Oakville High School - Tillicum Yearbook (Oakville, WA)

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THE TILLICUAI CEL ASS PRQWHEQY 95' I had arrived in Oakville on the evening of the graduation exer- cises of the class of 1928, and upon entering the vast auditorium of the new High School, I was very agreeably surprised to meet Mr. and Mrs. Paul Provoe, the former being my old friend and classmate in 1918. As we had about twenty minutes before the exercises Were to be- gin, we improved the time in recalling the past, and talking over the whereabouts of former classmates. Earl, he said had made great advancements during the war in naval achievements and had been promoted to the position of commo- dore, but that he had not heard from him for three years. Orvin, too, he informed me, had served a considerable time in the service, and for one of his great deeds of daring, while in the trenches in Europe, had been decorated with La Croix de Guerre . Just like Orvin, I complimented, 1 was sure he would enter the war and of course had no doubts of his progress in military feats. I saw in the paper last night, an advertisement of a play which will' be at the 'Empress' this week, in which Reginald Van Walker is one of the stars, he said. Ernest! I exclaimed. Well, I can not really say I am at all surprised as Ernest showed considerable evidence of becoming a movie actor, even early in his High School career. Have you heard from Ethel lately. he asked, or Marjorie, and where is Raymond now? It really does not seem long since we, as these happy graduates are this evening, were launching out into the river of events which we thought we had so nearly crossed, then. What great changes can take place within so few years! With the same thot, I replied that I had received a letter from Marjorie Weiland, who was private secretary of Mr. Carlson, Secre- tary of Commerce in Washington, D. C., about two weeks ago, and she said then, she was thinking of taking a vacation and Spending a Coup- le of months in Europe.

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TIIE TILLICUAI Chapter 4. We entered with joy upon our Senior year, jubilant that we at last had reached the place where we were that which the Freshmen look at from afar, the Sophomorcs yearn to be, and the Juniors hope to be. Four members of the Sophomores of last year joined us at the beginning of this, and by hard study, are finishing in three years. They are: Paul Provoe, Raymond Jorgenson, Mildred Switzer and Edna Brown. We welcomed with pleasure, Miss Grace Couch who entered from Centralia this year. Miss Alys Couch left us the first part of the year to begin training in a Tacoma hospital. We were glad to see Miss Ludella Eaton back in her place. She resumed her studies this year, and is graduating with her old classmates. This class, composed of eleven members, has established a rec- ord for number, loyalty and accomplishm'ents over all previous grad- uating classes from the O. H. S. Ethel L. N-peley. '18. 21241123514 REVISED TWENTY-THIRD PSALM Miss Henry is my teacher I shall not pass, She maketh me explain hard propositions, and Exposeth my ignorance before the classg She restoreth my sorrowg she causeth Me to draw parallelograms for my class' sake, Yea, tho I study until midnight I shall gain no knowledge For originals trouble meg Triangles and squares distress meg She prepareth a test before me ln the presence of the seniors. She giveth me a low markg Surely distress and sadness shall Follow me all the days Of my life, and I shall remain In the class of Geometry forever.-EX.

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TIIE TILLIC UA! Ethel, who had chosen practically the same vocation in life as myself, was now matron in one of the most efficient hospitals in Balt- imore, Maryland. She, altho married, found her occupation quite in keeping with her married life, as her husband was a surgeon in the same institution. Raymond, we found out, had two years before, accepted a govern- ment position as president of a meat packing establishment in Chicago. While we were thus talking, Miss Ludella Eaton, one of our for- mer number, joined us in our conversation. She told us that she had been principal' of the High School in Centralia for the past two years. Also that Mildred Switzer, who had been teaching there in the depart- ment of music, was planning on taking up her work the following ycar, in the Stadium High School in Tacoma. Edna, she said, took a business course in an excellent bus- iness college in Seattle soon after graduating, and is now teaching in a like school in California. But, Paul, I said, you have not told me what field of work you have engaged yourself in. Then, as he told me, he was president of the Oakville National Bank, the orchestra began to play a march, by which the class, sixty in number, took their places upon the plat- form. The exercises had begun. Grace M. Couch '18, 26141414 Upon a smooth banana peel, A Senior chanced to tread, ,ind here's .... ?. . ! ? .... : 1' . QA brief shorthand report? Jf what the Senior said.