South High School - Pot O Gold Yearbook (Lima, OH)

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For 1936 South By WANDA FLAGER To you, dear South, we send our songs of praise, To you our hymns of love are all addressed: Upon your calm quietness We gaze, And find the strength we need in moments stressed. For like a monument on high you stand, A sign of truth and wisdom, joy and pride, Your hov'ring spirit, felt on every hand, Is found in all our hearts, 'twill never die. And ever like a guardian you have been- You've watched our changing ways, and helped us hold The highest of ideals, the right to win A place among the great, a world to mold. Those precious Schoolday friendships we have made, To you we are indebted for each oneg Your tranquil tender care has brought us aid In trials sore, with battles to be won. But now, dear South, 'tis time for us to leave, Our eager, yet reluctant footsteps yield To calls, age-old, that bid us come and weave Our pattern in life's ever-widening field. As from your portals wide we go our ways, Think not that you shall ever leave our hearts, That we shall e'er forget these happy days That in our lives form such a living part. For deep within us lies a sacred shrine Wherein our schoolday memories reside.

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PUT O GOLD Senior Class l-listory By PAULINE SPRUNGER The Class of 1936 first entered South High on the morning of Sep- tember 2, 1930. Our supervisor, Miss Ethel Asher, aided us in getting started. Although bewildered at first, we were well acquainted with the school after a few weeks. At Thanksgiving the Jesters, with the the Masquers, portrayed The Courtship of Miles Standish. By the end of the year, we were really inaugurated into South. The next year went along smoothly enough under the supervision of Mrs, C. E. Gaskins, nee Miss Elizabeth Harter. The following officers were elected: president, Phyllis Lee, vice-president, Hugh Johnston, secretary-treasurer, Roy Wilson, and reporter, George Beery. In com- memoration of Washington's birthday, the Masquers' Club presented The Sandman's Pack o' Dreams in assembly. As Freshmen we were allowed many more privileges. Numerous clubs and activities were opened to us. Miss Helen Shanahan supervised us and assisted in the election of officers, who were Hugh Johnston, pres- ident, Donald Groves, vice-president, Martha Reese, secretary-treasurer, and Raymond Aures, reporter. Two hundred and fifty-three Sophomores started out courageously to have a big year. We elected Charles Fessler, president, Raymond Aures, vice-president, Beatrice Johnson, secretary-treasurer, and Edna Oswald, reporter. Mr. C. F. Sinclair supervised us and issued blue slips, never white ones. We were represented in plays fSophomores were in the Ye Merries play and the operettab, clubs, sports, and music. The autumn of 1934 saw us returning to school as Juniors. How grown up we felt! To be very businesslike we first elected our officers, consisting of Arthur Mayer, president, Donald Hooks, secretary, and Wanda Flager, treasurer. Miss Marie Bowlus was our supervisor. During the year we did several things which we had never done before as a class. For the first time we presented a play of our own- Tiger House -a mystery. The proceeds from this land a magazine campaign we conductedj enabled usito sponsor the annual Junior-Senior prom at Shawnee Country Club on May 24. We gave a pageant on May 22 com- memorating the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the American high school. South's doors opened to us for the last time on September 9, 1935, when approximately one hundred twenty 'students came back to occupy the seats of former Seniors both in home room and in the auditorium. The year was begun with the election of the executive group-George Beery, president, William Crossman, vice-president, Donald Brown, treasurer, and Woodrow Curtis, secretary. At the Carnival David Fritz and Wanda Flager were crowned king and queen respectively. On Hobo Day we forgot our dignity and attired ourselves in articles of clothing from attics and rag bags. As the grand finale to our high school life, we presented Adam and Eva on May 22, with nine members of our class in the cast: Morris Hofmann, Arthur Mayer, Roy Wilson. Phyllis Lee, Dorothy Dillon, Marion Cook, William Crossman, Carroll Sammetinger, and Wynsome Lyon. The committees in charge of the concluding affairs of the school year were girls' dress-Wynsome Lyon, chairman, Dorothy Dillon, boys' dress-Robert Reese, chairman, James Bresson, Class Day-Arthur Mayer, chairman, Wanda Flager, Irene Hollingsworth, Anna Mary Frey, David Fritz, Howard Martin, George Keller, memorial-Helen Gossard, chairman, Ruth Frazier, Doris Vance, George Hawkey, Albert Naum, prophecy-Martha Reese, Dorothy Artrip, Donald Brown, oration- William Crossman, history-Pauline Sprunger, orchestra-David Fritz: will-Phyllis Lee, Beatrice Johnson. We made our last informal appearance on Class Day, May 28. The Baccalaureate sermon was heard on June 7, and Commencement was held on June 8.

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PGI Q' GOLD Last Will and Testament, Class ol '36 By PHYLLIS LEE AND BEATRICE JOHNSON We, the Class of 1936, of South High School, of the City of Lima, County of Allen, and State of Indecision, being of full age and unsound mind and impaired memory, do make, publish, and declare this our Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and annulling any and all Wills heretofore made. ITEM I. We direct that all our just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of our estate as soon as practicable after our decease. ITEM II. We hereby give, devise, and bequeath unto the obscure and inadequate Class of 1937 the following: 1. These being our most valued, most precious, most appreciated, and most loved possessions, we do hereby adjure and admonish you unto whom this heritage will descend that you pass them on to your successors in as perfect condition as our lack of use preserved them for you, these prized possessions being, to-wit, Dave Muzzy's ponderous tomes, 114 volumes of American History. These books are green to correspond with those of you who will be green at the beginning of this eye-straining, back-breaking, brain-bewildering bug-bear, and who, we guarantee if you follow our example, will be just as green on finishing it. 2. Our well worn and much copied history notes and notebook which can be purchased from any senior for the paltry sum of 510,999.99 minus a 15? reduction if Mr. Freshwater does not admit the depression is over when you sit in our beloved chairs-and do little else. All our literary works both prose and poetry, with the stipulation that Miss Bowlus be permitted to have and to sell and to keep all profits accruing from the sale thereof of any such masterpieces as we may have non- chalantly dashed off in a moment of divine inspiration. 4. To you young chemists whom Mr, Maxfield will call swivel-headed, we leave the unblemished valence sheet with the recommendation that a similar code be used in the next World War, as neither side will be able to read it. We also leave with you feminine pursuers of the intricate study of chemistry the heart- ening knowledge that the Board of Educationvhas decreed that a sum of money be set aside with which to purchase individual manicure sets, the cost of which will be taken from your laboratory fee so that damage done by dropping certain unknown potions on the