Faculty & Staff

• Superintendent:  Charles Liggett VAN CLEVE, p. 8
• Principal:  Harlan E. HALL, p. 11
• Teachers
  • Miss Emily M. ABBOTT, p. 13
  • Miss Mary ABERLE, p. 12
  • Mr. Austin K. ALLEN, p. 14
  • Albert BELLINGHAM, p. 15
  • Miss Helen T. BROWN, p. 13
  • Mr. C.D. CARPENTER, p. 14
  • Miss Elizabeth CUSTER, p. 15
  • Mrs. Jennie C. DOWNEND, p. 15
  • Miss Margaret K. FELDNER, p. 12
  • Mr. J.M. HOLMES, p. 13
  • Miss Jennie McILVAINE, p. 15
  • Miss Kate S. MOORE, p. 14
  • Miss Bertha RUESS, p. 12
  • Miss Helen A. SIMPSON, p. 12
  • Miss Matilda SNYDER, p. 15
  • Miss Mary C. SOYEZ, p. 13
  • Miss Lucy R. STINE, p. 14
  • Miss Ilena M. SWAIM, p. 15
  • Miss Dorothy WAUGH, p. 15

Photographs Of The Building

• Mansfield High School, p. 5
• Lower Hall and Stairway, p. 7
• General Office of Superintendent, p. 8
• Auditorium, p. 16
• Principal's Office, p. 17
• Upper Hall and Entrance to West End, p. 17
• Physics Laboratory, p. 18
• Chemical Laboratory, p. 40
• Biological Laboratory, p. 46
• Commercial Room, p. 56
• Library and Study Room, p. 72
• Rest Room, p. 78
• Drawing Room, p. 96
• Photographic Department -- Basement, p. 98

