Fairmont High School - Maple Leaves Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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'• 1 »• EMMA JOAN ODERBOLZ Music Long may she live to sing for us Her sweetest songs at eventime And like the Chambered Nautilus To holier heights of beauty climb.” Tuesdays and Thursdays are always welcomed in the High School. Our efficient music teacher has done much to raise the musical standard of the school. MARY LOUISE OLDHAM German and French Marietta. Ohio claims Miss Oldham as one of her daughters. She was a student at Wellesley College, and has been a teacher in the Fairmont High School since 1906. Mod- ern languages are her specialty, although she is well versed in mathematics and his- tory. She has traveled extensively, and Is deeply interested in the outcome of the present war. She is a born elocutionist and very frequently acts out difficult passages in the French and German lessons. Among other virtues, she has a vary high respect for her superior officers and trie.» by every means available to implant in the hearts of her pupils a like respect. At roll call she frequently entertains the students with a free lecture entitled. The Impcrtance of Keeping Quiet. BESSIE JANE REED Librarian Those who know the riches of Miss Reed’s character find her u very amiable person. Her disposition Is kind and sunny. She has excellent preparation for her work. Every student’s Interests and enterprise ap- peal to her. The Camp Fire and Y. W. C. A. are getting a good share of her time and thought.

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ISA M. NEEL Latin and French Here we see before us a patron of art. music and literature. Miss Neel is a wom- an of culture und refinement, who directs h» r pupils in the ‘'paths of righteousness. Students in her classes have constantly held before them standards of right living. DCRA LEE NEWMAN History and Civics History could not do without Miss New- man and Miss Newman could not do with- out history. She is not hard to please. All you have to do is to ransack every book case in the library, securing all available information on each day’s lesson, being sure that if in the course of your daily prep- aration. you have not perused one hundred pages, you have not met the requirements. She is an elocutionist of considerable abili- ty and can recite Twas a Famous Victory to perfection. She is especially fond of Mother Goose Rhymes and Fairy Tales. Strange fer a history teacher, isn’t it? ELMER FRENCH VAN GILDER Science If you want to know anything about atoms and molecules, polarization, rectilin- ear motion, cohesion, collision, crystallza- tion. supersaturation, ebullition, electrostatic induction, amplitude of oscillation, acceler- tion. porasity. calorimetry, audibility, mal- lability, magnetic permeability, indestructi- rjty„ or even electrometaleurgy. consult Van Gilder.

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RHEA WATSON WARDEN English, Hygiene, Civics Fairmont seems to have taken a liking to Graftonites. “Our little girl teacher is one of these. By her leadership the civic conditions of the town may he changed, hut we fear the weather will remain ever the same. Probably one reason why she dis- likes Fairmont's winter climate is that she has become accustomed to the sunny south- ern clime of Grafton. It would seem natural that a person as energetic as Miss Warden should engage in physical culture. She pos- sesses the ability to accomplish much in a short time. Besides her work in the gym- nasium she is a (’amp Fire Guardian. She has an ambition to ucquire the title of M. D. When she has achieved this success we hope she may not sever all connections with our school, but that she may then servo in the new capacity of medical examiner. ELMER FRENCH VAN GILDER Science If you want to know anything about atoms and molecules, polarization, rectilin- ear motion, cohesion, collision, crystal iza- tion, Bupersatnration, ebullition, electrostatic induction, amplitude of oscillation, acceler- ation. porasity. calorimetry, audibility, mal- leability. magnetic permeability, indestructi- bility.. or even electrometaleurgv, consult Mr. Van Gilder.