Wapakoneta High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Wapakoneta, OH)

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THE RETROSPECT m ' ■ :it, ., m ,:w,. r Top row, left to right Dorothy Goetz, Mary Ruth Smith, Kathryn Wentz, Emily Swink, Donna Metzger, Miss Postle, Betty Sheets, Mary Anne Schragle, Annabel Bowsher. Second Row—Kathaleen Wolfe, Mary Ellen Maxwell, Eleanor Jane Abe, Lula Mae Terwilliger, Mildred Rinehart, Ruth Clapp, Ruth Koch, Louise Tumbleson. Third Row—Jane Seitz, Dolores Case, Fern Brookhart, Pauline Metzger, Wilma Jane Shaw, Florence Liokumovitz, Rose Buffenbarger, Ruby Miller, Ruth Stinebaugh. Fourth Row—Mary Ann Shaw, Louise Disney, Frances Brodbeck, Lena Ruth Vossler, Carolyn Weimert, Mary Jane Youngs, Carmen Shaw, Florence Kentner, Gertrude Lyman. Fifth Row—Laura Alice Youngs, Marcelle Bimstein, Margaret Bush, Mona Lin der, Shirley Kolter, Elizabeth Cartmell, Margaret Seitz, Norma Stinebaugh, Marie Naylor, Virginia McCormick. Girl’s Reserves Club The Girl Reserves Friendship Club is the Junior Y. W. C. A. and an international organization. Definite work with younger girls in the Y. W. C. A. began as early as 1881 when Oakland, California had as an auxiliary a “Girls’ Christian Association.” So rapidly did activities for girls grow and so varied were they in their scope and variety that in 1918 unity was brought about by the use of the name “Girl Reserves.” This organization was started in Blume High School in the spring of 1924. The purpose of this club is “to find and give the best” which means to promote a spirit of good fellowship among all the girls of our school; to stimulate a sympath etic interest in the people and the problems of the world; to inspire clean, healthful living; and to foster a religion that expresses itself in straight forward conduct and in helpful relationships with other people. The triangle and circle is the symbol of the Girl Reserves Club. The three sides of the triangle represent body, mind, and spirit. This organization has as its slogan “Face life squarely.” All upper classmen, who are willing to fulfill the pledge are eligible to member ship. The officers of this club for this year are as follows: president, Ruth Koch: vice president, Elizabeth Cartmell; secretary, Mary Ellen Maxwell; and treasurer, Ruth Clapp. The Girl Reserves movement is not a plan; it is an idea. It is not a set of ways of doing things, neither is it a tool: it is an understanding. This understanding has grown out of the experience of younger girls who have responded to encouragement to initiate and create, in other words to think for themselves and to make for themselves.

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THE RETROSPECT Top row, left to rignt—Paul Jacobs, Ned Dingier, Frederick Jacobs, Richard Hiner, Bob Kettering, George Miller, John Nagel, James Varner, Bob Snyder, Rus sell Shannon. Second Row—Don Runkle, James Telljohn, John Schlenker, Dean Kohler, Richard Wisener, Glenn Bowman, Eldon Jackson, Mr. Bush. Third Row—John Moser, James Singleton, Darrell Woolf, Bruce Miller, Lester Prueter, Wright Shaeffer, Bill Fite, Bob Wenning, John Churchill. Fourth Row—Edward Stroebel, Bob Blume, Malcolm Musser, Harley Nelson, William McCreight, Mark Bowsher, Herbert Haman, Robert Miller, Walter Howard, James Nagel. Fifth Row—Jack Chesbrough, Myron Kuck, Billy Wenning, Delmar Harshbarger, Don Davis, Buster Chesbrough, Tom Davis, Roland Swonguer, Roland Kentner, Henry Distelrath. The organization of the Hi Y club took place in Blume High School in January. 1924. The first Hi-Y club was started in the United States in 1870. Every club is affiliated with State, National and International organizations. Every member must be willing to take as his purpose “to create, maintain, and extend, throughout the school and community, high standards of Christian character,” and. take his stand on the Hi-Y Platform, namely: Clean Speech, Clean Living, Clean Sportsmanship and Clean Scholarship The officers of this club for this year are as follows: president, Winifred Harshbarger; vice president, Bus Chesbrough: secretary. Bob Kettering: and treasurer, Russel Shannon. The membership is open to upper classmen whose scholarships are equal to athletic eligibility or better, and who successfully pass the examinations for entrance. Hi-Y conferences are held in which the members get together and discuss problems which are important to boys. Many people do not realize how much influence a club, made up of a group of boys who must have certain standards, can have on the school and community. Every one should help keep up these worthy ideals and strive to have the whole school adopt them in order to put everyone on an equality. The officers, committees, and advisers of the club have much to do with the development of the best in each boy. This organization has accomplished many fine things in the past and are continuing their good work. It is at this time under the splendid leadership of Mr. Bush and Mr. Steiner.

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THE RETROSPECT “The Nut Farm” Top row, left to right—Don Davis, James Telljohn, Paul Jacobs, Bruce Miller, Ned Dingier. Second Row—Emily Swink, Donna Metzger, Miss Ziegler, Ruth Clapp, Mary Ann Shaw. Member of cast not pictured—Gertrude Lyman. The situation of the play all revolves around the purchase of a nut farm in order to get away from California. Willie Barton, James Telljohn, hears that his sister, Helen Bent, Donna Metzger, has been influenced by a scenario writer, Clarice Bidde ford, played by Mary Ann Shaw and Hamilton T. Holland, Ned Dingier, to try and persuade Bob Bent, Paul Jacobs, to let her make a moving picture with Bob’s money. He tells his mother, Mrs. Barton, Ruth Clapp, about it and they both are quite excited when Bob consents to make the picture which they know is a fraud. All the while Hilda, the maid, Gertrude Lyman, plays her part unconcerned with what is happening. Willie, after Holland said that he could direct the picture, at first refused and then accepted in an effort to make Bob withdraw his money. Some of the parts get turned around until the “play” is not a tragedy when Van Horton, Bruce Miller, who is the hero of the movie, kills Helen, of course only in the play part. Everything goes wrong and Bob loses his money: so it seems. After the picture was made, Bob and Mrs. Barton are quite upset—Willie has gone and finally Ezra Sliscombe, Don Davis, the yanky farmer, announces that his daughter, Agatha, Emily Swink, is gone and that Willie must be responsible, for he has fallen in love with her. They decide to go back to Newark because of the lack of money when Miss Biddeford comes to Bob, offers him $5,000 for his share of the picture. This astonishes Bob very much and he is about to sign the contract when Holland rushes in to offer Bob $i0,000 for his share. It all leads up to a climax when Willie steps in and makes his announcements. He had turned the movie into a comedy, bought Holland’s rights, had a check for eighty thousand dollars for Bob, had a contract for himself with Mack Sennet, and had married Agatha. So the Bents bought the nut farm after all! !