Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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Variety of Experiences Makes 1965 Memorable MRS. BUCK’S daughter Kathy joined varsity cheer¬ leaders for the 1964 Homecoming game. SEMESTER EXAMS, the cause of many student headaches, were mimeo¬ graphed in the office by Miss Liesner. PEP-O-GRAMS WERE posted in the senior high hall for student signatures to show support for the football team. Variety is the prescribed remedy for the deadly virus of boredom, and happily this year was a year of contrasts: the heightened excitement of the football game with Northmont and the tedium of trying to do consistently acceptable work in a sub¬ ject where our talents are obviously absent, the sharp ecstacy of a letter of acceptance from a first- choice college and the feeling of knowing we really ruined an important test, the humid classrooms on the first day of school and later the below-zero temperatures that made us warm our hands over the toaster in the morning after facing an icy blast to bring in the Journal Herald, the whirr of power saws downing the trees on Far Hills and the al¬ most eerie hush of expectancy during the final awards assembly.

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FRESHMAN BIOLOGY students-to-be decided to beat the fall frosts by getting a start on their required insect collections during the summer. Three months intervened between final exam¬ inations last June and the first day of the new school year, but they were such activity-filled days for most of us that they passed quickly. Many of us had the opportunity to travel, but, although we scattered from Paris to Kyoto, there were still plenty of activities in our own community — Y open houses, summer reading lists, picnics, swim¬ ming, Shakespeare at Antioch, summer jobs, and, of course, summer school. Football practice under a blistering August sun was the prelude of organized activity that signi¬ fied the beginning of regular school life. After a night at the Y’s community social, schedule cards in hand, we returned to another nine months of classes at Oakwood High School. MISS HOLIDAY, Daryl Chase, was selected from a field of thirty-six entries and chosen to be the first Oakwood girl to reign over Kettering’s Holiday at Home festivities. MISUNDERSTANDINGS OVER a series of articles in the Dayton Daily News about Oakwood’s youth and the proposed family guide finally resulted in a student picket line on Schantz Avenue. 5

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PEERING THROUGH microscopes in the bilogy labora¬ tory, science students can study organic materials at close-range. FAR HILLS Avenue took on a new look this year; trees in front of the school were marked with yellow X’s, trimmed, sawed, and later removed completely to widen Oakwood’s main street. 7