Versailles High School - Portal Yearbook (Versailles, OH)

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—I SWASTIK1AN and villain. Geometry has been a world of circles, squares, lines and angles, in which many heads are whirling yet. Due we have learned to think and prove what we say. We owe very much to Mr. Everhart for his patience and perseverance, in trying to teach us. Another very interesting world was the Occupational World. Miss Kley taught us many things that were question marks before. Some took up the Commercial World in Commercial Arithmetic, where they work out the puzzles that stare them in the face each day. Mr. Bowdle guided them through that miry world. Our girls took active part in soccer, the boys in football, and both boys and girls in basketball. We had stars of whom any school could be proud. We took part in the excellent play, “The Belle of Barcelona”, and showed that we have able artists in that line. We had members in the Glee Club, Dramatics, and the Literary Societies. We, the Sophomore Class, wish to express our sincere gratitude to our teachers for their interest shown in our welfare. —Mary Etter. Twenty-hihV

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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

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swastikianII FRESHMAN CLASS ROLL Jeanette Ash Coral Sebring Mary Beal Mildred Zeller Edna Baltes Harriet Watson Gertrude Boomershine Lowell Apple Gladys Byrd Orville Baltes Arlene Daugherty George Boyer Thelma Davidson Chalmer Burns Virginia Falk nor Vitalis Brandon Leona Grillot Raphael Dapore Leona Gerlach Victor Dunkel Esther Hardman Albert Goubeaux Virginia Houser Donald Hesson Ruth Marker Edwin Monnin Genevieve Michael Edson Mathews Lillian Meyer Paul Foy Lucille Meyer Rolland Hile Dorothy Miller Bernard Smith Esther Hanna George Wilson Hazel Oehrtman Richard Wilson Wilma Paul us Joe Williams Margaret Gasson Norbert Fin frock Bernice Smith Chalmer E. Burns Thirty