Zanesville High School - Comus Yearbok (Zanesville, OH)

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THE PRESlDE.NT'S ADDRESS Fellow Students, Members of the Faculty, Ladies and Gentle- men: The members of the class of 1920 of Zanesville High School are assembled here for the last time as students of her halls. In departing, we leave a short message. With the students who now or in time to come will take our places we desire but a word. Maintain old Zanesville High's en- viable record. Keep and leave her even as glorious as we have kept and now leave her. This is your schoolg what you are, so is she. The advice is plain. Also we wish to express our heartiest thanks and deepest ap- preciation to those who have assisted us thus far and perhaps toilsomely in our preparat'ons for the great battle of life, the painstaking and wholehearted faculty of Zanesville High School. Greater and greater thanks we will heap upon you in time to come. If we are any the better for our brief and joyful tasks here, and which we all know we are, the achievement is in great part yours. The record of our class is best unsaidg we leave it to its glory. The brief programme to be presented this afternoon is but a modest token of homely respect and humble honor to our dear old school. - J. I. HERMANN.

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CLASS DAY PROGRAMME FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1920 Overture ...,..........,....,. ,....,.. H lgh School Orchestra President's Address ......., ..,...... Piano Solo .,...........,... ...., Class History .,....... Class Poem ......... Class Oration ......... Class Prophecy. ........ ,. Violin Solo .......... Class Will ....,... Class Song ,...,,.. Orchestra ....... .,.John Hermann ,,.Grace Knoedler .,,....,.Bernice Harris ..,,,.Ada Showers Gertrude Heston ....,...Mary Bethel ......Edna Seyerle John Bowers .,,,...Senior Class ,......Exit March

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.-5 A by Q4 igx .fl,.?- , gk fig, Z if,,L,, ' 1 f A ' J of 1 3 ,4 - -.. fu -Q fQ x, ' LL- Since we have met here this afternoon for the last time let us look into the annals of our high school life and see what a glor- ious history we have made. On Sept. 5, 1916, 242 of the brightest and best looking boys and girls, and even the largest number of such wise people that ever went to Zanesville High, assembled that morning in the audi- torium of Z. H. S. We came from Zanesville and all the surround- ing communities with many ideas and dreams as to what our high school course would be like. We were instructed as to the courses offered and after we had decided what we wanted to take we were assigned to our various session rooms under the super- vision of the Misses Watson, Marsh, Whitlock, Petty, Harlan, and Mr. Bash. The advisers surely realized the fact that we were good people, since they placed us under the direction of only one man. We'had heard of the different schemes those in the upper classes tried to play on the freshmen, knowing this We made up our minds not to do what they said. Now, fellow classmen, if you think awhile you will remember the instructions we received that first week not to do this and not to do that. We were told espe- cially not to loiter on the north and fifth street corner CI need not explain why, you can imaginej, and that ever harping cry of the seniors to us not to enter their door, as if they owned part of the school. As the weeks passed on into months we began to pay no attention to them and they soon found that we were too quick for their tricks, so they stopped. We entered into everything with the kind of spirit that peo- ple of our type only could have. When the minstrels were put on for the benefit of athletics, it was soon seen where the good players were. To every boy's surprise Gene, Eleanor and Virginia Ruther- ford were among those having the leading parts. It was these people that attracted the large crowds and caused the minstrels to be a success.