School History -- A Bit of School History, p. 6

Senior Class, Class of 1907 -- Senior Class Photo

• Officers
  • President:  Ray SAWHILL
  • Vice President:  Mabel H. WARD
  • Secretary:  Maude CUNNINGHAM
  • Treasurer:  Herbert FRASER
  • Sergeant-at-Arms:  Louis BRUNK
• Motto:  "Out of School Life into Life's School."
• Colors:  Dark Green and Gold
• Class History -- History of the Class of '07, p. 28
• Class Members (including their nicknames and favorite quotations)
  • Edward "Pete" ABBOTT -- "I do not like this fooling."
  • Walter ARMSTRONG -- "Hear thy stormy music of the drum."
  • Grace BAUGHMAN -- "If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body."
  • Augusta BEVANS -- "Always gayest of the gay."
  • William BRISTOW -- "I'm little but I'm mighty."
  • Jacob R. BROWN -- "One of the few immortal names that were not born to die."
  • Louis BRUNK -- "He is a tower o' wisdom and silence."
  • George BUCHAN -- "Men of few words are the best men."
  • Robert BURNS -- "If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she."
  • Leona CALVERT -- "A friendly heart, and many friends."
  • Mary CAVE -- "Care to our coffin's adds a nail, no doubt, And ev'ry giggle so merry draws one out."
  • Florence COSS -- "She is in constant good humor."
  • Guy CREVELING -- "And when a lady's in the case, You know all other things give place."
  • Maude CUNNINGHAM -- "No really great man ever thought himself so."
  • Helen DePUE -- "A graceful and pleasing figure."
  • Mary DEW -- "What I won't, I won't and there's an end on't."
  • Mary DeYARMON -- "The embodiment of perpetual motion."
  • Bernice "Bananas" DOWDLE -- "The noblest mind the best contentment has."
  • Mary ENGWILER -- "My mind to me a kingdom is."
  • Luella FINNEY -- "She seeks diligently after knowledge."
  • Olive FISHER -- "Whence is thy learning?"
  • Harriet FORD -- "Full many friendships, Has this maid begun, Of ladies many, But of men -- but one."
  • Herbert FRASER -- "I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less."
  • Rex "Gobo" GILBERT -- "To live long it is necessary to live slowly."
  • Gordon GRAY -- "As proper a man as one shall see in a summer's day."
  • Zoda GREENLEE -- "On their own merits, the ---- are dumb."
  • Walter GREISINGER -- "There's advantage in inches."
  • Frank GROSS -- "For he's a jolly good fellow."
  • Malva HALL -- "To judge this maiden right, Right well must you know her."
  • Mabel HAMMETT -- "A constant spring bubbling over with laughter."
  • William HAMMETT -- "He is divinely bent on meditation."
  • John "Dutch" HARRIS -- "Much study is a weariness to the flesh."
  • Mary HAVERFIELD -- "Cares not a pin, What they say, or may say."
  • Alma HEGNAUER -- "Her smile is like a rainbow, flashing from a misty sky."
  • Laura HOOVER -- "The truly generous is the truly wise."
  • Helen HOSSLER -- "Stately and tall she moves through the hall."
  • Ruby HOWENSTINE -- "A kindly quiet spirit, where malice finds no home."
  • Marjorie HURXTHAL
  • Elizabeth KIPP -- "A winning way, a pleasant smile."
  • Edith LAUTSBAUGH -- "Woman's at best a contradiction still."
  • ---- LEONARD -- "Her air, her manner all who saw admired."
  • ----  LONGSDORF -- "They pathway lies among the stars."
  • Don MAGLOTT -- "He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief."
  • Jeanette MARTIN -- "She was a modest one."
  • Frieda MASSA -- "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."
  • Harry MASSA -- "There's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness."
  • Nellie "Ned" MECKLEM -- "Of all the girls that e'er were seen, There's none so fine as Nellie."
  • Gladys MENGERT -- "For what she will, she will, you may depend on it."
  • Jessie MENTZER -- "So womanly, so benigne, and so meek."
  • Mary MEYER
  • Mabel MILLER -- "Howe'er it be it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good."
  • Ralph "Dogglevance" MILLER -- "My only books, Were woman's looks, And folly's all they've taught me."
  • Mabel NORRIS -- "In each cheek appears a pretty dimple."
  • Frank OLD -- "A man of mark."
  • Vera OSWALT -- "Is she not passing fair?"
  • Walter "Yaddo" PALMER -- "What should a man do but be merry."
  • Mary PIPER -- "Poetry is the music of the soul."
  • Jeanette PLATT -- "Quiet, gentle, still."
  • Dora "Dody" POTTER -- "She would talk, ye Gods, how she would talk!"
  • Emmett PRICE -- "Most of the great men have been diminutive in stature."
  • Estelle RALSTON -- "Her bark is worse than her bite."
  • Louise REMY -- "Deep brown eyes running over with glee."
  • Margaret "Peggy" RITTER -- She is a good friend to good friends."
  • Maude REYNOLDS -- "As merry as the day is long."
  • Bertha RICHARDS -- "Thy deep eyes amid the gloom, Shine like jewels."
  • Fanny ROBERTS -- "Blest with the charm, the certainty to please."
  • Ruby RUNYON -- "Thou has no faults or I no faults can spy."
  • Helen SAUERBREY -- "You're uncommon in some things, You're uncommon short, for instance."
  • Ray "Red" SAWHILL -- "I am not in the roll of common men."
  • Helen SHIREMAN -- "Fickle as Fortune's wheel."
  • Eleanor SLOANE -- "Thou seem'st to enjoy thy life."
  • Eloise SLOANE -- "What sweet delight a quiet life affords."
  • Harriett SNODGRASS -- "Her looks do argue her replete with modesty."
  • Esther THEM -- "There is no truer hearted."
  • John TODD -- "I hate nobody."
  • Eugene "Drowsy Dugan" WARD -- "Proud as Lucifer."
  • Mabel H. WARD -- "Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues."
  • Eleanor WEAVER -- "Fashioned so slenderly."
  • Kathleen WILLIS -- "Those dark eyes -- so dark and so deep."
  • Dan "Weary Willie" WOLFF -- "I am as sober as a judge."
  • Stanley YOUNG -- "I fain would climb but that I fear to fall."

