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The High Schools of Medina County

Medina County is twenty miles south of Lake Erie in a southwesterly direction from the great city of Cleveland. Its gently rolling surface is possessed by a rural population which has the faith of the fathers in the quality of the public schools and in the value of education for the perpetuation of the Republic. On all sides within one and one-quarter hours drive are the great higher institutions of learning, Oberlin College, Western Reserve University, Akron University, Wooster College, Ash- land College, and Kent State Normal. In such a setting an entire county of strong centralized schools has been developed.

Five years ago in Medina County there were a number of wooden structures and a few composite buildings that were far inadequate to the needs of the modern schools. Through a consistent campaign, a con servative building program was put on and today the citizens point with pride to very worthy achievements in this line. Dur- ing that time one room schools have been abandoned, courses of study have been re- vised and strengthened, uniform standard equipment for laboratories has been required. Libraries and science rooms have been standardized and domestic science and manual training equipment has been provided.

All fourteen high schools of the County are operating under a first class charter, among these, four also have Junior High School charters and five others, within the last twelve months were granted six year high school charters by the State Depart- ment of Education. Since authorities concede that grouping children of the adolescent and pre-adolescent age with those of their own mental age and development is the best educational practice, it is1 planned by those in charge to have all high schools of the County School District secure the six year charters in the near future. At the present time these schools are departmentalizing in the upper six grades, thus accom- plishing nearly the same results.

This volumn was prepared that the patrons of these schools might have concrete evidence of some of the work that is being done. The schools belong to the people. The product turned back to the civic body in the form of citizenship is the result of the combined efforts of all the educational forces and the public.

In service to the people who have thus far carried the schools to the present high state, it is the purpose of the present county administration not only to lay hold of whatever was good in the past but to promote the best in the theory and practice of the present day. To that end we must look toward better health in the child, to the best equipment possible consistent with the needs and finances of the school, toward an ever better teaching force, to well trained supervisors and high minded men and women in every phase and every department of school work. A county wide project for school ground landscaping and decoration is being promoted. The county music program will be improved and extended. To the county force in the near future is planned the addition of an art and penmanship supervisor and perhaps a school nurse.

With an adequate teaching force strengthened by public approval the Schools of Medina County aim to so educate the youth socially, morally, physically and in- tellectually that they may be enabled to enjoy individually the fruits of their own efforts and live up to the social and civic standards of the race.

S. H. BABCOCK, County Superintendent of Schools.

S. H. BABCOCK

County Superintendent of Schools

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Members of the County Board of Education

C. Z. Ganyard, Vice-Pres.

Granger

C M. Crum, President Lodi

R. E. Lance Mallet Creek

Henry Wolf Valley City

E. T. Clapp Chatham

^4 log cabin cu i^h fino uu in donas, uncomforjablc benches and a fieua ujell vnorn text books constituted the first school in the county* Modern school buildings rujcll light- ed, ventilated., and equipped as uudi as a proficient teaching staff help mold the student ofi today into an efficient" citizen .

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Maude M. Haley County Normal Director

The County Normal

The chief aim of the county Normal is to train the rural teacher.

The rural school code of 1914 raised the standards of teaching. The County Normal was established in order that these requirements could be met. Its main purpose was to train teachers for the rural schools. The first year of Normal training can be completed in the county Normal.

Before the establishment of the county Normal very few rural teach- ers had received training. The object of the law providing for the County Normal was to bring the training near the prospective rural teachers. Having as an entrance requirement a first grade high school diploma. A number of undesirable persons entered the Normal training schools. In order to eliminate the lowest in intelligence of high school graduates a bill was passed by the legislature and went into effect in August 1923, re- quiring an examination for a certificate under Section 7832-2 or rather, gives the Director of Education the power to require such examination.

Since that time entrance examinations have been thereby, raising the standard of intelligence of teachers to be trained. Content examinations have also been given during the year which again mean, that the teacher must know his subject.

It is the ambition of Hon. Vernon M. Riegel, Director of Education, Mr. T. Howard Winters, Inspector of Teacher Training and others vitally interested in the training of teachers, that those who teach should “have the natural ability, knowledge and training necessary for competency.”

It is the hope of those persons interested in the County Normal train- ing that the standards may be such that children need not suffer from incompetent teachers.

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Medina County Normal

Bottom Row

Norma Crocker Granger

Lila Orcutt Granger

Mary Godfrey Granger

Nettie Brown Granger

Ethel Clement Medina

Esther Freeman Medina

Ethel Smith York

Lucile Joachim Wadsworth

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Elva Brant Brunswick

Maude Evans Brunswick

Florence Mellert York

Mae Sheerlein Medina

Lura Pelton Medina

Lena Reutter Brunswick

Clarice Thompson Granger

Esther Gibbs Brunswick

The Curriculum

First Semester

Psychology 3

Arithmetic and Methods 4

Geography and Methods 2

Nature Study, Agriculture and

Methods 1 or 2

Primary Reading 2

Hygiene 2

Industrial Arts and Drawing 1

Music i/2

Physical Education *4

Practice Teaching and Obser- vation 2

Second Semester

Principles and Methods 3

History and Methods 2

History and Methods 2

Nature Study, Agriculture and

Methods 1 or 2

Rural Life and Education 2

Management 2

Industrial Arts and Drawing 1

Music „ 1/2

Physical Education 1.A

Practice Teaching and Obser- vation 2

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Brunswick

Patrice Wagner Oxford

0. B. Cummins, Supt. Defiance

W. C. Leyda 0. S. U.

Nettie Goodman Eleanor Blakslee

Otterbein Baldwin-Wallace

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History of Brunswick High School

Some twenty-five years ago the first class was grad- uated from Brunswick High School. At that time there was no attempt at consolidation. Since that time a growing- high school has been maintained. Within recent years consolidation of the schools of the township has been brought about, the last one-room school being abandoned in 1923. The school was granted a First Grade Charter in 1914.

Recent rapid increase in school attendance made nec- essary the hiring of an extra teacher. This extra teaching force made possible the inclusion of the seventh and eighth grades in the high school. This having been done, the school was granted a charter last November permitting us to operate as a six-year high school. At present the en- rollment in the Schools of Brunswick numbers approxi- mately 100 in the high school with about 150 in the elemen- tary grades.

The following activities are carried on : debate, ora- tory, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., 4-H clubs, baseball, and basketball for both boys and girls. A lyceum course has been maintained in recent years. Plans are under consider- ation by which hot lunches may be offered next year. In our music program we are especially strong in orchestral work. Also operettas are given each year by the high school and the elementary department.

Members of the Brunswick Township Board of Education

Andrew Pimsner, President

Will Morton

Ed Fritz

Lloyd Harris

Ray Ferriman, Clerk

Chatham

Frances Spanglel H. J. Koli, Supt. Margaret Lyon

Wooster College 0. S. U. Miami

J. P. McDowell Josephine Kremer

Wooster College O. W. U.

History of Chatham School

The present Chatham schools are an outgrowth of the spirit that, supported the first and foremost academy in this portion of the County.

In 1860 the school was known as a select school. An opportunity for better educational advantages was made possible by the purchase of a new site and erection of a larger building in the year of 1867. This, building served very well for school and community activities for over a half century. Among the prominent educators of this period may be mentioned these: Hon. Theodore Burton, Ex-Senator and present Con- gressman; L. F. Garver, prominent merchant of Medina.

This period of school history boasts of having contributed to the growth of some useful men and women. Among them, Charlie Whitman, former Governor of New York State, was a son of a local minister. The late Edith Thomas, poetess for the Harper’s Monthly, A. C. Dustin, prom- inent lawyer of Cleveland. The following, Dr. E. L. Whitney, Walahala, Washinton; Dr. Archie Moody, Southern California; Dr. Geo. Hartman, Muskeegon, Michigan ; and Dr. Clyde Clapp of Baltimore, Maryland. Ros- coe Thatcher, connected with the Agricultural College of Cornell Uni- versity, who served on an Agricultural commission appointed by the Presi- dent. J. H. Brigham, Assistant to the Sec’y of Agriculture under Presi- dent McKinley. Ir Gillett, bishop of Portugese East Africa.

The first graduating class of the recognized school was about the year 1899. Each year has added to this number.

The old academy had served its period of usefulness and the people of Chatham Township saw the need of a larger and more modern building. In the years of 1921-22 the present building was erected.

The spirit of the people is in accord with all the movements of pop- ular education, and their aim is to have its educational affairs rank with the best.

Members of the Chatham Township Board of Education

O. B. Kindig, Bt • esident

E. T. Clapp W. S. Baker

M. P. Miller Chas. Gunsaul. Clerk

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Granger

Luella Gault Wooster

0. K. Lehman, Supt. Wooster E. F. Jerrow Westminster

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Mrs. Lois Ganyard 0. S. U.

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History of Granger Township High School

Granger High School was organized in 1897-98. Mr. Searles was the first teacher. The course of study was planned the following year by Mr. Zina Wallis who taught the school two years.

The first class graduated in 1901. The members of this class were Edith Reed, Edna Hopkins, Irene Hazen, Minnie Indoe, Bessie Hand, Harry Hopkins and Melford Kibby.

School was conducted for several years in the old town hall until it was destroyed by fire.

The main part of the present building was built in 1904. An addition of two rooms and basement was built in 1915.

In 1905 the township schools were centralized. This was the beginning of better schools for Granger.

The school prospered and grew and in 1915 under the superintendency of Miss Cora McCallum the high school was chartered as a first grade school.

Granger was among the first schools to be centralized. It has always manifested a splendid school spirit.

For the past five years it has been under the efficient management of Mr. 0. K. Lehman who has kept up the high standard which it has always maintained.

A class of seventeen, probably the largest number in the history of the school, is graduating this year.

In 1923 a water system was installed in the building whereby there is provided pure running spring water pro- ducing a drinking fountain.

In 1924 there was installed a Delco electric lighting system which is greatly appreciated.

It has come to be realized that Granger has so out- grown her facilities that a new building is anticipated in the near future.

Members of the Granger Township Board of Education

E. J. Haight, President

W. J. Allard E. E. Close

C. Z. Ganyard M. H. Moon

F. G. Indoe, Clerk

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Harold Loomis

Kent

Mary Smith W. R. U. Eloise Fisher W. R. U.

Clayton Carleton, Supt.

O. W. U.

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History of Hinckley High School

Previous to the fall of 1906 Hinckley Township belonged to the strict- ly rural division of the state school system. But in September of that year two districts of the township were brought together and housed in the two room, one story wooden structure which now is used by the four lower grades. These two rooms contained everything from the first to the tenth grade inclusive.

Slowly as the people saw the advantages of centralization the various school districts were brought in. Finally in September 1924 the last outstanding district was annexed and at the same time the present build- ing was dedicated.

Hinckley was much more fortunate than some districts for when the bond issue was brought to vote the people of this school district provided enough money in their first issue to make possible the present structure and equipment which cost approximately $70,000.00.

The building is of strictly fireproof construction and contains four main class rooms, two recitation rooms, a rest room and an office on the above ground floor. The basement is provided with hot lunch room, Do- mestic Science room, Manual training room and the necessary furnace, toilet and locker rooms essential to a good school. The arrangement is horseshoe in shape with a combination auditorium and gymnasium in the center.

Hinckley school prides itself in being the first school in the county to make available a hot lunch for the sum of ten cents per day which is ample in all respects for the noon-day meal of the pupils. Due credit must be given the Parent-Ttachers association for the dishes and cooking uten- sils and for the instigation of the plan. However, the system, since instal- lation, is self supporting even though we buy all the foods, pay two cooks and feed some needy ones free of charge.

The present total enrollment is 219. Enrollment of the High School is 49. Seven teachers are employed full time to instruct the pupils, four of these are in the grades. There are also two part time music instruc- tors. Eight routes are provided for the transportation of the pupils from the various corners of the district.

George R. Kuder Watson Peebles

Members of the Hinckley Township Board of Education

Charles W. Parker, President

Mrs. Ellen Mattingly S. B. Richards

Ira F. Waldo, Clerk

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Homer

Corda Wertz Charles W. Lewis, Esther W. Hawkins

Manchester Supt. Manchester

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G. C. Long Smith - Hughes

Florence Martin

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History of Homer High School

Homer Township is located in the southwestern corner of Medina County.

The first schools in the township were the rural one room type which served the youth of the earlier days. But as time came throughout Ohio for centralized schools, the one room school could not meet the demand of modern educational facilities.

And in 1906 the community voted for and established a fully central- ized school at the center of the township, where one of its noted one room buildings had been located.

Homer Township being the first in Medina County to operate a fully centralized school.

The High School established at this time received from the State Department of Education a Second Grade High School Charter.

It was not long however before increased enrollment and the conse- quent lack of room made it necessary to enlarge the building.

In 1911 the front of the building was built, making more room for high school purposes and an auditorium for school and community activ- ities.

By 1922 the building was again found inadequate to meet the growing demands of school and community. Therefore a new building was built by the side of the old one. The auditorium and gymnasium are now lo- cated in the new addition. At the same time the old building was remod- eled, taking out the old auditorium and building in laboratories, farm- shops, domestic science and agricultural rooms.

At present the High School operates under a First Grade Charter granted in 1914.

To the regular high school course has been added the Smith-Hughes Agricultural Department, Domestic Science, Farm Shop, and County Music.

The school has always been active in the high school activities of the County, taking an interest in the County Debates, Athletics, and Orator- ical contests.

Members of the Homer Township Board of Education

F. L. Findley, President

C. C. Fenstermaker Roy Repp

S. B. Eshelman, Clerk

George Hastings J. A. Lucas

LeRoy

Glen P. Tolson Ohio University Gladys Ferguson Wooster

Eleanor Wright, 0. S. U.

R. F. Howe, Supt.

Oberlin College Margaret Safford De Pauw

Ellis Jeffery, Ash. Col.

Hilda Moseberger Oberlin Business College D. D. Leyda 0. S. U.

Dorothy J. Horn, Wooster

History of LeRoy High School

True to the traditions of the hardy New England pioneers who settled the Western Reserve, the people of Westfield have always looked well to the education of their children. The first school in the township was built at Friendsville in the spring of 1818. The town of LeRoy was founded in 1826 and here the first school house was a log structure. A frame building was built in 1832 and did service for exactly forty years. In 1872 a new building, quite elaborate for those days, was erected and served its purpose well for fifty years.

These early schools at the township center were abandoned by the small children who lived near and furnished more advanced training for the youth of the entire township. To care for the small children of the outlying districts there were the one-room schools, the “little red school houses” of by-gone days. Westfield was one of the first townships in Medina county to adopt centralization and the last of the one-room schools disappeared nearly a quarter of a century ago.

In 1917 an auditorium wing was completed and in the fall of 1922 the people approved a bond issue for the building of a modern school plant adjoining it. The old frame building, which had stood for exactly a half century, was razed and the present structure took its place.

Westfield is now able to offer its young people the most that is de- sirable in secondary education. A first grade high school is maintained, with membership in the North Central Association, and its graduates are prepared for college entrance. Equal emphasis is placed upon the prac- tical side of school work, in keeping with present day demands. Thorough courses in agriculture, commercial studies, manual and domestic arts may be elected in place of the more formal studies of the old time curriculum.

Thus Westfield and LeRoy have moved on with with times, believing that educational progress must keep pace with that of other fields. To the progressive citizens of the community belong the honor and credit for this splendid achievement.

Members of the LeRoy Village Board of Education

W. E. Haines, President

F. H. Hawley I. E. Simmons, Vice President

B. G. Daniels, Clerk Fred Eastman

Litchfield

Marian McQuate

Dennison

James Ruegsfoger Baldwin- Wallace A. R. Betz, Supt. Baldwin- Wallace

Thelma Overholt

Mount Union

History of Litchfield School

Litchfield Township, although it has one of the smallest attendances, boasts of one of the oldest histories in Medina County. It was founded in 1790 when the Western Reserve was merely a wilderness, by a Yankee family from Connecticut. At that time, the northern part of Ohio was considered a part of the Connecticut grant. Since its founding, the prin- cipal occupation of the township has been agriculture.

For about a century the only schools in the township were rural one- room schools. But with the coming of good roads and other public im- provements, the schools were centralized in 1894. In fact, Litchfield was one of the first townships in the state to centralize its schools. Another unique honor that came to the township at that time concerned chiefly the women. The Litchfield women were the first in the state to take ad- vantage of the law permitting equal suffrage at school elections. It was at this time that the schools were first centralized in Litchfield Township. In 1901, the schools moved into a new frame building, which was located on South Street. At the time, this was considered one of the best build- ings in the county. In the new building was also established a High School of the second grade. For sixteen years this type of high school served the needs of the community admirably.

