Oak Park and River Forest High School - Tabula Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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aw 0 1944 Senior girls were delegaled l'o lake Jrhe yearlings under Their prolecling wings for lhe aller- noon's feslivilies. Freshmen have lheir classes, loo, such as lhis one under lhe guidance ol Miss Chamberlain- Senior scholars in lhe making. The ex - grade - schoolile has come lo us nol only open-moulhed bul open-minded. l-le lears Sophomores, respecls Juniors, worm ships Seniors, and looks lo lhe lacully for guidance in conducl, and progress in inlellecl. Some day he's going lo be a Freshman no longer. Some day he's going lo be a Senior and look back al his piclure in lhis annual and wonder al whal a queer lillle fellow he was. BACK ROW-Heald, Hedslrorn, R, Gardner, Hiller, Guyer, W. Gardner. Ensrud, Graham, Henning, Hamblen, Anderson, Dougherly, Corfrnan, Chapin FRONT ROW-Gallaher, Hoffman, Harper, Gilmore, Holman, Gersfenberger, Gaufreaux, Hemmings, Holdrege, Crossman, Fleischner, Benfsen, Ebann Brown.

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gl e.'5Al'l'I,8l'l When one sees a group ol Freshmen galhered for a class assembly, lhe general lone of in- Jrelligence of Jrhe members con- vinces him Jrhal rhe days of green caps and credi+ lcils are a mal- ler of hislory or legend. The bewildered, bewildering Frosh has become our eager-+o- learn yearling of lirsl floor lame. l-le is eager lo learn The inlricacies of Jrhe science of eliguelle so Jrhar he may successfully assume lhe new responsibililies Jrhrusl on him by high school sociely. Miss Wrighl, lhrough praclice in her Freshman English classes, renders complacenlly courleous rhe once confused cadels and lurns Jrhem our capable of coping wilh lhe rnosl rrying ol Posr problems. Freshmen girls were ollicially admilled lo The school ranlcs Jrhrough lhe special Freshman Parry of Girls' Club. K ROW-Fisher, Corso, Filzgerald, Brown, Gould, DeFoe, Eldridge, Buurrna, Dahlgren, Radlke, Olsen, Perrin, Paulsen. FRONT ROW-Dolan, C ll Bonynge, Frcyer, Fredriclcson, Borson, Easier, Gregory, Goff, Fryrnark, Giuffre, Prague, Phelan, Veilee, Peare, Panes.

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joofgaf ana! SCCQP afar! fire ayaorffs demon , . . . And sTudenT blood begins To beaT To The Tempo oT The TooTball and soccer spiriT. Oak Park noT only has a perennially Tough TooTball schedule, buT Theirs is always The big game Tor which our opponenTs Train and sTrain. This season Those opponenTs Trained and sTrained a Tew sTrokes beTTer Than par, and The Suburban League Cham- pionship wenT To EvansTon and Proviso, leaving The locals sole possessors oT second place. The Twin WaTerloos oT EvansTon and Waukegan were The games ThaT pricked The I94O Championship bubble Tor The boys-oT-The-orange-and-blue. The season, however, wasn'T wiThouT iTs compensaTions. CompensaTion oT The TirsT order was The upseT-Triumph over Proviso ThaT broughT chills and cheers unknown in many a previous SaTurday Saga-a TiTTing climax To The mosT unpredicTable season since The pre-monopoly days oT '34-'35. The Suburban FooTball League has once more become, like The NaTional League in The baseball world, a circuiT oT sTiTT compeTiTion and surprise endings. AlThough gold TooTballs have noT appeared in The possession oT The I-lolmesmen, oT '40, The shining soccer spheres dangling Trom The local key chains have .proclaimed The Woodsmen Sub- urban League Champions. IT was only The TaTeTul Crane Game ThaT kepT The locals Trom The Cook CounTy Championship and The chance To win greaTer glory in The STaTe Games. BeTore The 3-O Trouncing They received Trom The presenT STaTe Champions, our soccer boys had suc- ceeded in holding Their I9 opponenTs To a final sum oT I poinT while They Themselves piled up The Tremendous ToTal oT TorTy-Three. Boy, iT was murder TickeTs, pliz We're loyal To you Oak Park I-Iigh Up Tor grabs I-Iuskies in a hurry I-Iear ye, hear ye PeanuTs, popcorn, candy bars- A Woodman aT woi