Upper Arlington High School - Norwester Yearbook (Upper Arlington, OH)

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 ••« ©• T H E NORUJESTER -® - v« - • -s THE MEMOIRS OF A FIRS!' STUDENT Back in October of 1918, just a month before the world war ended. Upper Arlington's School was brought into being in a little brown four-roomed building located at the corner of Tremont Road and Arlington Avenue. Hitherto the early elementary grades had been provided for in the basement of King Thompson's residence while the few who were of later age attended Grandview. So the one-story frame building housed the first students of the real Upper Arlington School. The ninth grade was the highest in point of scholastic standing, having been composed of Herrick Thompson. Frank E. Fenton and John F. Royer, a triumvirate that considers itself the first of a high school that has prospered in the intervening ten years to the present date. These three were forced to graduate from high school from other schools, the first at Antioch prep and the latter two at Grandview. Later the three attended Ohio State and served their four years of academic study. Thompson is following in the footsteps of his father in the business of selling real estate, while Fenton is located in Los Angeles. California, pursuing a journalistic career. Royer has won his spurs pounding a typewriter in several daily newspaper offices throughout Ohio as well as in the West, among others having served on the Scioto Gazette at Chillicothc. founded in 1880. the oldest newspaper west of the Alleghanies. Thus did the excellent school system of the village have its start a decade ago. When the first three, augmented at times by Robert Griffith, who later attended Princeton, and Miss Dorothy Barton, who has since been married, reached the dignified role of juniors, it was the end. No senior class was provided for until 192s). when the first graduating class of Upper Arlington high school received their diplomas. So until the latter year, the junior classes have been considered as the “seniors.'' The year 1921-22 the Misses Mildred Pratt. Ellen Reed. Louise Barnhart. Olive Shipe. Beatrice Harkncss. and others. (There are no records and memory is faulty) along with Earl Althen. William Radebaugh and others, comprised the “senior'' class list. Miss Pratt is studying voice. Miss Reed is a senior in the Arts college at Ohio State, while Miss Barnhart is to be found in a downtown department store. Miss Shipe is now married and resides in Worthington. Miss Harkncss attended Ohio State. Earl Althen is associated with his father in the rubber business with offices in Columbus while “Bill. too. is with his father, constructing roads throughout the state. Then, for the first time, an annual was produced recounting the experiences of the next group, that of 1922-23. Most of the class graduated from Grandview. J. Stewart Collins, after getting his sheepskin, went to Ohio State where he is a junior. Miss Marian Wright is also in her third year at the university along with Miss Anna Mills, whose home address is now Cleveland. Anthony Ruppersburg. Jr., of this class, is studying medicine at Lafayette college, in Pennsylvania. Ohio Wesleyan claimed Warren Sisson and Harlan Kirk, both being seniors at the Methodist school this year. Miss Eleanor Harrop attended Ohio State for several years and forsook it to pursue other interests. The other two members. Miss Catherine Brown, and Edmund Dwyer, present no available records. IlL’O

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 CTHE NOEUJESTER -®»«- With several additions, the junior class of 1923-24 carried over into 1924-25 and became the first graduating class. Composed of Wilametta Morris. Evelyn Fenton. Frances Sayers. Evelyn Bode. Mary Lou Kirkpatrick. Dorothy Francisco. Elizabeth Benbow. Dorothy Fuller. Catherine Gibson. Josephine Hughes and Dorothy Sibbald and Ivan Creager and Stanton Wilson, it pre sented a remarkable array of feminine talent. The Misses Morris and Benbow are juniors in the Arts college at Ohio State while the Misses Fenton and Hughes attended school there for several quarters. The former is now in Los Angeles, trying her luck on the silver sheet. Miss Francisco is a junior at Wittenberg. Miss Fuller went to State, and Miss Sayers is a junior at Ohio Wesleyan while Miss Gibson is studying music at Oberlin Conservatory. Miss Sibbald was united in marriage soon after her graduation with Bernard Jaeger, and is now a fond mother. Records of four of the members of the first class are inaccurate. Ohio State claims five of the 1926 class. Misses Betty Bonnet. Virginia Denman. Vivian Beale and Harriett Louise Strang, who are all sophomores in the Arts college, and Russell Nye. who is a sophomore in the Education college, and Neil Estey. in his second year in the Arts college. Miss Josephine Munkel attended Ohio State until this year. Ohio Wesleyan numbers among its stu dents Misses Dorothy Zartman and Irma Thompson, sophomores. Miss Cor nelia Shaw started her studies at Miami and then attended Ohio State after which she attended Columbus Art School in pursuit of a proficiency in her special talent. She taught art in the Upper Arlington schools during the past year. Miss Annabelle Ward has joined the ranks of the married folk. Robert Rogers is located in Chicago where he attends Northwestern University. Lawrence Wiley is making a livelihood in Columbus while Dustin Mirick is learn- Page ihret