West Unity High School - Hi Lites Yearbook (West Unity, OH)

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L Xs.,? Mr Ed1tor ,aka Th1S w1ll be neat' Can we se th1s'? H1 L1t8S the West Un1ty I-hgh School annual 1S the progect each year of the senlor class Th1s year somethmg new was tr1ed by select 1ng the maJor staff from the semor class w1th JUUIOYS actmg as ass1st ants In th1s way a bas1c staff w1ll be prepared to take over the work on the next year's annual The staff selected was as follows Ed1tor Jerry Motter Lay out Ed1tor Murlel Chamberlam Ass't Lay out Ed1tor Barbara Acus Wrlte up Edltor Janet Dunson Busmess Manager Charles Beaverson Adv1sor Mrs Caughey Those who aSS1Sted w1th the typmg were Phyl1ss Benner Ruby Sohn Merna Short, Evelyn Statler and Ela1ne Detwller The H1 L1t6S staff hopes that each of you w1ll f1nd many of the h1gh hghts of your 1954 55 school year recalled ...nl All Hotdog' lt's done What does th1s say? W F1rst f1n1shed page' - C, 1 , X' c -v W, ,lr X 1 - dk 1 x ' L S tam n nl in - 4' .3 . Q ' ' . u ' . .D . , . . , . . Ass't Editor . . .... Jack Suter . . . , . , 1 1 - ' 1 Q xx ' t it

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As the 1954 55 school term rolled along so d1d the F F A Many of the boys showed at the state and county fa1rs where many pr1zes and champlon sh1ps were mented After gett1ng down to work at school we planned our farmmg programs These COHS1Sted of product1on, 1mprovement, and supplementary projects A h1ghl1ght of December for the chapter was the w1nn1ng of the County Parl1amentary Procedure S1x chapters competed our chapter came out f1rst w1th a gold ratlng' Early 1n the spr1ng we were able to rent a 50 acre farm We worked out a good rotatlon for It secured a crop loan and are now functlonlng properly We hope to secure good crops and worthwh1le exper1ence from manag1ng lt In February and March our pubhc speakmg held the spot l1ght In our chap ter el1m1nat1on contest the entr1es were narrowed down to those who were to compete 1U the county contest Rxch and Terry rece1ved gold rat1ngs 1n the county and went on to compete 1n the d1str1ct Other boys who rece1ved h1gh rat1ngs IH the county were Dave Stoltz, Ted Maneval Larry Brown Ray Ream snyder Stan Wmeland and Charles Reamsnyder In the d1str1ct Speaklng Con test at Delta w1th 25 schools competzng R1ch won the extemporaneous speak1ng contest and Terry was runner up 1n the wr1tten speech contest March 24 we all state f1nals Competlng agamst boys from all of the 15 Oh1o d1str1cts he was state runner up rece1v1ng a gold ratlng and a trophy As sprlng rolled around, xt was t1me to summar1ze our years act1v1t1es An aCt1V1t1CS report was entered 1n the state contest our chapter rece1ved a state and gold rat1ng In June we traveled to Columbus for state Judgmg state conventlon, and banquet Workmg on our farm our June PICHIC at Pokagon and a summer full of chapter and 1nd1v1dua1 act1v1t1es rounds out another full year State Farmer 'W- ' n V ' F o F o A 0 M V . K traveled to Columbus for Farm and Home Week and to hear Rich speak in the iq... 515-fu' F. ,,......

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, f' X! HILL-TUI' ECHO West Unity High School is proud of the fine work the Hill-Top Echo staff did in producing a neat, newsy monthly paper. One important im- provement in the paper this year was the change to the more profession- al looking three-column page. The backbone of the staff was Mr. Bert- hold, advisory Janet Dunson, editorg and Ronald Miller, assistant editor. The capable work of every staff member was important to the success of the Hill-Top Echo. -B .... Qyx 1