Townsend High School - Optimist Yearbook (Vickery, OH)

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May, 1932 l THE OPTIMIST Page 11 CLASS OF '32 WILLIAM OA'l'lf2S, B ILL Never serious, solemn or said But just at hzlppy good nntured lad. Optimist Staff, 3, 43 Circulating Mzniageij, ,Lg President of Athletic Association, blfg A. A. 1, 2. 'Lg Basketball, 1, 2, 3, 43 Baseball, 1, 2, 3, f1+g Cziptsiin Basketball, 111. JOHN CONRY. RED No task too great for him to 1-ndcnvor Efficient he will be forever. Class Treasurer, 44, Optimist Stuff, 3. Alt, Business Manager, f14gA. A. 1, 2, 3, Chg Baseball, 1, 2, 3, ft. HTHEI. PLUB, l'lDllll'l', The world loves El, spice of mischivvonsnessf' Optimist Staff, 3, CL, A. A. 1, 2, 3, 445 Basketball, 1, 'P -4. Ll'lSTER NICHOLS. NICK If silenc-e is golden he's an, niillionuiref, Optimist Staff, 1, 2, 3, V1-g Circulating h1il.11ilgC1', AL, A A 1 'P ...,-I. 3, 111, Basketball, 3, LL, Bzisebnll, 1, 3, 4. PHYRNH BLY. SHOH.TY No exveption of the saying, Good goods come in smnll D2ll'k!ljlfl'S.,' Class See1'et:n'y, -Lg Optimist Stuff, 3, L1-g A. A. 1, 2, 3, 4. I.. W, p-I 'fuqnul ,nu . ns-unuuqwmu-nvluluun.

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1 , v .1 Page 10 THF OPTIMIST Lfayq 1929 CLASS OF '32 4 , I 5 ARl.lNl'l KOCHICR. KOOKll'f Never idle a moment hui silent and tlnmghtful of others. Optimist Stal't', 1. 2. 3. 4, A. A. 1. 2, 3, AL: llaskctlmll, 1. IZ, President of Girls Athletic Association. -14. ROBl'1R'l' MARTIN. HOB Oratory is his willing slave. Class President, 4, Optimist Staff, 3, 43 Advertising Manager. 4, A. A. 1. 2, 3, 4, Baseball. 1, 2. 4. BENJAMIN HARRISON,'tlS1iN Always in the xnidat of things and game to thin- finish. Optimist Staff, 4, Secretary of Athletic Association. ALQ A. A. 1, 2, -Lg Baskethall. 1, 2, 3, Baseball, 1, -Lg Baseball Captain 4. JOHN l-I HER. E RER All great men are dying And l don't feel well myself. Class Vice President, 4, Optimist Staff, 1, 2, 3, 43 l'1dito1--in- Chief, 4, A. A. 1, 2, 3, 45 Baseball, 2, 3, 4. Bl'lRNlCl'l OAIO, i'l3lLl'.ll'l 'tCharacter is the diamond that scratches every other stonef Optimist Staff, 3, 4, A. A. 2, 3, 4. GRACE SHICRYVOOD. H'GRAC'lOl,'S No trifling fancies here hold sway, Her work receives attention first, then play. Optimist Staff, 2, 3, 4, A. A. 2, 3, 4.

