Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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THE ACORN, 1932 Class History ANY years ago, in fact, way back in 1919, a group of bashful children took their first steps in the path of knowledge when they entered the E J' il 3 kindergarten of Harmon Avenue School. Of this group seven have survived the rumbling, tumbling, hair-pulling times to graduate in 1932 in a class of seventy-seven seniors. These charter members are Bob Anderson, Pete Wood, Bob Johnson, Janet Cockerill, Mary Lillian Frank, Eleanor Knight, Elsie Wietzel, and Virginia Comer. How well we remember our kindergarten orchestra consist- ing of triangles, drums and tambourines--and its capable leader, Pete Wood. The first grade brought no addition, but in the second grade, Phyllis Chryst and David DeCamp were added to our group. In the third grade came Marjorie Johnson, Mary Jane Swaninger, and Bob Landis, although Bob left us the following year to spend several years at Moraine. We felt quite grownup in our third year, although we played such games as Cops and Robbers, and the boys teased the girls by chasing them around for fifteen minutes of recess calling them 'iMaggie. It made them simply furious-unless the one chasing was Pete. Maxine Lohnes and Billy Greenfield hooked onto our wagon in the fourth grade, Maxine adding to the difiiculty of winning a spelling match, and Bill adding a needed touch of color and bashfulness. He helped to H11 the vacancy caused by the promotion of Pete Wood. Our already intelligent class was improved in the fifth grade by the presence of Helen Rounds, Phil Crowl, Milton Wagner, Kenny Bontecou, and Douglas Robinson. In the sixth grade we were too grown-up for words--or so we thought. This year brought! Ruth Brelsford, Helen Compton, Linda Dill, and Bill Eckert. With the end of the year came graduation and the childish excitement of pre- paring for the event. It could be foreseen that six more years would see us a class for Oakwood to be proud of. We must not omit the hilarious class picnics that were enjoyed annually at Jim Campbell's. And the yearly pageants, with rehearsals that so often served to take one away from geographyor spelling class, are not to be forgotten. The seventh grade found us in the high school. We were lost souls for a while, but it couldn't last long, and we soon had the reputation for being the PAGE 23

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TI-IE ACORN, 1932 Class History flfonlinzwdj loudest seventh grade in the history of the school. The new members this year were Harriet Barton, Betty Courtright, Mildred Herby, Jane Rodgers, Mary jane Schwinn, Eleanor Shawhan, Virginia Weiher, Charles Allen, and William Heir- mann. The eighth grade brought Anne Baker, Enid Martin, Johnny Hubler, and Kenneth Elfrits, and we were still loud. The new members of the ninth grade enlarged our enrollment greatly. These members were Jane Boggs, Inez Cooke, Carolyn Hosier, Mary Leen, Leah Belle Mauck, Frances Miller, Evelyn Pitt, Virginia Prinz, Thelma Requarth, Mary Ellen Schumacher, Jane Tipton, Dorothy Myers, Steffen Brown, Eugene Good, Carl Graves, Bob Herkins, and Bob Karg. By this time our class had proved itself so superior that Bill Hall, Jack O'Brien, Pete Wood, Cooper Gessaman, Ed Holtson, and Apostolos Zonars, originally of the Class of '31, chose our class as their graduating class of their own volition. The tenth year brought Elaine Hart, Milton Hall, James Jones, and Ronald Reeves. We were rapidly gaining knowledge and experience. Martha Altick and Charles Merckel were added to our class in the eleventh year. I will refrain from mentioning the innumerable accomplishments of the members of our class this year, as I do not wish to depreciate those of former graduating classes. ' This, our senior year, brought Kathleen Smith and Carmen Barbulescog and Fred Kramer and Jim Kohr returned to graduate with us. The old saying of all classes of all times is true of the most highly intelligent class that has ever been graduated from Oakwood. The saying goes: A Freshman knows not and knows he knows notg a Sophomore knows nor and knows not he knows not, a junior knows and knows not he knowsg but a Senior knows and knows he knows. VIRGINIA COMER. PAGE 74