Oakland High School - Oak Yearbook (Oakland, MD)

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24 THis O PAK “At the same performance one can hear the greatest of actresses, Gladys Gonder. Some critics believe her to be even greater than Sarah Bernhardt. Roger and Gladys often appear on the same program. “Hrom the stage we will go to an elementary school. Yes, it is in Oak- land, though the school has been changed so that you would not recognize it, as it is one of the most modern of schools. We enter the office and there find the principal. She is beloved of all the pupils and is no other than Carrie Kolbfleisch. “From the office we go to the fifth grade and find there your friend, Juanita Ready. She and Carrie seem to be quite popular among the par- ents as well as the pupils. “Now here is Pearl Friend dictating a letter to her Commercial class. Yes, it is in the High School of Oakland. Pearl is quite successful in her chosen vocation. “Leaving the schools behind, we will go to Johnson’s Garage in Oakland where we find Warder Roy, the business manager and part owner of the largest garage in Western Maryland. And here is another of your former classmates, Helen Browning. She is Warder’s private secretary and sten- ographer. “Tomorrow in Oakland there will be given an exhibition by the world’s renowned dare-devil aviator, Wiley Welling. Wiley went to an avi- ation school, learned to fly and obtained a position and bought a plane of his own and started giving exhibition flights. Boyd Payton is Wiley’s advertising manager and it is generally through his efforts that they are such a success. “Louise Shreve and Margaret Orendorf are still the best of friends, but Louise is married to a rich young financier and is quite happy with her three children. “Margaret is the governess of the children of Edsel Ford, and it is rumored that she is engaged to a popular young chap who is related to the Vanderbilts. “Going back to Oakland we find the happy little wife of H. W. McComas, Jr. She is the proud mother of two children; one is a boy and the other a girl. Yes, she is the former Sarah Johnston, as you have already guessed. “At Oakland we will also see Julius Renninger. He is home for a short visit. Julius is the Standard Oil Company’s outstanding attorney. Julius has been asked by both the Republican and Democratic parties to run for Governor of Maryland. I cannot tell whether he will or not. Julius is married to a pretty young actress from the Ziegfield Follies. “Frances Cogley is head nurse at the Western Maryland Hospital. It is because of her that the Western Maryland has received the name of be- ing the best managed hospital in Maryland. “T see in one of the Government laboratories at Washington, D. C., Professor John L. Birkheimer, the entomologist, absorbed in his research work. John is in the United States Science Service. “In the same laboratory with John is a young lady. She is seated at a typewriter busily copying the Professor’s notes. She is his secretary, Genevieve Menear. “In Washington, I also see Auburn Nine. She is the private secretary to the Secretary of State. “But what kind of an office is this? It is the office of the business man- ager of the great Crellin Coal, Coke and Lumber Company. There, seated at his desk, dictating a letter to Odell Colaw, his stenographer, is William Knotts, business manager. Going to the Crellin High School, for there is one now, we find Merle Hamill instructing a class in English composition. Merle went to a

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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.

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Tahe lh SOeACtK 25 normal school and after graduating therefrom went to Crellin to teach. ““About three miles northeast of Oakland is the home of Carlton Miller. Carlton is the owner of a million dollar farm, the richest in the east. Carlton went to an agricultural school and then returned to Garrett county to make wonderful improvements. “And last but not least is Genevieve Gonder. Genevieve is married now and has moved to Baltimore, the home of her husband, who is a success- ful business man.” The medium then turned to me and said, “Your classmates are all very happy and have turned out to be true citizens of our glorious country. Oakland High deserves great credit for developing such worthy men and women and I take pleasure in congratulating you upon being a graduate of such a splendid school.” I thanked her and felt a feeling of pride within me as I thought that I was a member of the Class of ’26, each member of which seems to have been so successful in life thus far. Class Will E, the Senior Class of the Oakland High School, of the County of Garrett, in the State of Maryland, being in good health and of sound zeeqmind and body, and being desirous of settling our high school affairs “while we have the time, strength and capacity to do so, do hereby make, publish and declare this our last will and testament in manner and form following: FIRST: We, the Class as a body, do give and bequeath to the classes as follows: To the Junior Class we give the front row in the gallery, the Academic room waste-paper basket and the privilege of running all errands for Miss Katharine Conley. To the Sophomore Class we give and bequeath our ability to sleep in class and get away with it. To the Freshman Class we give all the algebra problems we erased from the blackboard. SECOND: We give individually as follows: I, John Birkheimer, bequeath to James Lee my ability to use long words intelligently. I, Carl McIntire, bequeath to McClelland Dixon my title of ‘“Teacher’s [dS rote I, Julius Renninger, bequeath to Mitchell Franklin a square to enable him to part his hair in the middle like a college student. I, Carlton Miller, hereby bequeath my individual possession of soccer ability to Ralph Blake. I, Roger Glaze, leave to Thornton Deffinbaugh all my good behavior. 1, Boyd Payton, do hereby bequeath my position as goal-keeper on the soccer team to Denver Sanders, who, I am sure, will take care of it in a commendable manner. I, John Wolf, bequeath to Babe Tower my graceful walk and all my en- ergy in athletics. I, Helen Browning, bequeath my fits of hysterics to Pauline Smouse. I, Auburn Nine, after much careful consideration, do bequeath my abil- ity in American Democracy to Kenneth Stahl. I, Wiley Welling, bequeath to Glen Miller my position as inside right on the soccer team.