Ellicott City High School - Oracle Yearbook (Ellicott City, MD)

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In the education department it was seen that the old '52 class would come through all right. Dorothy Bowman was teaching physical education in the Howard County Senior High School. She was also coaching a winning basketball team. Barbara Moxley was in the mathematics department trying to make her P2's equal her Q2's. In the junior High School, Gay Reed was teaching Core to one of her classes. The motto for her room was, If I made it, You can too. Mount Olympic then belched heavy, dark smoke and in the distance appeared Frances Hollman giving Lana Turner her weekly hair styling. Frances had .made the grade and was Hollywood's top hair stylist. Across the street Rowena Safley was giving dancing lessons to a rising star. She had just bought out Arthur Murray's Studio. Malcolm Hoover, it seemed, was playing the leading role as an F.B.I. Agent in the famous play, Catch-Um. Ed Thomas was doing some pretty fancy singing at the Grand Ole Opry. Mary Boone and Patsy Howard were making their premiere as star comedians of the Broad- way show, Louder! Louder! Louder! Connie Barnes appeared as a dress designer in New York with her trusted secretary and companion, Martha Ann Boggs. Patsy Peddicord was seen as the devastating model who introduced Connie's brilliant creations. Then the Oracle continued with thunderous tones and Thurman Lambert was found experimenting in his laboratory to find a love potion which would really work. His assistant, Joan Hollingsworth, was seen taking notes in her new style shorthand. It was called the Holling's Scribble-Worth Shorthand. Martha Lee Lambert was using one of Thurman's inventions to improve the soil on her 1,550 acre farm. Imagine! ! ! just then a hospital room was seen and a nurse, Ann Hobson, was holding her patient's hand. It would seem, that his blood pressure was going higher. The Vision changed and on Fifth Avenue was The Aist Sewing Center, owned and operated by Shirley Aist. Betty Thompson was the new head of the Civil Air Patrol. She was really making them flap their wings. Two of the class were not reported in the vapors but as Miss Ferguson turned around there were Howard Massey placedly fishing and Frances DeCheubel grinning. Yes, you guessed correctly. Howard and Frances were running the concession for The Oracle of De1phi. ,un 'tw f l Kg . Rx ff in-L,

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r THE ORACLE SPEAKS The other day when I opened my mail box, I received quite a surprise. There was a letter from Miss Ferguson, who was my class advisor when I graduated from high school. I rushed into the house to read it. As I started reading the letter I was astonishedg for Miss Ferguson, who has a very practical mind, had been wondering about the class of '52 and decided to find out what each one was doing. She had taken a trip to Greece and visited Delphi, a city built on the slopes of Parnassus in Phocis. At this place had been a temple dedicated to Apollo. A priestess by the name of Pythia was appointed to inhale the hallowed air which made the priestess give forth divine inspirationsg and her inspired words were interpreted by priests. This was just the place where Miss Ferguson thought she could get her informa- tion about what each one was doing. After paying her fee, she was asked to sit down and in a puff of smoke and a peal of thunder the priestess' prophecy began. It seemed that Henry Myers was a big shot in more ways than one. He was signing his contract with the Baltimore Bullets to play basketball professionally for them. Harry Lee Mitchell was raising dust rounding third base for his 5th home run in one day for the New York Yankees. In the political field Tommy jasper was campaigning for the Republican Presidential nomination. At his side was Pat Shea, his trusted secretary, working like a demon to keep all his speeches straight. On the other side of the political fence, the Democratic League of Women Voters was welcoming Eleanor Moxley into their club. The domestic side of the future was shown by Barbara Radcliffe, Mary jo justice, and Frances Atkins. Besides running homes efficiently these three had branched out. Barbara was managing the You Name It, I Got It Department Store with Leroy Laupert as head of the Toy Department. Mary jo was running the Feedum and Sleep- um Nursery where Juanita Tignor was acting as baby sitter for the male babies over sixteen. Frances Atkins was Guidance Counselor for the Howard County Senior High School to which Robert Strassner had just finished adding an auditorium. Charles Miller represented the military side of life. He was a sergeant in the U. S. Army and was sure making life miserable for Privates Selby and Hare. p A flash of light, a very odd vapor arose showing Miss Ferguson another scene. Paul Feaga was rolling down the road in a truck with this on it Howard and Frederick County Cattle Dealer and in the truck was Russell Poole's finest pure-bred cattle. According to the Oracle some future buildings will be the Dash-Away-Dasher Roller Rink owned by Marian Dasher and the ''Speed-Along-Speed-Away'' owned by Jimmy jestes and Kenny Sheets. In the entertainment world was joan Nicolai, first violinist for the Baltimore Sym- phony. Natalie Lassotovitch, our own operatic star, was making her debut at Charles Ecker's famous Ellicott City Opera House. Then the Olympic Mountain seemed to take on a pink glow, according to Miss Fer- guson's letter, and Patsy james was doing her famous Piccadilly Ballet. Rebecca Feaga was surrounded by service men. Miss Ferguson said that she was speech- less until the priest informed her that Becky was one of Fort Meade's favorite secret- aries. g

