El Reno High School - Boomer Yearbook (El Reno, OK)

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THE OZN'I WAGALA 0 graduated in two years. Later she at- tended college at Oxford. Ohio. She is an admirer of President Wilson but does not care very much about politics. She believes in a decided dis- tinction between politicians and states- men. Although rheumatism is not a very pleasant affliction, as far as we know, it has never kept Miss Overstreet from arriving at school on time nine months in the year. On April 2. »th, Miss Overstreet at- tended the State Meet, and had the satis- faction of seeing Roger Thoes win the shot put. She likes El Reno better than any other place in the world and has trayeled some too. She likes automobiles better than cats and likes boys above all other things. Miss Overstreet was a close friend of the Poet of the Sierras, the late Joaquin Miller, and can tell cf many pleasant experiences regarding him. She likes the Juniors and the Juniors like her. For further information see previous annuals of E. li. S. Viola E. Hayner was bern sometime since the discovery of America, in Bath- on-the-Hudson. Very early she began talking in a strange language which no- body understood, and a little later named her dolls Cicero, Cataline, and Caesar. She entered school when seven years old. at Lansingburg, New York, gradu- ated from Troy High School, and received her Ph. B. at Syracuse I'niversity. She claims to have positively no interest in politics, and says that she stays here because she can’t get away. Never having been married the course of her life has been smooth. During the summer of 1900 she traveled in Europe and has visited in Canada a number of times. Since com- ing to this school five years ago she has shown her ability to aid “Hunkers” and seems to have the sixth sense when it comes to discovering “ponies.” Miss Hay- ner is also a sprinter and has worn out a pair of shoes in a walking race to Okla- homa City. The German play which she directs each year seems to make a decided hit with the Freshmen and grade children- Miss Edith M. Clark was born in Michigan, on a date which could not be accurately learned in our inter- view with her. However, as she at- tended the World’s Fair which was held in Chicago in 1893 and has some rcco!- leetion of that great event, we must necessarily conclude that she was born some time prior to the date of the fair. When about one year old she left her native state and accompanied her par- ents to Kansas City, Missouri, where at the age of six years, she being exception- ally bright, entered the third grade of one of the schools of that city. After finishing the sixth grade work

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8 THE OZM WAGALA A number of years ago there was born on a farm near Aurora, Indiana, a baby. Rabies born on farms are. as a rule pre- destined to be great men and this babe was no exception. To have gazed upon the innocent child one could not have guessed that future developments would lead to his becoming principal of El Reno High School. But such was the case. Attending Aurora public school and graduating from the high school there, he entered the University of Indiana where an A. B. degree was bestowed upon him. Mr. Thuermer is authority on Physics and Commercial arithmetic and when ask- ed what electricity is he displays much emharassment, but when questioned fur- ther he admitted that it is ether in motion. Upon being asked what ether in motion is, he said Electricity. which answer alone would justify his being on the faculty. Mr. Thuermer has an unlimited supply of stories—one to (it every occasion. On the morning of April 2 it was feared he might become afflicted with the writer’s cramp, caused by writing excuses for the Seniors and Juniors. He delights in reading Lucile Shuttee’s name on the Sophmore honor role. He reads the Saturday Evening Post, Peo- ple’s Press, and the Bible, and is a loyal supporter of all school enterprises. Mr. Thuermer had a sweet melodious voice until he fell last winter and cracked it. He claims that when young he was a model child. He has been absent from school only once and that was the morn- ing after eating sherbet at a friend’s home. It is tho't that he is ambitious to become a major league ball player as recently he and John were seen playing catch with a Rocket” in the gym. May Overstreet was born in George- town, Texas during the Civil War. When hardly able to talk she began teaching school with the neighbors’ children as pupils. At eight years of age she entered school in Franklin. Indiana and when sixteen she entered the state normal and

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10 THE OZM WAG ALA there, and having the measles. Miss Clark migrated to the state of Oklahoma where she resumed her studies in one of the grade schools of El Reno, and after graduating from that school she con- tinued her search for knowledge in the El Reno High School, from which she graduated with the Class of 1908. The next year she entered the Michi- gan Raptist College in Kalamazoo and in 1912 graduated with honors and an A. B. degree. Miss Clark has always been interested in languages, having sufficiently mastered the English tongue at the age of one and a half years to carry on a conversa- tion with her father in the middle of the night. She can also count to three in German and is familiar with the conju- gation of the Latin verb amo. She loves cats and Freshies, but at present her chief source of delight is in training the American History students to grow up into great, good, and law- abiding citizens. Lena Avenarius was born in the state of Innocence, but visited with her parents in Ottawa, Kansas for about twenty years, while she was growing up. Her tendencies toward DomesticiScience were very early manifested when she be- gan to make mud pies and other confec- tions, at the age of three. When she reached the proper ago, she entered Ottawa public schools and gradu- ated from the high school in 1910. Because of her modesty, we could learn little of her early history, but she ad- mitted that she was fond of all animals, (except mice) and that her first room- mate was a pet cat. We know for a fact that she has many suitors and are afraid we shall soon lose her. Although she came to this High School only last fall, she has done some splendid catering for various clubs, classes and parties connected with us, and all the students fully appreciate her kindly ac- commodations.