Oakfield Alabama High School - Oracle Yearbook (Oakfield, NY)

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ALUMNI Marriages: Grace Eckstein to Glenn Newton. Marion Fuller to Osborne Wilson. Louise Motz to Seth Johnson. Gordon Roth to Edna Harkness. Wilber Werth to Catherine Ruck. Alida Needham to Kenneth Smart. Lottie Burr to Glenn Weatherbee. Mary Howell to Boniface Komar. Mildred Erhardt to Vernon Pettibone. Births To Edward and Viola Churchill Bowen, a daughter. To Charles and Ruth Waldron Carroll, a daughter. To Louis and Mildred Bodell Ganshaw, a son. To Lloyd and Helen Speed Moore, a daughter. To Eugene and Helen Webber Reynolds, a daughter. To Albert and Edith Wolcott Scroger, a son. To Karl and Irma Hutton Nye, a son. To Charles and Lois Pask Shanley, a son. To Peter and Edna Utz Even, a son. To Harold and Ida Bateman Dickerson, a daughter. Positions: Esther Brayley is teaching at Bergen. Doris Hotchkiss is teaching at Lancaster. Beatrice Caton is teaching at Alabama School District No. 13. Jeanne Gaver is teaching near West Barre. Doris Lesso is teaching at Corfu. Ethel Durham has a position as telephone operator in the office of the A. 8: P. Co. in Syracuse. ' Esther Phelps is in nurse's training in Batavia Hospital. Morris Bucher is manager of a drug store in Newfane. Merrill Clendenon is a salesman for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in Le Roy. Harold Clendenon is a tester at the O. G. P. Vernon Boomer is a salesman for Oakfield Sales Sn Service. Frank Gacchine is employed by the Briggs Motor Co., Detroit. Ruth Hackley is employed in the U. S. Gypsum Co. office. Harold Hale is employed in the Analyne Chemicl Co., Buffalo. Beatrice King is nursing in Lockport. Rachel Rossman is a nurse in the Batavia Hospital. Ralph Ruhlman is employed in the Continental Can Co., Passaic, N. J. Ruth Rhodes is employed in Dr. MacMinnn's office. Georgia Schultz is in the postoffice. Rogeir Swanson is employed in the MuHet Factory, Depew. Cecil Rhod.es is employed in Haxton's office. Alma Rowley is employed in HaXton's office. Alice Dibble is a dietitian in a private school in Rochester. Ramona Searls is employed in a dress shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Virginia Searls is a social welfare worker in Cleveland, Ohio. Luella Preisch is employed in James Buckley's office. Ruth Lawrence is teaching at Lyons Falls. Edson Parker is preaching in the Baptist Church in Wyoming. 24

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LITERATURE On Returning A Borrowed Book T sure was nice of Joe to lend us that new book of his. Just got it too, and he hasn't read it. Told us he wouldn't have time to look inside the covers for at least a week and somebody might as well be using it. We pro- tested, but not too strongly because we've always wanted to read, that book. Besides, it will only take a day or so to read it, and, we can easily find time. The week passes rapidly without leaving a single minute to read. To- morrow night we'll finish that book and get it back to Joe. One day over a Week won't matter. But something comes up unexpectedly and tomorrow night has no leisure time. The one week merges into two weeks. Somehow the book slips our mem- ory and is completely forgotten. While cleaning, the maid tucks the book into a far corner of the book shelves. Several times during the third week we make solemn promises to ourselves to read the book and. return it. But somehow these promises fade into oblivion. Three weeks change into four, four into five, five into sixg six into seveng seven into two monthsg two into fourg and four into six. Then one day, while looking for a volume of Browning's poetry, we come across a bright-jacketed book that seems strangely out of place among our books. The title seems familiar but we just can't place it. Suddenly we remember, why it's the book we borrowed from Joe last summer. Somehow the desire to read the book has disappeared. Of course, we must return the book, but how? One cannot say, Here is your book I borrowed six months ago. I've been to busy to read it. The lender would probably retort, I was just about to send a bill to you for 'this book. Now, I'll just charge you library dues. Let me see, three cents a day for 180 days. That will be 37.20. Will you please pay as soon as possible? I should like to buy more books and start a lending library. We would not blame him either. Perhaps he has forgotten about the book. He's been out West for three months on an engineering job, and it may have slipped his mind. Here's somebody at the door. Why, it's Joe and his wife. Put that book back on the shelf. It may cause trouble if left in plain sight. What's that! Joe just mentioned the name of that book. An engineer with whom he worked recommended it. Good night! We're sunk. He's asking if we happen to have a copy of it. Well, here goes. Yes, we have a copy. He wants to borrow it. Doesn't he realize it's his own book? He's looking at it, but he doesn't suspect anything. Of course, you can borrow it, Joe. We're always ready to lend, a book to a friend. Well, there it goeis. I suppose we won't see it for six months. Joe is so careless about borrowing books. Never does return them for five or six months. However, no amount of mental pain will cure us of our habit of careless borrowing. Marie Olmsted, English III. 26