Oakmont High School - Periscope Yearbook (Oakmont, PA)

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o Q One Stormy Night 1 T WAS a cold, winter night in Alaska in 1950. A keen, biting wind was blowing fiercely, and the temperature was already down to thirty degrees below zero. On the table beside me lay a bundle of newspapers that had just come on the last boat that would arrive before spring. I was anticipating the opening of them with a great deal of satisfaction, for they were one of my pleasures. To be sure I had my radio, but then it was better to have something to read, and it was my custom to start at the front page and read every word, not omitting a single item. - Outside the wind howled louder and the windows shook, but inside it was warm and cozy in the flickering light of the fire. I seemed hungry for news of the outside world, of my old friends and long-forgotten acquaintances. With a forced calmness, I slowly opened the bundle of newspapers. As I eagerly turned the pages, a certain notice caught my eye. It was an announcement of the weekly radio program of Station SAGQ, at Oakmont High School and the entertainment for the yvhole week was to be presented by the members of the class of 1926. It ran as fol- ows: STATION SAGQ MONDAY 7:15 A. M.-Setting-up exercises-Thelma Canuti. 9 :45--Stock market report by Wall Street financier, Walter Boyd. 5.45 P. M.-Sleepy Time Lady-Martha Yourd. ' 6 230-DIIIHCF concert from Harmarville-Music by Lucinda' Adams and her orchestra. 8 215-Address, How To Dress Well on Two Dollars a Week,', by Esther Gum- berg, purchasing agent for Woolworth's. 8:30-Concert by Edgewater Light Opera Company, Alice Sedgwick, soprano, and Lloyd McLaughlin, tenor. 10 :30-Special program featuring Curt Redetzki, xylophonist and an organ recital by Joe McCaffrey. TUESDAY 7:15 A. M.-VVeather report by Forecaster Ernest Schuster. , 10:00-Homemaker's Period Talk, How to Set a Mouse Trap by Jane Ma.crum. 6:30-Dinner concert by Ida Mahla. 7:30-Bedtime Stories, Miles Hogg. -' 8:00-Address by Margaret Riddile in connection with Let's Know Milltown Week. 8:30-Vaudeville program from Lehigh Theater now owned by Leon Argyros, featuring Sara Hunter, Swiss yodeler. , 9:45-Memorial program in memory of Nicholas Favo, who died while attempt- ing to swim Lake Erie. WEDNESDAY 7:30 A. M.-Setting-up Exercises, Eleanor Tiers. 9:45-Opening Markets, Franklin Eves, president of Oakmont National Bank. 3 :OO-Ladies' Hour Talk, How To Cheat the Milkmanf' by Eleanor Campbell. 6:30-Little Symphony Orchestra, John Stewart, conductor. 8 115-Address, Caesar, As I Know Him, by Sara Key. 8:30-Advice to the Lovelorn, Melsom Verner. 9:15-Concert, Viola King, contralto: James Bair, trombone. 11:30-Midnight frolic from Hasson's Cafe, Arthur Restelli, proprietor. Twenty nme

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: RWM Q 1 Q l JUNE ZEEK WDONALD MCCANDLI-:ss Just think of what a girl should be, A bookfia book, Wg? Fiflfdom for U' Combine the best--and that is she. F tb H i3 bigkg-,lg H on T k . . oo a , 9 as e a g rac 2,1YIi5ed Qlhffgufgyflf 25' Class Track fl' 13, 413 Class Basketball 12, 3, 413 Base- ' rem ' ' ball 13, 415 Class Track 13, 41 Q Dramatic . 141 3 Rose o' Plymouth. JAMES COOK There are two things, To Jim a rule: Chewing gum, And missing school. Football 11, 2, 3, 41 Class Basketball 11, 2, 3, 413 Track 12, 313 French 12, 415 Class Track 121. 'Honor. Twenty-eight

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D I Thirty of 1:36321 D -QTJCDBQDC 4 THURSDAY 7:00 A. M.-Setting-up Exercises by William Peters. 12 :30-Weather and news items, Sidney Fernekes, editor of the 'lVerona Leader. 5 Z451Sl1IlSl1lTlC Girl, Helen Streeter. 6 :30-Dinner Concert by Scaife's Band, Frank Foote, Director. 7 230-AClflf6SS, An Appreciation of Horatio Algerf, by Ann McKee. 8 200-DlSCllSSlOIl-KKHOW to Get a Divorce. State's Attorney Quelch. 8 130-The Nuf-Ced Twins. Bruno Patrizio and Beulah Peters. ll :00-Dance Music from The Willows-Charles Burch and his Charleston Imps. FRIDAY 7:30 A. M.-Live stock market, Howard Boyle, Sandy Creek broker. 9:30-I-Iomemaker's Period, address, Wl1y a Chicken Crosses the Road, Anna Beard. 5 :45-Daddy Winkum. George Lee. 6:30-Dinner Concert, by Oakmont High School Orchestra, Mary Edgar, musi- cal director. 7:30-Talk by Milton Sherrick, the great Artic explorer, I'm Sitting on Top of the World. 3 :00-Address, Psychological Development in a Moron, Meryle McGuire, assistant professor of Hydro-statics at Pitt. 8 :30-Broadcasting round by round of the boxing match between Jim Cook, light- weight champion and Joe Reed, the lumberyard terror. 10 :30-Popular Song Review-Anna Gillinger. SATURDAY 7:30 A. M.-Health Talk. VVhy Eat Grape Nuts ? Thomas Grant, dietitian at Reed's Boarding House. 9 230-Address, Most Important Factor in Production, Meanor Davidson, Presi- dent of Plum Creek Railroad. 4 230-Gold Dust Twins. Frank Sinclair and june Zeek. 6:30-Teaberry Time, Vera Evans. 7:30-Address, nfJ21lilTlOIlt as a Community Center, by President of Oakmont Chamber of Commerce. Roy Bossert. 8:30-Program under auspices of Verona Steel Castings, with Hazel Harper at the piano, and a mixed quartet: Isabel Hess. Virginia Green, Carl .Elers, Edgar Thompson. 9 130-iXllflI'CSS, The Care of the Hair. Berenice Greer, agent for Hair Groom. SUNDAY 10:45 A. M.-Services from Sixth Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. Rev. Lewis, pastor. 11:30-Tabernacle service, Rabbi John jose. Music by Temple Duet: Margaret Palmer. Margretta Stotler. 1:00 P. M.-Religious talk, My Adventures in the South Sea Islands, Sara ' Dixon. 3 :00-Bible Class, conducted by Donald McCandless. 5:00-Address, The Evils of Chewing Gum, Margaret Snee, President of the W. C. T. U. 8 :00-Atwater Kent Radio Hour, Thomas Mallisee. violinist: Laura Munro. pianist. A 11:00-Musical Revue. Vern Akers. of George Rites Scandals. I turned to the radio and adjusted it to the proper wave length. I ought to be just in time to get the address by the President of the Chamber of Commerce. but I heard nothing except the wind, howling outside. Then I looked down at the paper -it was three weeks old.