Wadsworth High School - Whisperer Yearbook (Wadsworth, OH)

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Commencement Ml1SiC ------ - --- -------............ High School Orchestra Invocation Hungary Rapsodie Mignonneu ....,,...-.,------,- ---- T wo pianos George Lorentz Maynard Means Gordon Baldwin Howard Selby Honor Oration .............. ................. H enry Leatherman Song Carmen .............. - ................. Mixed Quartette Allene Houglan Frances Deshler Donald Parmelee Kenneth Fenton Ethel Spencer, Accornpanist Orchestra ACHTCSS ....-.--.... -.- ....... ....... S up't W. E. Wenner Class Song ......-.... ..... - -- Words by Nina O'lVleara Presentation of Diplomas Benediction Senior Chapel Program Music ...... ......................... H igh School Orchestra Hymn ................. ............. S chool Scripture Reading and Prayer Hymn ................ --- ................ School Music -- ...... .- ........ High School Orchestra i'Stunt -- -.---- ............... Senior Class Music ..................... - -. .- ...... L .............. Orchestra Songs ...................................... Senior Boys' Quartet Donald Parmelee Kenneth Fenton Gordon Baldwin Ralph Waltz Class History ............... e................. F rances Deshler Flute Solo .... --- --- ........ Marian Koontz Vocal Solo ..... ..... ..... E d ward Kinlock Class Prophecy --- .... Walter Keefer Piano Solo ..... -- Gordon Baldwin Class Will ..... - -.- - ..... Ralph Waltz Vocal Solo .............. ., ......... --- Allene l-louglan Saxophone Solo ........... ----. ..... --- Geneva Everhard Presentation of Gift to l'l. S. --- --- George Lorentz Acceptance ............... --.. Edwin Parker Class Song .................... - ............-...-... Senior Class Music ..................... ,- ........................ Orchestra The Senior Chapel program as given above took place on Wednesday morning, May 20, l925, in the l'li School Auditorium. Everyone had looked forward to this outstanding Senior event, and it came up to the expectations of every student assembled there. The Seniors had tried to put on some- thing different and that they succeeded was evident by the reluctance with which the student body left the auditorium and the many complimentary re- marks which were made public afterwards. A freshie said, Say, it's too bad they're leaving: l couldn't have done much better myself. George Lorentz, the class president, had charge of the exercises. Ri gh f emi

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Senior Class Play The last school function that the Seniors can give before leaving school is the Senior Class Play. They went into this affair this year with all the spirit any class could show in order to make the play the biggest hit ever. The play was one of Marie Doran's best--A'The New Co-Ed. It was ably directed by Bruce Cameron and given on Friday, May Sth. The play portrays life at a college. The theme of it is the arrival of a new student at the college. She is an oddly dressed girl coming from a small village and not knowing what or how to expect things at college. Of course she is shunned by some of the students, while several take a liking to her and help her get along. The play tells of her many trials and how they terminate. The following cast acted very well the parts assigned them. l-etita fl-ettyl Willis, The New Co-Ed ............ .... G ladys Powell Madge Stevens, l-etty's Friend ........ ---Helen Hartman Estelle Doolittle, A spoiled beauty ---- ----- F rances Deshler Miss Rice, l-andlady --------.---. ------- C ecelia Beery May ---, Q ---Allene Hougian Rose --- College Chums -------- --- - --- sf .----Marian Koontz Grace -- l l .--Bonnie lVlcClung Richard fDickJ Bradley, Athlete --- ----------- ------ K enneth Fenton Punch Doolittle, workhating brother of Estelle - --- Donald Parmelee Jim Young, Coach ----------------------- ------ R alph Morr George Washington Watts, Porter -----..--- --- ---- Miles Schapiro Play Business Manager ----------- - ------------------- Donald Good The class voted to use the money realized from this event for a memorial. A light to be placed in front of the building was selected. Donald Good, '25 S1-wxllv-vii

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EDITORIALS School Spirit The students of Wadsworth High School during the year of l924-25 have been showing great school spirit. At all games the students have been turning out in great numbers and helping the various teams win their games by cheering from the side lines. They are also behind other things as well as sports, the Literary Club, Dramatics, Debate, Orchestra, C-lee Club, Hi-Y and all other activities that help build up a school. The School itself is built up around school spirit. lf it were not for the Spirit where would our school be? It is not the name of the school that makes it great: it is the students themselves. Students can make or break a school. ln the instance of good old W. H. S. the students are making it. and are putting the name of Wadsworth High School on the scholastic map of Ohio. We expect in time to come, to have one of the best schools if not the best in the State of Ohio. And who will do it? The students, by getting behind the school activities and pushing it forward into the scholastic lime- light. The faculty is another great factor in building up the school and school spirit. And is the main cog in maintaining the function and activities. The faculty of W. H. S. is behind every move we make and the Superintendent, Principal and teachers we have this year are-there are none better. They help us in all problems and difficulties that arise, in class, in the gym, and on the gridiron or diamond and any other place it happens to be. New faces in school this year have helped to create a strong school spirit. The different members of the faculty, each had a different kind of work to do and it was done well. There were rallies, the big Peppy Pep Party, the different plays, the Glee Club, Music, Public Speaking and sports. The first was the big Peppy Pep Party which started the ball rolling and there is an old saying that a rolling stone gathers no moss. l don't believe we have gathered any moss, but l think we have gathered a great school spirit this year, and in the years to follow we hope to see a stronger bond called School Spirit holding the students of Wadsworth Hi together. Nuff sed! Do your stuff W. H. S. We're with you! . Donald Parmelee, '25 The Value of a High School Education Why is education so important? We know that many fathers and mothers have saved and deprived themselves of many pleasures so that their children could go through high school. But why did they do this? Because they don't want their children to work as hard as they did. They don't want them to get their hands dirty, in other words, they want them to get a position to use the mind more than the hands. The first thing that intellectual education does for a man is to wake him up. If a man is intelligent, he can and will see what things are aids to pros- perity. It also makes a man patriotic. For example, when your intelligent American citizen reads the history of this republic and thinks of the blood that has been shed, the lives that have been laid down to secure and perpetuate freedom to the most humble citizen, a feeling of love and pride for his country swells up within him. Education also teaches him to economize, and economy is the road to wealth. However large an income, if he doesn't learn to economize, he will never be prosperous. It teaches the dignity of honest Ninvlw-I1