Oakhurst Collegiate School - Acorn Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Class History of the 1914 Seniors -- WAY back in the bronze age of the school, the infants, Hannah Workum and Katha- V rine Ernst entered Oakhurst and began rapidly climbing up the tree of knowl- A edge. When they reached the fifth or sixth limb they were joined by Katharine Pratt and Priscilla Brown. The next year Marjorie Lowman came, and then Katharine Hauck and Helen Payne. These were all valuable additions to the original two, HI nr- 15 and we now reverence these seven as the pioneers of the class. These youngsters, hand in hand, year by year, mounted upward into the intermediate branches to- ward the first star of their ambitions, the Freshman Class. In 1910 came the Renaissance period, when the seven, with Laura Graham, who had entered the year before, entered their Freshman year. As I have said beforettetdirect quotation from Caesar, therefore good referencetein 1910 the Renaissance began. There was a marked advance- ment in the works of the time, both literary and artistic. There was quite a change, too, in the ar- rangement of hair and the length of skirts. This year, Violet Twachtman and Katharine Wright came into history. Violets career was short and sweet, for before many months she had to bid farewell to her sorrowing companions and move away. Not so With Katharine Wright. She moved away, ttis true, but she has come back every year since as a boarder. During the Freshman period these girls developed the art of giggling to a high degree. Helen Payne, Katharines Hauck, Ernst, and Wright and Priscilla Brown all through their school career have been fa- mous for this. They giggled on many occasions and frequently ended in the hall, because they shook the tree of knowledge too much.

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HANNAH WORKUM. Red, red is the sunset glow, And her lips as the cherries are red? KATHARINE HAUCK. Sweet summer girl with curling tresses, Loving eyes and dainty dresses. 14

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I must now drop the official gigglers and turn your attention to Marjorie Lowman. At a tender age the dear child showed a strong regard for fresh air. This regard grew so vital with her that she be- came a veritable Major Ozone, whose first thought on entering a room is for the windows. We feel that it will go with her through life, and that after attain- ing the topmost limb of the tree of knowledge, she will be wafted forth on the zephyrs. At the end of this year, all the Freshies carried bouquets for the Senior Commencement. This was the last of the Freshmen events. In 1911 and 112, the Sophomore period, Margaret Windisch and Sarah Oliver added their divine pres- ences to our number. With Margaret came a marked advancement in the art of the day. Many examples of her drawing are still, after these many years, to be found thoughout the school, especially in the Mathematics Department. Sarah Oliver was a precocious youngster in whose presence it was dangerous to use slang. The dear child disapproved so heartily. She was one of those favored mortar endowed with a bright mind and the power to wiggle her ears. She was likewise quite an addition to the Gigglers' Club. By the end of the Sophomore period hair ribbons were an unknown quantity, and shoe tops seldom to be seen. In 1911 and 12, the Junior year, while the class were swinging from bough to bough three-fourths of the way up the tree, Katharine V., surname Schell, 16 came into prominence and settled the fact that the class name was certainly Katharine. She also as- tounded the class with her ready-on-the-dot history, and likewise ready-on-the-dot jokes and puns. One fine day in the first of the Junior year, small Windyii Sherrill ioriginal name Jeannettei appeared on the horizon from the state which has sent so many pretty girls to Oakhurst and elsewhere, Kentucky. My, you could listen to that girl talk for hours. Hannah Workum and Margaret Windisch stand as shining lights in mathematics. All through our career we, the rest of us, have tnotl been noted for our mathematical brains. In 1913 the poor thirteen of us tioundered through Geometry, only saved at last by the life preservers Which Miss Fox threw to us. 1913 and '14. With the dawning of this last period of our his- tory, the Senior year, a slight reformation seemed evident. The faces of all were a little more pur- poseful. This time all hair was fastened up and the skirts clung tightly around the ankles, save where slits gave a slight freedom to the step. This last year Susan Semple came to graduate with us, the last but not least of the fourteen. If Oakhurst had a daisy chain, black-eyed Susan would certainly go into it. The Senior year began with many good resolu- tionsefor the Freshmen. After several parliament- ary meetings on the part of the Seniors, these resolu-