Smithville High School - Fabrica Yearbook (Smithville, OH)

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Another important event in your life as a Junior is about to happen. The play Those Webster's is put on by the talented actors of your class. It was a good play and was very well presented. Next you probably have the biggest event in your high school life thus far. The Junior-Senior banquet is to be held May 7, 1955. Everybody is busy doing something either on committees or getting ready. Yes, your Junior year is a big one but you have the real test ahead of you. The biggest year of your life. On September 7, 1955, you the class of 56,' enters the high school as Seniors. You now have the feeling of superiority as all the lower classes look up' to you. A class meeting is held September 14, 1955, to choose officers. Tom Gerig is elect- ed president for your final year. The other oiicers were Vice President, Janet Schrockg Secretary, Doris Zook, Treasurer, Jackie Graber, Student Council, Elvelyn Wertz and Dale Weinmang Social Chairmen, Wanda Boreman and Rich- ard Kingg Sergeant-at-arms, Ronald Besancon. Ward Mumaw was elected by the student body as the new Student Council President. This year is a Very busy one but a very memorable one. You have served quite a number of banquets from which you made nice profits. The Senior class play Midnight also proved quite a success. Other memorable events are Senior Day and Senior Skip. Then the final events are bacculauret and commencement after which you will officially bcome an alumni. Then last but not least is the biggest thrill of your life. The trip to the nation's capital, Washington, D. C. This gives you the satisfaction of knowing that all your hard work was not in vain. Yes, this was the biggest four years of your life, Class of 56 . We all hope that you have enjoyed them and that you will lead a happy and a prosperous life in the future. CLASS OF 56 , THIS IS YOUR LIFE! . Doris Zook Gwen Thut Charles Fetter Clarence Miller

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Now your summer vacation is over and back to school. This year you are Sophomores, another year older and another year wiser. You now have two home rooms with Mrs. Ramseyer as the other advisor. You were real lucky, Class of 56 , to get these two advisors which you will realize in the years to come if you don't now. You hold your first meeting in your Sophomore year and pick your class officers again. You pick Ward Mumaw as class president, Janet Schrock as Vice President and Wanda Boreman as Secretary. Ellen Weygandt as treasurer and Don Nolt and Fonda Pfouts as Student Council representatives. Richard King was your royal sergeant-at-arms. One of the highlights for this year was the selecting of your class colors. Black and white were the colors you picked and later flashed these colors around on the new sweaters you purchased from Freelanders. Yes, they were pretty sweaters and were the first things you had to prove that you were one group belonging together. Your dues were again five dollars and also you held a bake sale at Freelanders to help boost your treasury. Yes, another year in your life is past Conly memories nowh but all looking forward to next year when you will be Juniors and upperclass men. Again your happy smiling faces fill the halls of Smithville High School but not as an underclass man but as Juniors. Your first meeting was held on Sep- tember 28, 1954, to elect officers. This year you pick Janet Schrock as President and Vice President, Tom Gerig. Our secretary is again Wanda Boreman and Doris Zook is treasurer. Your sturdy sergeants-at-arms were Beverly Edwards and Rich- ard King and the Student Council representatives were Ellen Weygandt and Ward Mumaw. The social chairmen were Wanda Pfouts and Charles Fetter. Quite a number of officers and a well selected group. Your dues were raised to 58.00 this year. Another important thing happens to you. You get your class rings. Every- one is betting who keeps theirs the longest but they all lose sooner or later.

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Class Will To Uur Heirs Teachers and Underclassmen of Smithville High School, Greetings: We, the senior class of the Smithville High School, being now about ready to cast aside our high school ways and depart for that sedate land of adulthood- and being mindful of the needs of those we leave behind in the Smithville High School, do by these presents declare our last will and testament to be: ARTICLE I Our memories of high school we take with us, to cherish forever and ever, ARTICLE II To our Superintendent, Mr. Burkholder, We suggest that if he ever Wishes to make an assembly talk and should need an example of Worthy students, that he consider our class as such an example. Where would he do better? To our Principal, Mr. McCay, We bequeath all the fear, admiration, reverence, awe, and deference, in which we held him that he may, after We are gone, dis- tribute equally among the Underclassmen. To our dear faculty, who have been our instructors in all the Wisdom of the ages, a sweet and unbroken succession of restful nights and peaceful dreams, No longer need they lie awake through the long nights to worry over the uncer- tainty of Whether or not we all have our studies for the next day's classes. It has been a hard strain for them, for Seniors are said to be at all times and under all conditions difficult to manage. But they have all done their duty, and verily, now shall they have their well-earned reward. To the Juniors, We leave a grindstone to keep their noses tog a stone to not leave unturnedg several brass tacks for getting down to: a wheel for putting their shoulders to, and a rabbit's foot for luck.