Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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ACORNWAY IT Class lfilisitory EVEN members of this wondrous Class of 1931 started together in kinder- garten: Dale Mitman, Charles Dille, Bob Blank, Jack Runyan, Bob Bunn, Ruth Mary Kurz, and Rosemary Cowden. It was in this year that Bob Blank started his long career of supplying lumber for class enterprises. Two stout bulwarks in the class reputation for womanly beauty came in the first grade in the persons of Marjorie Kilbourne and Lillian Steen. In the second grade, two more were added to our ranks: Evelyn O'Neill and John Olt, the latter having added much luster to our name by his brilliance. In the third grade we lost Ruth Kurz, who went to Moraine and then returned to us. This year we added Mabel Gibson and Mary Lenore Whyte. In the fourth grade came Dorothy Barr, Nancy Worman, and Betty May Nevin. Even then Dorothy played the piano. Nancy quickly won the Girls' Wrestling Championship of the fourth grade. Betty May's hair was as red then as it is now and she thought Bill Hall was the handsomest boy she had ever seen. Another notable event of that year was Brewster Kemble's proposal of marriage to Marjorie Kilbourne one day in the cloak room. Jane Gray, Rich Wilcock, and the class president, Dan Prugh, came in the fifth grade. None of the girls who were present will ever forget the fight Jane Gray and Betty May had one noon coming home from school. None of you younger people, who see them now as beautiful, dignified senior girls, can imagine how they looked when they flew at each other with their fists. Skating parties were organized during this year and the whole class participated. This custom endured until we entered the seventh grade. On entering the high school we felt we were too dignified to permit the good people of the village to see us on roller skates. ' In the sixth grade came Katherine Matthieu, Janet Gunter, and Catherine Brundrett. Can't you just see Gunter's beautiful long, brown curls. The spring of that year will long be associated for all of us with the pleasant memory of long hours of escape from school to go over to Runnymede and practice for the pageant. Wasn't Charles Dille a devilish-looking Pluto? A tragic accident happened to one of our members in this year. The class wasgenjoying the customary picnic at the Dickerson farm when the girls, walking in a group through a field, saw a ferocious 'lbull not far away. The boys chased this animal down upon us and, in our frantic haste to escape being gored, we had to climb a barbed wire fence. .Mabel Gibson, customarily late, this time was in too much of a hurry and ripped the entire skirt from her dress. The bull later proved to be a cow, but that didn't make Mabel feel any better. Margaret MeLampy, Jean Hodgson, Buddy Trimmer, Irene Wilder- muth, and Frances Mangold came in the seventh grade. And weren't we proud Twenty me

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S m U Q 'ln x I Q Twenty-eight 1-Bl THE ACORN Q-RRY' C RICHARD WILCOCK Class Treasurer 12 Hi-Y Club Spanish Club A Lucky Break lZ Merchant of Venice' 12 He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him. IRENE WIDERMUTH Girls League Council 12 Spring Revue ll Property Mgr., A Lucky Break Measures, not men, haue always been my mark. HARRY WILKERSON Baseball 11, 12 Football Manager ll, 12 Track Manager 10 'AOak Leaf Staff 11, 12 Hi-Y Club. Treas. 12 ..Gi ue us, oh give us, the man who sings at his workli' NANCY WORMAN President Girls' League 12 Acorn Staff 12 Basketball ll, 12 Intramural Basketball 9. IO, ll French Play I0 Feast of Little Lanterns 10 Spring Revue 10 Halloween Floor Show ll Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. ALFRED WORTHINGTOXN Football l0, ll, 12 Wrestling l2 Acorn Staff 9, 10, ll. 12 Sketch Club, Pres. 11 He is e'en more artistic than an artist. CYA-

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N r Rl rv THE ACCORN i,f'i'YC to actually be grown up and over at the high school. There were at least two secret societies organized to explore the building and find places no one else knew about. In the eighth grade the class grew greatly in number and brilliance with the addition of Boyce Hatfield, Charles Campbell, Paul Shawhan, Ed Gravett, Roland Reich, Jack Boyles, and Frank Heilig, our star track man. In the ninth grade twenty new people were added: Mary Marshall, Mary Keller, Violet Manney, Clinton Courson, Robert Kuhns, Jack Moore, Herbert Baker, Charles Corwin, Harry Wilkerson, Kermit Riegel, George Neal, Fred Weaver, Janet Smith, Jim Connelly, Hastings Baker, Ruth Coleman, Irene Krouse, Bob Ferneding, and Jane Ditzel. Ruth Kurz, realizing her mis- take in leaving us, came back from Moraine. These people have worked so suc- cessfully throughout their high school careers that today the class of '31 is generally conceded to be one of the best ever to be graduated from Oakwood High School. Charles Black, who, with George Neal, has added so much fame to our glorious reputation by his exploits on the gridiron, came in the tenth year, as did Paul Kennett, Virginia Bange, and Calista Riegel. The tenth year marked the advent of the class into high school athletics. This was the last year that we ever had a picnic but we firmly believe that no class ever had more fun on its picnics than we did. Woodtli Grandin, Joyce Rinderknecht, Marianna Kiefaber, and Bob Daily came in the eleventh year. At the end of this year we gave a farewell to the senior class at the Miami Hotel. This farewell was made possible by the work of every person in the class in selling tickets for a Victory Theater party. It is in this, our senior year, however, that we have blossomed forth into our full power and beauty. The names of Robert Maclean, Jane Whitmer, and Cedric Donado were added to our roll and with them to swell the rank we have risen to our present state of supremacy. The Class of 1931, always noted for its forward looking attitude decided to agree with the School Board and adopted caps and gowns for graduation wear This is a major example of the class many virtues To the members of the faculty of the school who have taken such a sincere have guided us for the six years that now seem so short we the Class of 1931, offer our deepest gratitude and appreciation To you Juniors we leave an example of a fine class and you will have to strive greatly to equal us We also extend to you our best possible wishes for as pleasant a senior year as we have had Rosemary C owden. 9 1' Q and helpful interest in us, and especially to Miss Weber and Mr. Hummon, who Thirty Q31 ' Q