Oakland High School - Oak Yearbook (Oakland, MD)

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22 URI SET. O CAG We were known as the gayest class in school, so we received the name of Jolly Juniors, and presented the school with the first high school paper, “The Jolly Junior Journal.” It would be too great an undertaking to do justice to this class. We are proud of the record we made as Juniors. We know we owe much to our loyal officers, President James Wolf; Vice-President Warder Roy; Secretary Isabelle West, and Treasurer Carl McIntire. It was our Junior record that made us look with brightest hopes to the future. And when the year 1925 dawned upon us we realized our long cherished ambitions. We were Seniors! From our first roll call as O. H. S. Seniors we set our minds upon accomplishing what we undertook, and may we say modestly that we have done this. Sometimes the road has been steep, but with helpful guidance from those in authority we have finally reached the “hill-top.”” No more heads like vacuums; no more exams to flunk! We have won our goal at last and graduation is here. We dread to leave our dear O. H. S., our teachers, our school friends, our good times, and each other. But the glorious future awaits us and we can best show our ap- preciation of all that has been done for us by ‘making good” in the days to come. This each one of us has resolved to do, and Oakland High will always be proud of each member of the Class of ’26. Senior Class Ten Commandments I. Thou shalt not sass thy teacher, for if thou sassest thy teacher, thou shalt hold with her an eighth period class. II. Thou shalt not play hookey, nor shalt thou knowingly be tardy, else thou mustest procure an excuse from thy parents. II. Thou shalt use work of thine own brains, for if thou copyist from the paper of another thou shalt lose thy grade and thy standing in class. IV. Thou shalt not quarrel with thy neighbor, if thou prizest thine own nose, or if thou wishest to continue school. V. Snub not thy neighbor; if thou snubbest thy neighbor thy class- mates shalt boycott thee. VI. Razz not the statements of thy tutor unless thou wishest the prin- cipal to lecture to thee of thy folly. VII. Covet not the lady friend of someone else. VIII. In the hall thou shalt keep to the right, both in principle, fun- damentally and physically, unless thou wishest to retrace thy steps. IX. Chew not gum during classes; neither shalt thou fastenest it be- neath thy seat, for verily there is enough there already. X. Honor and obey all the rules of the school; study hard, and skip not thy classes, else thou shalt be flunked, and if thou flunkest thou cans’t not be graduated.

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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

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ie risbeOrAK 23 SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY ATE in October of the year of 1935 I was in New York City on L business. Having fulfilled my mission in the afternoon I had nothing to do until the next day when I was to leave for France. I was alone, and not knowing anyone in the city, I thought of the times I had had in the O. H. S. back home. Thinking of my classmates must have made me homesick, for suddenly I felt a horrible emptiness around me. I seemed to be alone in a great crowd. I planned to go to a show to try and expel all thoughts of the past, but after having looked at a part of three different shows, I decided it was impossible and started to return to my rooms at the hotel. On the way I saw a lighted sign which told to the public that a well- known medium was doing business at that place. I decided to go in and ask about my classmates. I rang a bell and almost immediately the door opened and I was led into a well-lighted room by a boy about ten years old. I was informed that the medium, who was a woman, would interview me in a few minutes. The boy soon motioned to me to follow him, and he led me into a room which was only dimly lighted. The medium was dressed in a long black robe which seemed to blend with the shadows and the black draperies behind her. Before her was a table upon which were slates and other things used by mediums in their seances. Without a word she motioned me to a chair opposite her and near the table. No sooner had I seated myself at the table than the room became dark as a pit and a light bluish flame appeared over the face of the medium. Then her voice came to me as from a great distance, yet it was singularly clear and distinct. “You are lonesome,” she said. “Of whom do you wish to know?” “Thoughts of my friends at home and of the old High School have been running through my head today until I believe I am becoming homesick. Can you tell me anything about my old classmates?” “First, I will tell you something of yourself,” the medium replied. ‘You have been fairly successful as an electrical engineer, and having no one dependent upon you, you are rather well off. You are at the present time arranging to make a trip to France, partly on business and partly for pleasure. “Now, I will tell you of a friend of yours. Carl McIntire is now a well- to-do pharmaceutical chemist. He is with a pretty young lady. Who is she? She is tall and slender. It is his wife, the former Helen Hine- baugh, of your home town. Carl went to college and after graduating, went into business with one of his college friends in Detroit. “Carl and Helen seem to be in a great hurry to get somewhere. Yes, it is to see the baseball game. And who are the three young men on the Detroit team, which is now the champion team of the Major League? They are John Wolf, pitcher; James Wolf, catcher, and James Pollock, first baseman. They are Ty Cobb’s most valuable players. “Robert Bowman is quite successful as an electrical engineer, as he is now in charge of an important department in the Westinghouse Electrical Company in Pittsburgh. “Who is the happy young lady I see in the home of one of the surgeons of Johns Hopkins staff? It is your friend Isabelle West. She entered the Johns Hopkins School for Nurses and fell in love with a handsome young doctor and married him. She is living happily. “T am now viewing a performance in the New National Theatre in Wash- ington. The performer is the world-renowned comedian, Roger Glaze. He is the only man who has rivaled Eddie Cantor.