Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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We ended our years at the Iunior High with a very fine record and a graduation exercise. lack Storms won the honor of being all-round boy and Dane Prugh and Bob Stein won the athletic honors. Nancy Ohmer won the girls' all-round cup and Ianet Gates and Milly Hostetter received the athletic awards. X. The Reformation New members whom we met in this period were Bob Engel- man, Hu h Howard, Iim Kuntz Cwith Mr. I.ewis's consent, although ine had been with the class ahead since the seventh gradej, Warren Loudon, Marfield McSherry, Charles Reitz, Carl Welhener, and Ted I-Iarroll. These inmates ushered in the period of Reformation, a new attempt at going brain-trust. XI. The Renaissance In the eleventh chapter an Industrial Revolution took place. There was a revival of learning, a Renaissance, when people decided to change their old ways and get down to work. The class average, at this time, rose three or four points and mem- bers of the class got more scholarship awards than ever before, Steve Gilman leading this group. Eleven junior boys received football letters this year. Important personages encountered for the first time were Ioe Hendrix, George Langley, Evelyn Hartzell, Virginia Humberger, and Eileene Smith. Jackie Wolfe, having left us after a certain party at Huffman's farm in the ninth grade, returned after a year in St. Louis. XII. Absolutism Under the Ahsolutism of our senior class the school has pros- pered as it never has before and never will again. Three people came this year to help us with our New Regime : Lewis Rock, Ira Iones Cthat accentlj, and Mary Wysong. Mary, coming straight from Washington, was sent as a government agent to supervise activities. We studied assiduously the long- lost Oakwood Constitution. The new Student Council was started with Lew Rock at its head. This year the football team was undefeated and unscored on through an entire sea- son. The girls' basketball team lost no games. It was a mem- ber of our senior class that won first place in the scholarship tests given at Steele. It is our class that has the best Acorn ever published. We feel that the effect of our senior regime will long be remembered and will dwell in history forever and everl if ir EPILOGUE The last chapter of our historical biography is yet to be written. Its contents lie in the laps of those gods who have so far successfull directed our achievements. I wish to express, at this time, tllie gratitude and appreciation of our class to the members of the faculty, especially our advisers-Mr. Harsh, Miss Harvey, Miss Stilwell, and Mr. Martin, who have helped to make us the extraordinary class we are today. We add but one short word in closing. Realizing the limited ability of the juniors, we trust that the history of their uneventful lives may be one-tenth as thrilling and epoch-making as ours has beenl Polly Frank SYA A Y 4- - . , f I g rf r f. B51 1 I Q x f X , f 1- 1 - if J .. J

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Harmon this year: Iane Kiefaber, jean Miller, and Betty Gallaher. The main event in this period was The Knave of Hearts play. We, the Harmonians, revealed that histrionic ability which has made the class of '36 so famous. The Knave himself was none other than Dane Prugh. The King was Dick Lott. The part of the Queen was played by Ianie Ohmer, who was then, in her innocence, not jitterized by audiences as she is today. Marianna Rehling was close runner-up for the part of the Queen. We remember that jane was so excited when she was going up to Dick's throne, that she slipped and fell down the steps, much to the audience's amusement. Other main parts were taken by Mary lane Boyles, Sherman Shonk, Phil Huffman Cacting natural as the court jesterj, jack Storms, Polly and Laurence. At Shafor many new classmates came to help produce another good drama. They were Harold, Bob Stein, Peg y Bossard, Mary Kay Burns, and Virginia Sonnanstine. Tie Shaforites wrote their own play, The Poor Count's Christ- gasu and Mary Kay was the Countess, Walter Hoefer the ount. During recesses this year in the winter we went coasting on the hills beside the school, and the girls played jacks in the lower hall. The sprin gave birth to that most novel game, the Ma gies versus tie Iiggs. The Empire, with us as its leaders, Tad been built during the past five years. We ended our elementary school days with a regular grown-up gradua- tion. VII. Disruption of the Empire Our advent into the seventh period of our history was a won- derful event. The Harmonians came into the High School, while the Shaforites stayed in their own building for just this year. Soon we were made to realize that we were only the pests of the school and our Empire was disrupted. We were now just another group strug ling for a lace in the sun. The new members who joined us at this lliectic time of our lives were Don Eckhardt, Fran Canada, and lean Hyre. Those who appeared with the Shafor group for the first time this year were Glen Maxon and Dave Altick. Walter Worman joined us this year, too. VIII. The Immigration Problem This eighth year experienced the fusion of Shaforites and Harmonians and their immigration to the new Oakwood junior High School. This immi ration brought many hard- ships to everyone. The new building was still in the construc- tion stage. Classes were interrupted by painters, men with blow-torches, foul-smelling paint which made those with weaker constitutions sick, men climbing step-ladders to fix the lights, etc. The new people who were so unfortunate as to come at this time were Glen Callander, Barbara Beem, Virginia Hopper, our Editor Betty Knoll, and Gladys Manney. Herb Rollins came the last semester, went to Chicago, decided he'd give us a break, and returned in the tenth grade. IX. The Labor Problem It was at the beginnin of the ninth year that the Labor Problem commenced. Tie teachers repeatedly told us that we should start working hard, that every grade counted and would be sent to college, and that we would be sorry later on if we hadn't taken their advice and begun to study. Thus it was that the Labor Problem first presented itself to us. l'm sorry to say that we found no solution for it at that time, and not many of us heeded the advice of our worthy teachers. We met uite a few new people at this period: Dale Allen, Bill Byrd, gharles Farler, Charles Leyes, Bob Burkhardt, Venita Strain, and lim Gibbons, who came the second semester. Virginia Hollinger, who had been with the class ahead since kinder- garten, then joined us so that she could play tennis in the afternoons.

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