David B Oliver High School - Omicron Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THE OMICRON one, because their work at Oliver is over, they have given their Alma Mater the best within them. Let us turn back the pages of history and see what has happened during their sojourn. They are the first class to graduate from the complete, enlarged David B. Oliver High School. They are, likewise, the first class to have one of their repref sentatives, namely, Bill Burry, take moving pictures of an activity of the school. As a result of Bill's work, pictures of Oliver's 1928 gridders in action were taken, so the school can always remember that memorable date, November 16, 1928, when Oliver met Allegheny and tied them for the championship of the North Side. In athletics they have had an enviable record, starting from the first basketball and swimming team, where we first hear the names of Bo Meals, Bob Roney, and Bill Grant, down to the athletics of this last semester. Here we see added to the list Pete Shaginaw, Frank Jehovic, VJ m. Billock, Joe Kazeva, Dan Scully, John Alston, Wm. Reidenbaugh, and John Schott. Elizabeth Lippert has performed brilliantly on the girl's swimming team, and Elsa-Falk occupied a prominent place on the volley ball team and as track manager. The outstanding figure in the politics of the school has been Pete Shaginaw. Under his supervision the Junior Council went through a very successful season in 1926, and in 1927 he took charge of the Senior Council. And the orchestra! How incomplete would it have been if in it were not included Bill Vaught, Bill Burry, Bill Reidenbaugh, Dan Scully, and Charles Nauman. Bill Vaught's supremacy at the violin and Charles Nauman's at the trombone were shown when they were chosen as Pittsburgh's representatives in the National High School Orchestra which played in Chicago in 1928. In the field of Drama the class secured a very good actress in the person of Louise Yuiska. The other promising actors and actresses are: Bill Vaught, Bill Grant, Grace Urquhart, Joseph Kazeva, Marie Marks, George Poland, Helyn Lukas, Blanche Morrison, Florence Cater, Thelma Thornberry, Peter Shaginaw, Wm. Bilf lock, Marcella Troutman, Grace Mehrmann, Wm. Burry, and Andrew Kunsack. Then, also, we must not forget Jim Rozum, who has helped make all of Cliver's stage productions a success by contributing his services as stage manager. He has been assisted by Oscar Suess and Wm. Kress. Of the four important officials, the cheer leaders, the 12A class gave two: the captain, Bill Vaught, and Bill Kress. Last, but not least, comes the class's contribution not only to Oliver, but to Art-Joseph Kazeva. Since he first set foot within the corridors of the school, Joe has made the art department of Oliver stand out for its good work. Yes, the Class of February, 1929, gave their best to their school, and are ready now to take their leave. The class must part-the bond of friendship which has bound them together these four short, happy years must reluctantly be broken, in order that some may continue their education, while others enter the University of Hard Knocks. They shall not, however, forget the years they have spent within the walls of Oliver-rather it shall remain a cherished memory, to be thought of with joy and happiness, when they are gone, and perhaps, forgotten by the rest of the school.

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lll lllllll l Y l f f-1-it 'i'+ ...X I1- T In 1925, a day in early February, a small band of students braved the blusterf ing wind and intense cold of the day and assembled in various rooms in the newly opened David B. Cliver High School. They were in reality Columbuses, who had left the Old World to discover a New one-one full of thrills and exciting moments. From Manchester, Conroy, John Morrow, Horace Mann, Woods Run, Halls Grove, and Irwin they came. The representatives of Manchester and Conroy, which had long been traditional rivals, cast aside their childish rivalry and joined together to make the record of their class one which would stand the test to which future Oliver classes would put it. Four years have passed since that memorable day. As the class looks back, the memories persist in coming. Smiles come to their faces as they think of the humble, shy freshmen, who were constantly getting lost in the mysterious corridors of their school. The smiles broaden to grins as they recall their second semester, when the present 12B's had to go through the same procedure. They often think of that neverftofbefforgotten moment when they became 1lA,s and assembled together for the first time, electing Peter Shaginaw as the head of their class for the semester. And with the memories of this, comes also the recolf lection of the day they ,became the proud possessors of their class rings'-fthe emblems of their four years' unceasing effort toward the betterment of Oliver and of them' selves. Finally they view the closing chapter of their life at Qliver. Upon their arrival last semester, they found a larger school waiting their leadership, and the success with which they have achieved this objective, under the presidency of John Matoka, is recorded within the annals of the school, a fitting example for future classes. These seemingly short four years-years of supreme happiness and joy, broken, however, at intervals by moments of hardship and trying ordeal-have rapidly come to a close, and the class is ready to leave. Their departure is not a sorrowful 5 Y ll I af,--i

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