We locals love our Lucasville, Ohio
history. I continue to discover many more amazing links to our past online. Local
history, up-close and personal, is simply the best. I encourage you
to post your own gems online. Once again, allow me to share some
information with you.
Here is a post in the 1950 Valley High
School Yearbook titled “The Indian.”
“The Valley Schools in the year of
1950 reached a peak enrollment of 1154. This includes both the high
school and our two elementary schools while the greatest increase was
shown in the lower grades. The present program of improvement in the
Valley Local Schools should in due time pay dividends contributing to
better citizenship, and should make it possible for our children to
secure a better foundation in scholarship and to participate in
extra-curricular activities which will prepare them for the world of
tomorrow.”
--Mr. L.T. Comer, Valley
Superintendent
I believe Mr. Comer's prediction came
true. How fortunate we were to attend a great school with
administration, teachers, and support staff who helped mold our
character. I know my experience at Valley was incredible. Upholding
the heritage of 108 years of Lucasville graduates is important to me.
Looking back, I now better understand the impact of education in the
area. I am very grateful to have been in the Valley system.
Here are a few poems from the 1959
Yearbook:
The time has come for lunch at last,
I thought the time would never pass.
Into the lunchroom to “Betty Lou,”
“Boney Maroney,” and “Peggy
Sue.”
The lunchroom is crowded 'cause what
we got?
Hamburger on bun, and beans from the
pot.
We hurry and eat while the records
play.
This is the middle of a hectic day.
Untitled, Author Unknown
We'll catch our bus and homeward go,
Oh, but these buses are awfully
slow.
Another day has come and gone,
But still our teachers linger on.
Study your books and be great
scholars,
So that when you grow up, you'll
make the dollars,
Help your fellowman when he's in
trouble,
Then you'll be sure your joys will
double.
Untitled by Judy Lintz
“Memories”
Today we leave behind
The things we love so well,
The skating parties and class plays,
And test papers, as well.
Yesterday found us eager
That we might “try our wings,”
We just wanted to get away,
From our school and different
things.
Today we are just sad,
To think that we must go.
We regret each fleeting moment,
To leave what we love so.
And no matter what we find
Down our road of Tomorrow,
We'll always remember school days
We left behind with sorrow.
By Judy Kay Boggs
Speaking of '59 … do you remember a
school band that rocked?
The “Juniors” were a group that
sprang up from the Valley Junior Class to play the music for their
class dances. They played for many other activities and made the
whole school very proud of them. There is a photo in the online
version of the 1959 Annual.
Group members: Steven Vanhoose, Dick
Wolfe, Eddie Miller, Wayne Phfleger, Mike Dobbins.
Click here to discover the link to many
Valley Yearbooks: https://www.yourppl.org/history/collections/show/156
And let me close this blog entry with a
couple more columns from the Whittlers' Gazette, the Official
Publication of the Whittlers' Club, National Headquarters at Brant's
Village Store in Lucasville, Ohio. These are from the October 1935
edition:
The Health Col-Yum by Dr. W.T. Marrs of
Peoria, Illinois (tongue in cheek)
Question:
Mrs. Roy Trusty of Wakefield, Ohio,
writes as follows: “Dear Doctor: (I don't know whether I should
address you as 'dear doctor' or not.) Ever since you began writing
your so-called col-yum and instigated that crazy play called
'Initiating a Whittler,' which seems to be spreading all over the
country, my old man is becoming lazier than ever. What I want to know
is whether laziness is a disease or not. If it is, he is a really
sick man. He never was much account, but here of late he is more
useless than ever. He thinks it's a great honor to be classed as a
member of the Whittlers' Club of America.
Answer:
Your “old man,” as you choose to
call him, has no disease pathology. He has perhaps only reached the
reflective stage of life when he can view the great struggles and
ambitions in their true perspective. He is a true Whittler who has
come into his own. You should be proud of him. Did you not read the
ritualistic quotation: “The Whittler must have no worries”? For a
moment reflect upon the Whittlers among the great and the near-great
– Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, Mark Twain, Ed Howe, Chauncey
M. DePew, O.O. McInyre and the greatest of all, the lamented Will
Rogers.
“Keep Calm”
When I hear the fiery speeches
Of the orator who preaches
That our government is old and out
of date,
I begin sometimes to wonder
If we're really going under,
And if we should all forsake the
Ship of State
Then I stop and think a little
And sit down a while and whittle
And conclude that even if it's out
of style,
They can keep their quick solutions
And enjoy their revolutions;
I'll stand by the Constitution for a
while.
All the schemes so wild and hazy
Planned by demagogues half crazy
May be good for foreign folks across
the sea,
But this land of peace and freedom
Doesn't want and doesn't need 'em;
What we have is good enough for you
and me.
They persistently assure us
That their medicine will cure us,
If we take a double dose three times
a day,
But they may as well be quiet;
We'll keep on with our plain diet
And pull through in the prescribed
old fashioned way.
You may think I am benighted,
But I fail to get excited
When the cranks begin to damn the
U.S.A.
This old country will be booming
And Prosperity will be blooming
When the Reds and Bolsheviks have
passed away.
--Walt
View many more editions of the
wonderful Whittlers' Gazette by clicking here: https://www.yourppl.org/history/collections/show/39
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