Wayne High School - Wayne Yearbook (Waynesfield, OH)

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Senior Class History fContinued From Preceding Panel At the beginning of the year we carefully selected the following capable class officers to supervise the activities of our last year: President .......................................................,,............. Dewey Rinehart Vice-President .,........... ,,,.,.,,, R obert Blank Secretary-Treasurer ,.,..,. ,,,, J 0 Anne Walters News RGDONLGI' ............. ...... .,........ .,.,., C a r olyn Wilson A few weeks later a committee of three members, Byron Daw- son, Waldo Douglas and Edna Deck, was appointed to take charge of our candy sales for the year. At this time we wish to express our ap- preciation to those who have so faithfully patronized us during the year The most wonderful event of our high school days came in Nov- ember 8, when we entered the new school building which we had stead- ily watched being constructed. It then became our place for the remain- der of our school days. Our sincere thanks and gratitude go out to those who have sacrificed and dilligently Worked to provide rs vxith srch in adequately equipped building to make our work more enjoyable and ef- ficient. In January the annual staff was elected. The advertising manag- ers immediately started their work to make possible one of the biggest ard best editions of THE WAYNE ever published. The individual pictures were taken February 10, and group pic- tures of the various classes and organizations in both Junior and Sen- ior high, and the grades were taken on March 18. And so we come to the last chapter. We linger wistfully ov er' it's pages, but finally the end must enevitably come. We all join our talent and enthusiasm in supporting and presenting our last dramatic attempt, the Senior class play. We regretfully receive the royal entertainment which the Junior-Senior Reception brings. It is with mingled sadness and anticipation that we come to Baccalaureate and Commencement. And now, we gently close the book and bravely and eagerly turn our gaze to- ward life's new' and greater adventures. LENORE BOWDLE

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f 221 lA -fewer-cities Senior Class History Class Motto: The elevator to success is not runningg take the stairs. Class Flower: llelphinium Class Colors: Blue and White Thirty-:ix ambitious students enrolled as Freshmen in the fall of 1934. It was a different kind of school life that we had entered, and it was several weeks before we were fully acquainted with the customs and requirements of high school routine. We were considered only in min- or parts of the high school activities and it looked like the four years ahead of us would be dreary and strenuous. But when we showed the upper classmen what we had to contribute to athletics, scholarship tests and musical activities, we then stepped into the places we were destined to fill. The Freshman year with all it's new interests was busy and en- joyable. The Sophomore year soon arrived. We had lost several of our class members. New and more perplexing problems awaited us in our studies as well as in our social life. We now had made real places for ourselves in our high school activities and found them to be of great ine terest. Our Junior year brought thrilling experiences. The first import-- ant one was the selection and presentation of our class play, A Sweep- ing Victoryf' It proved to be a lot of work, good fun, and as nearly as we could make it, a REAL sweeping victory. About the same time, too, we chose our class colors, blue and white and our class flower, the del- phinium. After much debating class rings were- selected and by the middle of January the Juniors were proudly displaying their Jewelry. At the Kirwan Hotel we honored the Seniors with the annual Junior-Senior Reception. This was the last big event of our Junior year. It seemed impossible that on September 7, 1937 this group of 22 students could be enrolling for the last time in Wayne High. Eleven of our number had entered grade school together in 1926. Our great in- crease had come in 1930 when our school district was enlarged. Four students have been wlith us since then. This year we have had one new student come to us from Spencerville. Our final enrollment is now 23. tContinued On Next Pagel

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Class Prophesy The members of the class of .1938 have been very much interested in psy- chology, psychoanalyses and psychiatry. Naturally they get all wrought up about their repressions and complexes, defense mechanisms, and rationalizations. So when the famous psychiatrist, Professor Albdullah Freudson-Brilling op- ened.a consulting room. for the mentally unfit. and the intellectually unsettled in Way- nesfield, our earnest students rushed to see -him-not that they were uhfitj unsetitled or un-anything-but just to be psychoanalyzed. Last night I went to Professor Freudson-lBrilling's office, and as luck would have it he wasn't in. To kill time I. looked through the magazines on the table-Med-' ern Priscilla, December, 1910, Literary Digest, June, 19273 The Etude, February, 19385 and Gramma's Home Companion, April, 1890. But I wanted something snappy, ard then I found a black covered notebook at the bottom. Being curious I looked at it and there I saw the names of my classmates-and what I found out! have no fear that what I'm telling you is incorrect as it's exactly what the psychiatrist wrote about members of the Senior class who had consulted him: Stanley Brown, a stolid, slow moving chap, will never display either speed or animation. Can be trusted never to hurry. He will become a plumber's assistant, the kind who looks for the monkey wrench 'and can't find it. Erma Louise Sproul is a nervous. inquisitive type. Will be a fine reporter because of her intense interest in everybody's business and her cast-iron nerve, which cnables her to penetrate where she is not wanted, with-cut emkarrassn ert. Gertrude Williams shows signs of a very fast worker. She will be the first woman to commute from America to Europe by the great Northern Airway. She will operate two can-dy stores, where she will sell her famous fudge-one in london and the other in New York, and will spend the alternate day in each, travelfng back and forth at night. A Robert Blank has an athletic body and a lethargic mind-the patient type. He llkes to sit and wfatch things, his calm disposition, combined with his ingrained inertness, makes him the ideal type for a sports promoter. Jo Anne Walters has a very cheerful and loving disposition. Her place will be no other than superintendent of nurses in a large hospital. Rosalie Sproul is .a strange case, troubled by a recurrent dream in which sh: is a canary bird being chased by a cat. She told me she thought this meant that she would be a pet shop owner. Quite wrong. She will be a great singer. Dewey Rinehart is a splendid example of perfect self control. He never stut- ters, stammers, hesitates for a word, has no complexes and no bad habits, and doesn't mind how late hours he keeps or with whom he keeps them. He can talk very rap- idly and his enunciation is perfect. He will be awarded a gold medal by the internat- ional Academy for the Preservation of Speech as the world's most famous radio an- nouncer. Ruth Ulrey shows tokens of an undecided mind, a vacilliation of purpose. She has dec'de?d what she will do in life-and changed her mind-every day for a year. She will guide uncertain boys and girls into their proper life work for she will be head of the Vocational Guidance Department of a large co-educational institution in the Middle West. Lenore Bowdle is of the quiet type. However she will be a famous violinist and will be at the head of a concert tour through Europe. Don Bondurant is an interesting case. An everdevelopcd imagination and an under developed digestion are producing a wonderful result-the ability to concoct the weirdest tales at practically a minutes notice. 'lhis ,ability is so remarkable dlhat his conversation consists almost entirely of weird tales. 'ihose who know him we'll never believe him, and strangers seldom. Being an intelligent young man, he will turn this talent to account. He will become -a real-estate salesman, selling Florida lots by the gross to inhabitants of Labrador and igloos to the dwellers in the Sahara. 1Continued On Next Pagel