In 1917, the State Department of Education granted the township a charter for a first grade high school. This is the same charter that is now in vogue. The attendance of the school has been steadily increasing so that in 1924 the Board of Education was obliged to secure larger quar- ters for the high school. The result was the beautiful, up-to-date, fire- proof building made of red brick and erected at an approximate cost of $28,000. The building is steam-heated, electrically-lighted and has run- ning water on both floors. The main floor has three large rooms connected by sound-proof, sliding doors, so that the whole main floor may be con- verted into one spacious auditorium for all-school purposes.

Litchfield is justly proud of its new building, for which it is indebted to its Board of Education who have worked so whole-heartedly and un- selfishly in the interest of the school and community.

Members of the Litchfield Township Board of Education

John Radie, President

B. R. Turner Willis Leach

Adam Rising S. J. Wilson, Clerk

Liverpool

Janice Carnahan Clark D. Moore, Supt. Merrill A. Chaffee

W. R. U. College for Women Muskingum Baldwin- Wallace

Dorthy E. Perkins Mary 0. Patton

Ohio Wesleyan Hiram College

History of Liverpool School

Liverpool High School had a very unique beginning. In April, 1896, due mainly to the efforts of Dr. Arthur Brintnall, a central high school was established. The Town Hall was used for a building, and the first person to take charge of this educational launch was Supt. A. A. Shear, at a salary of sixty dollars per month.

The first class was graduated in ’98 and consisted of the following members: Samuel Arnold, William Swindeman, Theresa Stebel, Pearl Parmle and Anna Strosacker.

In 1904 the school was moved to the top story of what was then the Hasel Brothers’ grocery store. After a year’s session here it was moved again, and from Sept. 1905 to Jan. 1906 school was held in what is now Dr. Appleby’s business office.

Due to the work of a progressive school board (composed of J. A. Sailer, Pres., F. C. Hoppe, M. T. Stranahan, Edward Bauer and F. J. Kel- ler) a site for a new building was purchased, a building erected, and school opened in January 1906.

The next progressive step in the history of the school was its cen- tralization. This took place in the November election of 1914. Much credit for the bringing of this about is due the Board of Education exist- ing at that time (F. H. Weidner, Pres., Henry Wolf, William Wolfe, Carl Richter and Gustus Schmidt) . However, even before this, Liverpool had secured a First Grade charter. This occurred on April 15, 1911.

In 1922 bonds to the amount of seventy thousand dollars were issued and the present building in conjunction with the old was erected.

Liverpool can now boast of having one of the finest school buildings in Medina County. It is equipped with a steam heating plant, has run- ning water, drinking fountains and showers. It contains well-equipped Manual Training, Domestic Science and Science departments. It has a fine stage and auditorium. The auditorium is used for a basketball court and is one of the best. The building is surrounded by a large playground providing adequate space for all sports. In addition to this there is an athletic field west of town, on which is located the gridiron and a real baseball diamond.

Liverpool also has an enviable record in school activities. She has stood among the first in oratory, debate, music, and athletics.

Members of the Liverpool Township Board of Education

John T. Mayer, President

Henry Dietrich Walter Hammond

John Steck Harry Bauer, Clerk

Jay Gould, U. of 111. E. T. Bault Kent

R. B. Snell, Supt. Wooster College

Cecile Bevington Bowling Green Claire Hoffert Otterbein College Dorothy Okerbloom, 0. W. U.

Helen Tillson 0. S. U.

J. F. Smith Baldwin- Wallace Mildred Smith, B. W.

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History of Lorli Schools

The Lodi Schools, as is the case with other schools and, in fact, with all other enterprises, have developed from a small beginning to their present proportions by degrees — at times more rapidly than at others.

The first school building erected in this section was a small frame building out in whaat is now the Howe Allotment or western end of Lodi. After this building had been used for school purposes for several years it was moved to a location more nearly the center of what had become a growing village. In this building upon its new site on Bank Street near the village park pupils in the primary grades wrere housed and taught. To this department of school work was added a Select School where older pupils were taught some special branches not then in the regular school curriculum.

As the community grew in population the school outgrew its accommodations af- forded by the Bank Street property, and other provisions became imperative.

In the meantime there had been organized an academy in a fine brick building- erected for that purpose on an elevated campus of five acres in the eastern part of Lodi. Here was conducted for a term of years an institution of higher learning which was a benefit to the community and a credit to its managers. But, as was the case with practically all the schools in its class, this academy was eclipsed by more pre- tentious colleges not far distant and was compelled to yield to them it’s patronage. Consequently, the enterpz-ise was abandoned and the property offered for sale to the village. This offer was accepted and the building put into condition for public school purposes.

This purchase was made in the year 1880, and S. S. Thomas was engaged as the first public school superintendent Lodi ever had. Mr. Thomas was at the head of the Lodi School for several years, and under his direction there was organized and con- ducted a school fully up-to-date and second to none in this section of the country.

Superintendent Thomas having been called to broader fields of labor in the world of education, a Mr. Lee was elected to be head of the Lodi School and filled that position for two years. Mr. Lee, in turn, was succeeded by B. F. Hoover who held the superintendency for the long period of ten years. Next in turn to preside over the school for two years was F. G. Maurer. Mr. Maurer wras succeeded by F. M. Plank and he by a Mr. Elliott, each of whom held sway for one year. After Mr. Elliott came J. F. Smith who acted as superintendent for ten years. During the next five years P. H. Smith, popularly known as “Perry”, conducted the affairs of the school; and was followed by C. A. Hostetler who was in control for several years. Mr. Hos- tetler’s successor for three years was Superintendent J. B. Hughes. The present super- intendent is R. B. Snell who is now in his first year of service here.

Twice during the past twenty years has the school outgrown its accommodations; and two new and up-to-date brick buildings now adorn the fine campus and house the pupils with their score or more of teachers. The curriculum is modern, and prac- tically all the customary school activities are carried on here under the hearty support of the entire community.

Members of the Lodi Village Board of Education,

E. A. Rowland, President

C. L. Briggs A. V. Sanford

Mrs. J. W. Dunlap ' I. F. Williams, Clerk

Seville

Fred Steagall

Oberlin College

Lois E. Jacobs

U. of Wisconsin

Forrest D. Riffey, Supt. 0. S. U.

Walter H. Hulse Aurora College Miriam Steiner, Wooster

Edgar E. Sears

Wooster College

Clara E. Fenn

0. S. U.

History of Seville School

Fourteen years of progress have elapsed since Seville High School was granted in 1911 a first grade charter. So steady was the growth of the school that in 1916 the demand for a new building was cheerfully met by the community. The class of 1917 had the peculiar honor which comes from being first in any project, to graduate from the new school.

Educational methods, however, have a way of expanding not to be limited by the four walls of a new building. In 1921 Seville put into ef- fect the six year high school plan, that is the organization of the seventh, eighth and ninth grades into a Junior High School, and the tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades into a Senior High School. It was one of the first six Ohio schools granted a Junior High School charter, and the first one in Northeastern Ohio. This new organization tended to take care of still increasing numbers in a more orderly way and to act as a less abrupt in- troduction into high school proper.

The new building and a first-class organization was the incentive and setting for development in all respects. In 1918 the school had not the sign of a library. Now over one thousand volumes, housed in orderly cases, classified and catalogued according to a standard system, entice pupils from the third to twelfth grade and rouse that friendship with books which no person should be without.

Typewriters, a mimeograph, domestic and physical science equipment, cases of various kinds have been added ; classes have given pictures, lock- ers, scales, books, and brick columns in front of the building. It is a mod- ernly equipped building.

By an annual school fair, the faculty and students try to show to the public, which maintains the school, what it is doing in all departments. Once a year, at the Medina County Fair, the work of the school, planned and organized by the teachers, but carried out by the pupils, is shown to a larger public, in competition with other schools of the county. For four years, Seville School has taken the major share of rewards and last year captured the “blue ribbon” in every event, in it’s class, a notable accom- plishment.

But the public grows tired of instruction, and to amuse it Seville High School provides noteworthy basketball and baseball teams, a Glee Club, which willingly sings when asked and each year puts on a tuneful operetta, an annual Senior class play and from 1918 until this year a lecture course of pleasure and benefit to all.

Members of the Seville Village Board of Education

Don L. Crawford, President J. B. Good, Clerk

William Hosmer Rov Chambers

M. J. Cahoon C. D. Wright

Sharon

Frances E. Thomson H. E. Kuntz, Supt. Frances Ewing

Oberlin Akron University Hiram

Florence M. Gingrich Defiance

Grace Allison Kent

High Lights of Sharon

1. Work Year’s work well done Graduating Class of nine Seniors Not a disagreeable occurrence Study Course for teachers

2. Co-operation Worthy spirt of the home School affairs, loyally attended Parent-Teachers’ Assn. Advertisers in Annual

3. Literary

County championship of debate Sharon Oratorical Contest County Oratorical Contest Senior chapel orations

4. Music

Orchestra, Band, Operetta Nine members of County Band Five members of County Orchestra Four members of State Band

5. Entertainment Lyceum Course Oberlin Dramatic Club Inaugural Ceremony by radio

6. Library Library catalogued Two new incyclopedias New set of Science Books

7. Athletics Girls’ Basketball Team — Games won 13, lost 2 Boys’ Basketball Team — Games won 9, lost 6. Baseball Team —

Members of the Sharon Township Board of Education

W. D. Briggs, President

Mrs. Grace Brown W. H. Caverly

R. H. Hatch I. M. Frase

L. C. Koontz, Clerk

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Spencer

Doris E. Smith Glen C. West, Blanche Robinson

Kent Supt. Ohio University

Ohio University

S. J. Masie Myrtle M. Maibauer

Wooster 0. S. U.

History of Spencer School

Spencer has maintained a high school for thirty seven years. Our president of the Board of Education was the first superintendent. In 1914 the village and township centralized into one district. In 1916 the present high school building was completed, and in 1924 the present grade building and gymnasium was finished. We now have sufficient room and equipment to adequately take care of the growth of the grades and junior and senior high school for several years.

School opened in September with an enrollment of two hundred and twenty-seven pupils in all grades. We had only a week to prepare our school exhibit for the county fair. Although we were competing with schools all larger than ours, we were able to carry off a number of prizes.

The next important event of the year was our school fair which was held at the buildings here in October. There was a display representing every department of our system. It was well attended and a financial success.

During Educational Week, one evening was given to a session of reg- ular school work from seven-thirty to nine o’clock. This gave the parents who have no other time to visit the schools, an opportunity to see the pupils in all grades doing every day school work. That the community appreciated this opportunity is evidenced by the fact that there were about one hundred and fifty parents and patrons present during the evening.

We have had a very successful year in athletics as our scores show'. However, our success is not measured by victories. Clean sportsmanship, discipline, and scholarship are the things we aim to develop in all of our athletics.

The members of the board of education whose names appear below are all very much interested in the school. They stand ready to do their part in maintaining the highest standard. Dr. Stroup has served on the board for thirty-four years, and most of the time as president. Through all the years he has served the school both as superintendent and board member, his interest has never slackened. He has been an inspiration to teachers and pupils, and whatever progress the school has made, much credit must be given to him.

Members of the Spencer Village Board of Education

Dr. W. H. Stroup, President E. W. Brown P. J. White C. F. Fuller E. E. Awkerman N. J. Walters, Clerk

Wadsworth

Lillian Ringler Ashland College

Florence Critz Kent

E. J. Sorna 0. S. U.

J. B. VlNING, Supt. Kent

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History of Wadsworth Centralized School

The present site of Wadsworth Centralized School has, since 1887, been used for the advancement of education. John McGregor, a native of Scotland, started Wadsworth Academy. Then in Civil War times came Prof. aVnder Smissen with hopes and a vision which culminated in the founding of the first Mennonite College in America.

1864 marked the beginning of the three-story brick structure on the land donated by Rev. Ephram Hunsberger, a trustee, and a colleague of Van der Smissen. After his departure, the school passed under the direc- tion of Profs. Shirmer and Shelley, and was controlled by Mennoniate un- til 1873, then becoming known as Prof. Dague’s Institute, and later a Nor- mal School under the tutelage of J. B. Eberly.

The building for a time was used for village school purposes and later as an apartment house.

Then in 1915, under the direction of E. J. Wuchter, District Super- intendent, Wadsworth Township was centralized for school purposes with an initial enrollment of 156, four teachers, and eight grades. E. F. Bault was head of the school in 1919, and M. M. Lehmann in 1920 and 1921.

In 1922, Supt. J. B. Vining took charge of the school. Music and Drawing were immediately installed. These proved very popular with pupils, and now about 75 pupils are taking instrumental lessons and some 400 vocal music.

In the spring of 1923, the old building was torn away and is now replaced by a modern school plant which was entered September 1924. The Junior High School, with an enrollment of 115 was started this year. Music, Home Economics, Manual training and Physical Education now play a prominent part in the organization of the school.

The building is now filled to capacity and with an increase of some thirty -five pupils for the coming year, the Board of Education is con- fronted with the problem of expansion. The total enrollment is now 400 including pupils from all Wadsworth Township and the East part of Guil- ford.

Members of the Wadsworth Township Board of Education

E. F. Hoerger, President D. R. Kreider Harry Wilson A. G. Abbott Earl Frase W. L. Good, Clerk

York

Ray Bohl Ruth Cole Harold R. Rorick,

Akron University Wooster College Supt.

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Mary Fisher Mary Thompson

Wooster College Kent

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History of York High School

In 1898 a new school building was constructed to replace an old one room school in York Township. It was decided at this time that York should have the advantage of a High School and consequently Ralph Ran- dall who was then a teacher in this district and who had done much to build up this school, became the first Principal of York High School. He remained with the school for three years. In the school year of 1902-1903 the first High School orchestra was started under the supervision of Mr. Bounds, the principal. The first class graduated in 1900, in which there were only four members.

In 1916 it was decided that a centralized school would be a great im- provement. In order to furnish sufficient room an addition was built which doubled the size of the building.

In 1921 this school building was condemned and the High School lost it’s charter. The following year the students went to Medina High School.

In the summer of 1922 a $60,000.00 building was erected and the High School received a first grade charter.

By having a new building and all of it’s improvements, new subjects were taught and the number of students increased until it was necessary to increase the number of teachers from four to eight. This shows what twenty-five years can do for a High School.

Present Enrollment

First Grade 34

Second and Third Grade 45

Fourth and Fifth Grade 54

Sixth and Seventh Grade 38

Eighth Grade 11

High School 30

Total 212

Members of the York Township Board of Education

H. R. Stone, President

Dayton Faunce E. A. Gunkelman Louis Lance J. M. Spice

C. E. Dickerman, Clerk

Lehona Hance, Teacher Jeanne Seymour, Teacher Ruth Swanker, Teacher Mary Thompson, Teacher Ruth Cole, Teacher

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A Type of Transportation at Brunswick

The pictures on this page illustrate the two types of transportation in Medina County.

In Wadsworth 376 pupils are carried to school in the wagons shown.

At Brunswick 143 are transported in the two busses shown. This is made possible by having each bus make two trips from the school center. Good roads and short wagon routes to the main paved highways make possible not only a cheaper but a quicker means of getting the children to school than would be the case were horse drawn vehicles depended upon.

Transportation at the Wadsworth Centralized School

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^ Thru deep sdouj , in driving min and over ron^h road5 the student of those pioneer day 5 [rudcjed on t° bis l°g cabin school- house o In a clasecL bus and over paved roads the student of the present is taken from his door-step to his class-roonoo

Reginald Perkins

Capt. Baseball and Basketball Debate 1924

Henry Gavlak

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”

Luverne Dunn

“Dutch Detective” ’25 Orchestra ’25

Clara Moxley

“Don’t let your studies interfere with your education”

Willi a Johnson

“Impossible is not in my voca- bulary”

Orator 1924

Viola Chidsey

“To know my duty and to do it.” Orator 1925

Chatham Seniors

Janice Clapp Debate, Club Worker, Orchestra

“We had a lot of fun.”

Curtis Denton

Debate, Orchestra, Yell Leader, Treas. Athletic Assoc.

“ Favorite game — Andy -Over .”

Walter Eldred Debate, Orator, Orchestra,

“Really?”

George Jones

Class Pres., Orchestra, School Artist.

“Oh! here he comes.”

Grace Kindig

Class Treasurer, Y. W. Pres.

Favorite expression — “Where’s Wil- liard?”

Josephine Pierce

Debate, Sec’y Athletic Assoc. “Something to read.”

Senton Shaw Comedian, Orchestra.

“I can take my Ford.”

