Oakland High School - Oak Yearbook (Oakland, MD)

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20 Petigke OFA KK LOUISE SHREVE “The beauty that is borne here in the face, the bearer knows not, but commends itself to others eyes.” ACADEMIC COURSE Athletic Association ’25; Glee Club ’26. Tall, blond and nice looking is Louise, and her hair is not bobbed, either. She is one of the old-fashioned girls and is good to look upon. Louise is a good Latin student babi we hear otherwise about her being a good geometry student. JAMES WOLF “What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.’’ COMMERCIAL COURSE Vice President Athletic Association ’25; President Ath- letic Association ’26; Soccer Team ’22, ’23, ’24, ’25: Cap- tain Soccer Team ’22, ’24, ’26; Basket Ball Team ’22. 23, °24, ’25, ’26 (Captain) ; Class President ’22, ’23, ’24, 25; Glee Club ’25, ’26 (Secretary and Treasurer) ; Track 22, ’23, ’25, ’26; Year Book Staff Athletic Editor ’26. “Jim” is a “Jim Dandy” in every way. What would we have done without him as a class member? He is a born leader and when it comes to doing anything for the O. H. S., leave it to Jim and it will be done. ISABELLE WEST “Beauty depends more than anything else on the gift of being able to put it over.” COMMERCIAL COURSE Class Treasurer ’23; Class Secretary ’24; Class Vice- President ’25; Girls’ Basket Ball ’23; Athletic Associa- tion ’23, ’24; Glee Club ’24, ’25, ’26; Staff Jolly Junior Journal ’25; Staff The Oak ’26. Isabelle is one of our worthwhile Commercial students. She makes the old typewriter hum and takes shorthand like a wiz. Izzy sings, too, and dances like a fairy. She ought to go on the stage but has decided to enter Johns Hopkins next fall as a nurse. Won’t she be a darling! WILEY WELLING “Three things shine: the sun, the moon and my hair.” COMMERCIAL COURSE Athletic Association ’23, ’24, ’25, ’26; Soccer Team ’26; Glee Club ’25, ’26; Track ’22, 23; Boy Scouts. Wiley is known to the students of the O. H. S. as “Red.’’ Guess why? It’s because he is so bright that his brightness makes his hair shine ‘‘Red.” He is the best natured boy in school. He ranks high in athletics, in studies and in school spirit. He is an all around good fellow. He won in the school declamation contest.

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etiske, OFALK 1, “The Seniors know that they know.”’ BOYD PAYTON “T dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none.” COMMERCIAL COURSE Athletic Association ’25, ’26; Soccer Team ’26; Base Ball Team ’24, ’26; Literary Society ’23; Assistant Athletic Editor '1ne Oak ’26. This young chap knows all about athletics and has proven it. He is a great soccer player and would rather play soccer than eat. ‘‘Pate’’ is awfully reserved; he doesn’t talk much at any time and when there is a girl around, all Pate does is stand and grin. JAMES POLLOCK “The world is no better if we worry; life is no longer if we hurry.” GENERAL COURSE Basket Ball Team ’24, ’25, ’26; Athletic Association 725, 26; Baseball Team ’24, °25, ’26; Glee Club 725, 726; Track 724. “Jim” is a crack basket ball player and when he shoots a ball, it’s in the basket. There isn’t much he doesn’t know about the ‘‘World Series”’ and the life his- tory of every great athlete. Maybe some day we shall read of marvelous feats which he, himself, has accom- plished on the athletic field. WARDER ROY “T put him down for a gentleman, and he fills the bill.” COMMERCIAL COURSE Theta Kappa ’23; Athletic Association ’25. °26; Lit- erary Society ’°’23; Class officer (Vice-President) ’25; Staff Jolly Junior Journal ’25; Band ’28, ’24, ’25, ’26; Track ’28, ’24, 725, 726. You can fool a State cop, but you can’t fool all the people all the time. So this is why you find Warder in his spare moments checking books at the Union Auto Sales Garage. Warder lives in West Virginia, but has preferred to secure his diploma from a Maryland high school. Thanks, Warder! Maryland appreciates the compliment. JUANITA READY “Good nature and good sense ever join here.” ACADEMIC COURSE Athletic Association ’23, ’24 ’25, ’26; Literary Society 23; Glee Club ’24, ’25, ’26. Juanita Ready has really been caught studying around high school, and we have heard she is an excellent student. She seems to have a difficult time drawing figures in geometry, however.

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Rae OFA Za SENIOR CLASS HISTORY important event in the whole history of the Oakland High School occurred. This particular event will doubtless go down in history along with the discovery of America by Columbus and the election of the first woman to Congress. Probably you are impatient to learn what this important event is— well, it is simply this: the greatest and best class in the world, the Class of ’26, entered O. H. S. as a timid, shrinking, modest (and here I shall not use the usual adjective of color frequently used to designate the Freshies from other species) class. The next day we were thought to be the most stupid excuses for pupils that had ever landed at O. H. S. But we soon showed our true worth and proved to onlookers that first impressions are not always lasting, and O. H. S. realized that she was welcoming future genii, presidents, orators, philosophers, lawyers and doctors in her midst. We organized our Freshman class with Adella Rodeheaver and Johnny Wolf as Presidents and immediately felt as big as Seniors. But this feeling was not to last very long, for initiation day came and that took us down slightly. Owing to the fact that we had so many musical students in our class, Miss Ruth Conley organized the O. H. S. Band, and some of us have developed into really true musicians, we might say. Time rolled, oh! so quickly, and examinations were upon us. Then came the end of the year with its hopes and good-byes, and the Freshies of 1922 scattered for the summer. Some of its members were to return to O. H. S. again in the fall; others departed never to come back. Another September found the greater number of us back again, how- ever. To our delight we were no longer Freshies, but Sophs. As Sophomores, we felt our importance. During this year we were not so fearful and often broke rules. This year brought with it athletics, and we organized an Athletic Association and played baseball, soccer and basketball, which we have played with great success thruout our high school career. Our Sophomore year passed all too quickly and a number of our loyal band did not return for the Junior year. But this did not discourage us, and those who did return pressed forward with the aim “Graduation” in mind. We entered our third year with ideas high, and with pinnacled principles, and never once have we deviated from our chosen course. In this, our Junior year, we found that we were leaving behind us not only the name of Sophs, but also leisure hours and carefree times, for as the years came and went we have had to assume harder tasks and wider responsibil- ities. Eventful was this journey, crowded with trials and pleasures, and often the fierce tempest has all but wrecked us. ‘| the month of September, in the year of our Lord 1922, the most