Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Fithian, IL)

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and remembering Curly’s pleasant ways, I did not wonder at so many beautiful gilds being anxious to meet him. Again I was in San Francisco. In one of its largest theatres I saw a most familiar face upon the screen. It was Edith Parker and she was fast becoming popular in the movies. From outsiders I learned that she was soon to return to her home to be married. In the center of Los Angeles I beheld a large store. My eyes kept gazing and gazing in search of some familiar face. Yes, there it was. The floor-walker was fast approaching. It was Urith Quick. After talking for awhile she directed me towards the back of the room for another surprise. Following her, I soon found Thelma Lane, who was becoming quite an expert in running elevators. She could go from first floor to seventh in three seconds easily. The next person I met in this large department store was Ross Cox, who had just been elected president of the firm. In his private office I found Clar Ellen Hume who had become his private secretary. She was doing this between her spare moments as society editor for the evening paper. In far away Colorado I saw Clara Mildred Green as a French teacher. After securing various degrees from her colleges she had settled in Colorado to teach the westerners that long longed-for subject. In one of Denver’s largest electrical factories I discovered Cleo Plotner. He had now become an expert in electrical engineering and seemed to be very happy in his new home. I was again back nearer home. The class of 1934 of Northwestern University was graduating. On the stage I saw Bob Michael delivering their address and I learned that he was running a close second in oratory with Eva Youmans, who had just entered the faculty of Northwestern as an English teacher. The dancing teacher here was naturally Genevieve Wilson who had now become famous at home and abroad. My visions were coming to an end just as I was passing through one of this college’s laboratory rooms. Here I found Bill Meade and Tom Snyder working diligently on the science of Egyptian bugs. All my dreams faded as I was awakened from my reverie by one of the shrieking coyotes. I came to, dazed and puzzled over my many sights and experiences of the night before. —Thelma Lane, ’24. ¥ Page Twenty-one

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 Our Qoar As the ages go onward and the curtain of the present slowly passes over that of the past, we stop and think, wondering just what we have accomplished in our four years of high school. Of course, they may well be classed as years of study but we also realize that we have derived benefits from other sources too. In other words “Our Goal,” has meant many different things to us. As students, we have endeavored to do our best but at the same time our hours have been sprinkled with sunshine for, along with our work, many happy moments have been creeping in on us unawares. It is only when we go back once again and recall times that their memories are again placed more firmly in our minds. As a class we have always tried to do our bit toward the betterment of 0. T. H. S. because our loyalty has been the best we could give. Much happiness was gained in this way for we have always taken prominent parts in our school activities. “Friends” are always classed as the greatest asset any person may possess. The many friends we have made in high school may be counted as stepping stones to “Our Goal.” We realize that without friends the world would not progress so smoothly; business would not be what it is and life would be almost unbearable. Since these friends are an ultimate cause for everything accomplished, we feel confident that our beginning in the world as men and women will produce better results now than if we had never striven for those things that have reached us, “Our Goal.” In addition to “Friends” we have learned how to not only become honest and efficient people but have also been taught the idea of working for ourselves. Our ambitions have been raised higher; our many trials and hardships have only made happier our struggles for our education. We have learned that “Success” comes only after enough effort has been displayed by the person who is backing it. All our struggles and successes may be attributed to that one star, “Our Goal.” When we have graduated, it will be with only happy thoughts that we will look back and remember the many lessons learned, the high ideals formed and our realizations which have bounded out of those made in our high school days. We will then thank those who have worked with us so patiently, helping us to gain “Our Goal.” We wish our successors all the luck and happiness we have so enjoyed and so now, schoolmates, remember us, the class of ’24, and strive to attain in your Goal what we have so faithfully received in “Our Goal.” Thelma Lane, ’24. Page Twenty Three