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Granger Seniors

Donovan Close Ida Cloyd

Keith Codding

Maynard Crooks Louise Cumberworth

Genevieve Dixon Leola Gingery Gordon Haight

Otilie Jelen Russel Kenton

Louise Nickel

Mabel Robinson Chris Somygyi

Mary Sylvester David Thompson

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Granger Senior Class

Donovan Close

Basketball

Baseball

Otilie Jelen

Operetta Soloist

Glee Club

Royal Close

Baseball

Basketball

Russel Kinton

Baseball

Basketball

Keith Codding

County Orchestra

County Band

Louise Mickel Orchestra

Operetta Soloist

Maynard Crooks

Baseball Pitcher

Movie Star

Mabel Robinson

Y. W. C. A. President Glee Club

Louise Cumberworth

Orchestra

Operetta Soloist

Chris Samogyi Orchestra

Class Lawyer

Ida Cloyd

Foreign Language Enthusiast Valadictorian

Mary Sylvester Orchestra

Glee Club

Genevieve Dixon

Expression

Substitute Teacher

David Thompson Orchestra

Class Sage

Leola Gingery

Salutatorian

Pianist

Ethel Treman Orchestra

Glee Club

Gordon Haight Orchestra Operetta Soloist

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Louise Haring — “Louisita”

“Its easier to be critical than correct.”

Valedictorian. Basketball 4

John Dushenke — “Ham”

“When 'pleasure and business clash

Let business go to smash” Basketball 4; Orchestra 2, 4.

Ralph Bishop — “Barney”

“All great men are dead or dying — And I don’t feel well myself.”

Basketball 4

Nelson Gross — “Nellie”

“Bright but a quiet lad.”

Football 2; Baseball 3, 4; Glee Club 2, 3, 4.

Elizabeth Thiele — “Andy” “Variety is the spice of life.” ClassPresident 3, 4; Orator 4; Basketball 2, 3, 4; Captain 2, 3.

Hinckley Seniors

Curtis Cady Howard Cartright

Evelyn Hier Almon Green Grace Held

Opal Johnson Agnes Koptes

Mildred Mirkel Louise Moutoux Bessie Wilson

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Hinckley Senior Class

Curtis Veber Cady

“Never say die, say beat them.” Baseball Basketball

Howard Eun Cartwright

“Never let work interfere with play” Baseball Basketball Track

Almon Burke Green

“Always climbing to keep ahead.”

Class Valedictorian

Grace Melva Held “Music hath Charms.”

Orchestra Glee Club Operetta

Evelyn Daun Hier

“The road to success is rough But to talk in class is rougher.”

Opal Rocille Johnson

“By steady plodding I got there.” Study, recitation, exams., graduation.

Agnes Rose Koptis

“We’re not afraid of them.”

Basketball

Mildred Lucille Mickel

“Work and then play.”

Debate

Louise Carolyn Montoux

“Smile and the world smiles with you.” Basketball Debate

Bessie Ursula Wilson

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

Basketball Glee Club

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Kermit Brubaker Dorothy Frank Carl Hummel Flossie Koons Clayton Tunquist

Reed Fetzer

Hildreth Knapp Florence Metcalf

Glenn Weimer

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Homer Seniors

Reed Fetzer Debate Athletics

Not a humorist, not a sheik,

But the pleasantest person you ever will meet.

Dorothy Frank Debate Glee Club

A truer friend could never be found,

A stveeter voice could ' never sound. Flossie Koons Debate Glee Club

If all of us were as worthy as she, What a great school H. H. S. would be.

Clayton Tunquist Basketball Baseball

Under that quiet exterior, Clayton surely carries a host of possibil- ities.

Hildreth Knapp Baseball Orchestra

A sunny nature, kind and true. Carl Hummel Basketball Dramatics

For a dandy good time, he’s al- ways in line.

Florence Metcalf Basketball Debate

Kindness is personfied in Florence. Glenn Weimer Basketball Baseball

A great man — with a great mind, The trouble — just a few of his kind.

Kermit Brubaker Basketball Baseball

I used to paddle my own canoe, They think I studied, but its not true.

Ralph Arnold

Cloda Knecht

Clarence Donze Margaret Jackson

Ruth Eastman

Theodore Leffer

Eloween Dowd

Lewis Jones

Robert Longsdorf

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Neal Miesz

Lillian McKelvey

Willard Rhodes Ada Stern

Dorothy Bowen Deceased

Willard Westenberger

Vera Myers

Hilda Strock

Ralph Winter

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Senior Movie Film

Ralph Arnold Robert Longsdorf

“On With the Dance” “Girl Shy ”

Clarence Donze Lillian McKelvey

“Where is my Wandering Boy “Smilin’ Through” To-night”

Eloween Dowd

“Pal O’ Mine”

Ruth Eastman “Along Came Ruth”

Margaret Jackson “Peg O’ My Heart”

Lewis Jones

“Hold Your Breath”

Cloda Knecht

“The Heart Bandit”

Theodore Leffler

“When a Man’s a Man”

Vera Myers “Thy Name is Woman”

Neal Niesz “So Big”

Willard Rhodes “Going Up”

Ada Belle Stern “Age of Innocence”

Hilda Strock

“Mighty Lak’ a Rose”

Willard Wertenberger “Why Worry”

Ralph Winter “The Sheik”

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It is with feelings of sorrow and tenderness that we record the death of our classmate, Dorothy Bowen. Dorothy came to us from the Ash- land High School at the beginning of her junior year and immediately found a place in our affections. Her sunny disposition and her spirit of genuine friendliness made her a favorite with all the students of our school. Her death has saddened the closing weeks of our last year in high school, but the memory of her will abide through the years that are to come. Her passing calls to our minds the beautiful words from Longfellow’s Evangeline.

“And when she had passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”

Lodi Seniors

Pauline Bricker

Twyla Fowles

Denton Fuller

Dorothy Keener

Harvey Hoah Herbert Garver

Marguerite Gossard Alice Kennard

Harold Leatherman

Helen Wagoner Alice Seiver

Alfred Massie Harold Williams Everett Shaw

Helen Myers Bertha Richie

Leola Sowers

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Lodi Seniors

Pauline Bricker — “ Brick ”

A fair little maid is “Brick”

Short, but straight and very quick.

Twyla Fowles — “Kiddo”

We know not much of her as yet,

But like her? Sure we do, you bet.

Denton Fuller — “Doc”

Some day perhaps a 'Doc” he’ll be And so we call him that you see.

Herbert Garver — “Bundy”

Oh, this learning, what a terrible thing it is.

Marguerite Gossard — “Red”

She smiles when things go dead wrong.

Dorothy Keener—' “Dot”

Why so quiet in this gay world?

Alice Kennard — “Dimples”

There is mischief in her dimples,

There’s danger in her eyes.

Harold Leatherman — “Runt”

Silence is golden and he never speaks unless spoken to.

Alfred Massie — “Dave”

Big and fast and hard to stop,

Contests show him on the top.

Helen Myers — “Jennie”

Worry, I know not the meaning of the word.

Bertha Richie — “Slam”

She, in the classroom, is winsome and shy,

But doivn on the gym floor she’s hard to get by.

Harvey Noah — “Harve”

Don’t talk, I’m tuning in.

Obey and he’s sure to grin.

Alice Seiver —“Slim”

A winning way, a pleasant smile.

Everett Shaw/ — “Pshaw”

When joy and duty clash Let duty go to smash.

Leola Sowers — “Cherry”

The girl and the voice are out of proportion.

Helen Wagoner — “Dulcy”

Smile a smile for me.

Harold Williams — “Grand-dad”

The girls don’t worry him,

Nor do other troubles.

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Litchfield Seniors

Marion Bement Ada Burner Mildi'ed Fahrion

Marion Halliday Gladys Sabin Mayvriotte Hall Bernetta Eadie

Lucille Stine Harry Streett Edna May White

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Litchfield Senior Class

Marion Bement

“How much lies in laughter.”

Ada Burrier

“Away, haunt thou not me,

Thou vain philosophy

Mildred Fahrion

“Her worth is warrant of her welcome.”

Mayvriotte Hall

“My tongue within my lips I reign,

For who talks much must talk in vain.”

Marion Halliday

“Ever charming, ever new.”

Bernetta Radie

“Today is ours for joy and mirth;

We may be sad tomorrow.”

Gladys Sabin

“You’d scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage.”

Lucille Stine

“And her modest answer and graceful air, Show her wise and good as she is fair.”

Edna May White “Whence is thy wisdom ?

Hath thou toiler books consumed the midnight oil.”

Harry Streett

“Same old story, same old song.

Same old fellow all year long.”

Liverpool Seniors

Ruth Hammon Charlotte Hoppe Lydia Reutter

Jeanette Schaffer Erva Schmidt

Malinda Tritt Esther Wolfe

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Liverpool Twp. Seniors

Ruth Hammon Glee Club

Quiet, but not bashful.

Charlotte Hoppe Glee Club, Debate Orchestra

Kindness is personified in Char- lotte.

Lydia Reutter Debate Glee Club

For a dandy good time, she’s al- ways in line.

Jeanette Schaffer Debate, Glee Club Basketball

Always happy, always gay,

Always smiling every day.

Erva Schmidt Glee Club, Debate Basketball

Sometimes I sit and think,

Other times I just sit.

Malinda Tritt Glee Club

The girl with a smile.

Happy all the while.

Esther Wolfe Debate Basketball

Ready for mischief, this lively lass, Keeps things humming in every class.

Mary Margaret “Monnie” Carr.

“Of surpassing beauty, and in the bloom of youth.”

George Willard Crites.

“ Let me have music and 1 seek no more delight.”

Edgar Clair “ Nooky ” Ewing.

“Scholar and athlete, full of vim, Nothing at all the matter with him.”

Bessie May “Bee-Bee” Dempsey.

“A gentle soul, to human race a friend.”

Dorothy Lavina “Dot” Halliwell. “To know her is to love her.”

Mamie Adeline Geiger.

“Her face is smiling and her voice is sweet.”

Paul Millard Handshue.

“In faith he is a worthy gentleman .”

Elsie Florence Kuhn.

“ Her voice is gentle, soft and low, an excellent thing in woman.”

Reba Geraldine “Gerry” Obendorf.

“A dark haired maid with flashing eyes.”

Vera Victora Mark.

“Her life hath many a hope and aim.”

Marion Marshall “Cee-Dee” Wright. “So full of pleasing anecdote,

So gay, so poignant in her wit.”

Henry Edger “Hen" Winkler. “How good he is, how just, And fit for highest trust.”

Sharon Seniors

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Robert Days

David Boltz

Leslie Bowes

Robert Chrisman

Irene Harpster Marion Ruckel

Ray Hartman

Dorothy Hazen

Leland Sanatee

Sharon Senior Class

David S. Boltz

“The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright.”

Dorothy D. Hazen

“Impulsive, earnest, prompt to act To make her generous thought a fact.”

Marian Grace Ruckel “Wise to resolve and patient to perform.”

Irene Neita Harpster

“The rnildest manner and the gentle heart.”

Leslie H. Bowes “None hut himself can be his parallel.”

Robert 0. Chrisman “Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.”

Robert R. Days

“A mind conscious to itself of right brings worthy rewards.”

Leland M. Santee

“He was a gentlemen in whom I placed an absolute trust.”

Roy S. Hartman “In action faithful and in honor clear.”

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Burdett Aldrich Howard Allison

Leonard Block

Hazel Brown Kent Firestone

McDonald Stewart Vinton Hien

Mildred Awkerman Melvin Borror

Floyd Fuller

Marie Stuart

Gus Suerin

Spencer Senior Class

Leonard E. Black Debate

Football, Basketball, Baseball

Melvin W. Borror Debate

Football, Basketball, Baseball

Burdett Aldrich Glee Club

Football, Basketball, Baseball

MacDonald Stuart Glee Club

Football, Basketball, Baseball

Marie E. Stuart Basketball

Glee Club, Y. W. C. A.

Hazel A. Brown Glee Club Y. W. C. A.

Mildred E. Awkerman Debate

Glee Club, Y. W. C. A.

Howard R. Allison Glee Club

Football, Basketball, Baseball

Kent Firestone Football

Basketball, Baseball

Gus G. Querin Football Baseball

Clyde E. Fuller

Vinton Hien Glee Club Baseball

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Brunswick Undergraduates

Junior Enrollment

Dorothy Stebbins Fred Zimmerman Irma Barabas Robert Rhode Fred Kling Hattie Cissley Emily Benko

Ninth Grade

Esther Spector Leonard Gibbs Leola Wyman Marian Lock Lucile Wilkinson Elizabeth Smyth Adam Oehlhoff Walter Crum

Alice Anderson Sylvia Gargulak Richard Counts Paul Rowlee Pruman Chidsey Howard Bowman Evelyn Wilber Clifton Feightner

Eighth

Veronica Labge Geraldine Moxley Mamie Nichols Emma Reuter Flora Morton Ellen Gibbs Margaret Bolles Arabelle Morton

Grade

Myron Chidsey Edna Reutter Carleton Lindley Margaret Waite Edna Ridiker Elmer Benjamin James Soulek

Seventh

Wallace Lamphear Elsie Gargulak William Linley Ralph Bowman Ethel Brant Elwin Saunders

Kathryn Waite Dagmar Oehlhoff John Moxley Anna Benko Althea Vaughn Lorraine Pimsner Louise Crum

Grade

William Foley Floyd Murphy Helen Wilber Russel Petchler Raymond Case

Sophomore

Frank Gargulak Ida Gecsey Evelyn Meacham Caroline Oehlhoff Esther Reutter Homer Johnson Ruth Cornish

Enrollment

Ivy Bender Miriam Fuller Joe Hnizdil Douglas Dawson Mildred Petchler Florence Clement Velda Hier

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Chatham Undergraduates

Junior Enrollment

Mary Allis Florence Everett Lois Fusselman Mildred Pierce Dorothy Young

Ninth Grade

Linton Auble Dallas Beach Erma Cox Paul Dearth Vinnie Dennis William Eaken Ruth Eldred Edna Fleming Enid Fleming Goldie Grigsby Loyd Hartsough Hobert Johnson Alberta Lang Samuel Leslie Claude Miller Helen Miller Allene Morrell Paul Norman Naomi Sower George Young

Genevieve Clapp Julia Fleming Williard Grigsby Opal Ramsey Lucile Dague

Eighth Grade

Florence Allis Theodore Carter Oberine Edington Edith Edington Homer Edwards Francis Everett Bertha Fortune George Hall Fred Jelencsics Ernest Lorenzen Milo McVicker Ruth Miller Ruth Norman Lester Packard Lillian Packard Marion Pierce Gordon Repley Christopher Sower Wynn Wi deman

Mildred Fleming Roger Johnson Fay Seibert

Seventh Grade

Charles Armstrong Mildred Auble Andrew Bonner Harriet Brinker Stanley Dague Fern Grim Anna Jelencsics Ernest Pitz Irvin Ramsey Lucia Rickard Rolland Stentz

Sidney Auble Marion Clifford Peter George Stanley Johnson Blake Packard

Sophomore Enrollment

Edith Witherstine Clarissa Broadsword Gertrude Dennis Alice Hartsough Helen Leslie Kenneth Seibert

Harold Clifford Lucy Fleming Howard Lance Verna Nixon Clayton Welsh

Granger Undergraduates

Junior Enrollment

Paul Aikman

Clifton Hanroth

Chauncey Bagley

Paul Krueger

Max Blakeslee

John Scanlon

Wayne Hammond

Forest Allard

Lodi Jelen

Elton Beachler

Josephine Lytle

Paul Crocker

Wayne Alber

Harold Indoe

Howard Bagley

Wallace Lockyer

Alyce Boll

Marie Stagney

Ninth Grade

Carroll Allard

Elsie Miller

Olive Baker

Myrtiebelle Scanlon

Vivian Barnett

Gerald Speas

Edith Codding

Arline Stoll

Leslie Haight

Helen Sylvester

Ray Hamlin

Lester Kadow

Walter White

Eighth Grade

Vivian Alber

Leonard Riedel

Velma Betz

Lloyd Simon

Edward Bosler

Mildred Starkey

George Dunsha

Julia Strauss

Doddaleen Lehman

Addie Sylvester

Seventh Grade

Stanley Allard

Eleanor Kellogg

Margaret Bosler

Dorothy Kruse

Albert Emerson

Wayne Lyons

Lorayne Ganyard

Lauretta Ruppelt

Delmar Graff

Mary Thompson

Kermit Grossenbacher

Kenneth Vanselow

John Hatch

Howard Whipple

Forest Hoffman August Jelen

Louis Wincze

Sophomore Enrollment

Howard Chapman

Agnes Sylvester

Ferdinand Kruse

Faye Young

Henry Oleksa

Alice Codding

William Treman

Elbridge Lytle

Leland Close Margaret Kruse

Forest Thompson

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Hinckley Undergraduates

Junior Enrollment

Marvin Beach

Evelyn Rooy

Anna Palek

Everett Wilson

Walter Riley

Kathryn Paige

Elsie Neverka

Miriam Richards

Roy Bowman

Carroll Smith

Elsie Richards

Herman Wilson

Ninth Grade

Wilma Babcock

Elsie Mohn

Merle Beach

Mary Palek

Glen Bowman

Mollie Plitt

Grace Damon

Maurice Robb

Helen Daykin

Theda Searles

James Drasny

Duane Smith

Everett Green

Rachael Faggart

Rudy Hanasek

Robert Veverka

James Karasek

William Wassiliff

Lawrence Karst

Hazel Wilson

Carlon Kuder

Eighth Grade

Roy Charlton

James Vlasek

John Schultz

Anna Hanacek

Gordon Riley

Eva Dake

Seventh Grade

Amelia Hruska

Watson Peebles

Sadie Hosticka

Evelyn Moutous

Peter Rock

Vivian Mattingly

Joe Korchak

Elizabeth Kellogg

Joe Koba

Frieda Plitt

Joe Foth

Lottie Jesonosky

Josephine Smith

Hattie Wilson

Helen Stedronsky

Paul Kinton

Willie Koptis

Virgil Shook

Feeman Brown

Howard Willard

Sophomore Enrollment

Forest Damon Preston Robertson

Maxine Riley Frances Moutoux

Corwin Riley Helen Smith

Clifford Harrell

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Junior Enrollment

Clyde Weimer Florence Conrad Muriel Gloeser

Gladys Wandell Virginia Koons

Kenneth Frank Kathryn Miller Mary Hastings Evelyn Smith Frances Repp

Ninth Grade

Jean Smith

Elizabeth Slarb Halycon Overholt Edna Edwards Liberty Curtis

Everett Foster

Winton Hisey Katherine Archer Walter Gloeser Louie Williams Ivermit Foster James Miller

