Woodward High School - Boomer Yearbook (Woodward, OK)

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THE BOOMER, 1914 ELSIE GWYNN “Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading.” Class Treasurer, Dramatic Club, Chorus, Assistant Editor of Annual. Sweet, quiet and studious. Very popular with the class. Her opinions are never loudly spoken but are decisive never-the-less. LOUISE GERLACH “Disdain and Scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.” Dramatic Club, High School Play ’13. She has opinions of her own and is able to enforce them. Makes the best of her surroundings and enjoys life. She has marked social gifts and is a charming member of the class. ETHYLE FORNEY “To be wise and love exceeds man’s might.” Dramatic Club, Science Club, High School Play, Chorus and Orchestra. She is the class elocutionist. She is strong minded and ought to be a suffragette, but her time is all taken up with the “Young.”

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THE BOOMER, 1914 PEARL BURLEY “She who scorns a man must die a maid.” Secretary of Story Tellers’ Club, Chorus. She never quarrels with fate. Difficulties are to her a matter of small concern. Her sunny disposition is her greatest asset, not to mention a certain share of good looks. JAMES YOUNG President of Debating Club, Band. Orchestra and Chorus, High School Play ’14, President of Class '12. “I’ll talk a word with this same learned Theban.” Excells in poetry, composition and oratory. Is fitted “The applause of lis'ening Senates to command. His intentions are to ignore these literary talents for the sake of alleviating the suffering of mankind. ROSA BUBB Dramatic Club, Chorus. “She has a purpose noble, in everything the same.’ She has a pleasing personality and is obliging and af fable. One of the most persevering students in the class.

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THE BOOMER, 1014 HOWARD COX Basketball ’13, ’14, Football ’13, Manager of Football, High School Play T3, ’14, Band, Chorus and Quartet, Business Manager of Annual, Dramatic Club. “The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.” Enjoys himself most in the company of the girls. A renowned athlete. He expects to enter the ministry, but failing in that, he will enter upon a stage career. His motto is “If nobody can toot your horn as well as you can, do it vourself.” JENNIE IRWIN “She is neither scholarly or wise, But O, her heart is wondrous tender.” Story Tellers’ Club. She is inclined to take life too seriously and live too much in the past. She intends to take up a business career, for which her ability, industry, and good sense will be of great help to her. GLADYS SHELLHART Chorus, Story Tellers' Club. “Her modest looks a cottage might adorn. Sweet as the primrose that peeps beneath the thorn.’ Quiet and unassuming in manner, she doesn’t aspire to a public career, but believes that the home is where woman finds her true sphere.