Jackson High School - Osky Wow Yearbook (Jackson, OH)

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 OSKY WOW - 1918 HARRY BRUCE Age 17. Weight 170. Height 5 feet, 9 inches. Bruce is a loyal son of the country, aDd he loves those old hills with which he is so familiar. Like his great fore-father, he is willing to be taught, even by a spider. He lives near Berlin (not Germany) and walks to school every day. HELEN OILER Age 18. Weight 113 Height 5 feet. 3 inches. Helen is a studious and unobtrusive young lady. Like many other graduates, she spent part of her life in the country She is very efficient as a typist, and we feel sure that she will secure a good position next year,—but—she is fond of a certain dark haired, dark eyed young man. GEORGE KENDALL Age 21. Weight 150. Height 5 feet, 9 inches. Foot-ball ’13,’14, ’15, ’16, ’17; Base-ball ’15. fGeorge has since witndrawn) MARIANNE LEWIS Age 17. Weight 128. Height 5 feet, 5£ inches. This lively Senior brings much amusement to us with her smiles and giggles. She hopes to be a kindergarten teacher some day. She is a Star Spanish student; but that is no wonder, for she makes such frequent and fluent use of English.

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OSKY WOW - 1918 WALTER WYKLE Age 18. Weight 142. Height 5 feet, 7 inches. ‘‘Wyke is an eccentric young man, with a striking personality. Along with his school work he has been taking a course in chemistry, and some day we expect to see him in a laboratory of his own, analyzing the make-up of some far-away star, or in some other way contributing to the general store of knowledge. RUTH SCURLOCK Age 20. Weight 123. Height 5 feet, 1 inch. Rutn is a sincere, reserved young lady, who deserves a great deal of credit for the way she has overcome difficulties, We need not say that she will be successful in anything she may try, for she has demonstrated his herself, MARY FLORENCE OSBORN Age 18. Weight 93$. Height 5 feet, 1$ inches. Mary is a dark-haired, dark-eyed, girl, full of fun, and always tries to do her best work in school. She is a Star Latin pupil, and enjoys nothing better than translating the whole lesson. MARY SCURLOCK Age It). Weight 118. Height 5 feet, 4 inches. An attractive young lady, who is very particular about her personal appearance, and loses no opportunity to make good use of the mirror and powuer puff. She is given much to talking, and entertains nerfiiends royally with this talent. She acts as substitute teacher for the “kids” in the grades, and often displays her physical ability in this capacity.

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OSKY WOW - 1918 ODDITIES OF THE SCHOOL YEAR 1917-18. When we were Freshmen, our Teacher in Compisition and lihetoric told us, among other things, chat when we were describing an object, one of the things we ought to do, was to point out the ways in which that particular object differed from every other object. In other words, that a good description ought to call attention to the oddities of the thing described. As this idea struck us as b ung a good one, we have never forgotten it, and so we rhot we might apply the priuciple to a “write-up” as we say, on the school year. One of the long-to be-remembered features of the year was the big snow. On Saturday the 8th of December, the sky was streaked with cold, grey clouds, and all Nature seemed somehow to know that King Winter was about to come in person. Late in the afternoon, a few fleecy flakes of snow came floating down from the airy regions aoove—Nature’s Laboratory; and a Freshman, dozing in the 6tudy hall, was heard to mutter something about coasting. About dusk, it began snowing in earnest. And while Sleep was busy waving over the countryside, nis mistic bough, wet with Stygian dews, King Winter was wrapping Mother Earth in a blanket of spotless white, tucking Her away to sleep for nine long weeks. What matchless rapture was the school boy’s! And how he did make good use of this, the biggest and most lasting snow that has been known in years! Another featute of especial interest was the appearance of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights, on March 7. This display of an electrical phenomenon was probably the most wonderful and most universal that was ever known in this part of the country. It could be seen in all the Northern and Central States, and even in some of the Southern States, and the telegraphic and other electrical instruments were effected, all over the United States during the whole of the day. Lis first appearance here was as a great patch of red light in the sky, a little west of due north. Later this changed to two arches of greenish-white light; and about 8:80 p m huge pillars of fire were seen iu the sky, from which two streamers of white, like the beams from a pair of mighty searchlights, shot to the Zenith, there to disappear, and then to reappear south of the Zenith. The display was at its greatest beauty about 9:30 p m when the whole north suddenly became aglow, and flashes of red, green and white lights, beautifully inter-mingleu, flickered and glimmered like the hungry flames of a raging fire. The crafty Hua took advantage of the light and paid London a visit by air. The entire northern sky was illuminated with a brightness equal to that of the early morning, and, as if to accentuate this brightness, the south was shrouded with pitch blackness, thus hiding the approach of the raiders.