Eighth Grade

Alvalee Smith

Pearl Wandel

Robert Grisinger Kathryn Fetzer

Glen Markel

Gilbert Fenstermaker

Opal Horner

Faye Delcamp Ralph Miller Herman Spelman Maxwell Hisey

Seventh Grade

Thressa Baumgartner Marie Lieby Ona Leininger Harold Archer Carl Lucas Ralph Lieby

Dorothy Owen Lester Clark Herbert Archer Robert Overholt Clifford Fillmore

Sophomore Enrollment

Harold Foster Kenneth Haulk Cleo Findley Dorothy Clinker Gladys Gloeser Arthur Delcamp Arthur Stevenson

Mabel Clark Burnice Clark Howard Brubaker Peter Reese Irene Repp Erma Lance

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Litchfield Lfndergraduates

Junior Enrollment

Louise Stine

Lawrence Wilson

Alice Sears

Jane Wilson

George Haas

Clayton Sears

Mildred Siders

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Ninth

Grade

Beulah Breyley

Helen Sabin

Cecilia Hansen

Clyde Holmes

Vera Cary

Kingsley Bryenton

Virginia Radie

Harold Parks

Hazel Moose

Virgil Stine

Marguerite Dague

Henry Fahrion

Pauline Moose

Harold Hall

Bertha Cary

Eighth

Grade

Eugene Moose

Clifford McGill

Agnes Holmes

Henry Soeder

Ethel Hunt

Charles Bement

Bernice Hastings

Kenneth Miller

Bernice Awkerman

Ernest Mills

Estelle Petersen

Franklin Knopf

Lyle Petersen

Christy Haas

Monford Anderson

Orson Bowman

Seventh

Grade

Aussilla Rennert

Norris Leach

Dorothy Rennert

Wayne Turner

Marjorie Friedt

Harold Dague

Beatrice Latimore

Paul Dague

Bernice Hance

Frank Stephan

Ruth Kruggel

Howard Sabin

Helen Knopf

Donal Petersen

Marion Pfeiffer

Donald Hartman

Sydney Wilson

Perry Preston

Sophomore Enrollment

Glenora Case

Carl Bement

Luella Pfeiffer

Alice Sears

Alton Holmes

June Romp

Arthur Zacharias

Lodi Undergraduates

J UNIORS

Bernice Allen Evelyn Dunlap Helen Lowry

Dorothy Allis Royce Eaken Lulu Massie

Christine Archer Donald Griffin Gertrude Patterson

Dorothy Decker Elton Haines Cora Phillips

Lucile DeLong Eleanore Hoerz Agnes Switzer

Beverly Doolittle Frieda Horner Clarence Wood

President Elton Haines

Vice- Pres Evelyn Dunlap

Secretary Freida Horner

Treasurer Royce Eaken

Colors — Blue and Silver Flower — Violet

Motto, “Never sometimes, but always.”

Sophomores

Lucile Boley George Dorosky Richard Mosier

Burton Bricker Gordon Ensminger Vera Park

Ernestine Brogan Verne Fowles Dorothy Rice

Carl Carver Harold Grobly Charlotte Rowland

Geraldine Dague Mae Hageman Marie Shaw

Gertrude Daniels Pauline Keener Grace Steiner

Mildred DeLong Mildred Knapp Forest Wagner

Doris Doolittle Hester Krohmer Dorothy Young

Dorothea Dunlap Estella Kucinsky

President Harold Grobly

Vice-Pres Dorothy Young

Secretary Dorothy Rice

Treasurer Grace Steiner

Colors — Red and Silver Flower — Red Rose

Motto, “Each for all and all for each.”

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Lodi Junior High

William Albert Norman Barrett Grace Bell Mabel Bennader Gladise Decker Treva Eaken Thelma Fosnight Weldon Freeman Britta Garver Raymond Howell Ada Holland Milo Albert Delbert Benson Dorothy Briggs George Brown Harry Brown Raymond Bryant Keith Chapman Maxine Chapman Franklin Daniels Jack Devoe Irene Estill Roy Estill Franklin Ferguson Lillian Finley Harold Artz Howard Allen

Mary Archer Gerald Benson Glen Barrett Dorothy Crum Robert Crum Grace Clinker Dan Dorosky Harland Dague Pauline Ferguson Gladys Fusselman Lucile Keck Virginia Loving Arthur Massie Charles Massie Leota Mathews Earl McConnel Harold Patterson John Richie Delila Romans Robert Schemp Nellie Simcox Genevieve Fuller Bert Gossard Richard Gossard Martha Handel Chas. Heffelfinger Roberta Hendee

Mary Howell Lois Kime Dorothy Lance James Lowry Vincent Lowry Carl Markley Milo Milkey Harry Minds Dale Heiges Harriett Howe Neva Keener Wesley Kindig Raymond Kuntz Otis Massie Nellie Mosier Ethel Massie Wendell McConnel Thomas Nomisnick Paul Overs Violet Price Marthe Smith Alberta Solomon Franklin Starbird Alice Steele Maxine Warner Victor Williams Winfield Yost

June Young William Zeigler Harold Hodge Marian Wagner Ethel Moyer Frances Mong Marian Palmer Harriet Rice Evelyn Richardson Robert Richardson Viola Richardson Treva Sanford Robert Simcox Evelyn Snell Bernice Vanasdal Helen Wilson George Wissler Clark Rook Henry Rudd Hoyt Starbird Scott Shaw Joe Solomon James Travis Marjorie Underwood Joe Van Meter Harold Wilson Myrtle Weltmer

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Junior Class Hattie Bagley Elizabeth Amadon Emily Carpenter Miles Whitmore Alberta Wertinberger Dorothy Unangst Guy Shaw Helen Rooney Florence Ricketts Florence Ribbeck Myrtle Reynolds Lenna Myers Merle Longsdorf Walter Jones

Alice Huffman Marjorie Gardner Arthur Fulton Gordon Edwards Parker Dowd Frank Chamberlain Sophomore Class Raymond Jackson Ida Dreger Luella Dowd Ardo Cox Rex Arnold Donald Longsdorf Billy McCracken Melvin Miller

Lloyd Morningstar Esther Muir Eleanor Norton Geraldine Parcell Blake Patterson Nancy Pierce Florence Shaw Isabelle Troupe Blake Underwood Viola Vallen Ruth Wertenberger Harold Yergin Helen Yergin Merle Kratzer Mildred Knecht

Westfield School — LeRoy

Junior High School Ninth Grade

Mary Ricketts Alice Wertenberger Stella Whitmore Helen Ribbeck Dorothy Hauff Carolyn Clute Nancy Crane Martha Ricketts Florence Kemery

Marion Arnold George Bissell Musa Collins Sidney Collins Harold Greger

Leora Woods Fern Kapp Lucille Whitmer Charles Warner Alma Trebec May Reynolds Franklin Shafer

Irene Barker Ethel Barker Iona Norton Howard Kratzer Clair McDermott Tom Hine Ralph Kreiger Ellis Bayman Wilson Jones

Eighth Grade

Harold Hand Carl Hanshue Lucille Kratzer Edmund Tefs Esther Reynolds

Seventh Grade

John Norton Arnold Moore Maude Kratzer Helen Kreiger William Hulburt Kenneth Hess Kenneth Hawk

Helen Fidrus Sidney Dowd George Long Robert McCullough Clyde Whitmore Owen Cox John Hartman Arthur Carrier Howard Rooney

Frank Myers Harley McDermott Mary Leudemann Blake Longsdorf

Thomas Elliott Stanley Elliott Louise Buchanan Annie Barker Robert Kollert Elnora Pence

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Seville Undergraduates

Junior Class

Sophomore Class

Suvilla Clapp Violet Spreng Lena Ream Ruth Newcomer Ethel Baker Thelma Rupp Vivian E. Ford Raymond Simon “Bill” Eby Walter Welday Thelma Lee

( Absent when pictures were taken)

Ruth Hosmer Kenneth Ream Clarabelle Armstrong

William Armstrong Elizabeth Day Arline Eby Ward Feesler Merle Good Joe Gordon Lester Gordon Elton Hubbard Bertha Kuhn Walter Leatherman Willard Leatherman Keith McKelvey Melvin Newcomer Evangeline Ody Harry Ody Harold Peterhensel Joe Saladna Cleota Shafer Selma Winkler Dorothy Wolfe Beatrice Braley

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Seville Junior High School

Eugene Bauer Gerald Cook Helen Eby Ford Good Mabel Harper Dell Johnson John Livingsberger Millard Long- Ivy Mark Lyell Ripley June Rogers Lucille Rue Nova Shoup Mary Smith Carl Spice Dwight Steele Maynard Steele Ralph Steele Audrey Wright Jean Wright Burton Ringler Jame Ayres Ralph Baker

Helen Bruambaugh Dale Braley Robert Armstrong Eugene Clapp Maxine Decker Glenn Dempsey Cloyd Ewing Willard Frederick Robert Hartman Henry Juillerat Dorothy Johnson Lewis Minton Ralph Van Nostram Jean Shoup Virginia Seeley Helen Taylor Bertie Titus Anna Winkler Leonard Rohrer Elizabeth Rupp Darwin Carr Boyd Clevidence

Roy Foutz Harold Gordon Leon Hilty Donald Kintner Melvin Murray Kenneth Pease Roy Van Nostram Viola Armstrong Mary Beck Marguerite Decker Ada Eby Georgia Feesler Ethel Good Dorothy Grafton Mary Harper Carmen Hartman Neva Hewitt Mildred Huffman Bernice Hull Emma Rennecker Elsie Wolf Virginia Young

Wadsworth Junior High

Dorothy Bell Donald Friedt Pauline Foust Ralph Kreider Glenna Mackey Paul Maurer Velma Shafer Leonard Thomas

Wanda Bain Ralph Christian Helen Bushe Wilber Frase Gertrude Freidt Martin Kindy Cecelia Hartman Dwight Lee Lucille Kreider Elban Newcomer Catherine Loehr Forest Shelly Lucille Pifer Firm Yoder Agnes Schmid Vera Snyder Evelyn Wilson

Martha Bailey William Bowman Mary Burckhart Floyd Farnsworth Nellie Long Kenneth Kemmer Dorothy Rodgers Dale Morrison Ilia Rottman Glenn Votaw Carl Waltz George Jenkins

9th Grade Enrollment

Juanita Brouse 1

Maude Buffington 1

Harry Hunsberger (

Edna Lozier 1

Harvey Markley (

Marjorie Shelly 1

Henry Rodgers 1

Dorothy Zigler 1

8th Grade Enrollment

Thelma Beck 1

Elton Clifford ^

Constance Dress 1

Loyal Hollinger 1

Ethel Grubb 1

Willard Kreider 1

Vona Kemmer 1

Walter Long

Emma Loehr 1

Paul Rohrer 1

Margaret Montbomery 1 Cleal Swagler 1

Madaline Rickert ]

Robert Bailey J

Fern Sebrell

Nellie Welty 1

Helen Bailey

7th Grade Enrollment

Billy Bolich Margaret Brown Leonard Frase ]

Lois Hildreth (

Herman Gerber Mary Picnik (

Lawrence Moser Bertha Ressler Edward Violett Eva Stauffer Howard Yoder Richard Dean

William Blue Elvin Horst Glenda Kemmer Maurice Litman Clara Moore Harold Ott Mildred Yoder Marion Welty

Beulah Beery Ward Farnsworth Faye Fixler Willard Houston Dorothy Harter LaFollette Leatherman Esther Kreider John Long Pauline Leatherman Delbert Rohrer Laura Myers Wayne Vance Marjorie Rohrer Mildred Scheck Wilda Smith Levere Wilson

Elda Beery Kenneth "Dress Mildred Gehman Charles Gish Ethel Long Charles Long- Ruth Roshon Melvin Rohrer Mildred" Rohrer Alfred Whitman Joseph Collins

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Mollie Cooper Althea Weidner Francis Foecking

9th Grade

Leona Betz Mildred Betz Irvin Bauer Wilma Erhart Clarence Hammon Lulu Severns Casper Schmidt Hilda Furniss Ralph Obermiller

Evelyn Teach Hattie Weigal Victorine Hinkel Henry Wolf Wilson Ulmer Lawrence Armbruster

Junior Enrollment

Charlotte Poorman Bertha Mellert Clement Armbruster

8th Grade

Aimee Baisch Margaret Bay Max Cooper Forest Case Harland Dolamore Howard Grausam Edwin Hasel Norman Derek Norbert Hinkel Mike Korlic Emil Muntz Mildred Mott Ceylon Mellert Viola Mulges Bertha Neumeyer Eston Osborne Louis Pohzehl Luella Platz Marie Schaeffer Kenneth Steingass Ernest Tritt Gertrude Wirkner Raymond Wirkner Frances Walters Edna Wolf Erma Shore

Mary Neumeyer William Pohzehl Elno Stoskopf

7th Grade

Bernard Armbruster Corwin Baisch Val Dolamore Orlin Freese Charles Hasenan Andrew Hinkel Rupert Keller Anna Krisan Rosina Muntz William Neff Lenora Poorman Harold Ringstmeier Alice Spieth John Spieth Edward Widenmeyer Harold Schmidt Clyde Wolff Walter Wolfe Anna Zima Evelyn Shore

Sophomore Enrollment

Grace Shore Margaret Dietsche Eugene Miller Kenneth Dolamore Aloys Nilges Blanche Reusch

Helen Kmet Anthony Neumeyer Lee Stoskopf Herbert Reutter

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Junior Enrollment

Nellie Days

Ruth Dolamore

Albert Kahl

Verona Hatch

Nelson Johns

Lawrence Mandley

Edna Kahl

Willis Kraus

Birchard Wyatt

Nellie Ray

Claire Stonebrook

Myrtle Young

Virgil Frase

9th Grade

8th Grade

7th Grade

Marian Abbs

Milo Bixler

Anna Caskey

Ruth Brown

Herbert Bowersock

Bernice Caskey

Virgil Burdett

Gertrude Chapman

Anna Gadosik

Homer Days

Laura Chatfield

Kermit Hutchinson

Evelyn Harpster

Forest Days

Marian Johns

Hilda Waffel

Freda Deitz

John Knoch

Beulah Webster

Mildred Dunn

Frederick Kraus

Wanda Young

Bernice Frase

John Lydle

Reynolds Hagedorn

Paul McDowell

John Harrison

Eleanore Neff

Ellen Hartman

Eugene Orton

Blake Hazen

Margaret Reining

Paul Kahl

Helen Schlayer

Julia Lehman

John Schlayer

Mike Miklos

DeVere Seamens

Elizabeth Muck

Lillian Sense

Eva Muck

Katherine Schenkenber-

Raymond Neff

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Ford Ruckel

Jacob Schenkenberger.

