Trumbull County Public Schools - Annual Yearbook (Trumbull County, OH)

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- ' 'Win Johnston . THE OLD GYM ' prompted the building of a basket ball hall to replace the old stone building that served for a year. In the fall of 1912, B. W. Crellin was superintendent and W. B. Treloar was principal. This was the year that the boys decided to build a gymnasium. Logs were cut in the woods, hauled to the saw mill, and then with the help of Lee Sadler, and Archer Cram and many other ardent athletic boosters, the work was begun by the boys, and the old gymnasium was erected. This was a big un- dertaking and some ready money was needed to carry on the work so stock in the build- ing was sold at one dollar per share. These shares were purchased by those interested, and by January lst the building was ready for business. It would be impossible to describe the enthusiasm that prevailed that year or the years that followed., Thousands have seen games there, over 500 people crowded into the hall in the winter of 1913 to see the boys from the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. High School go down to defeat at the hands of the Johns- ton High boys. Scores were unable to get into the hall to see this game and had to go away. There were no good roads in those days and many had driven for 10 or 15 miles with horse and buggy to:see it. The Fall of 1,913 Johnston had its only football team. Q Q For a number of years following this, ath- letics were very successful until again in 1917, the girls were county champs, in 1918 :both boys and girls carried off the honors in county basket ball. The girls' team having been un- defeated for three years. - After the war period of 1918, 'NVQ B. Treloar came back to Johnston as Superintendent, and A. W. Grigg, of Greenville, Illinois, came as Principal and Coach. By this time the old gymnasium was almost in discard but was still used. Under the coaching of Mr. Grigg in 1920, the boys basket ball team only .lost one game out of 20, and that was at the first county basket ball tournament held at Niles. This loss was due to sickness on the part of two of the prominent players, but 'it was enough to lose the championship. The field meet was a close race that year and the girls were the deciding factor in Cortland, winning by a close margin. In 1921 under Mr. Grigg, the boys won the County Basket Ball Tournament, played in the finals against Struthers to lose the Dis- trict Tournament at Alliance by a close scorei and in May, Johnston won the track and field meet by a big margin., In 1922, -Johnston again won the track and field. The girls also won the county basket ball tournament which was held at Leavittsburg. In 1926 Johnston won the baseball title. f Sinceg 1923 Johnston several times has reach- ed the semi-finals but have. won no championl ship. The last few years-have seen the old historic gymnasium falliinto disuse. New schools and new gymnasiums have sprung into existence all over the county, and 1929 also means the passing of the old and sturdy school and elementary building to make way for a much needed new one. '

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.11 ohnston ASSEMBLY ROOM' In this room a great many wonderful events have been staged. We look back and find where a Literary Society was organized, to show the patrons of Johnston School the talent that was being produced here. The society program consisted of songs, recitations, debates, etc., and were held in the room pic- tured above. The first program was opened by a recitation given by Clair Cassidy. There were several exciting debates staged here, one in particular, in which Gladwin Wfoodworth and Jesse Bascom, became real en- thusiastic, so much so that the paper on which it was written was nearly destroyed. Cn january Sth, 1907, a piano was bought this caused as much excitement as a call from Lindy would today. Out of the list of names of superintendents listed below eleven made their debut into the career of supt. life in this room. . H. J. Crawford, g 1901-04. H. A. Diehl, 1904-07. G. L. Stackhouse, 1907-08. C. G. Fawcett, 1908-10. B. W. Crellin, 1910-14. C. O. Wheeler, 1914-16. ' J. L. Hupp, 1916-17. H. G. Drinkwater, 1917-20. XVm. B. Treloar, 1920-24. C. W. Harding, 1924-25. H. P. XVisman, 1925-27. A. F. Waite, 1927-28. P. G. Porter, 1928- Johnston High School .Athletics - With the exception of a few odd years, Johnston High School has been always very prominent in Athletic fcircles in the county. Before 1911, the high school had been quite prominent in baseball but had not done much in Held and traclf or basket ball or football. In thei spring of 19.12, Johnston high athletes broke into the limelight by winning the field and track meet hel don the Kinsman Fair Grounds. This was when the association was known as The North Eastern Trumbull County Athletic Association. The stars of this meet, were Leonard Crawford, '12, and Alton Cram, '13, Jesse Bascom, '23, and Paul Sad- dler, 'L4. This same groul with the addition of Horace Cram, '14, andPRonald Hine, '13, made up the famous basket ball team of 1911- 12 and 1912-13. This team could not ind high school teams strong enough to play them and had to play professional and semi-profes- sional teams and Y. M. C. A. teams from Cleveland and Youngstown. This spirit

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Vernon WWEKGW WHECGWWHXGWWBKGWQWXGW E fi 5 ie it N o 5 -R3Q?IlQZa-wnEQ5ICCZnsf2EQ7IfCiawnEQ?KCZuwnEQ7IfCinwnE2 History of Vernon School The early educational facilities of Vernon, like most other townships consisted of district schools. Of these there were seven and two so-called fractional districts where the schools wer' managed jointly with other town- ships. ' K ' Some of these district schools were of un- usual merit for their kind and numbered among their teachers men and women now noted in the county, state, and nation. Clarence Darrow, when a mere youth, taught several terms at School No. 3, and was famous as a debater even in those early days of his career. Judge W'illiam Carter taught two terms in the district known as the Beach Dis- trict. The schools were consolidated and central- ized in 1901. The new building being located at the center, and organized as a High School of the third grade. The first superintendent of the Centralized School was C. C. Rankin. In 1914 the original building was destroyed by fire and replaced by the present building of fire-proof construction. After the new building was completed the school was reorganized as a high school of the first grade, in 1915. Amongi the early super- intendents of the building were M. M. Dray, now a teacher of history at Warren G. Hard- ing High School, Warren, Ohio, Mr. A. L. Bascom, present superintendent at Leavitts- burgg Mr. I. E.,Boetticher, former County Superintendent, and G. H. Birrell, prosecuting attorney of Trumbull Co. In 1924 the voters of the township approved a bond issue for the purpose of enlarging and equipping the school plant. The new part includes two recitation rooms, large sanitary toilet rooms and a combined gymnasium and auditorium. Each year new equipment is being added. Last year a motion picture machine was pur- chased, also a fine electrically driven lathe for manual training. At present the school has adequate equipment for manual and domestic arts with a light spacious room for each. Vernon High School displays a fine school spirit, and encourages many extra curricular activities, namely, basketball, both girls and boys, music, a boys' glee club and a girls' glee club, orchestra, operettas, etc., dramatics, de- bates and literary contests. The trend of education in Vernon has al- ways been in the direction of progress and we hope the future of the school may live up to the standard set by its past history. 4-