Versailles High School - Portal Yearbook (Versailles, OH)

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SOPHOMORE CLASS ROLL Alma Begien Herbert Boomershine Hazel Blakely Philip Brandon Bridget Boomershine Robert Brandon Geraldine Brown Orville Brewer Mary Byrd Ralph Byrd Mary Etter Robert Collins Jennie Fackler Emmett Grillot Madge Falk nor Joseph Guillozet Wealtha Foster Delbert Hannon Gertrude Fritz Carl Harmon Martha Grillot Herman Marchal Veronica Hickey Clark Medford Margaret Magato Edwin Rismiller Bessie Martin Harold Rismiller Ruth Nischwitz Everett Smith Lucille Sherry John Swinehart Wilhelmina Snyder Norman Treon Dorothy Streib Norman Trittschuh Ilarry Banks Kenneth Valentine Dale Dayman Ed son Varner Ed Begin Norman Ward Wayne Berry ♦Withdrawn. Twenty-seven

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T) JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY September 8th, 192 5, forty-two students enrolled as Juniors in V. H. S. This class was practically the same that had enrolled as Freshmen three years before. Eighteen have dropped out of our class in the three years, while but two students have entered. Earl Martin, who started as a Freshman with us, is being graduated this year. I SW ASTIKI AN As all Freshmen are, we were very green, but this green matter ripened rapidly as the days passed. Before the second semester was over. Mr. Linville impressed on our minds the necessity of electing class officers. This was done, Helen Miller being elected President, and Kelsey Smith Secretary-Treasurer. The school year soon closed, with a big Sophomore-Freshman picnic at Overlook Park. The next year, our ranks somewhat thinned by the Freshman Battle, we entered as Sophomores. The previous year’s experience had taught us many things, and so, taking advantage of our earlier mistakes, we elected class officers immediately. The election results were: James Urquhart, President, and William Reed, Secretary-Treasurer. They conducted the affairs of the class in a very satisfactory manner. The class being more concerned in the welfare of V. H. S., gave a market for the benefit of the Athletic Association. It went over big, and we turned over $4 3 to the Athletic Association. “One good deed by the Sophomores”. The Sophomores were represented in all the athletic activities of the High School. We had our stars in athletics, heroes in operetta, Carusos in the Glee Clubs, and villains in the Dramatic Club. At the end of the school year our class picnic was held at Edgewater Park. Our Junior Class of this year, realizing the task which lay before them, started with plenty of pep to publish a bigger and better Annual. Now that it is nearing completion, our ambitions have been gratified. But, as Juniors, we have found many other things to do. The Junior Reception must be given in a finer manner than ever before; also we feel a deeper sense of loyalty when the call for athletic teams is made. Our lesponse has been immediate, and large. We had four members on the Boys’ basketball team, as well as several members on the Girls’ team, and we expect to be well represented in the track meet. We are also beginning to realize the gap we must fill which is being ieft vacant by the Seniors. T went y- six

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SOPHOMORE CLASS HISTORY On September 8, 192 4, sixty-one wondering pupils climbed the historic stairs of Versailles High School and entered the Freshman room. (Some think those same stairs were responsible for the formation of the “Rheumatic Club.) Anyone wishing to learn to express wonder and bewilderment should have come to Versailles for his model. Each one wished in his secret mind that guide posts and traffic cops had been a part of the school equipment. Being a Freshman was certainly a new era in our lives. We had a Class President, Philip Brandon; a Secretary-Treasurer, Alma Begien; Vice-President, Margaret Magoto; and a Class Reporter. Alma was the Class Reporter. Miss Smelker was our Class Adviser. We couldn’t join the Glee Club, but we formed a Choral Club. Our Class was well represented in Football and Basketball. The rules forbade us to be on the team; but we had material for a team. Miss Shank taught us Algebra, along with many good moral lessons Miss Smelker taught us that strange yet interesting subject, Latin. (We admit it was often Greek to us.) Miss Ballinger led us up the Mountain of Good English and we know by experience that it has hidden chasms, great avalanches, and is very high and rugged. We learned of this wonderful world of ours by the aid of Mrs. Moyer, who taught Commercial Geography and Occupations. Mr. Linville introduced us into the Scientific World, and an appalling world it was. It was like climbing mountains —for we often tumbled into unknown depths (for we never measured them) and thus became discouraged; but Mr. Linville kindly fished us up again, and continued to lead us upward. Some of us wish to become business people, so we took up Commercial Arithmetic. Miss Smelker taught us this subject. Thus we continued, sometimes uphill, sometimes down. We think we grasped some of the knowledge offered to us. Of course, with such a fine beginning, we didn’t stop. Proud of our success, we began as Sophomores with much zest. Some of our number had left and gone to Ansonia and Greenville, but, undaunted, we continued. We re-elected Philip Brandon as Class President, Alma Begien as Treasurer, and Madge Falknor was chosen Secretary. Miss Kley was chosen as Class Adviser. Miss Kley taught us everything concerning our European and Asiatic ancestors. We were rather proud to know how much we had advanced over those ancestors. Some of us continued the study of Latin under the good supervision of Miss Smelker. Miss Schad continued our progress up the Mountain of Good English, and introduced each one of us to Mr. Webster, author of the Dictionary. We think we are able to characterize everyone we meet, for we characterized every kind of saint Twenty-eight