Elizabeth Schlayer

Ruth Snyder

Anna Schott

Floyd Stonebrook

Elmer Sense

Leroy Shanafelt Charles Totheroh Necia Wall

Hazel Walker

Robert Young

Jessie Wall

Sophomore Enrollment

Matthew Bramley

Keith Burdett

Carrie Caskey

Lionel Crane

Victoria Hernea

Stanley Irish

Edwin Kraus

Ira Messenger

Glen Olson

Bernice Orton

Orlo Sprunger

Edna Steigerwalt

Ralph Wall

Ruth Young

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Maude Hendricks

Junior Enrollment

Bernice Billman

Norris Walters

Leona Rogers

Lucille Kopples

John Steiger

Clifton Breyley

Edith Mantz

Bernice Billman

Amy Wood

Dorothy Steiger

Ninth Grade

William Breyley

Sarah Mantz

Hart Stuart

Olga Snyder

Judson Fuller

Hattie Fuller

Dorson Jacobs

Vivian Breyley

Clair Guyer

Irene Sielschott

Donald Weidrick

Mabel Fuller

Edgar Mantz

Harold Bowman

Ivan Boone

Ivory Miller

Hettie Cordray

Eighth Grade

Walter Billman

Dorothy Conklin

William Chidsey

Pearl Moon

Wilbur Fuller

Evelyn Rice

Alice Repp

Olive McVicker

Leonard Hicks

Lucile Sharpe

Donald Brouse

Nellie Condren

Albert Weidrick

Floyd Nell

Earl Van Boxel

Annabelle Messner

Seventh Grade

Elmer Wood

Lydia Brown

Stanley Guyer

Faye Breyley

Stanley Guyer

Neva Sielschott

Julius Kasper

Mildred Fuller

Myron Billman

Alice Moffet

Clayton Condren

Stella Kasper

Ethel Nell

Harry Brown

Lois Zeigler

Elmer Wood

Grace Ingraham

Jack Beck

Sophomore Enrollment

Richard Aldrick

Esther Bowman

Marguerite Curti

Ruth Commer

Grace Mantz

Bernice McVicker

Vivia Gallatin

William Messner

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York Undergraduates

Junior Enrollment

Dorothy Gunkleman Howard Geisinger

Ninth Grade

Wilfred Agey Clayton Damon Clearance Damon William John Harvey Littlefield Irene Mellert

Corwin Meyer

Esther Newcomer Ruth Reutter

Frank Salmon

Helen Thiele

Eighth Grade

Pearl Neufield

Ella McNatt

Alberta Wilcox Russell Dickerman Howard Dunning

George Dushenke Carl Frambach George John

James Mathews Albert Woellert

Seventh Grade

Carlos Dunning Vernon Raby

Philip Swartz Edwin Steingass Wesley Mathews Earl Fiest

Harold Coleman Alice Hendrickson Clarella Newcomer

Helen Faunce

Hilda Thiele

Eleanor Sweet

Luella Hinman Ivadell Frambaugh Mary Srondek Josephine Tilberg Valeria Kroesen Maudelyne Coleman

Sophomore Enrollment

Neil Geisinger Elmore Hinman Beatrice Spice Elizabeth Natvani John Moore

Herbert Steingass Mildred Hendrickson Dorothy Singler Effie Ziegler

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Senior and Undergraduates

The County Superintendent is fond of quoting the poem below be- cause of the rugged splendor of its lines. It is his choicest wish to you Seniors and Undergraduates that the sentiments contained therein may be yours for all time.

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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you ;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too ;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise ;

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;

If you can think — and not make thoughts you aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same:

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave you life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings,

And never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them : “Hold on !”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much :

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!

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Tournament Games

Homer

20

Granger

5

Sharon

33

Liverpool

15

Litchfield

15

Chatham

6

Hinckley

18

Brunswick

9

Spencer

22

Lodi

7

LeRoy

15

York

9

Seville

19

Homer

12

Litchfield

17

Sharon

15

Spencer

16

Hinckley

12

Seville

31

LeRoy

7

Spencer

19

Litchfield

6

Litchfield

17

LeRoy

7

Spencer

18

Seville

9

The biggest event of the basketball season is the annual county basket- ball tournament to determine the champions of the county in that sport. This year the new gymnasium of the LeRoy Schools was thrown open to the county on February 28th and the championship elimination contest played off. Mr. Howe, the local Superintendent was a very capable host and through his careful planning was able to take care of every want even to the feeding of the crowd in Leroy’s new school cafeteria.

Drawing took place at 9 a. m. for the first series of games. There- after the matching was an automatic process. The first game was called promptly at 10 a. m. and games were played continuously until all but two teams were eliminated then a two hour intermission was given for supper before playing the championship game and the consolation game for third and fourth places.

The Spencer High School team went through the tournament unde- feated followed closely by Seville who earned second place. Litchfield met Leroy High School in the consolation game and was able to come through in grand style to third place.

An all county team was picked from the summary of a list presented by each coach. On this mythical team Spencer landed three men, Homer

one and Seville one.

The referees of the tournament, Murray and Hole, were from the athletic department of Wooster college.

The Mythical team was:

Forwards Center Guards

Ebv — Seville Firestone — Spencer Weimer — Homer

Aldrich — Spencer Allison — Spencer

Brunswick Boys Basketball Team

Reginald Perkins Clifton Feightner Homer Johnson Truman Chidsey

Chatham

George Young Claud Miller Kenneth Seibert Stanley Johnson William Eaken

PYed Kling Adam Oehlhoff Leonard Gibbs W. C. Leyda, Coach

Boys Basketball Team

Clayton Welsch Milo McVicker Williard Grigsby Paul Norman J. P. McDowell, Coach

Granger Boys Basketball Team

Donovan Close Paul Aikman Ferdinand Kruse Howard Bagley Leland Close Keith Codding

Harold Indoe Maynard Crooks Wayne Hammond Elton Beachler Elbridge Lytle J. F. Jerrow, Coach

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Hinckley Boys Basketball Team

Curtis Cady Carroll Smith Herman Wilson Glenn Bowman Almon Green Roy Bowman

Clifford Harrell Rudy Hanacek Howard Cartwright Marvin Beach Duane Smith C. H. Carleton, Coach

Homer Boys Basketball Team

Arthur Stevenson Clayton Tunquist Glen Weimer Arthur Delcamp

Carl Hummel Kermit Brubaker Clyde Weimer Reed Tetzer

LeRoy Boys Basketball Team

Willard Rhodes Ralph Winters Raymond Jackson Arthur Fulton Gordon Edwards

Ralph Arnold Clarence Donze Neal Niesz Mr. Tolson, Coach

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Litchfield Boys Basketball Team

Harry Street George Haas Arthur Zacharias Clayton Sears Carl Bement

Kingsley Breyenton Lawrence Wilson Alton Holmes Harold Hall A. R. Betz, Coach

Liverpool Boys Basketball Team

Kenneth Dolamore Francis Foecking William Pohzehl Clarence Hammon

Lee Stoskopf Henry Wolf Casper Schmidt C. D. Moore, Coach

Lodi Boys Basketball Team

Ziegler

Massie

Williams

Starbird

Williams

Fuller

Eakens

Shaw

Haines

Bricker

J. Gould, Coach

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Seville Boys Basketball Team

Clair Ewing Merle Good Bill Eby Walter Welday

Joe Gordon Ward Feesler Fred Steagall, Coach

Sharon Boys Basketball Team

Leland Santee Claire Stonebrook Leslie Bowes Reynolds Heckadorne Willis Kraus

Robert Chrisman Albert Kahl Birchard Wyatt H. E. Kuntz, Coach

York Boys Basketball Team

Howard Geisinger Herbert Steingass Elmore Hinman Howard Dunning John Dushenke

Neil Geisinger Ralph Bishop Harold Coleman R. A. Bohl, Coach

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Brunswick Girls’ Basketball Team

Willia Johnson Luverne Dunn Elizabeth Smyth Mildred Petchler Clara Moxley Leola Wyman

Hattie Cissley Viola Chidsey Lucile Wilkinson Irma Barabas 0. B. Cummins, Coach

Chatham Girls Basketball Team

Dorothy Young Mary Allis Vinnie Dennis Genevieve Clapp Lucile Dague

Opal Ramsey Helen Leslie Lois Fusselman Gertrude Dennis

Grander Girls Basketball Team

Margaret Kruse Elsie Miller Ida Cloyd Helen Sylvester Otilie Jelen Mary Stagney Olive Baker

Genieve Dixon Mary Sylvester Faye Young Alice Codding Myrtiebelle Scanlon Edith Codding

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Hinckley Girls Basketball Team

Elsie Richards Evelyn Hier Agnes Koptis Elsie Veverka Frances Moutoux

Helen Smith Evelyn Rooy Louise Moutoux Bessie Wilson

Homer Girls Basketball Team

Frances Repp Virginia Koons Florence Conrad Faye Delcamp Ivathrine Miller

Erma Lance Florence Metcalf Cleo Findley Kathrine Archer Esther Hawkins, Coach

LeRoy Girls Basketball Team

Emily Carpenter Lenna Myers Marjorie Gardner Alice Huffman

Luella Dowd Mildred Knecht Ruth Wertenberger Miss Ferguson, Coach

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Litchfield Girls Basketball Team

Mitian Bement

Vera Cary

Helen Sabin

Eugene Moose

Hazel Moose

, Alice Sears

Luella Pfeiffer

Pauline Moose

Alice Burner

Virginia Radie

Liverpool Girls

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Grace Shore

Erva Schmidt

Charlotte Poorman

Margaret Dietsche

Evelyn Teach

Esther Wolfe

Jeannette Schaffer

Mary Patton, Coach

Lodi Girls Basketball Team

Bricker

Richie

Decker

Young

Boley

Bennader

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Seville Girls Basketball Team

Vivian Ford Arline Eby Evangeline Eby Ruth Newcomer Esther Baker Grace Eby Thelma Lee

Sharon Girls Basketball Team

Ruth Brown Beulah Webster Victoria Hernia Myrtle Young Dorothy Hazen Edna Kahl Irene Harpster Mr. Kuntz, Coach

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Spencer Girls Basketball Team

Dorothy Steiger Marguerite Curtice Bernice McVicker Amy Wood Edith Mantz Lucille Koppler Leona Rogers Marie Stuart Bernice Billmen Maude Hendricks Miss Robinson, Coach

York Girls Basketball Team

Dorothy Singler Elizabeth Thiele Ruth Reutter Ella McNatt Louise Haring Ruth Pritchard Helen Thiele Dorothy Gunkelman Miss Cole, Coach

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Schedule of Girls’ County Basketball Games

Hinckley at Brunswick

Dec. 19

Score

16— 3

Hinckley at Valley City

Mar. 13

Score

15— 3

Hinckley at Sharon

Jan. 14

Score

10— 5

Hinckley at Litchfield

Nov. 26

Score

5— 7

Brunswick at Hinckley

Feb. 20

Score

8—10

Brunswick at Valley City

Feb. 6

Score

10— 8

Brunswick at Granger

Jan. 9

Score

14— 8

Brunswick at Sharon

Nov. 26

Score

0— 6

Brunswick at York

Jan. 23

Score

6— 8

Brunswick at Litchfield

Nov. 15

Score

8—16

Brunswick at LeRoy

Dec. 12

Score

2— 4

Valley City at Hinckley

Dec. 12

Score

2— 5

Valley City at Granger

Jan. 31

Score

17— 4

Valley at Sharon

Dec. 19

Score

1— 6

Granger at Valley City

Dec. 18

Score

3— 4

Granger at Sharon

Feb. 7

Score

5—23

Granger at York

Feb. 18

Score

4—25

Granger at Litchfield

Feb. 13

Score

2—12

Sharon at Hinckley

Feb. 6

Score

17— 8

Sharon at Brunswick

Jan. 16

Score

22—11

Sharon at Valley City

Mar. 6

Score

9— 4

Sharon at Granger

Dec. 12

Score

16— 4

Sharon at York

Feb. 26

Score

7—11

Sharon at LeRoy

Jan. 23

Score

4— 2

York at Hinckley

Mar. 20

Score

9—15

York at Brunswick

Feb. 26

Score

5—15

York at Granger

Mar. 7

Score

8— 7

York at Sharon

Feb. 13

Score

6— 7

York at Litchfield

Jan. 16

Score

9—12

Litchfield at Hinckley

Dec. 5

Score

5—13

Litchfield at Brunswick

Jan. 30

Score

3— 7

Litchfield at Granger

Feb. 20

Score

6—20

Litchfield at York

Dec. 19

Score

8— 7

Litchfield at Chatham

Feb. 6

Score

3— 8

Litchfield at LeRoy

Dec. 26

Score

13— 6

Spencer at Litchfield

Dec. 23

Score

10— 4

Spencer at Chatham

Jan. 15

Score

7—13

Spencer at Homer

Jan. 23

Score

5—16

Spencer at Lodi

Feb. 13

Score

5—21

Chatham at York

Dec. 19

Score

8—13

Chatham at Litchfield

Mar. 14

Score

5— 6

Chatham at Spencer

Mar. 13

Score

7— 3

Chatham at LeRoy

Mar. 6

Score

18— 2

Homer at Spencer

Feb. 20

Score

9—11

Homer at LeRoy

Jan. 9

Score

11— 3

Lodi at Spencer

Jan. 9

Score

16—14

Lodi at Chatham

Jan. 23

Score

14— 6

Lodi at LeRoy

Feb. 6

Score

15— 3

Lodi at Seville

Dec. 12

Score

12— 6

LeRoy at Sharon

Jan. 31

Score

7—10

LeRoy at Chatham

Mar. 6

Score

2—18

LeRoy at Homer

Jan. 16

Score

3— 6

LeRoy at Lodi

Dec. 19

Score

2—16

Seville at Lodi

Jan. 16

Score

2— 8

Schedule of Boys’ County Basketball Games

Hinckley at Brunswick

Dec. 19

Score

28-

- 8

Hinckley at Valley City

March 13

Score

3-

-24

Hinckley at Sharon

Jan. 14

Score

23-

-12

Hinckley at Litchfield

Nov. 26

Score

16-

-11

Brunswick at Hinckley

Feb. 20

Score

24-

-30

Brunswick at Valley City

Feb. 6

Score

24-

-17

Brunswick at Granger

Jan. 9

Score

12-

-26

Brunswick at Sharon

Nov. 26

Score

9-

-14

Brunswick at York

Jan. 23

Scoi'e

26-

-10

Brunswick at Litchfield

Nov. 15

Score

18-

-21

Brunswick at Leroy

Dec. 12

Score

16-

-13

Valley City at Hinckley

Dec. 12

Score

14-

-33

Valley City at Granger

Jan. 30

Score

18-

-33

Valley City at Sharon

Dec. 19

Score

9-

-10

Granger at Valley City

Dec. 18

Score

9-

-15

Granger at Sharon

Feb. 7

Score

12-

-29

Granger at York

Feb. 20

Score

28-

-15

Granger at Litchfield

Feb. 13

Score

16-

- 9

Sharon at Hinckley

Feb. 6

Score

15-

-25

Sharon at Brunswick

Jan. 16

Score

22-

-21

Sharon at Valley City

March 6

Score

12-

-14

Sharon at Granger

Dec. 12

Score

11-

-15

Sharon at York

Feb. 26

Score

22-

- 8

Sharon at Leroy

Jan. 23

Score

32-

-11

York at Hinckley

March 20

Score

8-

-18

York at Brunswick

Feb. 26

Score

3-

-33

York at Granger

March 28

Score

8-

-28

York at Sharon

Feb. 13

Score

9-

-33

York at Litchfield

Dec. 16

Score

16-

-21

York at Leroy

Feb. 28

Score

9-

-15

Litchfield at Hinckley

Dec. 5

Score

3-

-39

Litchfield at Brunswick

Jan. 30

Score

14-

-18

Litchfield at Granger

Feb. 20

Score

16-

-17

Litchfield at York

Dec. 19

Score

13-

- 8

Litchfield at Chatham

Jan. 9

Score

8-

-14

Litchfield at Leroy

Dec. 26

Score

15-

-16

Spencer at Chatham

Jan. 15

Score

34-

-32

Spencer at Homer

Jan. 23

Score

30-

-10

Spencer at Lodi

Feb. 13

Score

36-

-15

Chatham at York

Dec. 19

Score

38-

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Chatham at Litchfield

March 14

Score

24-

- 9

Chatham at Spencer

March 13

Score

12-

-28

Chatham at Leroy

March 6

Score

32-

-16

Homer at Spencer

Feb. 20

Score

22-

-28

Homer at Lodi

March 13

Score

14-

-15

Homer at Leroy

Jan. 9

Score

33-

-14

Lodi at Spencer

Jan. 9

Score

10-

-21

Lodi at Chatham

Jan. 23

Score

16-

-28

Lodi at Leroy

Feb. 6

Score

28-

-16

Lodi at Seville

Dec. 12

Score

4-

-31

Leroy at Sharon

Jan. 31

Score

18-

-34

Leroy at Chatham

March 6

Score

18-

-33

Leroy at Homer

Jan. 16

Score

14-

-29

Leroy at Lodi

Dec. 19

Score

11-

-16

Seville at Spencer

Feb. 28

Score

19-

- 9

Seville at Homer

Feb. 28

Score

19-

-12

Seville at Lodi

Jan. 16

Score

27-

-16

Seville at Leroy

Feb. 28

Score

31-

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Brunswick Baseball Team

Reginald Perkins Leonard Gibbs Fred Kling Robert Rhode Adam Oehlhoff Walter Crum

Chatham

Williard Grigsby Stanley Johnson George Jones Blake Packard Kenneth Seibert Paul Dearth William Eaken George Young

Fred Zimmerman Truman Chidsey Homer Johnson Clifton Feightner Paul Rowlee W. C. Leyda, Coach

