Vernon High School - V Echo Yearbook (Vernon, OH)

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BOB MULLETT junior play Boy Scout 1 Booster Club Z Basket ball l-Z-3-4 Baseball Z-3-4 Class History Senior Play ELINOR PER KINS Chorus I-2-3-4 Grads School Editor Senior play Homecoming Queen BETTY JEAN RICE Clan officer 1-3-4 Booster club 4 Chorus I-Z-3 County chorus 3 Bank Z-3 Senior Editor Ptsnlst for chorus 2-3' Chairman of Carnival 4 Valodlctorlan Sonlor play National Honor Soc. FLORENCE SANTFANT junior Play Clan officer I Queen's attendent Z Typist for annual Senior Play National Honor Soc. Chorus 1-Z-3-4 FRANCIS SMITH junior play Basketball Z-3-4 Baseball 3-4 Class prophecy PAT SONK Junior Play Class officer l County chorus 3 Class prophgcy Typist for annual Chorus l-Z-3-4 Pianist for chorus 4 Senior Play National Honor Soc RANDALL SWEIT ZER Junior Play Booster club l-3 Chorus l Tlrnekeeper 4 Class poem Senior Play JACK WARNER 4-H 1 Basketball l-Z -3 - Baseball 1-Z-3-4 Sports editor

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HISTORY As we, the class of 1948, write the last few events into our record at Vernon High School, our thoughts go back twelve years to the day our mothers scrubbed our faces and first sent us off to school. Of the twenty- four original members of the class that met Miss Paden in September, 1936, only six, Betty jean Rice, Florence Santfant, Roberta Archer, jack Warner, Paul Hutchins. and Bob Mullett, remain to see the last chapter be- ing written in our history. Our grade school days tell of many ups and downs in population. In the third grade we were only eighteen, in the fourth, nineteen, and in the fifth we slumped to seventeen as we shifted back and forth between Miss Johnston and Miss Schadt. Weren't we big then! Yes, twenty-three of us were divided between two teachers. Miss Lowe and Mr. Cutting, and we really beat the seventh grade playing basket- ball. A grand total of thirty moved upstairs to Miss Locn and the thrill of having classes in different rooms each period. Unfortunately, Miss Loch, saw our all-time high in population drop to twenty-two the following year. The night of the hair-raising freshmen initiation we realized we had finally reached high school. Out class, in Miss Fitts' homeroom, had three new permanent members: Elinor Perkins, Larry Bradley, and Clyde Moffett. Our Sophomore year was high lighted by an unheard of victory. Both the boys and girls teams won the high school basketball tournament. More vivid are the mem0ries of the hours we spent selling refreshments at basketball games, taking-tickets for the Tennessee Valley Ramblers , and working long hours to learn our lines for our junior Class play, For Pete's Sake . We remember vividly Mrs. Hanawalt's reminders that we had to have money to give the junior-Senior Banquet and to get to Buffalo. Our junior year had a really successful conclusion the night we thrilled to- gether at the lights over Niagara Falls. On the last step of our ladder, eighteen of us strong have turned the last few pages in our story. Altogether none of our boys openly admit pres- idental aspiration, we joined forces with the junior Class to get inside Washington, D. C. To achieve this goal we gave two hilarious one-act plays, The Curiosity Cure and Sisters Under the Skin , and sold an endless stream of magazines, cards, andcandy. Before our trip the juniors entertained us at a banquet, and evening none of us will forget, and on May 4th, we piled into a bus for Washington. In a few short days American history came to life for us. Then on May 19th we each heard our name being called. The last paragraph has been written in the history of our life at Vernon.