The Plains High School - Yearbook (The Plains, OH)

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1938 THE MOUND BUILDERS NONSENSE JOKES Lucille: I saw something last night that I’ll never get over. Kathryn: What was that? Lucille: The moon. Roy: I have a lot of electricity in my hair. Melvin: Sure it’s connected to a dry cell. Mrs. Macombs: Doris, will you please tell the class what an octopus is? Doris: It must be a cat with eight sides. Mr. Humphrey: I’ve come back to buy that car that 1 was looking at yesterday. Salesman: What was the dominating thing that made you buy this car? Mr. Humphrey: My wife. Leta: Dad. What’s an athlete? Dr. Nelson: An athlete is a dignified buncn of muscle entirely incapable of shov ehng snow or carrying out ashes. Art: Dan, What is a grudge? Dan: It’s something you keep an auto- mobile in. Curly: These are my golf socks. Bob: Because you weaa them when you play golf? Curly: No, because there’s a hole in one. It. seems that Roy Langel stays at Nelson- ville over the week-end. I wonder what the big attraction is up there. Mr. Calvin: Johnny, why did you come late? John Coley: Oh, I saw a sign. Mr. Calvin: What did the sign say? John Coley: Slow down. School ahead. Mr. Kail: It sure gives me great pleasure to give you 85 on your history test. Tom Hart: Why don’t you make it 100 and get a real thrill out of it? Arthur Ellis is trying to make Kathryn Groce jealous by going to the skating rink at Amesville (Don’t worry, Art, you can’t make Kate jealous). Bart Keeton: I just can’t think who wrote Ivanhoe. Idabelle Wallace: I’ll tell you if you’ll tell me who the “Dickens” wrote “The Tale of Two Cities”. Mr. Humphrey: How do you cut an apple into thirds? Roy Langel: First you cut it into two pieces. Then you cut the halves in two. Mr. Humphrey: Yes, go on. Roy: Then you eat one of the pieces. Miss Cone asked Clarice to write a short composition on “Water”. She wrote “Water is a light-colored, wet liquid which turns dark when you wash in it. Mr. Cree: John Coley, what does HN03 signify? John: Well, er. I’ve got it right on the tip of my tongue, Sir. Mr. Cree: Well, you’d better spit it out It’s nitric acid.

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1938 THE MOUND BUILDERS 1938 JUNIORS HELEN BARNES “Johnny” CHARLES ARMBRUSTER “Little Army” DORIS COON “Dode” JUANITA BOWEN “Bowen” DONALD BARROWS “Banty” GLENNA CHANNEL! “Ma” THOMAS HART “Shag” FLORENCE DICKEN “Fritz” MALCOLM HUSEMAN “Stichs” BETTY HARDY “Sambo” ROBERT McGRANER “Mac” IONA HARRISON “Skinner”