Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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RANGERS Filling two important posts as boys' athletic director and assistant principal of the junior high school, Mack Hummon this year has coached the varsity football team on to a successful season. Adding another undefeated season to her list this year, Miss Bess Hayner, girls' athletic director, coaches the Lumberjills' successful hockey teams and is beloved by all-including members ot her biology classes. Thomas D. Brown Ir.'s thought provoking ques- tions manage to stump his hard working history students most of the time. Captain Brown also occu- pies the important post of dean ot boys. Mrs. Thomas D. Brown, Ir., dean of girls, advises college bound 'Iills and directs Girls' League besides teaching English to the upper classmen. Assisting the Oakwoodites in understanding and speaking their own English language more fluently is the job ot Mrs. Frances S. Kampmeyer, who also explains the mysteries of Shakespeare to them. Miss Myriam Page, who is now ending her first year at Oakwood, is well liked for the interesting as well as educational assignments which her English classes receive. Miss Alice Hunter augments her English classes with anec- dotes and extra bits of information which are ot much interest to the loggers. English, Spanish, journalism and creative writin classes kee Miss ,J Mr. Hummon Miss Hayner Mr. and Mrs. Brown QI P Mildred Campbell busy: but she still finds time to act as Acorn adviser, a position which carries with it great trial and tribulation. Mrs. Kampmeyer, Miss Page, Miss Hunter, Miss Campbell tilt

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Mr. Lewis Mr. Claggett Mr. Zook CHIEF Chief logger of the entire Oakwood lumber camp is Superintendent Arthur E. Claggett who supervises activities and relays signals expertly and smoothly with a friendly smile to all. Mr. Claggett strives to employ only the smoothest, most capable methods in order to prevent log jams from endanger- ing camp unity. Ranger Iohn N. Lewis, assistant principal of the senior high, instructs the upper- classmen in math and pre-flight besides acting as assistant coach of the football team. Ranger Lewis's after school sessions for wayward Lumberjacks are justly famous. Well-known, too, is his badminton skill which is often exhibited to spectators who happen by about 4:30 in the afternoon. In his junior high forest, Allan Zook teaches algebra to the younger woodsmen and serves as faculty manager of all Oakwood athletic events in addition to fulfilling his duties as principal of the junior high school where he preserves enviable peace. Serving our community without pay and ren- dering the highest service, the Oakwood Board of Education this year has continued its fine record of notable accomplishments. All school affairs have been managed with efficiency and dispatch. Among its many projects has been the purchase of additional equipment for the machine shop. The Board consists of Frederick W. Heckert, president: David E. Detrickp Robert S. Oelman: Charles R. Martin: Mrs. George R. Murray: and R. Allen Parker, clerk-treasurer. Mr. Detrick, Mr. Martin. Mr. Parker, Mr. Heckert, Mrs. Murray C65

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-M ...Q Miss Helen Stilwell, whose personality de- velopment classes have brought out the great charm of Oakwood's Lumberjacks, teaches am- bitious Loggers to speak French in the best Parisian tradition. Miss Iosephine Auld's talents do not end with her Latin I and English classes, for this well-liked newcomer to the Oakwood faculty coaches the junior high Lumberjill hockey team as well. Keeping the woodsmen well in hand in her Latin classes, Miss Georgia Baker often holds some timely and educational pow- wows which vie with Caesar and Virgil for first place in the minds of thoughtful Lumberjacks. Mrs. Richard Latham directs the commercial de- partment. Loggers completing a typing course under her supervision have left the two fingered hunt-and-peck system far behind. Deep-voiced Edmund L. Bigelow who teaches history and science is well-known in the Lumber-- jack sports' world as coach of the baseball team. Towering over the younger Lumberjacks in the Miss Stilwell Miss Auld Miss Baker Mrs. Latham junior high is Stanley McGowan who, besides instructing them in math, keeps order in the junior high trails. Supervising the printing department and teaching mechanical drawing and algebra occupy A. M. Hoffman's Oakwood hours. An expert in the world of history is William D. Kuhns. who keeps his classes in social science and his- tory on their toes with his famous surprise quizzes and oversize maps. Good-natured Iohn W. Dougherty heads the manual arts department and teaches math to the seventh grade green- horns. In the junior high forest Charles Moore's history, science, and biology students leave his classes with a thorough knowledge of these sub- jects. Famous for his inspiring pep talks and humorous comments to dreamy-eyed students in his history classes, Oliver N. Iohnson guides the seventh grade football squad on to victory. Ralph Hartzell, head of the music department. lends his excellent advice to the Woodchoppers' band, orchestra, and chorus. Mr. Bigelow Mr. Dougherty Mr. McGowan Mr. Hoffman Mr. Kuhns Mr. Moore Mr. Iohnson Mr. Hartzell