Oak Park and River Forest High School - Tabula Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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YM file gckfora Qmecbcafe Our 159004 ' Dennis Alwood Eleanor Balch Cornelia Campbell Deborah l-lanson Barbara Johnsen Diane Kellogg Cecilia MidThun MargareT Milles Charles Nave Donald PeTerson Sally STrehllce Lawrence WelTin 0 JM, gemr Hola, nino! is her cheery greeTing. Cr perhaps she responds wiTh a Triendly Boniour, mon enTanT when oTTen ThroughouT The day a sTudenT calls I-lello. The lcindness, The undersTanding, and The genTle encouragemenT oT The peTiTe Miss T-lelen Geller endear her To all who lcnow her. l-ler vivaciTy and conTagious enThusiasm sparlc The imaginaTion oT her French and Spanish sTu- denTs and, wiTh her masTery oT languages, conTribuTe To excellenT classroom presenTaTions. Willingness To help oThers is evidenT in Miss Geller's exTensive exTra- curricular worlc. As l-lead oT The Language DeparTmenT she Talces an acTive inTeresT in The language clubs. She serves as a member oT The casTing com- miTTee Tor school plays and as direcTor oT The cosTume commiTTee Tor The Girls' Club Show. l-Ter calmness and paTience are invaluable during The emer- gencies oT a guiclc cosTume change or oT a losT collar buTTonl To Mademoiselle Geller oT The sprighTly personaliTy and oT The warm and Triendly spiriT, we are happy To dedicaTe our Tabula. T81

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i l .gn Wemoriam Mr. Richard Pax+on For rhirly-lhree years room I4l served as a workshop and Mr. Paxion as al-school dad for hundreds ol looys inleresled in worlcing wilh wood. Mr. Pax+on's slow smile, his approving loolc, or his hand on a boy's shoulder in commendaiion of good worlc held more meaning Jrhan any grades in 'rhe book. The wood-working we may forgei loday or Tomorrow, buf we shall never forge? lhe big, gray-haired man in +he green shop coal. Mr. Paxion was an experl in Jrhe designing. conslruclion, and finishing of lurnilure. much of which slands as a +es'rimonial lo him in many homes of Jrhe area. l-le also used his slcill lor humanilarian purposes and designed game boards and crulches Jrhal were widely used in World War ll. Surely Mr. Paxl'on's lifelong slcill in crealive worlc, and his palienl inler- es+ in boys, have become a pari of us and of 'rhe fine lradilions of lhe school. U01