Versailles High School - Portal Yearbook (Versailles, OH)

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JUNIOR CLASS

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Senior Class History When this “Annual” is published this class will have left the halls of Y. FT. S. to!return as a class—never more. Of those who began together in The first grade of the public school, only five members are left and of the thirty-seven who began as Freshmen, only twenty-five are left to constitute the Senior Class of 23. With pride we point to our place in school work. Be it in athletics, music, oratory, literary or scholastic activities, our class is not to be surpassed. The first “Annual” of the High School was published by our class. The literary presidents are Seniors. We are well represented in baseball, basketball or football. The girls’ basketball team is almost a Senior organization.: Seniors contribute much to operettas. We count in our minibus poets,'singers, pianists, orators, writers, a violinist and a saxophonist. Indeed there is no line of activity in which our class does not partake. Much has the old school done for us, and long have the teachers toiled for our benefit. Truly we hope that their toil shall not go unrequited and ,hat we shall be able to repay in full measure the devotion shown us. Safe! and secure for the moment we contemplate on that vast sea of life now so near before us. Soon shall our ships of career be launched on the open sea where there are none to guide us to a desired destiny, save our own solves. The questions arise, “Have we better fitted our lives by these days of school to weather the perils before us? Have these days been profitable as well as pleasant? How can there be any answer other than yes? We who have been schoolmates here together, whose ships have sailed together for four long years will now be carried far apart. Guided with such steadiness as self and toil has taught we shall be far separated. And yet Hoods of memory shall cast our eyes back across the sea of life—back to the pleasant shore of school life and then we will live over again those days of which this “Annual” tells. Then here’s to our class, its purple and gold; Dreams we have had, ideals that we hold; And when we have left our classmates so gay, May fortune follow all whatever their way. NORMAN BFRNS, ’23.

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JUNIOR CLASS ROLL Ira Brown, Anita Border, Kenneth Brandon, Maudie Boyer, Florence Boyer, Thomas Begin, Ralph Beare, Wilbur Dapore, Lloyd Davis, Ruby Fiebiger, Homer Fields, Eugene Goubeaux, Lowell Gutermuth, Edward Goubeaux, Norbert Grilliot, Farrell Hahn, Forest Hile, Kathryn Hanna, Norman Jacobi, Ruby Kley, Willard Nisonger, Pauline Nickol, Paul Niederkorn, Walter Rismiller, Arthur Rismiller, Edgar Sherry, Esther Swartzbaugh, Edmund Stamm, Alfred Subler, Myrtle Smith, Helen Long, Opal Scheffbuch, Florence Simon, Glen Zellers, Harold Urquhart, Bernard Petitjean, Annabel Greer. Just three years ago the best class in the history of the V. H. K. entered. We were greeted with great cheers and loud acclaim. In the lapse quainted with the office and Mr. Beeman, our former superintendent. Later in the year a Hallowe'en party was given in the Lemoine Hall, in our honor. Then at the end of the year came the exams thru which we sailed like ‘greased lightning . At last came the picnic which was well attended by all class was at the head of all musical programs. We came back the next year as Sophomores—“with a bang . After regretting the loss of a few members from our Freshman year, we were still one of the best Sophomore classes that had ever entered Versailles High School and all our shyness had disappeared, because we had possessed very little when we entered as Presides. In this year we lost our famous vocalist, Bernard Magoto, but he was immediately succeded by one of no less renown, Ralph Beare, who played so large a part in the success of “Gypsy Rover”. In athletics we were still holding our own, a large part of the class taking part in all interscholastic games. In our literary work we still possessed the talent we entered with having lost none of it in tin process of acquiring great mental ability. Then ai the close of the year we all enjoyed our Freshman-Sophomore picnic, which was held at Evergreen Lake. We then entered V. H. S. as Juniors. And the old school is still as it was. No improvements being made; we are still climbing the old rickety stairs that seem determined to last our time. We met the new faculty without a quiver. It seems that Versailles has always had a great attraction for pretty teachers. Did I say pretty?—well I guess. We again resumed our place in athletics, by composing a large part of 1 lie football team. The Juniors were also well represented in the operetta presented by Miss Porter. We are now producing the best “Annual that has ever entered the town of Versailles. This year has sailed smoothly by without many storms and we are now preparing to mount the last rung of the ladder and wish our under classmen the same success that we have had under the fine tutelage of our ever-changing faculty. Junior History HA HOLD URQUHART, ’24