Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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Miss Margaret V. Steindorf, commandant of the library divi- sion, has several student sub- alterns who take charge of the circulation detail. Miss Stein- dorf also directed the Victory Book Campaign, during which she urged student draftees to pile their jeeps with good litera- ture and deposit their booty in the library. Q9 1 E 'V '- 5 Q3 V 1' Xl ,B. qw 1 . , ,S George B. McClellan, new teacher of mathe- matics and sciences, sends trainees into his pri- vate guardhouse, the corner, when they dis- rupt classes. His war time duties include First Aid work and a job as Air Raid Warden... Charles Moore, teacher of civics, history and biology, furthers agricultural interests of biology students by urging the growth of Victory gardens ....Earl Marsh, varsity basketball and junior high football coach, when not training classes in math, science, and geometry is a study hall M. P. Between summer research work, occasional fish- ing trips, inventing, and flying, Carlos Crum instructs future lab technicians in chemistry and physics. Manual training instructor, Iohn Dougherty, SCIENCES Mr. McClellan Mr. Moore Mr. Marsh Mr. Crum whose other classes are history and mathematics, does machine shop work in the summer .... Miss Gertrude Mendenhall receives mass-production art products from her junior high pupils twice a Week besides lending her talents to the U. S. O. . . . .Miss Lou K. Weber, Red Cross helper, teaches fine arts finely and has had many budding artists burst into bloom with war posters and artistic camouflage .... Music department head, Ralph Hartzell, drills his military band and re- hearses the orchestra, chorus, and glee club. He is songleader at the Service Club and a fire watcher .... Head librarian Miss Margaret Stein- dorf, besides teaching English and supervising several study halls, enlists student librarians to aid her in collecting and preparing books for the Victory Book Campaign. EXPRESSION Mr. Hartzell Mr. Dougherty Miss Weber Miss Mendenhall

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ENGLISH Miss Miss Miss Miss Shepler Campbell Lesser Flynn COMMANDING OFFICERS Miss Isabel Flynn, senior adviser, not only sponsors the Oakleaflet but is also teaching French to Africa-bound government employees. in addition to regular English .... Taking Mrs. Bender's strategic position as head of the English department, Miss Goldie Lesser springs occa- sional tests on her pupils, training them for surprise attacks. Although film is rationed, photography is still her favorite hobby...Miss Mildred Campbell, a new teacher from Florida, has a variety of classes: English, Spanish, jour- nalism, and creative writing. Also the new Acorn adviser, she helps journalism pupils beat deadlines and make headlines...Miss Frances Shepler, former secretary to Mr. Claggett, now fills a post in the English department and teaches classes to be on the offensive in their constant state of combat with grammar. Edmund L. Bigelow, who keeps plugging his famed baseball teamsters during his science and history classes, relaxes comfortably while teach- ing. He does his bit on the rescue squad .... William D. Kuhns employs one of his favorite tactics, blitz quizzes, on his unsuspecting trainees in ancient history and social science camps .... William L. Sanders, history and Eng- lish teacher, flashes war news nightly over WHIO. One of our allies, China, claims his special at- tention because he formery taught at the Uni- versity of Nanking...Senior adviser Oliver N. Iohnson puts his rookies wise in history and science classes and also coaches the seventh grade football commandos in khaki humor. He produces his own food, cooperating with the agricultural program. 2 SOCIAL SCIENCES Mr. Kuhns Mr. Bigelow Mr. Johnson Mr. Sanders

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PRACTICAL ARTS Mrs. Russell Mr. Hoffman Miss Sparrow Miss MacDonald A. M. Hoffman, supervisor of the printing department, keeps his student draftees busy printing tickets, posters, programs, etc. Besides doing tool designing for the war effort, he teaches mechanical drawing and algebra .... Miss Arlene Sparrow, another newcomer, teaches freshman algebra, bookkeeping, and a typing class that can make typewriters sound like machine guns: and she also helps at the U. S. O.. . .Miss Donalda MacDonald's brigade mimeographs and types the Oakleaflet, office records, exams, etc. The pencil-pushing squad does fine shorthand under her direction. U. S. O. is also her war job .... Under the guidance of Mrs. Helen Russell, home economics dough girls bake victory cakes and sew war time clothes. Rationing hasn't stopped them-yet! ln the classes of Miss Georgia Baker, Red Cross Volunteer Nurses' Aid, Virgil and other Latin authors are drilled in military fashion into the heads of Latin I and II pupils .... Miss Helen Stilwell's Fighting French Corps keep rolling their r's while new trainees in the classes learn to parler francais. She is chairman of Iunior Hostesses at the Soldiers' Service Club ..., Mrs. Albert Parker, formery known to her English and Latin l classes as Miss Linda Dill, guides the junior high hockey and baseball teams. She also helps at the U. S. O. Travelers' Aid and Soldiers' Service Club .... Public speaking instructor Iohn M. Martin appointed to the War Writers' Board, has had many Oakwood troops come back tri- umphant from speech battles. Pan American re- lations are furthered in Senor Martin's Spanish I and II classes. LANGUAGES Mrs. Parker Mr. Martin Miss Stilwell Miss Baker