Oak Grove Coburn High School - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Vassalboro, ME)

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OAK LEAVES kinds of lettering that we learn. One of our spring projects was manu- script work in the designing of beautiful mottoes and lovely illuminations with tributes to our mothers on parchment which many of us did for Mother's Day. Although the Fine Arts have been the major interest of all those who prefer oil painting, water colors, charcoal, pen and ink sketches or illumi- nated pages, some have been intrigued by clay modeling, while metal and leather craft have fascinated others. Those who are particularly interested in designing and costuming have had special work in that, for under Miss 7 MAID FROM INDIA AND MOUNT FROM KENTUCKY

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OAK LEAVES OUR NEW FIELD SECRETARY Oak Grove announces with pleasure and we 111 welcome with enthusi asm the appointment as our new Field Secretaiy of Beverly Powell daugh tel of the late D1 and M1 J R5de1 Powell of Boston Beverly as she has asked us to call hei is one hund1ed pei cent an Oak G1ove 25111 having transferred at the beginning of her ophomoie year from a fashionable school 1n greater Boston Graduating f1 om Oak Grove 1n nineteen twenty seven Beverly was attiacted to Brenau College 1n Georgia where she might ma1o1 in the Depaltment of Speech in which she w as interested During the next two years she was acco1 ded one honor afte1 another some of which an underclassman had never held before It was with real reluc tance that she yielded to advice to t18IlSf6!' to a blg university for the com pletion of her work In spite of her late entrance at Northwestein Un1 versity Bex erly s dynamic pei sonality and talents soon b1 ought her unexpected honors thele and she became one of the leading girls on the Tl eat campus She retuined to Nolthwesteln last September aftei a long summer of delightful foreign tray el to contlnue some graduate work and 1ema1ned until the end of the flist semestei whe11 she could not 16S1St an appointment as the new Fleld Seci etary at Oak G1 oxe So many are seek ing admission to Oak Grove that with its llmlted enrollment it becomes the D1OSp9CtS and deciding which ones shall be idmitted Dullng the 1nte11ms between her usits bex e1ly helps the cla ses stage the11 d1 amatlc pioductions and makes he1 self an altogethei adoiable part of our Oak G1 ove family MORE ART AT OAK GROVE There a1e so many intel estlng depa1tments at Oak Groxe and each one under such experts that it certainly takes talent and power to be conspicu ous but everyone agrees that Art takes a maiol place at Oak Grove this xeai s1nce Miss Lev1ston not only has talent but enthusiasm and x1go1 for hcl work While Miss Lev1ston has elaboiate plans and 0bl6CtlV6S for e ich of the many bianches of her depaitment yet she IS charmingly progressive in her tendencies and allows us a stimulating amount of freedom 1n our cre atne work even though she insists upon the mastery of the fundamentals 1n technique We haxe had some fas mating special proiects thls year beginning wlth tl1e designing and making of our own lovelv Christmas C31 ds from block 1JI'1I'ltS of our own designs Oak Grove g1rls made between o11e and two thousand Christmas g1eet1ngs and some W919 genuine wo1 ks of a1t A specialty IS made of posters to announce all the b1g events of the school year with clever and st11k1ng paintings O1 sketches and the different 6 4 Av . A 1 Y 2 I .- 1 w ' ' 4 A - . , .O ' '. 's. . A ' ' . . 7, ' L 0, .S Y 4 7 4 1 K 4 , Y Q I .I 7 1 ' s 7 1 . . 1 , ' - 1 ' .. . 7 , . 7 . 7 1. 7 ' .7 . 7 . 7 7 1 7 . , . . 7 7 7 7 I C - necessary to have some one devoting nearly her entire time to calling upon ' 1' . D M 1 . 1 2 l . '- . 7. L 7. . A7 , 7 7 .7 7 7 . 1 ' . ' . 7 1, Av I A1 1 .. 0 .ki X ' 7 7 7 7 7 K . . 7 . . . 7 7 7 . . . . 7 A. . . . . . . - O . 1 , A1 'S 1 ' y xv 1 ,- ' 4 Lv

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OAK LEAvEs Levlston each gnl has an opportunlty to go forxx ard wlth the thlng Wh1ch appeals to he1 most and ln xx nlch she has the Qreatest talent We are all th11lled ox Q1 the pl ms of our Alt teachel fO1 her folelgn study thls sum H191 both becau e of the 1oy It Wlll bung he1 and qulte selflshly because of all xfxe knoxx that Mlss Lex1ston wnl bung back to us for the comlng year W E ENTERTAIN The b11ds xx e1e s1ng1ng and May foulteenth xxas a perfect mornlng We VKQIB Sllllply on tlDtO6 to see the a111x al of the twenty llttle S1Ste1S who xx 91 e to be our guests unt1l the next aftel noon Careful plans had been la1d long Ill 1dx lnce xx 1th a speclal faculty as xx ell IQ a student hostess asslgned to each httle gue t As the houl fo1 luncheon approached motols xx hlrred up the h1ll and pfu ents left then daughtels xx 1th us The ma1o1 xty vxere 1n the fifth O1 slxth g,1ade but some xx e1e only ln the thud We VN916 all 1ust th11lled xx 1th the d1fLf91GHC6 these young guests made 1n ou1 plans and 1n ou1 lntelests Lunch xxas a me11y hou1 xx 1th a selenade song for each guest 1nd then thcx hld a 1est hou1 xx hlle xe made leady fol the blg Rld mg Competmon of the afternoon Oul guests xxele ln loxe xx 1th the fleet holses and qu1te 111 e stasy oxe1 the Roman udxng Cossack lldlflg' and holse xx is at a gallop Betxxeen the R1d1ng Competltlon and dlnner our guests spent the tlme gettlng cqualnted xx 1th each othel and xlsxtmg the looms of thelr hostesses and f11ends Ill each do1n'11to1y Immedlately after d1nne1 ind xxhlle xxe xxele makm 19'idY fOl the Gymnastlc Exhlbltlon our fucnds xx e1e ente1ta1ned by M1ss B1 oxxn xx ho led them 1n some dehght ful songs We could not fall to do ou1 best at the exh1b1t1on IH the evenlng vxhen xxe vx e1e suppo1ted by such adnnung guests 1n the balcony vxho xx ere qulte 1n ecstasx xx 1th the sxx an dlxe ox G1 the blcf :xy mnast1c ho1 se and some of the fancx malchlng to sax nothmg of the l1x ely Swlss 1WOUHtEl1I'l661S IH X 'Regis 8 C .1 K K , vc . . . 1 ,1 . n, I . V- . x ti 1 a 1' v v 2 kv 1 n v 1 I . - 7 y 4 tx' Y . 11. Y L I xi. 4 ' ' l S . . ' ' ' 7 . 1 ' rf , v 1 v ' '4 . 7 1 ' 1. Y. . 1 1 7 W . A . J . 1 o z ' 5 ' ' ' x' - ' ' ' '- . T . . , A V 1 . V V. 1 X . . V 1 1. . , 1. . such Western stunts as picking a sombrero from the ground while the - -' A 1 v - 1 ' ' 1 v y ' ' - . .. , , 1 1 Y ' ' ' ' ' 1 7 ' 3 t 7 H . Ty Y . .V . . 4 . no -l L1-f' s.ox1f .N ll 'gf' .mf U wg I I 'f ' 'Ki 1- A , A if - - 7 W mf' ! .Q A . . ,c