Oakmont High School - Periscope Yearbook (Oakmont, PA)

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I f y Senior s Unloclced Diary Tells All Sepfember, I937. Dear Diary: I'm so unhappy. Oh! if only I could be a senior! Buf no, I'm iusl' a liffle green fresh- man. Everyfhing's so differenf from whaf I was accusfomed af Tenfh Sfreef. Up fhere our class was looked upon as very superior by all fhe ofhers. Now I have fo sfarf all over again. Thaf's fhe reason, my liffle diary, fhal' I long fo be a senior! Sepfember, I938. Dear Diary: I'm all fhrillecll I've been promofedl Jusf fo fhinlc-only fwo more years and l'll be a senior! I can hardly waif! Things are going a Iiffle beffer now, and I know quife a few more people. I'm also geffing used fo my surroundings, alfhough l'll admif fhaf if did fake me some fime. Well, good-bye, dear diary, and l'll be seeing you nexf year. Sepfember, I939. Dear Diary: Whoopee! I'm iusf boiling over wifh ioy! I have pushed myself righf info The shoes of a 'uniorl Nexf year, my Iiffle cliar , l'll be a full-fledged SENIOR. I don'f fhinlc I've ever been so happy. Pardon me, if I Ileave you when I've hardly begun fo say anyfhing, buf I've iusf gof fo do somefhing ouf-of-doors fo work off my enfhusiasm! When I see you again, I will have so much news abouf my senior life fhaf you'II never be able fo hold if. Sepfember, I94O. Dear Diary: I'm so unhappy! And I'm a senior! All of a sudden I realized fhaf fhis really is m Iasl' year, and soon I will be separafed from my friends and saying good-bye fo all fhe good fimes. I can'f say any more, Iiffle diary. I'm af my Iowesf ebb. Why was I ever so anxious fo become a senior? Now, I wish fhere really were bars on fhe dear old prison 'Io hold me in for iusf one more year of all fhe nice 'Ihings school life gives you. Bul' if's foo Iale now. If's gone, well, almosf and fhen-on my own. Well, I've said if once before, buf I really mean if fhis fime. I iusf can'f fhinlc of if any more. Good-bye, dear diary and dear old O. I-I. S. Isabel Eclcer '4I. WHEN THEY WERE VERY YOUNG I-Iere are fhe six oufsfanding seniors vofecl fhis disfincfion by fheir own classmates. I Who are fhey? See page 95. I 7

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Class of OFFICERS 1 E I 1 BOSSERT ..... ......... ....... T r easurer JOHNSTON . . ......... PresidenT FERGUSON .... ..... V ice Presideni' KAUS ........................................ Secrefary SENIOR COUNCIL SeaTed: I GORDON DAVIS , .... .... STEVE CIRINCIONE ELLIS LONG ........ BETTY FLIAS .... STanding: ROBERT LANDSEADEL CHESTER JOHNSTON .. . HUGH PORTER ...... Senior Reviews I'Ier High School Days The oTher day I cornered a senior and asked him iT he had any regreTs aTTer spending These IasT Tour years in good old O. H. S. Nope, he said, excepT The TacT ThaT I'm leav- ing. Gosh l've had Tun heire. I'II never TorgeT when I was a Treshman. EveryThing was so diTFerenT Trom whaT I'd been used To. Half The Time I was IaTe Tor classes because I couIdn'T Tind The room, and iT Took nearly haIT The year Tor me To geT on To Those ex- cuses and permiTs-a blue one Tor This, a pink one Tor ThaT, a whiTe Tor anoTher, and a yellow Tor sTiII anoTher. I remember The TirsT Time I was absenT and Tried To bring- an excuse wriTTen b my moTher as I did in grade school. Greenhorns They call us. And ThaT's whaT I was aT IeasT. Boy, ThaT sophomore year! I saw Caesar in my sleep. He was a nice guy Though, in his way., ThaT's also The year I learned whaT The kids meanT when They said. CommenT-allez-vous? We sophomores had our TirsT TasTe of puTTing on a dance. IT was The Junior DramaTic Club Dance. My iunior year was swell. I was an upper class- man. Did ThaT make me Teel grown up? No. IT Room I02 Room IOI Room IO4 Room IO4 Room I02 .PresidenT Room IOII seems There was much more going on ThaT year. Our class puT ouT The Periscope-The besT so Tar. There were IoTs oT club acTiviTies Too. I'II never Tor- geT The Tun we had aT The picnics aT NorTh Park. I had weiners every nighT Tor supper Tor a whole week, and was I sick of Them-buT noT of The pic- nics. We had The Junior Jive and The prom ThaT year Too. Boy, The hard work The juniors had geTTing The prom ready, buT we never IeT down and had one of The nicesT proms. Now I'm a senior and having a wonderful Time. AT ChrisTmas Time we helped SanTa by having The Toy mission. We had iusT as much Tun Tixing Toys in Miss Ray's room as SanTa did in his Toy shop. The spring oT The year was scrumpTious. Never again will There be Tor us such a gorgeous Time as Then- Class play, Senior Day, anoTher prom and' Then commencemenTI E - Yes, I Think if someone asked me whaT Tour years of my life I'd like To live over again, I'd choose my Tour years in high school. , BeTTy Raymond '4I