Junior-Senior Reception, p. 39

• Dramatic Personal
  • Katherine BAXTER
  • Will FINNEY
  • Josephine LEMON
  • Hubert TAPPAN
  • Russel VOSE

Junior Class, Class of 1908 -- Junior Class Photo

• Officers, p. 34
  • President:  Marguerite BANGE
  • Vice President:  Dorothy SHONFIELD
  • Secretary:  Lenore CUNNINGHAM
  • Treasurer:  Martin JELLIFF
  • Sergeant-at-Arms:  Russell VOSE
• Class Motto:  "Possunt quia posse videntur."
• Class Colors:  Light Blue and Gold
• Class History -- History of the Class of '08, p. 37-38
• Class Members
  • George BALLIETT
  • Marguerite BANGE
  • Lloyd BARR
  • Katherine BAXTER
  • Lee BAXTER
  • Augusta BEVANS
  • Marie BOWERS
  • Carson "Porter" BRANCH
  • Edith BUNTING
  • Earl BUSHNELL
  • Mary BUSHNELL
  • Floy CAMPBELL
  • Helen CARPENTER
  • Beatrice CHARLES
  • Mildred CLARK
  • Forest CLELAND
  • Bennett COOKE
  • Una CRUMM
  • Lenore CUNNINGHAM
  • York "Pork" DIRLAM
  • Marie ENDLY
  • Ruth FINFROCK
  • Will FINNEY
  • Earl FRANKEBERGER
  • Frank FOX
  • Glenn GROSCOST
  • Ruth HARRIS
  • Maurice HARTMAN
  • Ethel HEISER
  • Carrie HERRING
  • Willard HESS
  • Katherine HURXTHAL
  • Martin JELLIFF
  • Jack JENNER
  • Herbert "Tubby" JONES
  • Louise JONES
  • Vance JUDSON
  • Josephine KALMERTON
  • Vernon KERN
  • Grace KINTON
  • Minnie LAUDON
  • Leda LAWRENCE
  • Ethel LEHMAN
  • Josephine "Jig" LEMON
  • Margaret LINDSEY
  • Wilbur LINDSEY
  • Fred LANGDON
  • Howard "Chick" LEPPO
  • Clara LONG
  • Harry LYNCH
  • Edna MAGLOTT
  • Nathaniel MARTIN
  • Marie MARWICK
  • Irene MASSA
  • Mabel McCURDY
  • Clare McELHINNEY
  • Jennie McFARLAND
  • Edith MEILY
  • Kathleen MENDENTHALL
  • Delta MITCHELL
  • Catherine MURPHY
  • Mary MURPHY
  • Martha PAINE
  • Milo PATTERSON
  • Marie PICKERING
  • Hazel PLUMMER
  • Pearl REMY
  • Nellie RUPERT
  • Bertha SCHILL
  • Margaret SCHRAEDER
  • Park SEIBERT
  • Charles SHERIFF
  • Florence SHIRES
  • Dorothy SHONFIELD
  • Goldie SHRYOCK
  • Irene SMITH
  • Roy SPETKA
  • Virginia STARK
  • Norman STOODT
  • Margaret STURGES
  • Hubert "Buck" TAPPAN (also appears as Hurbert)
  • Earl TERMIN
  • Ralph "Grinny" TWITCHELL
  • Hazel UMBARGER
  • Anna VOEGLE
  • Russel "Kentucky" VOSE
  • Maude WALKER
  • Marie WARING
  • Glenna WICKERT
  • Violet WILSON
  • Freda WOLFF

