Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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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

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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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BOARD OF EDUCATION Marching along with a wartime schedule, the Board oi Education has taken new objectives in its stride. lts tactics enabled it to buy materiel for the home economics and manual arts rooms. The board consists of the following members: Frederick Heckert, president: David E. Detrickg Robert S. Oelmanp Fern I. Blose: Mrs. George Murray: and R. Allen Parker, clerk-treasurer. Mrs. Charles Kyle, aide-de-camp to the Clerk ol the Board, makes out payroll checks, pays bills, and tigures the school income tax schedule BOARD OF EDUCATION LEFT TO RIGHT: Mrs. Murray, Mr. Parker. Mr. Heckert, Mr. Blose and Mr. Detrick. ....Miss Nadine Stewart, a graduate of Miami University, is the new aide-de-camp in the Senior High Office, Where she takes care of the tele- phone, takes rapid-tire dictation, and keeps rec- ords. MEDICAL CORPS Dr. Harry Lautenslager, who has charge of the medical dispensary, was assisted by Miss Sylvia Brose until her call to service as a second lieutenant in the Army Nurses Corps. Miss Brose's post has now been capably filled by Mrs. Robert Brumbaugh. Miss Stewart, military aide in Mrs. Kyle, military master mind Dr. Lautenslager and Miss Brose Senior High Office of finance bandage a wounded rookie