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A353 x Q geizxrw.-ff.-gf? i - - u ,- wi ST .- Pi. .. T 'T 3 -fw,,,5g.:-rr 'sy 5 ..-sgxw-'fry' yn ,Uv Jig: SKK: ,qs ....4.:fp-' I .v 1, Q Tignrscorz eil , V i O Q ' V E. Bannen Pfliarns SR A. Berqeni l Can You Imagine That Twenty-five Years Ago Therei Were EVELYN ALSTON'S secreT ambiiion is To Teach dancing, or To be a secreTary . . . The Commercial Club is 'x'Jake's social ouTleT aT O. H. S. HELENE ANDERSON amuses herselT wiTh Toreign correspon- dence, buT This TuTure Telephone operaTor wiTh The happy smile Tinds spare Time Tor Traffic and Com- mercial clubs. LOIS ANDERSON, The songbird oT O. H. S., hopes To Tollow in The TooTsTeps oi Lily Pons. Girl Reserves, MaTh, and, French clubs always sing beTTer when she is la. JAMES O. BAKER, JR. . . . Machinery will be Bake's liTe inTeresT as his presenT hobby. elecTric Trains, will Tesiify. Go To iT. Jim. ELIZABETH' J. BANNEN-in Spiie of her work in Girl Reserves, MaTh and French clubs, BeTTy Tinds Time Tor swimming, reading, and singing--a 'hne background Tor a secreTary. PAULINE BARNS . . . Tho' nicknamed Paul, This girl has a yen Tor sew- ing, and hiking. She would like To have money wiTh which To Travel and wouldn'T mind being a house- wiTe. LOUISE BERG as a dieTiTian will be perTecT. Bergie served on The Periscope and Oak Leaf and also belonged To The Girl Reserves, DramaTic, Science, and French clubs. ANDREW J. BERGENS is a Traffic and Commercial club enThusiasT. WhiTey wanTs To be an airplane piloT. DOLORES BOSSERT . . . To make good in The world is allThaT Loree asks-We TorecasT success Tor This Commercial Club member. JOHN BOUL- TON . . . Aeronauiical engineering is Jack's idea of a real career-Traffic and French clubs and Hi-Y will back him up as a go-geTTer. FRANK BRUNO's aim in life is invenTing. VelociTy's hob- by is guns, and This quieT young man would like To be a Frank Buck. ROBERT CAMERON says bowling D-508809 'fl ,gi Bbq-M011 A 'Qx S.Cirincione E. Clark .RJ , 5.4. y. N Q L-.3 93 , -gg .. Q eval I gi R fl A C?