Sophomore Class, Class of 1909 -- Sophomore Class Photo

• Officers, p. 42
  • President:  Frank CAVE
  • Vice President:  Mary Alice DUNHAM
  • Secretary:  Reba ACKERMAN
  • Treasurer:  Hazel HIPP
  • Sergeant-at-Arms:  Howard McDANIELS
• Class History -- History of the Class of '09, p. 45
• Class Members, pp. 44
  • Ada ACKERMAN
  • Alberta ACKERMAN
  • Ethel ACKERMAN
  • Reba ACKERMAN
  • Alverda ARMSTRONG
  • Estella ARRAS
  • Roger AU
  • Walter "Mickey" AUSTIN
  • Pearl BARR
  • Rae BAUGHMAN
  • Mildred BECKER
  • Delilah BERGER
  • William BLACK
  • Lotta "Sister" BRANCH
  • Amy BROWN
  • Helen BROWN
  • David "Honk" BRUCKER
  • Marie BRUNK
  • Floy CAMPBELL
  • Jeannette CARPENTER
  • Willkard CARTER
  • Frank CAVE
  • Jud CLINGAN
  • Vera COSTARD
  • Jud COX
  • Margaret DAVIDSON
  • Abbie DePUE
  • Herbert DITWILER
  • Mary Alice DUNHAM
  • Bertie EMMONS
  • Edna ENDLY
  • Fern ENLOW
  • Helen ENOS
  • Albert ERNST
  • Edith ETTINGER
  • Marie EVANS
  • Ada FALKNER
  • Autha FINNEY
  • Nellie FRANKEBERGER
  • Nellie FRENCH
  • Samuel GARBER
  • Lucille GORHAM
  • Vulah GREENLEE
  • Glenn GROSCOST
  • Hazel HAMMETT
  • Howard HARDING
  • Herman HARRIS
  • Mabel HART
  • Hazel HIPP
  • Lee HOFFMAN
  • Howard HORN
  • Edith HOUSTON
  • Walter HOUT
  • Mae HUENERFAUTH
  • Ruth HURSH
  • Agnes JACKSON
  • Russel "Jelly" JELLIFF
  • Helen JENNINGS
  • Lena JOHNSON
  • Maude JONES
  • Hattie KALLMERTEN
  • Goldie KELLEY
  • Leo KELLY
  • Bessie KIRSH
  • Sophia KLIPPE-
  • Irene KREBS
  • Marie KUEBLE-
  • Rhea "Rhear" LaDOW
  • Raymond LANTZ
  • Hazel LAPHA-
  • Olive Lillian LAUER
  • James LEONARD
  • Edith LEPPO
  • Nina LEPPO
  • Helen LEUTHNER
  • Wilbur LINDSEY
  • Catharine LOOMIS
  • Tillie MAPES
  • Nellie McCONNELL
  • Hazel McCORMICK
  • Leo McCULLOUGH
  • Howard McDANIEL
  • Ethel McFARLAND
  • Abigail McGINTY
  • Hazel McINTYRE
  • Nellie "Ted" MEILY
  • Ida METCALF
  • Jean MICHAEL
  • Blanch MILLER
  • Mildrd MOREHOUSE
  • John MORGAN
  • Carl OBERLIN
  • Walter "Pumpkin" OSWALT
  • Stanley OZIER
  • Frank PAINTER
  • Edward PALMER
  • Otto PATTERSON
  • Merle PECHT
  • Jasper PITTINGER
  • Earl POLLOCK
  • Merz PRECHT
  • Ione REYNOLDS
  • Bessie RHOADS
  • Mary RITCHIE
  • Ernest SCHAFER
  • Oscar SCHALLER
  • Walter SCHLAGEL
  • Earl SCHULER
  • Nina SCOTT
  • John SHEETS
  • Robert SHIREMAN
  • May SHIVELY
  • Lloyd SHOWERS
  • Cecil SNYDER
  • Helen "Happy" STEINRUCK
  • Chas. (Charles) STEVENSON
  • Edna SWARTZ
  • Guy SWORD
  • Margaret TA--ER
  • Coleman TODD
  • Chas. (Charles) WEST
  • Donald WILLIS
  • John WOOD

Freshman Class, Class of 1910 -- Freshman Class Photo A, p. 49;  Freshman Class B, p. 51

