Versailles High School - Portal Yearbook (Versailles, OH)

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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

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Education Good education is that which gives to tin body and soul all the perfection of which they are capable. Education includes processes for realizing ideals. Education has two phases; it is the physical development of the individual and it is the process of adjusting to his social environment. It shows a person the ideals and customary practices of his friends. In primitive times, education was the training given a child by his parents. But it has now acquired a much broader purpose in life. Definition of education has been given by several different men. The best of these , I think, is that education is the harmonious development of all the powers of a child. This definition conveys the thought that education is the developmnt of the individual for his social position in life. Two things determine your success in life. They are your character and education. Your character is partly determined by your education. Your character is mostly built at school. What habits you acquire at school are your habits for the remainder of your life. It matters not what you may choose for your life work, you need a good education to help you. Statistics have shown that the people who have studied in their line of work have made more money than those who have not. Some of the older people do not feel the value of an education. The sooner they begin to feel Ibis value the quicker we will have newr facilities to get a good education. It may be that some of the students going l school at the present time do not know of flu great values that lie hidden in a good education. But when they get out in life to work for themselves (hey will begin to find out these many great values. But if you do not us your time at school it means that these values will be less. When the people get out ii life they think back over what they did when they were at school. They begin to feel the value of a good education and how much ii has helped them to make their life a success. Of course some people need more education for their work than others do. A business man needs more education than a man who does hard physical work although both need an education. (Commercial education which has been adopted in the past years has proven to be a valuable course. Many schools are row ready to til men in many different lines of business. Stricter school laws have been established and these will help keep up the education of the people of the Unite I States. Nearly all men that have high social standing are well educated. In any line of work the person who is the most highly educated is the most efficient. People before starting in their work, must know something of it to make it a success. A good education is needed now more than it was twenty years ago because it is more difficult to secure a position now. Where work that is very exact is needed only an educated person can fill the posi-lion. In schools not all students finish their course but tin majority do finish it. Not all persons are interested in the same line of work and thus flu different occupations are not overcrowded. Some high schools have a better course of study than others, because they have facilities to furnish a better one. The high school at Versailles does not have enough teachers and enough room to give a good course. Some high schools teach subjects that are as valuable as some college courses. As time advances more education is needed to confront the many problems that come before us. V hen you are young look forward to when you will grow old and pave your way with a good education. It is never too late to learn. FARRELL HAHN, ’?A