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

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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

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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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12 THE )Z I (i. l,. She has had mumps, measles and all other childish ailments. Taking all these things into considera- tion. we received her in to E. H. S. 1910. All students who have sat under her ministrations have learned the value of “system” in mathematics. Miss Elva Ruth Curtis was born on a ranch near Piedmont, Kansas, where she spent the first thirteen years of her life in close communion with nature. While quite young she learned how to milk cows and drive horses. At the age of seventy-two months Elva Ruth began her quest of learning in the “Deestrick Skule of Rolling Ridge. After gleaning all the knowledge possible from that source she entered the Eureka High School from which she graudated in the spring of 1908. The following fall Miss Curtis entered the Commercial Depart- ment of Raker University, and in 1910 she was persuaded by the El Reno board of education to accept a position in the Commercial Department of El Reno High School. Miss Curtis claims that the house in which she was born is still standing, but it is hardly possible to believe that a house which has contained as energetic a person as she could be standing after this lapse of time. She has traveled in many foreign countries including Canada and Arkansas, and at present prefers to be known as The Arkansas Traveler.” Miss Curtis believes in “Votes for Women” and the employment of militant means for securing the same when necor sary.