. It was under the direction of Mrs. Wilma McCague, who was presented an orchid by the cast. The following juniors were chosen to be in the one act play for the one act play contest: Raymond Usher. Shirley Emhoff, and Don Horwood. Viking Saga 1946 ★ ★★★★★★ Page 25

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THE SOPHOMORE CLASS As we prepared for high school in the seventh and eighth grades, we often wondered why our big brothers and sisters took only four or five subjects. After a week as freshmen we found out. However, we staggered through the freshman initiation, and under the guidance of Mr. Hirshey. even managed to give an all-school party in the spring. The officers who presided over us during the year were president, Ray Fogg; vice-president, Duane Punkar; secretary, Ruth Brauch; and treasurer, Steve Bosick. We came back in the fall of 1945 feeling like upper classmen. Our new officers were president, Duane Punkar; vice-president. Chuck West; secretary, Marjorie Emerson; and treasurer, Ruth Holdson. Sophomores were well represented in almost every school activity: Arlene Gee. Don Schlaich, Fred Osborne, Doris Kantola, Ruth Holdson, Bill Sanger, Imogene Crawford, Anna Elonen and Barbara Ritonen lent their voices to the A Cappella Choir. Steve Bosick, Ray Fogg and Duane Punkar were our gift to the basketball squad. The Pilot Light staff included Betty Torrence, Doris Beckwith, Marjorie Emerson, Dorothy Hibler, Duane Punkar, Virginia Mullen, Ruth Brauch, and Bette Harke. In addition, we were represented in the Home Economics Club, Industrial Arts Club, Girl Reserves, Photo Club, and Art Club. Our class welcomed three new members this year: Forrest Bennett, from Andover; Paul Swann, who was honorably discharged from the Army last October; and Gerald Ashcraft, from Conneaut High School. This brought our total enrollment to fifty-four. We really enjoyed the year 1945-46 under Mr. Hopper’s guidance and we are sure that the next two years will be just as much fun. FRESHMAN CLASS HISTORY Immediately being called “freshies” or “frosh,” we the 1945-46 freshmen, fifty-five strong, started the year; at first we were unaccustomed to changing classes and often got confused, and, blushing furiously, walked in on the wrong classes. But we survived these blunders and became full-fledged Rowe High students. Freshman initiation was our first big event and our first big worry. The upperclassmen tormented us by threats of the dire torture we were to endure the big night. When the big night finally did arrive, we found it was not half so bad as we had anticipated and we had a grand time. Class officers elected were president, Shirley Covert; vice-president. Merle Bunnell; secretary, Audrey Ahlberg; treasurer, Jane Ring. Merle Bunnell, our vice-president took over the presidncy when Shirley Covert left us to make her home in Massachusetts. New members of our class were Rose Frigic from Monroe, Mary Huston and Clifford Fleming from Tracy, Pennsylvania, and June Potter, from Conneaut. The freshmen were well represented in the A Cappella Choir: Joyce Calkins, Jo Daggitt, Pat Brown, Audrey Ahlberg, Jane Ring. Erla Woodworth. Frank Puffer, Merle Bunnell, Stanley Ring and Charles Colver were selected for membership. Our husky-looking boys who made the basketball squad were Merle Bunnell, Tom Waddle, Frank Puffer, Keith Olds, and Joe Karal. Bud Picard was the manager of the team with Bryce Blood as his able assistant. Our freshman class also took pride in our reserve cheerleaders, Sally Coblentz and Georgene Curtis. Freshmen on the Pilot Light staff were Rowena Parris, Jim Bennett and Stanley Ring. Other activities such as Latin Club of which George Nash was vice-president, Home Economics, Library Club, Science Club, Archery Club, Girls’ and Boys’ Chorus and band were also chosen as extra-curricular activities. We are looking forward to the days when we shall be seniors in the class of 1949. We shall look back at our first year in high school with many pleasant memories of Mr. Hirshey as our guide. And tell them valour walks their vanished world, Page 27