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

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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

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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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 S- T H E. NORIDESTER -s «- • -'i 'A' ing the steel business from the ground up down ac Middletown, Ohio, with the American Rolling Mills Co. Exact data on Dan Thomas and Ben Houghton evades the chronicler, though the latter moved from the village shortly after his graduation. Robert Marquardt and Dick Radebaugh. who were mem-beis of this class until their senior year chose to graduate from North High and Aquinas respectively. The former is a sophomore at Ohio State in the Commerce college while the latter, after attending Ohio State, is concerned over the business of gaining a living. Nineteen, the largest graduating class of the school, received diplomas in 1927. All arc to be found as freshman on the rolls of various colleges. Misses Winifred Duval. Emily Bode. Rita Cahill. Emily Frances Furniss. and Marthel Ryan are in the Arts college at Ohio State. Miss Mary Kathryn Royer is at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Miss Louise Hill is at Wittenberg. Miss Mary Louise Ingalls can be reached at Havergal. Toronto. Canada. Miss Mary-bce Ames is at Ohio Wesleyan. Warren Armstrong. William Miller, and Abram Jones are at Wesleyan. Nash Kelley is at Ohio State, as are Elson Parker and Vincent Parrish in the Engineering college. Jack Bornhauser in the Commerce college and Frederick Wing in the Agricultural college. Wendell Barnes hies home now and then from Denison University. Stuart McFarland is studying “dramaturgy at Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh. Thus ten years of Upper Arlington school history have passed. The little brown building was moved and augmented in 1919. later to become the elementary building while a new high school loomed on the mall. Many are the names and faces that recur to mind during a reminiscence of these years since Evan Mahaffey was principal of the school, followed by Bernard G. Rock-wood. who is now in Kurnool. India. Then M. M. Williams became joint superintendent of Upper Arlington and Grandview while J. W. Jones served as principal at Upper Arlington, later becoming superintendent. It has been a tale of steady progress and development from those days when there was no gymnasium, no locker rooms, no showers for athletes, such as they were, nor laboratories. libraries and commodious classrooms for students. Prowess in athletics was meager, but a foundation was laid which in the past several years has brought fruition of dreams that earlier students of the school cherished and hoped for. working toward that goal unconsciously, yet with a knowledge that some day it would be different. So there has been a heritage bequeathed to each succeeding class, the opportunities have been widened, the contacts enriched. And now. after ten years, it means that Upper Arlington schools have their tradition, their stories of what has been, ever-increasing funds of recollections of one of the most critical periods in the lives of boys and girls. Now that it has started, has gained force, strength and richness, future generations may accept the heritage with the knowledge that it is truly their own. The chronicler has seen it through the dark ages, as it were, and the renaissance has begun. Time is change and change is progress. Paw four