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

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1 THOMAS TUPPER Lark Basketball 1-2-3-4 Baseball 1-2-3-4 Track 1-3 National Honor Society Beta Club 2-3-4 Co-Editor Yearbook Chorus 1-3-4 Prom Committee Bowling 1-3 ALAN WATSON Vite Class President 4 Class Secretary 3 National Honor Society Beta Club 2-3-4 Basketball 1-2-3 Chorus 1-2-3 JANE WELLS Janie Softball 1-2-3-4 Track 1-2-3-4 Cheerleader 2-3-4 National Honor Society Bowling 1-3-4 Junior Play Queen Attendant 2 Chorus 1-2-3 RONALD WILSON Moose Basketball 1-2-3-4 Baseball 1 Bowling 1 Chorus 2

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JOE MACK Wild Steve Class Treasurer 4 Track 1-2-3-4 Bowling 3-4 Boys' State 58 National Honor Society HOWARD MCMAHON Goose Junior Commencement Aid Baseball 1 EDWARD MELONI Rabbit Basketball 1-2 Baseball 1-2-3-4 Track 3-4 Class Treasurer 2 Junior Play Bowling 1-3-4 GORDON MYERS Gobbin Basketball 1-2-3 Track 1-2 Baseball 1 Bowling 1-4 ROBERTA REEVES Bertie National Honor Society Beta Club 2-3-4 Softball 1-2-3-4 Yearbook Editor Queen Attendant 4 Junior Play Class Secretary 4 MERLYN SMITH Smitty Band 3-4

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Just twelve years ago in September, 1947, forty-two six year old children entered Mrs. Karr's first grade. Twenty-one of the forty-two still remain with us, and they are Roy Bailes, Larry Bates, Barbara Bloss, Daniel Braden, Paul Burbach, Gordon Collins, Diane Draa, Norman Englebaugh, Betty Griffiths, Frank Hiland, Margaret Hillyer, Dorothy Horodyski, Raymond Jackson, Merle Langley, Joe Mack, Ed Meloni, Roberta Reeves, Tom Tupper, Alan Watson, Jane Wells, and Ronald Wilson. There were so many of us that the very first day we had to be moved into a larger room. After get- ting settled we began to learn the background for the 3 R's. In 1948 we were promoted to the second grade where Mrs. Queale was our teacher. The thing that we remember most was the Christmas tree we had that year. It was a branch from a tree, painted silver and decorated with the ornaments that we made. This year Gordon Myers and Howard McMahon joined us. In 1949 Mrs. Jennings received us into the third grade room. She certainly had a hard time pounding the time tables into our thick heads, That was the year that Judy Bush became a member of our class. The fourth grade was a memorable year, because Mrs. Lucas had the thankless task of teaching us how to write with an ink pen. This grade has the distinction of being that one in which Norman Englebaugh got his name of Inky , because everytime we used our ink, he got more on himself than on the paper. Mrs. Hunter taught us in the fifth grade. Here we leamed who the musicians of the class were, for she taught us to play the harmonica, In the sixth grade we had Mrs. Seaholm as our teacher. I think the most important event that year was our trip to Pittsburgh to the Planetarium, the museum and the zoo. We next entered junior high school and what an experience that was! Mr. Furr was our seventh grade advisor and Mr. Whipkey, our eighth grade advisor, These two years were those in which we got into the most trouble. It seemed we were always getting blamed for something. It was in the seventh grade that we acquired another permanent member, Jerry Devine, and then in the eighth grade another, Richard Bloom. Well, when we finally became Big freshmen, we weren't as big as we thought we were, and Mr. Watson soon woke us up to that fact. We sponsored our first dance this year and were quite successful. The next fall all we did was move to the other side of the room and become soph- omores with Mr. Watson still our advisor. We had another dance that year and built up our funds in our treasury quite satisfactorily. When we left the tenth grade and ventured on to next-to-the-last year of school, we didn't think it would go as fast as it did. Mr. Gelsomino was our advisor and with his help we accomplished quite a bit. We put on a play, Miss Mischief, sold autograph books, sold candy in the hall at the noon recess, and had the concessions at the home basketball games. In the spring we received our class rings, had a dance, and enter- tained the seniors at a very successful Prom at the Mahoning Country Club. In the same year the girls' softball team won two district trophies with Jane Wells and Roberta Reeves from our class helping. John Forsha and Merlyn Smith joined us this year,