Baseball Team

Claud Miller Paul Norman Milo McVicker Stanley Dague Harold Clifford Clayton Welsh Curtis Denton J. P. McDowell, Coach

Granger Baseball Team

Maynard Crooks Elton Beachler Clifton Hanroth Wayne Hammond Wayne Alber Keith Codding Paul Aikman Leland Close

Donovan Close Ferdinand Kruse Elbridge Lytle Max Blakeslee Howard Bagley Harold Indoe E. F. Jerrow, Coach

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Hinckley Baseball Team

Curtis Cady Howard Cartwright Almon Green Glenn Bowman Carroll Smith Marvin Beech

Homer

Hildredth Knapp Walter Gloeser Arthur Stevenson Arthur Delcamp Kenneth Haulk Reed Fetzer

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Ralph Winter Ralph Arnold Lewis Jones Parker Dowd Willard Wertenberger Raymond Jackson

Walter Riley Clifford Harrell Duane Smith Rudy Hanacek C. H. Carleton, Coach

Baseball Team

Kermit Brubaker Clayton Tunquist Ralph Miller Glen Weimer Clyde Weimer

Baseball Team

Clarence Donze Gordon Edwards Arthur Fulton Theadore Leffler Mr. Tolson, Coach

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Litchfield Baseball Team

Harry Street George Haas Alton Holmes Monford Anderson Paul Dague Clayton Sears Carl Bement

Harold Hall Charles Bement Lawrence Wilson Arthur Zacharias Kingsley Bryenton Henry Soeder

Liverpool Baseball Team

Engene Miller Clarence Hammon Henry Wolf Elno Stoskopf Caspar Schmidt William Pohzehl

Lee Stoskopf Kenneth Dolamore Wilson Ulmer Francis Foeching C. D. Moore, Coach

Mosier

Shaw

V. Williams Eakens H. Williams Ensminger

Lodi Baseball Team

Richie

Patterson

Ziegler

Barrett

Starbird

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Seville Baseball Team Sharon Baseball Team

Joe Gordon Clair Ewing Bill Eby Harry Ody Lyell Ripley Milliard Long Joe Saladna Dell Johnson Ralph Steele Dwight Steele

Leland Santee Willis Kraus Lionel Crane Leslie Bowes Birchard Wyatt Reynolds Heckadorne Albert Kahl Robert Chrisman Ira Messenger Claire Stonebrook Nelson Johns Ford Ruckel Paul Kahl

Spencer Baseball Team

William Messner Jud Fuller Gus Querin Clair Guyer Norris Walters Donald Weidrick Dorson Jacobs Ivan Boone Hart Stuart Mac Stuart Melvin Borror Burdett Aldrich Kent Firestone Leonard Black Howard Allison S. J. Masie, Coach

York Baseball Team

Howard Geisinger Howard Dunning Ralph Bishop Herbert Steingass Neil Geisinger Wilford Agey Carlos Dunning John Moore George John Albert Wollert Earl Fiest George Dushenke R. A. Bohl, Coach

Football Teams

Lodi

Williams

Fuller

Garver

Williams

Griffin

Leatherman

Ziegler

Bricker

Shaw

Massie

Grobly

Richie

Starbird

Howell

Barrett

Coach Gould

Spencer

Messner

Stuart

Breyley

Borrer

Weidrick

Querin

Black

Walters

Allison

Firestone

Guyer

Aldrich

Stuart

Coach Masie

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The Place of the Auditorium and Gymnasium

Perhaps the most used part of the many new school buildings that have been erected in Medina County is the Combination Auditorium and Gymnasium. Here at all times of the day may be found classes in Physical Education or children in supervised play.

The development of the child, physically, has until recent years been entirely up to the parents. The health of the child was thus unintentionally neglected. A low degree of efficiency in school work resulted.

The State Legislature did much to remedy this in making mandatory one hundred minutes of work in physical training each week. This work extends from the first grade to the twelfth. It consists of formal exercises such as calisthentics, teaching of hygiene, games and sports, and corrective exercises. It aims to keep every pupil in such physical condition that it will not be necessary for him to miss school on account of illness.

Basketball might be said to be the major sport in the High Schools of the County. The games are played in the gymnasiums of the schools. Practice games are planned to give all students a chance to play. Those who are in close touch with this work can point out several cases of weak and unhealthy bodies being made strong so that these persons can well be expected to make efficient citizens. In these same individuals the scho- lastic standing was raised as an immediate indication of efficiency.

The Auditorium is in almost constant nightly use by Parent-Teacher Organization, Farm Bureau, Grange, Y. M. C. A., groups along with the many other entertainments offered by the schools.

Thus the auditorium and gymnasium have had an incalculable effect in promoting interest in school affairs and in keeping children in school at a time when so many are prone to leave.

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Track Meet

The Medina County Track Meet will be held May 2, 1925 at the Medina County Fair Grounds. This is an all day event and it is planned that the various organizations of Medina County meet for a general picnic time.

The County Superintendent of Schools as Chairman of the May Day Committee has extended a special invitation to all those interested in health work to be present to celebrate this as Child Health Day.

The following list of track events will help in the entertainment. Boys,

10:30 — 50 yd. dash — grades 6-8 — Above 96 lbs.

10:40 — 50 yd. dash — grades 1-5 — Below 96 lbs.

Girls,

10:50 — 50 yd. dash— grades 6-8 — Above 96 lbs.

11:00 — 50 yd. dash — grades 1-5 — Below 96 lbs.

Boys,

11:00 — R. B. jump — grades 6-8 — Above 96 lbs.

11:00 — R. B. jump — grades 1-5 — Below 96 lbs.

11:10 — Pole Vault — High School Boys

11:20 — 200 yd. relay — grades 6-8 — Girls

11:25 — 200 yd. relay — grades 1-5 — Boys

11:30 — Baseball — grades 6-8 — Boys

11:35 — High Jump — grades 6-8 — Boys Below 96 lbs.

11:35 — High Jump — grades 6-8 — Boys Above 96 lbs.

11:40 — 440 yd. dash — High School Boys 11:40 — Baseball throw — Elementary girls

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1:30 — 50 yd. dash — High School girls

1:30 — Baseball throw — High School boys

1 :40 — 100 yd. dash — High School Boys

1:50 — Shot put — High School Boys

2:00 — 200 yd. relay — grades 6-8— Boys Below 96 lbs.

2:10 — 200 yd. relay — grades 6-8 — Boys Above 96 lbs.

2:00 — Running Broad jump — High School Boys

2:20 — 100 yd. dash — High School Girls

2:30 — 880 yd. run — High School boys

2:40 — 50 yd. dash — grades 1-5 — Girls

2:50 — 50 yd. dash — grades 1-5 — Boys

3:00 — 220 yd. dash — High School Boys

3:00 — Baseball throw — High School Girls

3:10 — Running high jump — High School Boys

3:30 — 200 yd. relay — High School Girls

3 :45 — 1 mile relay — High School Boys

During the. winters op isys and mpo the great competing sleigh rides representing Medina , 5ummi[ , and Cuyahoga. Counties gained Internationa

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ention because of their novelty* Medina County voon the banner in- isgo uuben 152 four horse teams appeared, in Akron «, The visitors mere greeted by noisy brass bands, ringing bells, belching cannon , and uproarous

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Sharon Debaters — County Champions

Dorothy Hazen Birchard Wyatt Marian Ruckel Roy Hartman

“Reading maketh a full man, speaking a ready man, and writing an exact man.” In this combination of reading, speaking, and writing lies the value of debate.

The Cup and the County Championship were won by Sharon by force of construc- tive and rebuttal arguments, style of delivery, and effective team work.

The affirmative composed of Dorothy Hazen, Birchard Wyatt, Marian Ruckel and Roy Hartman defeated Hinckley and Spencer. The negative, Leslie Bowes, Irene Harpster, Robert Chrisman and Virgil Frase defeated Litchfield and Homer.

“The Proposed 20t'h Amendment to the United States Constitution should be Rati- fied” was the question in each debate.

Leslie Bowes Irene Harpster Robert Chrisman Virgil Frase

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Sharon High School Orchestra

This picture of the Sharon High School Orchestra is but one illustra- tion of the large place music holds in Sharon scholastic activities. Sharon debates well, and plays a superior game of baseball and basketball, yet places special emphasis on its musical organizations and instrumental in- structions.

Forty-three pupils, or approximately fifty per cent of the entire upper six grades receive instruction at school on one or more instruments. To these may be added twelve music students from the fifth and sixth grades. Besides instrumental work due attention is given to vocal and chorus work.

Following are the organizations and classes with their enrollment.

Orchestra

28

Coronet

4

Trombone

1

Band

20

Clarinet

4

Alto

1

Violins

33

Baritone

1

Chorus

92

Drums

1

Cello

1

Operetta

45

Flute and Clarinet

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Chatham Entrance — Balcony — Manual Training

Chatham Debaters

Affirmative ( Standing ) Negative ( Seated )

Josephine Peirce Willard Grigsby, Alt. Lucile Dague Walter Eldred

Curtis Denton Geneveive Clapp Janice Clapp Lois Fusselman, Alt.

Hinckley Debaters

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Affirmative ( Standing ) Negative ( Seated )

Grace Held Louise Moutoux Howard Cartwright Agnes Koptis

Mildred Mickel Clifford Harrell, Alt. Almon Green Everett Green, Alt.

Homer Debaters

Spencer Debaters

Frances Repp Reed Fetzer Dorothy Frank Virginia Koons Evelyn Smith Florence Metcalf Eleo Findley Gladys Wandel

Melvin Borror Mildred Awkerman Leonard Black William Messner Edith Mantz

Leona Rogers Maude Hendricks Richard Aldrich Glen C. West, Coach

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Affirmative Team Ralph Winter Margaret Jackson Willard Wertenberger

LeRoy Debaters

Dorothy Unangst Mr. Tolson, Coach Negative Team Eloween Dowd

Clarence Donze Blake Patterson Elizabeth Amadon Mr. Tolson, Coach

Liverpool Debaters

Lydia Reutter Mary Neymeyer Grace Shore Erva Schmidt

Charlotte Hoppe Althea Weidner Esther Wolfe Jeannette Schaffer

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Affirmative Alice Burrer Alice Sears Carl Bement

Affirmative Team Denton Fuller Dorothy Rice Harold Williams

Litchfield Debaters

Clayton Sears, Alt.

Negative Gladys Sabin

Lodi Debaters

Mildred DeLong Negative Team Alice Seiver

Marian Bement Veiy Cary Elizabeth White, Alt.

Harold Grobly Donald Griffin Dorothy Decker

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Snapshots — Lodi School

Lodi Domestic Science

The Home Economics department is one of the best features of our school. We not only have a Smith-Hughes course for the four upper grades but work is also offered for the seventh and eighth grades of the Junior High. In connection with the “kitchen” there is another good sized room which is used for recitation purposes and as a dining room for the school cafeteria. The cafeteria enables any children who wish to have a good warm lunch at a very reasonable price. Milk is furnished free to all children who are thought to be in need of it.

Our Manual Training Department trains many boys in the art of wood-working. Knowledge of how to handle tools and the making of practical, usable articles is emphasized. The two rooms occupied by this department afford ample room for drafting, bench-work and finishing. Many boys gain some real confidence in themselves because of what they do here.

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Lodi Orchestra

Our splendid auditorium, which is permanently seated with about 500 opera seats, (provides ample facilities for assemblies, entertainments, musical events, etc. During' the winter a lyceum course is enjoyed, various entertainments and community events are held. Two operettas are given each year. The one pre- sented by the High School this year is entitled “The Wishing Well”, while the Grades are giving “The Forest Court”, a scene from which is shown above.

One of the most popular places in our school building is the gymnasium. Regular physical educa- tion classes are conducted as shown above for both the Junior and Senior High, while the lower grades have their own special periods. During the winter mouths supervised games are enjoyed instead of having recesses out of doors. The large floor and good seating arrangements make volley ball, indoor baseball and basketball enjoyable for the entire community.

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Seville Operetta

S^ene from Fairv D°nce Operetta — “T^E WISHING WELL”

Left to right — Violet Spreng, Vivian E. Ford, Audrey Wright, Dorothy Haliwell, Mary M. Carr, Arline Eby, Evangeline Ody, Reba Obendorf.

Costume Designers — Miss Fenn, Miss Steiner Stage Directors — Mrs. Riffey, Mr. Hulse Directors — Miss Martin, Miss Jacobs

Hansel and Gretel Dance — and Minuet

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PILGRIM PLAY AND PAGEANT Presented at Seville in November Directors- -Miss Christman, Mrs. Riffey

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Seville Typewriting Class

The Commercial Department of Seville High School began with the organization of classes in Com- mercial Geography, Commercial Arithmetric and Bookkeeping in the fall of 1921 but was broadened by the purchase of eight Royal typewriters, in September 1922, and the introduction of Typewriting and Shorthand in the curriculum thus making the commercial cycle complete.

It has been our aim to make the work of the commercial department of such a character that pupils are not drawn into it because it is “soft” but only after they have carefully decided, as a result ofi thoughtful deliberation, that they want to make a life work of business. Our plan of permitting students to take commercial work is this :

(1) Any student may elect the commercial work but upon so doing must complete the course if capable.

(2) Others may elect if the departments are not full.

(3) Seniors, who have the time and opportunity, may take typewriting as a sideline but will receive no credit.

In the last year the department has added two new Underwood typewriters and an Edison-Dick mimeograph and mimeoscope from which we print our own programs, announcements and advertising matter for the various social functions and local business concerns. Each of the 43 students now enrolled in the Commercial Department has an opportunity of learning how to use the mimeoscope and mimeograiph.

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Granger Operettas

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General Rules Medina County Inter-High School Debate

1. As soon as possible after the beginning of each school year a Committee shall be appointed by the County Superintendent to arrange with him a series of inter-high school debates between the various high schools of the county district.

2. Said superintendent shall submit to each high school under his supervision two or more questions for debate together with a copy of these rules soon after above appointment. Each school may indicate its choice of question. The question preferred by the largest number shall be elected for use in all contests.

3. The County Superintendent shall notify each school on or before November 15th as to question selected for debate.

4. The debate shall be triangular in form, the triangle to be made by the county superintendent and assistant superintendent from the list of schools electing to compete.

5. Each school shall select two teams consisting of three speakers and one alternate. The affirmative can not participate in the debate ex- cept in case of disability on the part of the regular speakers, but may sit at the table during the debate. The affirmative team shall debate at home.

6. Only regularly enrolled pupils of a school are eligible to partici- pate. Contestants must have maintained, up to within two weeks pre- ceding that in which the contest occurs, a passing grade in all subjects pursued. No special recitations or tests shall be given for the purpose of making a pupil eligible.

7. Each speaker shall be allowed an opening speech of ten minutes and a rebuttal of three minutes, except the last speaker of each team who shall have on additional minute in rebuttal.

8. Coaching and training of debaters shall be done by the regular employed faculty of each school.

9. Each of the two opposing schools shall select for their debate any judge from a list of disinterested persons submitted by the County Superintendent, who shall then select the third judge from the same list.

10. The County Superintendent shall arrange for further elmination debates among the winners of the first series until one school is selected as County Champion.

11. A county engraved cup shall be provided which shall be the pro- perty of the County School System. It shall remain in the possession of the championship school for one year.

12. Immediately before the debates, the three judges and representa- tives of both schools shall have a conference at which time the judges shall be given instructions as to how to make their decision. Each judge shall be given a copy of the specimen decision with an envelope for same, and a copy of the specimen decision with the detailed instructions attached. Be sure that the judges understand fully this decision.

13. Judges are not to be allowed to sit near one another while the debate is in progress. No conference of the judges is to be allowed after the debate. Each judge must hand in his own independent decision.

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Medina County Schools at the Fair

The schools of Medina County responded to the County Fair Association with an exhibit this year that far sur- passed anything that has heretofore been shown. Every district was represented.

The Educational Hall was filled to overflowing by the school exhibits. Next year this hall will be enlarged by the County Fair Board, allowing one-half more space for the schools.

Forty individual prizes are given and in addition school prizes are offered under the following classification.

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Classification

Class A — First Grade High School Class B — Junior High School Class C — Elementary schools with grades 1 to 4 Class D — Elementary schools with grades 5 to 6 Class E — Elementary schools with grades 1 and 2 Class F — Elementary schools with grades 3 and 4 Class G — Elementary schools with grades 5 and 6 Class H — Elementary schools with grades 7 and 8 Class I — Village Senior High School (3 yr) (4 yr)

Class J — Elementary schools with grade 1 Class K — Elementary schools with grade 2 Class L — Elementary schools with grade 3 Class M — Elementary schools with grade 4 Class N — Elementary schools with grade 5 Class 0 — Elementary schools with grade 6 Class R — Elementary schools with grade 7 and 8 Class Q — Manual Arts

One Hundred and

Orator

School

Subject

Elizabeth Thiele Ruth Dolamore Walter Eldred Vera Chidsey

Frances Repp

York

Sharon

Chatham

Brunswick

Homer

“Child Labor”

“American Ideals”

“The Spirit of America”

“The Problem of the Feeble-minded in Ohio”

“Watchman, What of the Night”?

