Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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. . ing Qlrthurs Oakwood High School can thank a former freight hrakeman for its eminent prestige in educational circles. Superintendent Arthur E, Claggett, respected and adf mired hy educational leaders throughout the country, founded Oakwood High in 1922, and it is largely KING A. E. CLAUGETT through his cliorts that the school has progressed so rapidly and acquired such a high scholastic standing locally and nationally. hir. Claggett was horn in Dayton, where hc attended Steele High School: hut his college study carried him from Ohio State University, where he secured his RA. degree, to the University of California, where he oh' tained his M.A. He also took graduate work at Har' yard and the University of Cincinnati. However, his activities certainly did not stop with the intellectual. Besides working in a hank and audit' ing at the National Cash Register Company, he has moiled in a stone quarry and has heen a freight hrakef man hetween VVashington, D.C., and Vsfilmington, Delaware. Before estahlishing our Lumherjacl-1 camp here in Uakwood, Mr. Claggett was principal of Fairview fnlightcnud sign High and Parker High, and assistant principal ol' Stivf ers. At present he lives on Raleigh Road with Mrs. Claggett and his daughter joan, an outstanding senior at Qakwood High this year. His son, Samuel, also a graduate of this school, spent four years at Cornell and is now one of four engineers in charge of huilding the Atlantic Fleet Ammunition Depot at Burns City, ln' diana. A married daughter, Lois, is living in Lexingf ton, Kentucky. Mr. Claggett enjoys gardening, hiking, and riding. He also is an ardent mountain elimher, having scaled l'ike's Peak and several other western steeps. News hroadcasts and classical music comprise his favorite iii i ? l E :c E C -i CD 3' Q w C 2 Z iff xg-:S 5 9 ' Vi f es: -3 W :S- f 5 X ,Q . ' F .ffl R-I I ,I M ' x '5 ,. V -' . r J I V I I I I F. .c irrf Q s S F 1152 ' 1 i, N ----' 4 17 , g Z-' types of radio program, while at the theater he likes to see ,ludy Garland, Andy Hardy pictures, and the lviareh of Time. This year Mr. Claggett, superintendent of Oakwood schools and principal ol' the senior high school, formally inherits the title of King Arthur, crusader in the field of education and ruler of Uakwoods castle ol' learn' ing. Under this modern King Arthur, a firm heliever in democratic principles, the suhjeets help to rule them' selves, hut always in times of trouhle there is the King to turn to for experienced guidance. Long live the King! li7l