• Officers, p. 48
  • President:  James WENDLING
  • Vice President:  Joe DOWDLE
  • Secretary:  Rebekah MacDANIEL
  • Treasurer:  Jud COLWELL
  • Sergeant-at-arms:  Judson SUPER
• A Freshman's Troubles -- Poem by Rebekah MacDANIEL, p. 52
• Class Members
  • Will ANDERSON
  • Bertie APPLEMAN
  • Florence BARRY
  • Alice BARTON
  • Edna BAUGHMAN
  • Mary BERRY
  • Mamie BISSMAN
  • Velmak BERKSHIRE
  • George BLECKER
  • Edwin BOALS
  • Nita BRANSON
  • Hugh BROWN
  • Helen BRUNK
  • Ruth BURNESON
  • Clara CALVERT
  • Harry CASAD
  • Emmett CASEY
  • Hazel CASHELL
  • Helen CLINE
  • Judd COLWELL
  • Leo CORBETT
  • Harold CREVELING
  • Floyd CRIDER
  • John DOW
  • Joseph DOWDLE
  • Harold EDMONDS
  • Cordell ERDENBERGER
  • Montus ETZWILER
  • Eugene EVANS
  • Fritz FAIR
  • Albert FIEDLER
  • Paul FIEDLER
  • Lois FINNEY
  • Rosella FISHER
  • Pearl FLOCKEN
  • Sophia FLOCKENZIER
  • Bertha FRANK
  • Mary FREDERICK
  • John FRIBLEY
  • Ada FRIER
  • Ruth GADSBY
  • Chauncey GATES
  • Hazel GERLACH
  • Earl GERTH
  • Ruth GUENTHER
  • Gerald GUTHRIE
  • Myrtle HAMLIN
  • Daisy HAMMOND
  • Helen HARBAUGH
  • Russell HARBAUGH
  • Walter HARBESON
  • Fanny HARLAN
  • Alma HARROLD
  • Hazel HAWK
  • Marion HAWKINS
  • Harold HENRY
  • Margery HERSHEY
  • Joseph HICKS
  • Scott HUBER
  • Will IRVIN
  • Selma ISELY
  • Ross JONES
  • Mary JUDSON
  • Reo JUDSON
  • Margaret KAUFMAN
  • Louis KENTON
  • Irene KERN
  • Rose KING
  • Irma KNITTLE
  • Ruth KOOKEN
  • Frances KUHN
  • Joseph KUNEMAN
  • Albertine LANG
  • Alta LANTZ
  • Emmett LAUTZBAUGH
  • Edna LEACH
  • Howard LEHMAN
  • Willard LEHNHART
  • Ethel LEPPO
  • Ercie LEWIS
  • Edward LONGSDORF
  • Estella LONGSHORE
  • Francis LOOMIS
  • Rebekah MacDANIEL
  • Rhea MAFFET
  • Byron MARTIN
  • Clarence MARTIN
  • Grace MARTIN
  • John MASSA
  • Mary McBEE
  • Ruth McCALLY
  • Byron McCREADY
  • Zoda McCURDY
  • Mabel McGUIRE
  • Inez McKEE
  • Willie McKEE
  • Ellen McLEAN
  • Earl McNEIL
  • Wilbert MENGERT
  • Ollie MERLY
  • Margaret MERWIN
  • Don MILLER
  • Faye MILLER
  • Helen MILLER
  • Charlotte MOORE
  • Iva MURPHY
  • Harriet NAIL
  • Fern NAVE
  • Archie NIXON
  • Candace OLD
  • Carl OSWALT
  • Clyde PITTMAN
  • Edna RAY
  • Faye REYNOLDS
  • Marion RHODES
  • Reuben RINGER
  • Elnora ROBB
  • Herman ROOP
  • Everett "Babe" RUNYON
  • Jay SAUERBREY
  • Olga SCHMIDT
  • Emma SCHNEIDER
  • Thomas SCOTT
  • Forest SHARP
  • Leo SHONFIELD
  • Leroy SHRIVER
  • Goldie SHYROCK
  • Everett SILCOTT
  • Edna SMITH
  • Harry SNODGRASS
  • Ida STAHLHEBER
  • Charles STECKER
  • Helen STEELE
  • Mabel STEVENS
  • James STROCK
  • Anna SULZER
  • Judd SUPER
  • Lois TAPPAN
  • Rachel TRACY
  • Velma TURNER
  • Caryl TWITCHELL
  • Rhea UHLICH
  • Frank UNDERWOOD
  • Russell UPSON
  • Nellie VAN ANTWERP
  • Vernie VARLEY
  • Fred WALTERS
  • Gladys WALTERS
  • Thomas WALTERS
  • Ruth WEBER
  • James WENDLING
  • James WHEELER
  • Lloyd WHITMAR
  • Eugene WIGTON
  • Esther WILCOX
  • Leah WILCOX
  • Frank YARGER