Medina County Oratorical Contest

On Wednesday evening April 1, 1925 the above contestants met at the York High School. 0. B. Cummins, Superintendent of the Brunswick School presided at the event. The program for the evening included several excellent musical numbers by the County Band and the County School Orchestra. Mrs. S. F. Rowell also gave a very pleasing violin solo.

The judges were, —

Sidney M. Fenn of Medina Wm. C. Bohrer of Lorain County G. J. Mitchelson of Lorain County

Walter Eldred of Chatham was awarded first place. Both the content and delivery of this oration showed careful preparation.

Mr. Eldred will represent Medina County in the Northeastern Ohio County School Oratorical Contest to be held at Kent on April 17, 1925.

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Activities Calendar

of Events Affecting

Medina County Schools

1924-1925

Sept. 2,

3, 4, 5

Sept. 8

Sept. 13

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Sept. 16,

, 17, 18

Oct. 5-11

Oct. 12

Oct. 24,

25

Oct. 13

Oct. 24

Nov. 8 Nov. 11 Nov. 15 Nov. 17-22 Nov. 17-24 Nov. 27

Dec. 19 Dec. 25

Jan. 1 Jan. 16 Jan. 17 Jan. 17-24 Jan. 30

Feb. 6 Feb. 14 Feb. 21 Feb. 22

Mar. 14

April 1 April 17 April 27

May 2

May 16 May 29

September

County Teachers’ Institute School begins Constitution Week Medina County Fair

October

Fire Prevention Week Columbus Day N. E. 0. T. A.

Fall Fellowship Rally

Fall Educational Trip. Y. M. C. A. — Oberlin

November

County Achievement Day — 4-H Club — Medina Armistice Day

Meeting of County Board of Education Club Week — 4-H Clubs American Educational Week Thanksgiving Day

December

Beginning of Christmas Recess in Schools.

Christmas

January

New Year’s Day Temperance Day

Meeting of County Board of Education National Thrift Week Inter School Debates

February

County Championship School Debates Mid-Year Meeting of Board Members and Teachers County Basketball Tournament Washingtons Birthday

March

Meeting of County Board of Education

April

County Oratorical Contest Inter County Oratorical Contest Third Annual On-to-College Banquet

May

Field Day — County Track and Field Meet — Medina Fair Grounds

Meeting of County Board of Education Schools Close.

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Medina County’s Music Program

The .music program of the Medina County Schools aims to give the children of the County opportunity for musical development along three lines; first, it aims to teach every child to use his singing voice; second, to give every child some acquaintance with the world’s best music; third, to give every child an opportunity to learn some musical instrument.

Progress toward the accomplishment of the first of these aims is made by regular vocal instruction in both the grades and the high schools. This instruction includes the singing of songs, both in unison and parts, throughout the grades and high school; and in the elements of musical theory and sight reading in the grades.

Acquaintance with some of the world’s best music is made by means of the musical material used in the classes, by the use of the phonograph during the regular music period in the grades, and in special classes in music appreciation in most of the high schools.

The opportunity to learn to play some musical instrument is furnished by the classes in instrumental music which are organized in all the schools and are open without charge to all pupils from the fifth grade through the high school. The aim of these classes is to discover unusual musical talent which might otherwise lie dormant and never be developed, and to give to the pupil a technical foundation on his instrument which will enable him to continue his study under private teachers without retardation. Medina County’s furnishing this instruction to the pupils in the schools without charge, on the same basis as instruction in reading, is an unusual feature, and one in which the County is far ahead of any other rural community in the country, and, in fact, ahead of most cities. It is most necessary, however, for the schools to furnish this instruction if it is to be had at all. Nearly all of the County’s school communities are too small to afford the support of private teachers who would bring to the community the knowledge of the instruments and teaching ability that is secured by the system now in operation. Withdrawal of the instrumental instruction from the schools would mean in most cases that within two or three years the local school orchestras would disappear and performers upon any of the band and orchestra instruments would be almost non-existent. It is the purposes of musical instruction that has enabled Medina County to furnish the most comprehensive program of County musical instruction in the State and has led to its recognition as a leader in rural school music.

But big and comprehensive as this music program is, it is not greater than it should be. As a means for the development of the mental processes the value of music is no less than that of any subject on the school curriculum, demanding as it does, concentration, rapid perception, and immediate response. Considered with regard to its value to the pupil in later life, it ranks next to reading and arithmetic. For there is no activitity that touches our lives at more points than music. We express our religious emotions by means of music in churches, our sorrow over the loss of loved ones by music at the last rites; our happiness and general satisfaction with life by spontaneous singing or Whistling at our work; our patriotism and love of country by songs in her praise. As a means of social recreation, and as a wholesome occupation for leisure time music is without a peer. Most assuredly music is not a “frill,” but a most essential part of life, and the music program of the Medina County Schools by developing the ability of musical expression and leading to an appreciation of the best in music for hundreds of children, means happier and fuller lives in the future, more refinement and general culture citizenship.

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History of the Medina County Music Organization

The px-esent music department of the Medina County Schools began in the spring of 1921, when four schools, Lodi, York, Liverpool and Granger joined together in the employment of Mr. S. T. Burns as supervisor of music. As soon as it became known that four of the County’s schools were to have musical instruction, demands began to come from some of the other schools that they too be included in the plan. Before school opened in September of that first year, to the original four, five other schools were added: Homer, Spencer, Litchfield, Sharon, and Seville, and Miss Van Dora McKee was employed as an assistant supervisor.

The success of the work during the first year led to the addition of Brunswick, Chatham and Wadsworth Township the second year, and to an increase of the time for music supervision and teaching in the schools that has had the instruction. The music staff the second year consisted of Mr. Burns, Mr. Seibold, Miss Christman and Mr. Behrens. These four teachers devoted their full time to music instruction. In addition, Mr. Beck, of Medina, taught part time in the Brunswick school.

Additions to the circuit in the third year were Montville Township, Medina Town- ship, and Chippewa Lake. During this year also Belden and Wakeman, although not in Medina County, were included in the organization for musical infraction. The faculty during this year consisted of Mr. Burns, Mr. Behrens, and Miss Christman, who remained on the force from the preceding year, and Mr. Rowell, Miss Martin and Miss Freeborn. In addition to these full time music teachers, Mr. Beck continued to devote part time to Brunswick; Sharon employed Miss Reese to devide her time be- tween regular high school subjects and music; Homer arranged Miss Wertz’s schedule similarly. This year marked the beginning of the County orchestra, made up of twenty- five of the best players from seven different schools.

In the fall of 1924 the Medina organization withdrew from the two schools out- side of the County, and added the Westfield School at LeRoy. Changes in the faculty brought Mr. Clough to fill the place of Mr. Behrens who returned to Oberlin for further study, and Miss Wilcox to fill the place of Miss Freeborn who during the summer, forsook the scTTool room for the fireside. The County Orchestra was continued and enlarged, and a County Band of thirty boys was organized.

In all four years of its existence, the music department has furnished music for all sorts of public gatherings. Every school has its yearly musical program; in addi- tion, music has been given at the annual meetings of teachers and board members, at the oratorical and debate contests, at farmers institutes, and parent teacher meetings. In the four years of the music department’s existence, it has produced eighty-two full-evening performances and furnished incidental music for about twTo hundred fifty community gatherings of various sorts.

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Chatham — Scene from the Operetta “ The Forest’s Court”

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Granger — Scene from the Operetta “Love Pirates of Hawaii” Brunsivick — School Orchestra

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Lodi — Scene from the grade Operetta Wadsworth — Combined Instrumental Classes

Hinckley — Cast of the “ Love Pirates of Hawaii ” Spencer — School Glee Club

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Litchfield — Cast of the “ Spring Cantata ” Homer — Scene from “Windmills of Holland

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Members of the County School Band

Cornets

Keith Codding

Granger

Rolland Hoff

Medina

Ray Burdett

Sharon

Howard Geisinger

York

Harold Williams

Lodi

Everett Shaw

Lodi

Forest Allard

Granger

Leslie Haight

Granger

John Richie

Lodi

Altos

Virgil Burdett

Sharon

Edwin Kraus

Sharon

Bass

Albert Kahl

Sharon

Baritone

Keith Burdett

Sharon

Henry Wolfe

Liverpool

Clarinets

Elbridge Lytle

Granger

Willis Kraus

Sharon

Claire Stonebrook

Sharon

Scott Shaw

Lodi

Russel Dickerman

York

Andrew Haight

Granger

Casper Schmidt

Liverpool

Saxophones

Harold Indoe

Granger

Phillip Schwartz

York

Leland Santee

Sharon

Trombones

Harry Street

Litchfield

Richard Gossard

Lodi

Neil Geisinger

York

Paul Crocker

Granger

Drums

Lodi Jelen

Granger

Jackson Gossard

Lodi

Leslie Cox

Sharon

Directors: S. T. Burns, S. F. Rowell.

The Medina County School Band is an organization made up of the most advanced players from a number of schools. Its object is to provide an opportunity for these more competent performers to play in ensemble music of a higher grade of difficulty and musical value than is possible in the smaller local-school groups.

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Genevieve Clapp

Chatham

Glenora Case

Litchfield

Cecilia Hansen

Litchfield

Marie Shaw

Lodi

Beatrice Spice

York

Gordon Haight

Granger

Robert Chrisman

Sharon

Alice Codding

Granger

Roberta Hendee

Lodi

Dorothy Hazen

Sharon

Harvey Street

Litchfield

Willard Houston

Wadsworth

Ernestine Brogan

Lodi

Mary Sylvester

Granger

Louise Mickel

Granger

Leslie Haight

Granger

Scott Shaw

Lodi

Vergil Burdett

Sharon

Paul Aikman

Granger

Chris Somogyi

Granger

Leland Santee

Sharon

Janice Clapp

Chatham

Keith Codding

Granger

Albert Kahl

Sharon

Irene Simpson

Chippewa Lake

John Goldman

Wadsworth

Dorothy Ziegler

Wadsworth

Jaunita Brouse

Wadsworth

Grace Damon

Hinckley

Directors: Mr. H. W. Clough, Mr. S. T. Burns.

The Medina County School Orchestra is composed of the best players from several local school orchestras. It’s purpose is similar to that of the County Band; to provide an opportunity for the most competent players from a number of schools to play music of a higher grade than is possible in the smaller local school orchestras.

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Members of the All-State Band

Left to right

Scott Shaw, Lodi

Robert Chrisman, Sharon

Claire Stonebrook, Sharon

Willis Kraus, Sharon

Vergil Burdett, Sharon

Keith Burdett, Sharon

Richard Gossard, Lodi

Harry Street, Litchfield

Harold Williams, Lodi

Everett Shaw, Lodi

Keith Codding, Granger

Ray Burdett, Sharon (Not in picture)

The boys in the pitcure above were chosen to represent Medina County in the All-State Band which played for the holiday meeting of the Ohio State Teacher’s Association at Columbus. The band consisted of two hundred members from a majority of the counties of the State.

Your Attention is Called to the Fact that —

No one appreciates more than a teacher in the public schools the beneficent results of having created an estate plus a savings ac- count as early in his lifetime as possible.

It is conceded by the great majority that one of the safest and best ways to do this is thru some form of endowment insurance.

I offer you the services of THE NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY whose tremendous size and business done is a result of 80 years experience in the field of finance and expectancy of life. “The Company is the largest life Company in the world which does ordinary business only, including industrial. Its officers and directors include men of the highest standing in insurance and finance. Its new business in 1924 was over seven hun- dred and forty million dollars, and its payments to and on account of policy-holders over one hundred and sixty-nine millions.”

To this wonderful showing add the financial strength; steady growth; conservative and non-discriminating business methods; future prospects based on present and past records; policies fur- nishing complete protection to beneficiary and also to insured in case of disability, you have some of the reasons why so many men and women prefer the NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COM- PANY.

Represented by

L. H. RANDALL

Member $200,000.00 Club

Hobart Block, Medina, Ohio

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The Old Phoenix National Bank

Medina, Ohio

Commercial and Savings Accounts

Resources $2,500,000.00

The Oldest Banking Institution in the County

Established 1857

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THE Medina County Annual Committee takes this opportunity of expressing their appreciation to those who have helped with the Mecoan for 1925.

To North H. Losey of the Quality Photo Shop of Akron for the splendid service and the fine quality of work done by him.

To Russell R. Benson of Delaware, repre- sentative for the Pontiac Engraving Company, for the help rendered by him in the planning of the book.

To D. Beck of Yale University, for the Art

Work throughout the volume.

To C. D. Knapp and to the Ohio Service Printing Company of Lorain, of which he is Manager, for the personal attention given to every detail in the printing of this book as well as the exceptional type of work done.

Medina County Annual Committee S. H. Babcock, County Supt.

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Your Success

Depends to a great extent on the decisions that you make in your early life. Business offers big opportunities to those who prepare for Success. The Union Institute points the way thru the complete study of Business — so that you will be able to successfully fill a position in the purchasing or in the sales, production, finance, bookkeeping, ac- counting, stenographic or secretarial departments. You will understand the workings of all these departments which compose the complete organization of this business. I o you who specialize in some department of this broad training, Success is certain.

Enter Any Monday

The courses at The Union Institute of Business are planned to meet the needs of the students. Some students cannot enter on the regular opening dates. Our individual method of instruction makes it possible to enter any Monday and make rapid progress. Write us when it would be possible for you to enter. We will arrange your schedule accordingly.

You Can Work

Your way thru if you desire to do so. Our free employment bureau will place you. Some of the most successful men and women are proud that they worked their way thru school.

Write for Information

About our success courses. — Arrange now for your entrance. Special Preparatory Training for those who have not finished their High School Course.

Visit this School

UNION INSTITUTE

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Detroit Ave. at West 65th St.

Cleveland

YORK TOWNSHIP CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL

Mallet Creek, Ohio

F. J. PORTER, Architect

1934 Summit Street

Columbus, Ohio

Twenty-five Years Experience in School Architecture

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The Medina-Predmore-Henry Co.

Reo and Buick Automobiles Repairing and Supplies Medina, Ohio

The Spencer Equity Exchange Co.

Try our Electric Grinder and Mixer for quick service.

Our 23% Dairy Feed is the best feed you can buy for the money. Always the same, no weed seeds, no junk, or off grade grain. Come in, Look over the ingredients. Mix them yourself..

Spencer, Ohio

Automobile Accessories

Axle Shafts Drive Shafts Pinion Shafts Radius Rods Steering Wheels Locking Wheels

Manufactured by

The Spencer Manufacturing Co.

Ohio

C. F. GREENFIELD

“Our Aim is to Please ”

General Merchandise

Litchfield, Ohio

B. H. MORRELL & CO.

Groceries and Dry Goods Goodyear & Firestone Tires Roots and Shoes Sunproof Paint

“ Quality First ”

Chatham

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and when you think of a bank think of our Bank — then come in and get acquainted

YOU NEED US — WE NEED YOU

As business friends we are both made stronger

SAYINGS DEPOSIT BANK COMPANY

Medina, Ohio

Beck Brothers Hardware

Winchester Sporting Goods, Baseballs, Bats, Gloves and Masks, Rackets and Cases, Footballs and Football shoes. Fishing Tackle, Shot Guns, Rifles and Ammunition. We cater especially to the schools, Y. M. C. A., Church Teams and Clubs.

THE WINCHESTER STORE

Medina, Ohio

MYERS PUMPS

HENRIETTA GRISWOLD

A size, type for every purpose, pipe, fit- tings and valves, water systems, sheet metal work including real stovepipe.

Piano and Harmony

Sharon Center

Phone 904

H. E. GRUBB

Sharon Center

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195 S. Main Si.

Complete Line of Baseball Supplies Bathing Suits, Footballs, Basketball Team Outfits Our Specialty

Cigars Tobacco Soft Drinks

We have outfitted many schools in Medina County

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‘ Service our Motto ”

Phone 6052

We extend to our customers every accommodation con- sistent with sound and conservative banking.

Your account will be given the most careful attention and greatly appreciated.

THE SPENCER STATE BANK

Spencer

Ohio

Satisfaction Always Guaranteed AT ABRAMS

Head to Foot Outfitters for Men and Boys

Medina

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If it is —

Hardware

Stoves

Furnaces

Plumbing

Pumps

Windmill

Roofing

Spouting

Barn Equipment

you need, then visit, write or phone

Leatherinan Hardware Co.

Lodi, Ohio

PAUL J. BEITT

Groceries Meats

General Merchandise

Quality and Service Tel. 10 Valley City, O.

