Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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Tl-IE ACORN, 19322 Report of the Superintendent The outstanding events occurring at Oakwood High School during the school year I93I-32 were as follows: 1. The junior high school building was completed in October and dedicated on November zo, 1931. This building, with its eleven classrooms, oflices, library, gymnasium, indu trial arts shop, home economics room, art room, and music room, has provided us with unequalled physical equipment. 2. The separation of the junior and senior high schools brought Oakwood Schools into line with the best school organization development in American education. The separation has brought many educational advantages to both junior and senior high schools. 3. On january 1, 1932, the Oakwood Board of Education ofiicially became a city board of education. The illness of the president of the Board, Mr. Edwin D. Smith, who has worked most faithfully and skillfully for many years in the interest of the Oakwood schools, has been a matter of much concern to all of us. VVe are very glad that the ACORN staff saw fit to honor our two women members of the Board. 4. By cooperative action between the Oakwood City Council and the Oakwood Board of Education, a newly-created City Board of Health assumed charge, last September, of all health matters. By this arrangement a physician gives three hours daily to the schools and a public health nurse gives full time to the schools. The new clinic in the junior high school building serves as her headquarters, and pupils of both junior and senior high schools are treated there. 5. Scholastic progress has been very satisfactory. In all objective tests our pupils have exceeded our expectations. Our record of having twenty-five out of twenty-nine students pass College Board Examinations last June convinced everyone that any pupil in our X group can enter any college in the United States. The college records of our graduates show also that any pupil in the NY group with a general average of 80 in all subjects and not less than 70 in any one can do successful work in college. Pupils with lower marks than these are not recom- mended for college. Some of these have gone to college and passed: some have failed. 6. Although 84.4 per cent of our graduates have gone to higher institutions, the remaining 15.6 per cent have not gone. To meet the needs of these students, courses in commercial sub- jects, industrial arts and crafts, and household arts have been provided that prepare for direct entrance into commerce, industry, and home life. 7. Two creative writing classes, one for the eleventh year and one for the twelfth, have been conductd this year for the first time. Public speaking has become a required subject in the tenth year and is elective in the eleventh and twelfth years. In debating, our high school won four and lost two debates with other schools in the Ohio High School Debating League. 8. Another new feature this year was the Guidance program.l Each pupil in the senior and junior high schools took part in guidance conferences and discussions one day a week, in which personality and character development, vocational information and career finding, and the best use of educational opportunities were the main topics. 9. In athletics we passed from the ranks of Class B fsenior high schools with less than one hundred and Hfty boysj into the ranks of Class A high schools. The participation in after- school sports by both boys and girls was almost one hundred per cent. ARTHUR E. CLAGGETT, Superintendent. PAGE I2

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