Townsend High School - Optimist Yearbook (Vickery, OH)

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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

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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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May, 1932 -THE oPT1M1sT page 13 THE ROSE RUDIN - ROOSA MEMORIAL W' 1 ' Mr. Howard Roosa, of Albuquerque, N. ll., as a memorial to his wife, hlrs. Rose Rudin Roose, who was recently lJlll'iCll :it Townse11d, U., has just given to tl1e T o w 11 s e ll d Higl1 School, a collection of some 225 or 111ore o f miscellaneous books from tl1e li- brary of hlrs. Roosa. He has made itll in- itial advance of P5100 on a llemorial Fund l1e has in mind to es- ! tablish later for the School. The endow- ' ' ment is contemplat- ed to be large enough to yield 3100.00 annually, wl1e11 tl1e plans are completed. lt is to be placed i11 charge of a permanent trusteeship or committee, to be disbursed for the educational benefit and en- ioyinent of the scholars of Townsend High School. The details of tl1e plan are to be worked out Zilld announced later. The 96100.00 on the Memorial for this year, has already been turned over to the present temporary disbursing committees. This committee is com- posed of the nearest relatives of Mrs. Roosa, being her mother, Mrs. Frederick Rudin, of Cleveland, O., l1er sister, Melanie Rudin, of Cleveland, O., her brother, Albert Rudin, of Cleveland, O., John Rudin, of Chicago, Ill., and Charles and Fritz Rudin of Elyria, O. Mr. C. C. Taylor, Supt. of tl1e school l1as been advising alld working with tl1e committee, and is the guiding spirit i11 the detailed handling of matters. This temporary committee, with the etlicient aid and suggestions of Mr. Taylor, has already expend- ed the first 33100.00 of this Memorial Fund ill p11r- chasing a 7-Tube Philco Radio for the scl1ool, equipped with 4 loud speakers for the various class rooms, the balance to be devoted to aid in defray- ing tl1e miscellaneous expenses in connection with installation, also printing some of the annuals, shelving for the books, incidentals, etc., etc. Until tl1e details of an 6HClOVVYil6llt and trustceship plan are f11lly worked out and presented, Bfr. Roosa will Ill3.lCC flllllllill advances for the ltdemorial to the present temporary conimittce, as was 110116 for this ycar, and they will also conti11ue to act as at pres- cnt. Mr. Roosa is happy to do this in memory of Mrs. Roosa and in recognition of the debt of gratitude which he feels, she, and he also, owes to this her iirst school. lNIrs. Roosa often loved to recount to llilll her early life a11d experiences at Townse11d and Collins, Ohio, and to travel back ill thought witl1 llilll, over these roads of her girlhood days and training. The following stanzas of a beautiful poem by Teresa Brayton, are perhaps worth while quoting llC1'C as probably expressing i11 a way as this writer conceives it, the sentiment animating Blr. Roosa in this Memorial. A big road circles l'Oll11Ll the world, sure fine it is they say, But the little boreen of llly l1eart 1'llIlS lone and far awav. ar . ' . . . . I'1s winding over weary seas WVltl1 many a sign be- set, ' But Oh. of all thc roads l know, it is tl1e dearest vet. By common ways and common homes and common graves it goes, But no one knows its beauty like the soul within me knows: Its dawns are drenched with dews from heaven, its nights are tearful sweet, And sometimes one long erucihed walks there to guide my feet. It leads me down by purple hills Where fairies sport o' nights, It shows me many a hawthorn lane, the scene of dead delightsg It enkindles again with life, the face that's laid away Beneath tl1e cold of grass and mold, 1ny road of yesterdayf, O twilit boreen of Illy heart, tl1e world is vague and vast, But you are l1oly with thc balm of all my shallowed past, You thrill 111e witl1 tlltl to11cl1 of hands my hands were wont to l1old, You l11re me with the lilt of dreams I dreamed and lost of old. The big, big road of the world leads on by many a stately town, But tl1e little boreen of my heart keeps ever drift- ing down By common ways and common graves and common l1o111cs, bllt Oh! Of all the roads ill life it is the sweetest road I know. By Fritz Rudin, Elyria, Ohio