Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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SIISIIEIIEIISIIEACORN ISBBZIIZIIZIIZSIIZIIZ Annual Message of The SuperinTenden+ ln a year oT many diTTiculTies and oT many Trying siTuaTions, Oakwood High School has worked aT her besT and has noT losT ground up To The presenT Time. There have been drasTic curTailmenTs, a shorTening of The school year, making a less compleTe and Thorough grounding in TundamenTals, buT we have parTly overcome These diTTiculTies wiTh a greaTer cooperaTion of TaculTy and sTudenT body, a more regular aTTendance and prompTness, a greaTer earnesTness, and a Tiner spiriT on The parT oT all. ln a word, our characTer has improved. EssenTials have been preserved. The high school has had The largesT increase in yearly enrollmenT in iTs hisTory. The iunior high school increased from 349 To 3847 The senior high school Trom 240 To 3l3, making a ToTal increase oT IOS and a ToTal enrollmenT oT 697. The inspecTor Trom The STaTe DeparTmenT of EducaTion and The NorTh CenTral AssociaTion oT Colleges and Secondary Schools, who sTudied The school on November 3, I932, made an excellenT reporT To The Oakwood Board oT EducaTion, commenTing very Tavorably on The buildings, The physical equipment The library, The TacT ThaT sevenTy-Tive per cenT oT The Teachers held lvlasTer's degrees, and The meThods oT Teaching. The Tollow-up oT alumni This year showed l35 graduaTes in 55 higher insTiTuTions. The sTudy oT The reporTs senT ouT by The colleges To The high school on our sTudenTs revealed a very close relaTionship beTween The record made in The college and The record made in high school. The records This year also show aT leasT TwenTy oT our alumni near The Top oT Their classes in college. A lisT oT Oakwood alumni who have won leTTers in college aThleTics is published elsewhere in The ACORN. Oakwood l-ligh School again sTood highesT Tor DayTon and MonTgomery CounTy in The STaTe Scholarship ConTesT Tor seniors. Six Oakwood seniors -enTered This con- TesT and Tour Took places in The upper quarTerg The oTher Two placed in The upper middle quarTer. An Oakwood boy Took TirsT place, The highesT honor oT all, and an Oakwood girl sTood highesT among The girls enTered in The conTesT. This year our high school graduaTes nineTy-Tive girls and boys-The TenTh and largesT class in our hisTory. ARTHUR E. CLAGGETT. Page Eight

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SIIEIIEIIEIIELE COR I9 BZIIEIIZIILSIIZIIZ HEATH MAN ALLEN Hi-Y Club: lreasurer, I2 Football, II, I2 Basketball Intramurals, I2 Operetta, IO Spring Show, IO Oh, Professor , I2 The New Poor , I2 Acorn Staff, I2 Nat lazy but conservative is he, Saving his strength for an emergency. CHARLOTTE ANKENEY Class Secretary, 9 President Girls' League, I2 Girls' League Council, Il, I2 Hockey, I2 Hockey Intramurals, IO, II Basketball Intramurals, II, I2 Basketball Manager, II, I2 Debating, IO, I2 H Editor-in-Chief Acorn . I2 HA daughter of the gods-divinely tall and most divinely fair. HERBERT BAHL Hi-Y Club, Vice-President, I2 Football, IO, II, I2 Basketball, IO, II, I2 Track, II, I2 Debating, IO, II H7-be glory gf young men is their strength. MILDRED BALL Mount Notre Dame Academy, Reading, Ohio Hockey, I2 Basketball, I2 Basketball Intramurals, ll Operetta, IO, II Spring Show, I0 She is so free,,so alqf, IQ kind, -V0 blessed of disposition! ELSO BARGHOORN Hi-Y Club Track, IO, II, I2 Eagle Scout Oak Leaf Statt, I2 High mark never was hit by low ann. Page Ton JANE BARLOW Stivers High School Hockey Intramurals, I2 Basketball Intramurals, I2 Operetta, I2 Fair wards never hurt the tongue. MARCEDAS BATES Hockey Intramurals, IO, ll, I2 Basketball Intramurals, IO, II, I2 Operetta, II, I2 Spring Show, 9, IO, II A woman still will have her will. ELEANOR BLACK Hockey Intramurals, 9, IO, II, I2 Basketball Intramurals, 9, IO, II, I2 Operetta, II, I2 Spring Show, 9, IO To chase the glowing hours with flying feet SYLVIA BONTECOU Secretary Athletic Assembly, I2 Intramural Hockey, II, I2 Basketball Intramurals, I2 She takes the breath of men away who gaze upon her unaware. ARTHUR BRAND Operetta, IO, II, I2 Spring Show, IO, Il Band, II, I2 Orchestra Il, I2 Jazz Orchestra, 9, IO, II, I2 Quartet, 9, II, I2g Quintet, Il, Octet, I2 ' The heart to conceive, the under- standing to direct, and the hand to execute.