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

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VIEWS OF The Plains area was once farm land; then, largely due to THE COAL MINING INDUSTRY, IT GREW IN POPULACE. EvEN YET THIS IS A SMALL UNINCORPORATED VILLAGE. THERE ARE A FEW SMALL BUSI- NESS ESTABLISHMENTS, THE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING--WHICH EVIDENCES A FRONT MARKING OF !,1 922 --T HE COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED FIRE DEPART- MENT, TWO MAJOR CHURCHES, ALL LOCATED ON THE MANY NARROW STREETS. Almost every person in the neighborhood is acquainted with all THE OTHER PEOPLE, INCLUDING THEIR HABITS, THEIR ILLS, AND THEIR PETS . Now THE TIME.HAS COME WHEN The PLAINS WILL SOON EXPERIENCE ITS GREATEST EXPANSION. THIS WILL BE BROUGHT ACOUT LARGELY AS A RESULT OF A NEW HIGH SCHOOL, WHICH WILL COST APPROX I MAT ELY §2,225,000, WHICH WILL BE BOUND BY STATE ROUTE ThIRTY-THR EE , Johnson Road, and McDonald Road. This structure will house the HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF THE PRESENT ATHENS, ChAUNCEY, AND The Plains High Schools. This is to be one of the most mooern, CULTURAL, AND BEAUTIFUL HIGH SCHOOLS IN OHIO. THERE STUDENTS WILL HAVE FAR GREATER EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES. Standing on the sixty-two acre plot and looking toward Athens AT LEF T is State Route Thirty-three, beyond farm pond is a cemetery At right and horizontal is Johnson Road —looking easterly

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STEPS TOWARD TOMORROW Published by The Year Book Staff The Plains High School The Athens City School District The Plains, Ohio

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TOMORROW WHEN WE GLANCE OUT THE WINDOWS STROLL DOWN THE WALKS OR RIDE THE SCHOOL BUS In traveling North or South on the major ano eour-lano high- way, ONE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THE BUILDING FROM A GREAT DISTANCE. It will be on the knoll-tops from where one may view the superb SCENES OF CULTIVATED FIELDS, KlLMER'S TREES, GOO'S HILLS, AND lighted Athens. Residents anticipate many, many citizens to migrate to this AREA, AND MORE AND LARGER BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS TO BE CONSTRUCTED The time is here for transformation from a little place to a modern city. Someoay one may affectionately say, I'd UK! to meet that OLD GANG OF MINE, OR I REMEMBER WHEN .... At the left is Johnson Road and in the left d is the Cottingham Mound. Slightly at the buildings is The Plains High School — LOOKING SOUTHEASTERLY I S T A N T RIGHT BACKGROUND AMONG THE