Spencerville High School - Echoes Yearbook (Spencerville, OH)

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Today activities play a more import- ant part in school life than ever before. Great educators realize the need for whole- some recreation and intelligent use of leisure time. Modern high schools offer a varied recreational program which meets this need. These activities not only pro- mote a desire for wholesome associations and recreation, but also develop courage, self-control, self-sacrifice, courtesy, kind- ncss, loyalty, obedience, honesty, coopera- tion and initiative. These qualities enable the student to live a fuller and more use- ful life. ACTIVITIES

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AUTOGRAPHS

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Calendar SEPTEMBER 3-The beginning of the 1934-35 term. 4-Teachers are nearly wild with helping to straighten out schedules, directing Frosh traffic and other worries. ll-Classes elect new officers. 14-Junior-Senior party. Mrs. Kurth received foot injuries while dancing with the bass in the boys' quartet. 2l--Freshmen initiation. Refreshments were served, consisting of fishworms and ice cubes. 25 and 26-Firemen's Play. Ask Evelyn is she lost her footing. 28-Freshmen-Sophomore Party. Upper classmen barred from the scene of activities. OCTOBER 4 and 5-Band Mothers sponsor Shannon Show. 17-Does Crime Pay? Talk given by an ex-criminal. NOVEMBER 3-Volleyball Tournament at Lima. Our team comes out second. 8-Peace Declamation Contest. Pc-acc! Peace! But there is no peace. 9-Junior Play, Huburt the Great. 13-Second Junior Play, Hero by the Hour. 16-Basketball games begin. Union comes to Spencerville. 19-Rabbit supper. Enjoyed by all but the rabbits. 20-Camp Publishing Company takes Senior pictures. Keep smiling, ha! ha! 27-Grade School Operetta, Jack and the Beanstalk, is given. 28-Basketball teams go to Ohio City. 30-Mendon teams come to Spencerville. DECEMBER 4-Basketball-Spencerville at York. 14-Harrod teams come to Spencerville. Girls first defeat since league games beglan. 24-Beginning of vacation. Freshmen are being good so old Santa will fill t eir stockings. JANUARY 2--Vacation is over. 4--Shawnee Indians teams come here to get our scalps. 11-Gomer Basketball teams come to Spencerville. This game ends the first round in the league. Spencerville girls are first, and the boys are second. 2-1-The Band gives a concert. FEBRUARY . 2-Our basketball teams go to Shawnee. 5-Operetta, And It Rained is presented by the High School Glee Clubs. 8-Beaverdam plays a return game with Spencerville. It is played here because the Beaverdam gymnasium is not completed. 12-First round of girls' tournament is at Lafayette. Our girls defeat Beaverdam. 16-Spencerville Band gives a program over WOWO. Our game with Gomer closes the league games. Spencerville girls and Gomer boys top the lists. 21-The annual Farmers' Institute is held. High School pupils attend. 22-The second day of the Farmers' Institute. School is dismissed. Girls second round and boys first round of the tournament is at Shawnee. 23-Continuation of the tournament. MARCH 2-The County Basketball Tournament at Shawnee. Boys' Semi-finals. 3-Boys' and girls' finals. The girls' team receives two cups. 13-The Band Festival. 21-Representative of Bluffton College gives a talk. The High School is entertained by the Bluffton College quartet and by a reading and piano solo. 22-County Music Festival at Memorial Hall, Lima. The orchestras, bands and glee clubs, play in a massed group under special directors. 26-Intramural Tournament. The seniors carry out the usual tradition by winning. 29-The Grange presents a play. The solos and ensemble groups go to Ada to compete with the pupils from other schools. APRIL -Athletic banquet. Mr. Lamb is the speaker. -The Orchestra takes part in the graded contest at North Baltimore. We receive the rating of very good. 9-The Every Pupil Test is given to the entire high school. 12-The boys' and girls' glee clubs go to Bluffton to compete in the contest there. 13-The County Scholarship Test is given at Lima. Our school is well represented. 18-The Junior-Senior Prom is given. The auditorium is cleverly decorated as a Dutch garden. 2 5 26-The first senior class play, Dumb Dolivar is presented. 30- !S10,000 Reward is the second senior class play. MAY 3-Our band takes part in band festival at Van Wert. 4-Bowling Green Test is taken by the pupils who came out first in the county Scholarship Test. 12-Baccalaureate services. 16-Commencement. Page twenty