Waverly High School - Novel Yearbook (Waverly, OH)

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I I ! AS WE KNOW THEM | 1 I I I i We snatched a few snaps (mostly seniors) from the pile which the Photography Club had piled up, patched them into this plate, and plastered them down tight. f } p I 1. June and Opal Smilin' Through as they always do. 2. Now we wonder — just what are these three juniors trying to put over? How about it. Don, Leo and Gerald? How'd you get on the senior page? 3. Love trouble, I betcha, Chuck? 4. The two, inseparable, pretty lasses of the senior class, Edna and Zeda. 5. The Three Musketeers — Imogene, Esther, and Margery. 6. Hollis and Francis missed a step as they stepped amiss, but now they've stepped back into line again — just — like — this! 7. Well look! Hollis and Francis have hooked into Warren and stepped right into this picture, too! 8. Joe, James, and Earl are wondering if there's a catch to all this. Don't grin, boys, you might get crows' feet. 9. We three, we're not alone — Marion, Kath-aryn, and Mary. 10. Has spring fever struck once again as usual, Earl and Carroll? 11. Whoops! Watch that figure, Edith! 12. Our class officers, George, Margery, Don, and Jane get together for a business (?) conference. t Donated by MARGERY. ESTHER, and IMOGENE Page Fifteen

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HISTORY Of CLASS Of m2 How joyously we entered the first grade in the fall of 1930! Our obligations then were very few, but we have never permitted a definite line to be drawn between our studies and our extra-curricular activities. Any one of the fifteen who remain from the first grade will tell you of the good times we have had throughout our twelve exciting years of serious thinking and good fun. These fifteen who will graduate together in May are lake Kalfs, Virginia Barch, Jane Ewing, George Armbruster, Charles Haynes, Esther Mae Keiser, Dcve Way, Imogene Moore, George Diley, Eugene Oyer, Paul Durham, Katherine Moore, Earl Litterst, Marion Keechle, and Eileen Miller. We have proved that we really can bring back the bacon for dear old W.H.S. We made a record, which has not been equaled, when we held twenty of the first twenty-five places in our eighth grade examinations. Many of us have taken top honors in the county and district scholastic tests. Our senior scholarship team will undoubtedly go down in the history of our school. We have struggled valiantly for our honors, and we feel that the struggle has not been in vain. Playing blindman’s buff, red rover, lemonade, tag, baseball, and basketball in our grade school days has developed good athletes and good sports. Not a single basketball game was lost by our junior high team. This same ball club carried the same ability and the same stamina into senior high school. They have been equally successful in football and in track. In our first few years of instrumental instruction, we were members of the junior band, then after we had attained some experience, we were promoted to the high school band. Several of our members placed in the District Music Contest. We have also taken an active part in the glee club. We, true to tradition, thoroughly enjoyed our junior year. Getting the Hi-Lites out on time was a wild scramble, but we never failed. Working on and presenting our class play, June Mad, a rollicking comedy, furnished plenty of excitement. Planning the Junior-Senior Banquet left no room for a dull moment, and receiving our guests amidst the galaxy of stars for the occasion gave us a deep thrill of satisfaction. How mature we felt when we organized our staff to publish The Waverly Novel. One senior meeting followed another for various senior activities until we felt the weight of our responsibilities. We continued to publish the Hi-Lites until the end of the first semester, and then how gladly we gave up the job to the juniors! Everything came with a rush at the close of the year, tests of all kinds, dummy due, class play selection and practice, junior-senior banquet, and the last week. That last week included Baccalaureate, Class Play, Commencement, delivery of The Waverly Novel, and the final act of all, the Alumni Reception. Thus only our reputation, our scars of identification in the building, our annual, our pictures, and other remnants and vestiges remain in dear old W.H.S. as landmarks of this, our class of 1942. THE Page Fourteen NOV E L 19 4 2 WAVERLY Donated by CHESTER WAY

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we PROPHesy .... May 23, 1962 Dear Diary: Just imagine! Twenty years ago today, I graduated from Waverly High School. It seems as though it were only yesterday. Turning back the pages, I find memos about every one of my classmates: June 22, 1942. — Mrs. John Vincent announces the marriage of her daughter, Elma, to Mr. Harry Swinning. Elma is now dividing her time between her family of five and her duties as President of the W. C. T. U. July 4, 1942.-r- This evening the famous Rythym Trio, Imogene Moore, Esther Mae Keiser, and Margery Ware, is heard over a coast-to-coast broadcast from Meadowbrook on the Pompton Turnpike, Cedar Grove, New Jersey. Now they’re ladies in retirement, writing a love-lorn column. Jan. 24, 1943. — Caesar Romero abdicates his throne in filmland to Dave Way. Dave always was quite a Romeo” back at W.H.S. June 13, 1944. — Hollis Pfeifer and Francis Bellaws become crack test pilots for the U. S. Army. Feb. 8, 1946. — Charles Ray, who has inherited a three-ring circus from a long-lost relative, hires Eugene Oyer as his wild animal tamer. April 9, 1946. — A second Sherlock Holmes is discovered — Chuck Cooper becomes an undercover agent for the F. B. I. March 21, 1947. — Warren Swinning invents a machine which, due to the shortage, uses no gasoline or oil at all.” April 1, 1947. — Virginia Barch has a column in the Chicago Tribune that rivals Dorothy Thompson's. July 1, 1947. — Joe Rapp makes his debut as a prize-fighter. Knocks out Sluggo Bobby Bland in one-tenth of a second. Joe is now undisputed heavy-weight champion of the world. July 8, 1947. — Betty Claytor lectures at W. H. S. on 'The Comforts of Home.' Jan. 6, 1948. — George Diley leaves for Washington, D. C. to take over the duties as assistant to the Attorney-General. George is learning to talk after all. Feb. 6, 1948. — George Armbruster and Max Irwin set sail for the South Sea Islands to do reconstruction work. To date they have never been back to the Mainland so I know they have found their work quite interesting. May 30, 1948. — June Whims wins the title of official food-taster at the food-testing laboratory of Better Housekeeping. Oct. 4, 1948. — Earl Foster starts for the Congo to find rare specimens of insects. We hear he found the Gold Bug. Mar. 3, 1949. — Carroll Oyer becomes book reviewer on the New York Times. The result of Carroll's frequent use of our own library, no doubt. Apr. 1, 1949. — Edith Reed presents a style show in her own shop, Milady's Salon, in Chicago. Her creations are exclusively designed by Anna Cropper. May 19, 1949. — Earl Litterest is made dean of that exclusive girls' school, Briarcliff. June 27, 1949. — Robert Silcott becomes editor of The Waverly News. His excellent editorials are becoming famous. Sept. 13, 1949. — Wilda Cox becomes secretary to the President. So some one did heed Mr. McConnaughey's oft-heard advice. Pag© Sixt©©n