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Page 12 THE OPTIMIST May, 1932 IN MEMORIUM OF MRS. ROSE RUDIN ROOSA The following is a copy of the printed program announcing the graduation : ANNUAL COMMPZNCFMFNT OF TOYVYSFND Friday Evening. itlay 26. 1899. at 7 :3O. Stand. Time. Music Hall, Collins, O., Admission 15 Cents. Children under 12, Admission 10 Cents. Baccalaureate-Rev. B. F. Rhodes. M. li. Church, Tow Sunday livening. May 21, 1899, at 7 130. Stand. Time. NOT FINISHED, BUT BRGUN 1899 HIGH SCHOOL nsend. O. nv Organization of Class-Rose Rudin, President, Carrie Pinncy, Vice Presi- dent, Ella Barnes, Sec., Sadie Bulmer. Emma Black. Harriett Liles. lalvecu- tive Committee. Cora Barnes, Lena Gugger, Claud Peirce, VVm. Denman. BOARD OF EDUCATION-VV. G. SCROGGIE, Superintendent, Thomas Jarrett, President, C. R. Stiles, Clerk, S. J. Hawkins, YV. F. Gamber, D. D. Benson, Frank Pinney, J. O. Burr, A. Sherman. PROGRAMME Invocation ..................... .................. . ....... ..... ' Music .Rev. R. F. Rhoads Essay-Row, Not Drift ............. ................... ....... , , .... E mma S. black Essay-Life's Phases ................................... ....... C ora Lorens Barnes OrationfVVhy Should Vl'e liducatei' .......... ...,............ C land Peirce lNIusic Essay-Labor Conqucrs All Things ...........,, ,,,,,. C 'arrie Pinncy Essay--Time .............................1.................. ....... S adie llulmer Oration+VVhat are VVe to Be and Do? .....,. ,.,..., X Vm, Denman Music Essay-Ambition and lts Fruits ..,,,.,..,,,,.,. ,,,,,,, l Clla F., Barnes lissay-The Value of Concentration ...... ,,,,,,,,,, R me Rudin Essay--ls it Dawn or Twilight? ,,,...,,,,,,,,,,,,e ,,el,,- L ea C, fhlgggii' lNIusic Iissay-Vision ......................... ................ ...... H 4 11-1-iet M, Liles Presentation of Diplomas .,..., ..,..,.,,.,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,-,M- P 1 -egidgnt 151,31-d lNIusic Bcnediction .................................................,.,,...,,,.,,,,., .,....,...,. R ev. B, F, Rlmads ROSE RUDIN-ROOSA, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rudin, was born and reared on their farm about a mile east of Townsend Center, O. VVas graduated from the Townsend High School in 1899, having been acitve in a class of ten, under that splendid teacher and greatly beloved Superin- tendent, Mr. VV. B. Scroggie, of Norwalk, O. Her Essay- The Value of Concentrationu, and the class motto, Not Finished, but Begun , bespcak the sturdy fundamentals animating the school. She was then, and always remained, a tireless worker. After being graduated and in order to get means for a college education, she started teaching at 325.00 per month, the prevailing salary, in the brick building, district schoolhouse. two miles east of Townsend Center, then she taught several years at the Townsend High School, and afterward at Vllakeman High School. During summer vacations she was always busy with any useful work that she could find to do to accumulate money for the im- portant college fund. She hired out to neighbor farmers to pick strawberries. cherries, or to help in the heavy summeris work in farm homes. Later she canvassed. for Century Book of Factsn. ll'hile attending college, she was engaged in various money earning tasks to help finance her way. She was graduated from Oberlin College, A. B. 1906, A. M. 1907. Along with her college studies, she found time to engage i11 numerous student ac- tivities. Her chief outside scholastic interests were the German Club and School Journalism. Vllas Secretary of the German Club, one of the editors of Hi-O-Hi, fthe Oberlin College Annualj, and also of The Oberlin Review. She participated in sopho- more oratorical contests, was a member of the Aeolian Society and won membership in the national fraternity for high scholarship, the Phi Beta Kappa. After finishing at Oberlin, Ohio. she declined a scholarship in the University of Chicago. to resume the profession of teaching. She taught Latin in the Lebanon, lnd., High School, two years, and coached the H. debating teams and girls basketball classes. Then taught one year in New Albany, lnd.. High School. ln 1910, went to Evansville. lnd., High School where she taught Latin for five years. with marked success and high commendation, while at the same time do- ing journalism work for newspapers. She resigned from the High School to engage in journalism and to become an liditor of the Hl'lVEtllS- ville Courieru newspaper. where her religious and school pages were features. In 1920 she reported lVomen's activities of the Republican National Con- vention. Chicago. and also the Democratic National flllease turn to page 235