Versailles High School - Portal Yearbook (Versailles, OH)

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CLASS ADVISER Mr. Fields Senior Class History In the fall of 1943 our mothers sent forth 76 freshly cleaned youngsters into the halls of Versailles High School, dedicated to the proposition that all children are created for school. Then we were engaged in a great struggle, testing whether our minds or any minds so mixed up and so scared could long endure. We met at the Freshman home room of that school. We had come to dedicate a portion of our minds as a final testing place for those who here gave their lives that this school might survive. It was altogether fitting and proper that we should pass. But in a larger sense we cannot complicate—we cannot concentrate —we cannot sleep in this school. The brave students living and dumb who struggled here have complicated it far beyond our poor power to add or subtract The faculty will little note nor long remember what we said here, but they can never forget what we did here. It is for the Juniors, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work, which we who struggled here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for you to be here astonished at the finished Senior Class before you, that from these honored students you take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave their last full measure of devotion. That you here highly resolve that these students shall not have studied in vain. That this school, under Mr. Hoerner shall have a new birth of geniuses and that school, of the students, by the students, and for the students, shall not perish from Versailles. —Mary Jane Marchal “47”. SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Patsy Barga, Ralph Barge, Darold Pierron, Wayne Pittsen-barger, Phil Kindell. Eleven