B. E. HARTMAN

The

REXALL DRUG STORE

C. C. C. RESTAURANT

Home Cooking Meals and Lunch Short Orders Confectionery

Tebbits Ice Cream

Rest Room GODFREY BROS.

There was a man in our town And he was most unwise He introduced his sweetheart To a lot of other guys.

The editor used This in a pinch He needed exactly Another inch

It’s a Hit

When you Buy

GROCERIES

and

FRESH MEATS

from

L. C. KOONTZ

Sharon Center

Barber Shop in connection

Ward Carter, Prop.

PRINCESS THEATRE

Medina

The Home of Good PICTURES and MUSIC

THE MEDINA COUNTY GAZETTE

Medina County’s Home Newspaper For every community and every family

Twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays. 104 issues for $2.00 a year.

The Gazette’s job printing is standard for this section of the country

HERRINGTON’S RESTAURANT

Good Coffee

24-hour a day service

‘The sensible place to eat”

American Cooks Moderate Prices

JAMES M. HERRINGTON, Prop.

C. J. ANDERSON

The Brunswick Garage

Quality

Exide Storage Batteries

Meats and Groceries

Magic Gasoline

General Merchandise

Hyvis Motor Oils

Brunswick Ohio

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Trade Mark of the Ohio Farm- ers Insurance Company — known from Coast to Coast.

Ohio Farmers Insurance Co.

A Home Company

The Ohio Farmers Insurance Company is Me- dina County’s own fire insurance company. It was organized here in 1848. For seventy-seven years it has carried on its business in this county. It is managed by Medina County men.

The Ohio Farmers is Ohio’s greatest fire insur- ance company. On December 31, 1924, it had a net surplus of $1,033,137.47, a reserve fund of $3,- 331,784.78, and total assets amounting to $4,690,- 788.39.

Ohio Farmers policies are the best buy in the insurance market. Ask these agents for further in- formation.

Medina

Lodi

Seville

Wadsworth

R. O. McDowell C. E. Knapp John R. Minton The Allen-Hartzell-Dibble Co.

OHIO FARMERS INSURANCE CO.

Organized 1848

LeRoy

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THE CARLTON MUSIC COMPANY

Orchestra and Band Music Musicians’ Supplies, Arrangers, Composers Everything in the Music Line

Erie Building

East Ninth and Prospect

Cleveland, Ohio

J. R. HOLCOMB & COMPANY

Everything for the Schools

Founded at Mallet Creek, Medina County in 1872, this business has been serving the schools of United States and her possessions for over a half century. The present management is composed of former school men who have endeavored to serve the schools promptly and efficiently. A telephone call for any items carried in stock will be filled and sent on the day the order is placed. We carry a large stock of School Papers, Art, Kindergarten and Blackboard Materials, Janitor Supplies, Maps and Globes. We also handle Furniture and Office Supplies.

1331 St. Clair Ave.

Cleveland, Ohio

THE FLINT

THE ROLLIN

To the public interested in a highly-developed car, years in advance of current design, we take pleasure in display- ing the Flint and Rollin.

THE W. F. RODGERS STORAGE GARAGE

124 West Washington Street Medina, Ohio

Mr. Kohli (in physics class) : “Describe water, Walter.”

Walter: “Water is white fluid that turns black when you put your hands in it.”

Shoe Salesman (after fitting Mr. Riffey) : “Now, sir, you ought to have the last word in spats.”

Mr. Riffey: “Sorry sir, but my wife usually has it.”

Mr. Cummins says a diplomat is a man who can remember a woman’s birthday and forget her age.

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At E. R. STAUFFER’S Store

on the square

Sharon Center, Ohio

Wadsworth, Ohio

FOOTWEAR AT POPULAR PRICES

SMART

WOMEN

MEN

Solid leather, durable footwear for men at prices from

Smart new models in the latest leathers for women at prices from

correctly fitted

correctly fitted

This is our W. L. Douglas oxford in finest black 2 tan calfskin.

$5.00

Miss Smith: “Can you name the Four Horsemen?”

Almon Green: “Yes, ma’am: Paul Revere, Jessie James, Tom Mix and Barney Google.”

Dad: “Robert, what is this 60 on your card?”

Robert L. : “I think that’s the temperature of the room.”

THE HIGH COST OF SPENDING

When you spend a dollar, you not only part with the dollar, but you also lose the EARNING POWER of that dollar for the rest of your lifetime; and that earning power, during the average normal lifetime is many, many times greater than the dollar.

SAVE YOUR DOLLARS

Start a SAVINGS ACCOUNT with us and the HIGH rate of interest we pay will help you wonderfully.

6% Interest Paid on ONE YEAR Certificates of Deposit 5% Interest Paid on Regular SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.

THE MEDINA COUNTY SAVINGS & LOAN CO

of Wadsworth, Ohio

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SHELBY TABLET COMPANY

Manufacturers of School Papers

Shelby, Ohio

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THE SHARON BANKING CO.

Teachers College

UNIVERSITY OF AKRON

Akron, Ohio

Offers courses to prepare teachers for all departments of school work. Offers to students all advantages, of the University and for practice teaching, the Akron public schools.

THE SUMMER SCHOOL

Classes for teachers, college students and citizens conducted daily. Opportunity for advanced standing in the various colleges of the University is an attractive feature. Graduate courses leading to the Master’s degree are offered.

We specialize in

LABORATORY APPARATUS CHEMICALS and REAGEANTS KEWAUNEE LABORATORY FURNITURE

for the High School and College Laboratory. Write us for a copy of Ohio High School Standards — Appar- atus Requirements and check up your apparatus and chemicals so they are up to the State requirements for a first grade school.

THE

KAUFFMAN - LATTIMER

COMPANY

Columbus, Ohio

Hudson & Essex

Motor Cars

General Repair Work Tires and Accessories

PARK GRISWOLD

Sharon Center Phone 902

To Those of You Who Graduate Is Your House in Order?

Failure to set one’s house in order may leave a heritage of sorrow.

Preparedness — that is your problem. Begin now to prepare to take care of that old man that is coming to your house some day.

When? At 65?

The only way in the world you can guarantee yourself an income when at 65 is to begin to make annual deposits with a good financial institution for that pur- pose. NOW.

Arthur M. Flannery, Agent

The Northwestern Mutual Life Insur- ance Company, Milwaukee, Wise.

30 Public Square Medina, Ohio

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SEVILLE HOTEL

European Plan

Every Room with Bath, Private or Connecting Entirely Redecorated — Excellent Dining Room Service

Chicken and Steak Dinners H. L. FELLENBAUM, Proprietor

Sunday Dinners a Specialty Seville, Ohio

To the Public:

During this season it will be greatly to your buy your Dry Goods, Clothing, and Shoes, a quality of

CLIFF MATTESON

Seville

advantage to number one

Ohio

Diamonds

W at ches

F. A. ROWLAND

Lodi, Ohio

Jewelry

Kodaks

FULLER’S STORE

We specialize in fine curtain materials

L. P. Young

Quaker Craft Nets

Ford Sales and Service

in particular

Valley City, Ohio

N. O. FULLER

Next to Farmers Bank

Medina, Ohio

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DRY GOODS — CLOTHING — SHOES

Lodi, Ohio

The Eyes of the W orld are on

HAYES — CHEVROLET CO.

Phone 35

Wadsworth, Ohio

Chamberlain & Marshall

Service Station

Our Motto

“Quality and Service”

Auto Repairing, oil, gas and Accessories

Sharon Center

Ohio

RICE & HULBURT

Dealers in

Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware

and

General Merchandise

LeRoy, Ohio

Dan and Andy

The most up-to-date Market and Grocery in Medina County All meats under refrigerator counters. We handle the meat, not the customers

A Good Clean Place to Trade

Steingass & Bradway

Phone 3139 Medina, Ohio

Spencerian School of Commerce Accounts and Finance

3201 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio

Day and Evening Sessi

ons

The school with a national reputation.

Chartered by the State to confer degrees.

Seventy-six successful years.

Two employment Bureaus with free service. Graduates are always in demand.

Bookkeeping

Shorthand

Typewriting

English

Penmanship

Private Secretary

Spanish

Cost Accounting

COURSES

Higher Accounting and Auditing (Prepares for C. P. A. examination)

Business Administration (With degree B. C. S.)

Commercial Normal

(With State certificate and B. S. in Ed.)

Evening Law Course

(Degree LL. B. and prepares for the Bar Examination)

You are cordially invited to inspect our facilities for commercial training, daily from 8:30 a. m. to 9:30 p. m.

Founded in 1848

Office open

Spencer Hardware Company

New Home Restaurant

Full line of

A. J. BICE, Prop.

Hardware, Paint, Oil, Wood and Coal

Spencer's Famous

Stoves and Heaters

Tires, Accessories, Gasoline, Kerosine and Lublicating Oils

“Pie House ”

Meals and lunches for the

Pumps, Fishing Tackle and Base Ball

Individual — Family — Party

Goods

The best in ice cream, candies and

Spencer, Ohio

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Out of the Old

Into the New

The third floor of the beautiful new Smythe Building at 1001 Huron Road, Cleveland, Ohio, has become the home of

DYKE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

In this central location with modern, well-lighted departments and increased facilities we are able to meet the needs of our students even better than heretofore.

High School Graduates who have ability and ambition will find in this newly equipped school the specialized training necessary to meet the opportunities in the great field of business.

The summer months are valuable. Make the best use of them, after graduation. Investigate now.

Enter immediately

U. Crow

Hot Lunches, Soft Drinks and Confections

Litchfield, Ohio

Phone 116

Residence 308

B. A. STROUP

LINCOLN — FORD — FORDSON

Spencer Ohio

WILLIAM FRANZ

General Merchandise Country Produce School Supplies

Goodrich and Miller Tires Auto Accessories

Chatham Ohio

Quality Counts

NORRIS J. WALTERS

General Merchant

Spencer Ohio

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TEBBIT’S ICE CREAM

“It’s a Health Food”

T. B. Tested

Phone 1062

Medina, Ohio

For Fp-to-date

Dry Goods Ready-to-wear

and

Floor Coverings

It Pays to trade with

E. C. ZIEGLER & SON

Medina, Ohio

General Store and Drug Store

Poultry, Butter and Eggs Established in 1870

JOHN BRONGERS

Hinckley Ohio

Where Quality Tells and Price Sells

CARL A. GRAFF

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N. Court Street

F. C. BARTUNEK

Merchant Tailor

Ladies’ and Gents’ Dry Cleaning Pressing and Repairing

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C. M. FETZER & SONS

LINCOLN

Phone 172

FORD

The Universal Car

FORDSON

The Universal Tractor Lodi, Ohio

We aim to keep at all times a stock of general merchandise that will supply the immediate needs of a rural community.

We can best show our appreciation of your patronage by rendering Prompt and Courteous Service.

F. O. GINGERY

Remsons Corners, Ohio

Telephone

Office 133 Res. 46

CODDING BROTHERS

The Grocers

F. D. ARMSTRONG

Service and Quality

Funeral Director

Lodi, Ohio

Seville, Ohio

Invalid Car Service

Agents for Kuntz Bros.

Laundry and Dry Cleaning

Hinckley Center

Ohi

The Hinckley General Supply Company General Merchandise, Feed and Flour Co-Operative Store Where quality and service counts

Richfield and Brunswick phones

L. B. WEST, Mgr. Brunswick, Ohio

O. H. Kellogg

Litchfield, Ohio

FIRESTONE & COMPANY

Spencer, Ohio

Department Store

Strictly First Class

Groceries, Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Hardware

Spencer

Bakery and Restaurant

C. E. Bement

C. H. BREYLEY, Prop

Dealer in

General Merchandise

Bread, Cakes, Pies, Candy

Litchfield, Ohio

lee Cream and Soft Drinks

Oysters in Season

W. M. BAISH

They were seated in the parlor

Meats, Groceries, Confections

And he said unto the light,

On the Square Litchfield, O.

“Either you or I old feller”

Will be turned down tonight.”

When in Lodi

Don't Fail to Come to the

HARRIS GROCERY

For the Best Quality Groceries

Phone 39

RAYNES’

General Line, Notions, Groceries Fruits and Vegetables Farmers Produce a Specialty

Seville, Ohio

HEALTHY HEAT makes

HAPPY HOMES

Use Ryholt Furnaces ' The Kyholt Furnace Co.

Wadsworth, Ohio

Bring your father and mother and have dinner at Westfield Inn, LeRoy.

Or, call us and we will gladly help you arrange your class banquets.

Delicious Sunday dinner is served at 12:30 — $2.00.

Every evening at 6:00 — $1.00

Please phone for reservations.

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Helps develop a

SCHOOL SPIRIT

of which to be proud

“CLEAN SPEECH”

“CLEAN SPORTS”

“CLEAN SCHOLARSHIP”

Christian Standards of Living

The Wadsworth Savings and Trust Company

A bank of

Friendship and Courtesy

at your service

Established in 1873

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Dry Goods, Ready-to-wear Floor Coverings, Draperies and Window Shades

Medina

THE MEDINA SENTINEL

Established 1884

Published weekly at Medina, Ohio

Its large circulation attests its high standing as a surveyor of the news of Medina County, and the outstanding business concerns acknowledge its substantial value as an advertising medium.

The Sentinel also maintains a well-equipped department for the production of high grade printing of all kinds.

The Wm. H. Brook School of Commerce, Account and Finance, Inc.

Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland, O. No. 1 Front St., Berea, O.

“The School of Modern Business Science”

Special courses for home study, lesson by lesson method, with private instruction under guidance of Wm. H. Brook, C. A. and C. P. A. Bookkeeping, Higher Account- ing, Cost Accounting and Systematizing, Preparation C. P. A. Degree, Business Ad- ministration, Auditing, Commercial Law, Federal Income Tax, Economics, Corpora- tion Finance.

You can do this work in your spare time, four or five hours a week. You can remain at your present work, increase your efficiency, train your mind and get ready for your big opportunity when it comes. Write us for further information.

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“Say, Daddy! Wliat AI)out My Education?”

YOUR youngster is probably too young to ask you that question now. But the day will come when he will be- gin to wonder whether he can go to college, and you will probably begin to wonder where the money is coming from to send him. But the money will be forthcoming just when needed, if while he is still a little fellow, you will systematically plan for the completion of his educa- tion.

A convenient, economical, practical plan has been worked out for you by THE EQUITABLE LIFE AS- SURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES in conjunction with its Educational Fund Agreement.

For further information call or write.

R. H. HALDERSON

Special Representative

Phone 3288

Medina, Ohio

Be at home away from home

Life’s “Commencement

This is “commencement” month, the month when young people, the thrift of whose parents have permitted them an education, are beginning life in earnest.

To wage the battle successfully re- quires capital and there is no better, surer way of getting capital than to save a mar- gin of your income every month and put it beyond the reach of chance or caprice.

Put it in this bank, where both your efforts and ours will add to its steady growth and where it will always be ready for you when the “big chance” comes along.

It's a safer way for the present and a happier way for the future.

4 % net on Savings

THE TAYLOR INN

Lodi, Ohio

Dining Room and Restaurant

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Dancing

Study Nature

A Most Interesting Subject

The great outdoors offers thousands of specimens. Start a collection this summer and preserve some of the won- ders of the insect world. Study the use of color in the protecting of insects, how the color of moths blend in with the color of the bark of the tree. Start now and look for cocoons, etc., and let the beautiful moths and butterflies emerge in the house

WE MANUFACTURE

Insect mounting boxes, insect collecting nets, mounting boards, cyanide bottles, pins, etc. Write for information on our Novice Collecting Outfit.

THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY

FORERUNNERS OF FORTUNE

Small, consistently maintained deposits are forerunners of fortune.

It is the amount deposited regularly, regardless of its size, that grows with amaz- ing speed.

Develop the savings habit and you will build a foundation for future prosperity and ultimate success.

THE CITIZENS SAYINGS & LOAN CO

Medina, Ohio

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We Welcome

you at our new salesroom

Economical

Transportation

“Earle”

MOTOR COMPANY

GIBBS

Compliments of

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK

Ohio

Wadsworth

There is no substitute for a Farmers’ Elevator

Don’t try elsewhere until you’ve seen wliat we have to offer

THE SHARON CENTER CO -OP. ELEVATOR CO

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The Washington (36x26')

This beautiful Colonial style includes six delightfully arranged rooms and a cozy sun parlor. This is a home of which you will be proud all your life.

The Cornell (32x42')

This popular one-story type has many features to commend it. Five-rooms, with bath and breakfast room. This is a home of which to be proud.

THE WADSWORTH LUMBER CO

Wadsworth, Ohio

MILLWORK and LUMBER

Our plan book will assist you in selecting a home.

The LaSalle (22x24')

A very practical six-room, story and a half home with two good bedrooms, sleeping porch and bath upstairs. Very economical to build.

The Mayfield (20x28 )

This moderate-priced home has six splendid rooms and is within the reach of everyone. Wonderful economy of space.

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