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, ,wh I 1 il F' A Vi 1 SCHGOL DAZE 10-School opens-Slaves again ! Magazine Sale begins-And so did the Seniors! 28-Soccer Season-Ouch my poor shins! 1-Measured for Caps and Gowns. Yearbook settled-My don't we feel grown up? Trip to Marylan University-WOXV! What a life! 8-Trip to Washington, D. C.-Oh, my aching feet! 17-Class Get-Together-Who can eat all that food? I r E dj J 47 JG 17 4 ' 1 QIIYAUIIIIIDII + e + I ix I + C- J.--l xllli Ii I-NX A X .lvlll UKNIX K XTX- Y .C X Xxx 6 Ns 'LW76 '1' ' ' 22?- ,.-,............. - I I-Hill I . , ff ,f a ' No school, State Teachers' Meeting-Now it's their turn to suffer. 18-Individual picutres are taken for Yearbook-Don't forget your grown up look! 19-State Student Council Meeting--Marian and Martha Ann had a delightful time?!! 22-Back to school-Well! We all have to go sometime- 24-Trip to United Nations-Manners please! 31-Magazine Party-Seniors were guests! 7-Yearbook meeting at night-Mr. Wittich certainly was worried. What ideas we had! 16-junior Fall Ball-Didn't know that our teachers could step so high. 21-Thanksgiving Holiday-Here's where everyone got their turkey look. 24-Back to school-Well, so much for that. 28-Sports Carnival-What fun! 41 5 11 13 14 Basketball season-More bounce to the ounce! -Teachers' Meeting-No School-Lucky us! -Variety Show-Dar' sho' was some fancy dancing! -Christmas Cantata at night-Oh! How the Angels sang. -Christmas Cantata Assembly-How lovely their voices sounded. 21-Christmas Holidays-JOY! JOY! JOY! 2-Back to school-Didn't think we could make it! 14-Roller Skating Party by Co-rec Club-Did everyone bring a pillow? 28 1 13 -Mid-year Exams-No fair cribbing. -Mid-Year Exams end-Mr. jones gladly ordered vitamin pills for us. -Lincoln Assembly-Why can't you be like him? ! ! 14-Valentine Day-Leap year made it better. 20-Brotherhood Week-Everyone took heed! 22-Square and Round Dancing-Everyone had a Square look. 27-Basketball-Intramural Plaques-Tenth vs twelfth! Females? Tenth vs Eleventh! Males? 3--Aracle goes to press-Halleluiah ! ! 5-Basketball-Intramural Plaques-Finals-Winnahs! 19-Assembly-Dramatic Club-Did they use a prompter? 9-Easter Assembly-What! No Easter eggs? 17-18-Senior High Dramatics Play-What emotion! What laughter! 9 13 29 -Spring Festival-Certainly showed the birds how! -junior-Senior Dinner Dance-Food and music. What could be better? Qfy m i ff m ! 7 . u ' -4 of 'fs fa Q 50: ' X 1 7' -S10 A I -ix AA 30 Senior Prom-Where are you going afterwards? -Memorial Day-No School--Day of memory and rest. 2--Senior Exams-We certainly will miss them. 8 9 -Sermon to the Graduates-Sit still please! -Underclassmen Exams-There's more to come next year. 10-Class Night-Please park your gum before your entrance. 12-Graduation Night-Our mission completed. 13-Last day of school-We don't think that is an unlucky day!