Commencement -- Commencement, p. 60

Organizations

• Literary Societies, p. 58-59
  • Senior Literary Society Officers
    • President:  Fry OLD
    • Vice President:  Olive FISHER
    • Secretary:  Ruby RUNYON
    • Assistant Secretary:  Herbert FRASER
    • Censor:  Kathleen WILLIS
    • Reporter:  Gordon GRAY
  • Junior Literary Society Officers
    • President:  Jack JENNER
    • Vice President:  Katherine HURXTHAL
    • Secretary:  Clare McELHINNEY
    • Assistant Secretary:  Russell VOSE
    • Censor:  Frank FOX
    • Reporter:  Martin JELLIFF
  • Sophomore Literary Society Officers
    • President:  Howard McDANIEL
    • Vice President:  Ruth HURSH
    • Secretary:  illegible
    • Assistant Secretary:  Hazel --pp
    • Censor:  Marie BRUNK
    • Reporter:  Leo McCULLOUGH
• Glee Club -- Glee Club Photo, p. 62
  • Mr. BELLINGHAM
  • Walter ARMSTRONG
  • York DIRLAM
  • Earl FRANKEBERGER
  • Rex GILBERT
  • Martin JELLIFF
  • Fred LANGDON
  • Fry OLD
  • Russell VOSE
• Orchestra -- Orchestra Photo, p. 63
  • Mr. BELLINGHAM, Director
  • Walter ARMSTRONG
  • Grace BAUGHMAN
  • Robert BURNS
  • Earl BUSHNELL
  • Harold EDMONDS
  • Chauncey GATES
  • Rex GILBERT
  • Gordon GRAY
  • Frank GROSS
  • Hazel HAMMETT
  • Walter HARBESON
  • Vance JUDSON
  • James LEONARD
  • John TODD
  • Eugene WARD
  • Dan WOLFF
  • John WOOD

Athletics -- Information about Athletics at Mansfield High School, p. 66

• Boys' Basket Ball Team
  • Team Photo, p. 67
  • Basket Ball Scores, p. 68
• Girls' Basket Ball Squad, 
  • Team Photo, p. 70
  • Team Photo, p. 71

Misc. Names Of Students Not Listed in other sections

• James "Julius" CARRIGAN
• Louis "Maje" DILL

Prizes, p. 95

• First Prize for Drawing ... Carson BRANCH
• Second Prize for Drawing ... Rio JUDSON
• Prize for Cartoons ... Katherine HURXTHAL
• First Prize for Story ... Kathleen WILLIS
• Second Prize for Poem ... Rebekah MacDANIEL
• First Prize for Jolts ... Eugene WARD
• Second Prize for Jolts ... Mabel HAMMETT

Board Of Education, p. 97

• President:  Charles W. FRITZ
• Clerk:  John E. NELSON
• Treasurer:  C.H. HUGHES (ex-officio)
• Superintendent:  C.L. VAN CLEVE
• Members:  
  • Charles BUSHNELL
  • Ezra S. CLELAND
  • Ed. G. LEMON
  • Rev. David J. MEESE
  • W.C. MOWREY

Oracle Staff & Advisory Board, p. 99

• Advisory Board
  • Mr. Austin K. ALLEN
  • Mr. Clifford D. CARPENTER
• Staff
  • J.R. BROWN ... Business Manager
  • Maude CUNNINGHAM ... Literary Editor
  • Zoda GREENLEE ... Art Editor
  • Nellie MECKLEM ... Grind Editor
  • Mabel H. WARD ... Editor-in-Chief

Advertisements, pp. 102-118

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• Advertisement Index 3
• Advertisement Index 4
• Advertisement Index 5

Miscellaneous

• A Summer Romance, p. 105

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