Wellston High School - X Ray Yearbook (Wellston, OH)

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saved from insanity, the pupils from tears, and the publisher from grief. SEVENTH EDITION 1929 Published by THE X-RAY AND HI-TIMES STAFF OF WELLSTON HIGH SCHOOL Fred James ................................Editor-in-Chief Kathleen Morrow .........................Literary Editor Frances Willard .........................Business Manager Table of Contents Page Editorial ............................................ 1 When Are We Educated?................................. 2 Increasing the Efficiency of Instruction.............. 2 Hobbies of Faculty Show It’s Human.................... 3 Senior Traces History of Class........................ 4 Class Poem, Class History, Class Song 10 Juniors Win Unanimous Decision in Heated Debate...... 11 Junior-Senior is High Spot in Social Season...........11 “Sophomore” Sails on Annual Voyage................... 14 Freshmen State Wrongs in Stirring Speech............. 15 Captain Patterson Tells Story of Football Season..... 16 Those Who Won Letters................................ 17 Coach Raach Sees Successful Future in Football....... 18 Coming Season Only Mediocre, Says Manager 18 Bluebelles Lose One Game in Successful Season..... 19 County Championship Caps Basketball Season........... 20 Skeeters and Second Team Give all Boys Experience 21 Variation of Spring Sports Makes Interesting Program . 22 National Music Week Culminates Chapel Program........ 23 “Lightnin’ ” Scores Laugh-Breaking Record............ 24 Senior Class Presents “The Whole Town’s Talking” .... 25 Commencement Week Program............................ 25 Do-Re-Me’s Are Presented for Inspection.............. 26 Sixth Year closes for Orchestra...................... 27 Hi-Y Closes Successful Year 28 Cary-Mishna Gives Unusual Party...................... 29 Hi-Times is Outlet for News-Writing Ability.......... 31 Affirmative Wins After Week of Preparation........... 33 What and When We Did It 85 Class Prophesy 86 Our School 88 Class Will 40 Basketball Manager Staff............................. 41 Validictory 42 Salutatory 42 National Boys’ Week Observed in Wellston 43 The Why of the Business There is a reason for everything in the world. The stars shine, the grass grows, and our annual is published in magazine form, all for a reason. When everything but brains becomes scarce, it is nearly always necessary to do something different. Thus, we explain why our yearbook came from the press without a fancy leather back. It contains everything the regular yearbook does, lacking only in frills. Our new magazine preserves life, character, and mentality. So by this style of publication, which is a boon to finances, the teachers are What is Our Purpose? What is the purpose of a high school annual? Is it to tax our brains, send us all to the asylum, or give us a nervous breakdown? Perhaps, it is to refresh happy memories of high school life or to bring us visions of fond and loving teachers. Is an annual nothing but a time-killer, a worthless drain on the mind? High school students are like everybody else. They enjoy seeing their name in print. Even if annuals do cause work, they are worth it. Undoubtedly, annuals have no small mission in life, for they have their share in keeping a high school in the state of enthusiasm and pep that counts so much in later life. Beneath the Skull Surprising, indeed, would be the thoughts of certain high school pupils concerning school, if they were only known. School is regarded by them from every angle. Some of them think it’s a cage, some of them a regular zoo, while another group considers it in the light of an amusement park; and then, too, there is the element that considers school a place to gain knowledge. Their opinions of teachers are also many and varied, but in most cases not printable. Arc You a Knocker? If statistics of Wellston High School were taken, there would be about one pupil out of every fifty who had never knocked the Hi-Times and the X-Ray; who had never said the glee clubs sang like ostriches, or members of the play casts were like so many marionettes. Is it human nature to grumble, or is it simply a spirit of reform that is in the air breathed by the student body? Perhaps, it would be easier to blame it on the long-suffering spirit, for few people enjoy being called grouches. If grumbling and groaning does improve conditions, by all means start a grouches’ club, but first, above all, be sure that it does help the world along. Smile! SmiJc! Cheer up! Ye who are loathe to leave the dear halls where you accumulate your wisdom! Vacations are short, and time is fleeting. The summer will roll by, and once more the traditional school bell will ring. Don’t grieve too much if the beloved seniors are gone to return no more. If you’ve forgotten everything you learned in the summer, cheer up; it will all return in the fall. The secret is smile, smile! K. M«