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

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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.

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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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THR OZNI WAG A LA Twenty years ago Oscar Orrick was born on a ranch in Grady county, Okla- homa. He spent his early life falling off horses, coyote hunting and carving up the parlor furniture. Reing an only child he was badly spoiled and his early habits are still noticeable. He slipped thru the eight grades and finally gradu- ated from Stella High School while still young. In college he gave up his desire to become an engineer and decided to return to his former pastime of carpenter- ing which he now follows as an expert in HI Reno High School. Mr. Orrick is somewhat of a musician, playing a trombone in the High School Orchestra. He goes to Sunday school and while at Edmond he played football. Since the Dramatic Art School opened here he has displayed great interest in amateur drama. He is also a very effi- cient director in gymnastics, and had a very popular Indian club drill, but unfor- tunately it was the cause of breaking up 11 the class in gymnastics. Mr. Orrick has curly hair and long eye lashes, which are very attractive to the Freshies. Lillian K. Waite was born in South English, Iowa, as far as we can ascertain, sometime since the flood. She was a very- precocious child, having mastered the alphabet at the age of nine. We are told that she had a peculiar fondness for playing with blocks, cubes and squares, which we do not doubt. After finishing high school at South English, she went to Iowa University, where she received a B. S. degree. We have no account of her wander- ings after this, except that in nineteen ten she went abroad to study the pyra- mids of Egypt and the Hypotenuse of the leaning tower of 1 183. Concerning her own personal opinions, she says that she hates cats, is a believer in woman’s rights and in high tariff