Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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BOARD OF EDUCATION Standing: Mr. Frank. Mr. Gray. Seated: Mrs. Huffman. Mr. Parker, Mr. Smith. Mr. Heckert. just as an airport would be handicapped without a good staff of directors, Oakwood schools would also be handicapped without a good school hoard and staff of adminisf trators. The Board of Education, headed by Mr. Edwin D. Smith, who has served for seventeen years, includes in addition Mr. Alfred S. Frank, vicefpresidentg Mrs. Horace Huffman, Mr. Frederick Heckert, Mr. Horace Gray, and Mr. R. A. Parker, clerk of the board. Meetings are held the last Monday evening of each month in the school office. First among the projects undertaken by the Board this year was the passing of the threefmill tax levy to maintain the high standards of the school. Oakwood's citizens showed their approval by a twoftofone vote for the measure. The November elections also brought about the closing of Dayton's schools, making it necessary for the Board to decide on the matter of taking in Dayton students. The vote was that we should take in such students where there was room and where adjustments could be made, provided they promised to complete the year at Oakwood and pay the full tuition fee. From the state director of education word was received in February that Oakwood schools continue in high standing on the list of schools approved by the Department. This report, following an unannounced inspection of the schools by F. M. Shelton, Division of Instruction of the State Department of Education, sums up very well, and in an unprejudiced way, the results of the efforts of our Board of Education, adminisf trators, and faculty: The schools are under capable leadership, The program is well arranged to meet the needs of the pupils enrolled. The teaching is above average in qualityg some of it is superior. The pupils were interested and responsive, That good work is being done is evidenced by the high scholarship records made by the pupils not only in the state tests and College Board examinations but later in college standing. You have an excellent plant that is centrally located. All departments are well equipped, what is more, the equipment is used to advantage. lt is noted with approval that the sixfyear program in guidance has been further developed. that safety instruction is given with special emphasis placed on automof bile driving, and that a fourthfyear review course in mathematics is being offered. On the opposite page are pictured: in the upper left, Mr. Allan Zook, principal of the junior High School, conferring with Jack Hendrichs, ninth grade, upper right, Mr. A. E. Claggett, superintendent of the Oakwood schools and principal of the Senior High School, with Kenneth Stewart, center, Mr. John N. Lewis, assistant superintendent and assistant principal of the Senior High, signing Mary Dunwoodie's absence excuse, lower left, Miss Frances Shepler, secretary of the Senior High School, with Jim Whalen, one of the office boys, and lower right, Mr. Robert Pool, secretary of the junior High School, with his second-period office boy, O. B. johnson. Page seven

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Fifteenth Anniversary Flight Of The Aeorn In 1924 the first annual was issued, a small paperfhacked hooklet of eightyffour pages with not many pictures. Since then, fifteen yearhooks have heen puhlished, form' ing a very good history of the progress of Oakwood High School. In the first annual we read: 'LThe school year of 192324 hrought to Oakwood school its first senior class of nine memhers. They were Howard Blank, Rowan Greer, john Hatcher, Elizaheth Hiett, Ethel Kepler, Edna King, Fred Shotwell, Emmeline Smith, and Willizim Stupp, all of whom served on the first annual staff. We note also: In 1920 the Oakwood orchestra was organized with nine memhers. It now 11924, has grown to the extent of twenty memhersf' Playing the flute was T. J. Wcmnid, incidentally. The calendar of the 1926 Acorn states that on Octoher 16, hest game of the season, Fairview was defeated 7f0 . . . good old rivalry. Among the organizations of . PM ' Soft G'RLs' L pf: E CL 55,935 FIRST ANNUAL STAFF -1924- E E 'f-937 , Y 44'