Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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EIISIIEIIEIIEIIEACDRN l933ZIl2lI'5IIZII .4Il .4 Volume MCMXXXIII A volume of books in Jrhe world lo be sold: We are new, unbroken, unlried. Our backs are unbeni, our conlenls unloldp The se'r is inlacl, bound Jrogelher . . in laci Unified. Now our pages are filled and Jrhe aulhors may reslr, And slarl in anew, sa+isTied Thal if we're nol equal lo passing Jrhe lest The ma+erial's To blame, no+ Jrhe knowledge or aim Found inside. Each book is +i'rled wifh some special arf, Which our +alen+s have helped To decide. Though The knowledge we have is only a siarl, Perhaps when we're free, lo help oihers we'll be Qualified. HILDRETH CARTER Page Twenty-nine

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EIIBSIIBSIIEIISIISACORN l933'.2Il2lIZIlL4Il'.4IIH Class Prophecy fConlinuedl lvlary Louise Hollinger is a mililanl suffragelle. She believes lhal women should be employed in all posl offices so lhal lhey may direcl lhe males. Ross Smilh has succeeded Amos Parrish as Fashion Diclalor and he fealures many novel crealions which are usually modeled by I-Iarriel Brown. This illuslrious Class of '33 is nol wilhoul ils scandals, I am sorry lo say. Daphne Thomas, lhe greal woman lawyer, has been hired by Belly Donado lo prosecule a breach of promise suil againsl Jack Smilh, who is a professor al Smilh College. Slan I-loward is imprisoned on a bigamy charge. Eleanor Black, Lois Werner, Kay Kiser, and Imogene I-Iarlline, known as I-Iandsome I-Ioward's I-Iyslerical I-Iarem, each claim lo be Slan's one and only. I-Iighpressure Herring lravels from door lo door lrying lo sell Realsilk hosiery. Phyllis Wiley is a Ford salesman. She is demonslraling lhe new whoopee model which conlains a bar wilh a real brass rail, an easy chair, ice wafer, and cigar counler. Don Ouarlel is now Direclor of lhe Budgel of our counlry. Don always had an eye for figures. Charles Morris has purchased lhe hangoul formerly known as Pelerson's. During lunch hour, Charles Ieclures lo sludenl palrons on Diligence, and oflen he warns lhem never lo play lricks on lyping leachers. I-Iis own conscience bolhers him because of his high school pranks and he has suddenly lurned reformer. I inlerrupl myself long enough lo poinl oul lo you, radio audience, a newly- arrived celebrily. I iusl caughl a glimpse of Sylvia Bonlecou, lhe firsl woman heavy- weighl wreslling champion of lhe world! She is accompanied by her lrainer, Barlow I-Ieikes. And whal a surprise il is, friends of lhe radio audience, lo see Jane Smilh enlering lhe club, followed by a group of devoled admirers from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They iusl flew from Oshkosh in a plane piloled by Richard Ragar, afler enjoying an informal dinner al Jane's Oshkosh penlhouse. A lelegram has iusl been received from Ivlona Collon, secrelary lo Warden John Dozier of Sing Sing. Mona reporls lhal when reporl cards wenl oul lasl week il was discovered lhal Roberl Brundrell lead lhe lhird year class in scholarship. And here we have a lelegram from Roberl Pool. Poor Bob has nol been so successful wilh his women lhese' lasl len years. I-Ielene Slevens divorced him several years ago on lhe grounds lhal he was conlinually spilling cocoa on lhe rugs, and now he is in Reno gel- ling a divorce from I-Iildrelh Carler, eminenl chiIdren's poel, because he is lired of being known as Ivlr. I-Iildrelh Carler, Louise Tschop iusl relurned from Ivlidwesl Agricullural College where she was awarded a degree and a medal for her research work wilh spinach. lnslead of experi- menling on lhe ordinary guinea pigs, she has used Richard Larkin, who has allained a slalure of six feel, seven inches as a resull. Mr. Claggell is slill moving aboul among his former pupils and making inquiries aboul lhem while his secrelary, Belly Ivloss, lakes down lheir answers in shorlhand as Mr. Claggell wishes lo have lhe miraculous record go down in hislory wilh lhose of olher Oakwood graduales. Ladies and genllemen, I'm afraid our lime is aboul up. I see Fred Lealherman, lhe chief execulive of our broadcasling chain, molioning lo me lhal I musl bid ou all a very pleasanl good evening. This is slalion OI-IS, broadcasling from lhe Club Jazz- mania in lhe I-lolel I-Iolcha. CAROL CLI N E Page Twenly-eight

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SIISIIEIIEIIEIISACORN l933'.-:Il'SllZll..'4II':lI2 Ivy Orafion We are assembled here in 'rhe shadow of +his greal inslilulion lo observe, in solemn ceremony, a lradirion bolh sacred and beaulilul lo us all-The planling of The ivy. Wilhin lhe classrooms of This, our beloved school, we have spenl busy years pre- paring ourselves lor Jrhal which now lies before us. We should nor fear rhe lurure- ralher we should welcome every opporlunily +o cope wilh whalever obslacles may be lhrusr belore us, and by so doing prove nor only lo olrhers buf 'ro ourselves 'rhal educa- lion is +he mighliesr weapon we can possess in our ballle wilh life. We can draw a parallel belween lhis planl and ourselves: I+ was Jralcen lo a nursery when very young-we were raken lo school. Under The careful eye of lhe horlriculfurisl lhis planl was cared for physically. ln school our reachers cared for us bofh physically and menlally. Now lhis ivy planl is broughl here, away from i+s greenhouse, and from lhis day forward if rnusl secure ils own nourishrnenl or perish. We are leaving school lo go info college or business and we musl make our own way. As lhe ivy we shall cling To Jrhee- Our school, our hope, our need: And lalcing courage we shall say, We cannol fail-we musi' succeed. RICHARD RAGAR Page Thiriy