Westerville High School - Searchlight Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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At the opening of the junior year. the XYildcats found themselves in many organizations and other activities. Helen O'Dell and Barbara Sullivan represented our class on the Fall Homecoming court as did Marian Busic at the XYinter Homecoming. The arrival of Nancy Parsons and Tom Blakemore lengthened the list of little wildcats while the loss of Susan Allison and Don Wells otlset that gain. The long awaited class rings finally arrived and-after the distribution by Martha Hofmann, class secretaryewere proudly displayed to all. Jeanette Homer kept all chemistry students on their toes for she delighted in making mistakes and mixing up a little chemical confusion. Our Junior class play, Three Blind Dates. drew the largest audience ever. Kenny Cole really enjoyed that kissing scene in the second act, for his leading lady was-yes, you guessed it-his fourth grade Hame, Marilyn Rose. One high- light of the year was Wade Barghausen's new car. He now came breezing to school'in this luscious light green convertible while Herman better-late-than-never Jooss still bounced to school in his little red jeep. The sixth period typing class was certainly glad that Betty Sergent was born on a school day. for they celebrated her birthday with cokes for all. At the end of the semester Doris S-haw and Alice Matz were leading in typing, but a few of us re- tarded ones were still hunting and pecking. Herbert Stout talked so much in speech class that we wondered who was the teacher-Mrs. G. or Herbert. To end a great year for honors, Ruthann Stanfield won the hrst prize in the state for her essay on Tuberculosis and was also elected editor of the annual. XYhen the long awaited year came. we discovered that we didn't feel tor actj so grown up after all. Bob Edwards had lettered so many signs and posters. for Mrs. G. that he began to hang them in Senior Alley for public display. Ralph Brehm and John Zimmer were properly confusing both the physics class and its teacher with their theories on everything from .-X to Z. Fall Homecoming was a big success with Queen Joyce Miller reigning majestically over all. Shirley Metcalf ran a taxi for all girls without cars. and Emily Bale made pizza for all those with ltalian blood and big appetites. Judy Lumbatis joined our group from Reynoldsburg and was all the rage with her long curly hair. As the year progressed, Rowlanda Lintner, Phyllis Mann, and Marian Busic became the proud owners of diamond rings while Janet Slack pined away with a serious case of bell-bottom blues. Dennis O'Keefe came out on top again and added to his long list of honors a scholarship from XYittenberg College. A long desired sports record and scrapbook was at last started by sports-reporter, Larry Rood. The vocal chords of three local lovelies were being exercised to form a Senior Trio of Erna Lund, Jennie Sprague, and Emily Bale. The walls of the halls and rooms became sparkling clean as Ralph Smith with his twin buckets worked during free periods and after school under the close super- vision of Mr. Scarfpin. XVinter Homecoming, the Senior Class play and the junior-Senior Banquet and Prom brought to a close this wonderful year. Now there was only one more step to go - Graduation. As each little XVildcat marched across the platform to receive his diploma, parents, relatives. and teachers had to admit that these young ladies and gentlemen were quite a bit tamer than they had been six years previous. Extra! Extra! T. V. Bancroft completes 18th year at NYHS . . . l.ittle lllildcats of '54 receive diplomas . . . Extra! Extra! -Terri and Barb.

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R 6 ,. 0-9 N , 1 Q: H v , N 1 Hisfory of The Class of '54 Extra! Extra! Read all about it! T. V. Bancroft lands principal's position at NVHS in 1936 as little Vllildcats appear across the nation .... Extra! Extra! At last the day arrived when these NVildcats descended upon the halls of XVesterville High School, and little did anyone know what was ahead. The seventh grade started with a bang for future Mid-Six champions, Eddie Billrnan and Mike Hanley, who were playing hard with Tillie's Kittens. jo-Ann Holtsberry and Edna Staley cut off the cherished pigtails to create a more mature appearance while Dennis O'Keefe was playing Rudolph Valentino with all of the females and presenting his picture to all of the little lovelies. Another romance was in bloom with Wendel Miesse writing very emotional love notes to Helen O'De1l, who kept each one in a shoe box which she hid underneath her bed. Paul McIntosh seemed to have caused quite an uproar in English class by displaying his talent with the yo-yo. The Minerva Park Cats with their gang leader, Sandra Haag, came to join us in the eighth grade. They brought Glenda Berg- man, whom we discovered played the piano. very well. Miss Harley was quite disturbed, for Dean Hard insisted on bringing forth his best talents in homeroom to entertain Lillian Howard by telling his best censored jokes. In the halls Joan Smith and Nancy Tepper were running quickly to hide, for Walter Shelley just loved to hit and strangle these girls. The ninth grade brought many grown-up touches to our classes. Our newly elected cheerleaders were Gayle Davie, Rowlanda Lint- ner, Zoe Bargdill, and Marilyn Rose. Nancy Whipp and Shirley Gallogly had at last become part of the Senior Band-with all of those upper classmen. Margie Nutt and Gayle Davie were quite often seen taking the very long way home so that they could pass the fraternity houses. Great discussions were held in General Science class. It seems that Roger Bell had discovered a new species of bird unknown to mankind. Josephine Madden, Shirley McC1ary, and Marian Miller could never get into homeroom on time, and Verda Ramey spent quite a bit of time with Mr. O'Conne1l after school, New wildcats came on the scene as we entered the sophomore year. Frank Brill embarrassed quite a few people in Latin class with his loud talking. You see, he had not yet learned to whisper. Don Streets and Bill Skaates were working hard on their track records, and Don longshot Yantis 'helped the golf men to win the second Mid-Six trophy. jim Singer contracted a serious allergy to- ward girlsg and Dick Close, Dave Hall, Paul McDannald, and Bob Wren perfected a great disappearing act during the rush for Holly Prom dates. At our first class party we thrilled to the music of Norma Robbins and her accordian. Suzie Rhodes held the honor of being the attendant to the Sweetest Girl, Jackie Cooper. 23

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