Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Fithian, IL)

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936 l T l THE ACORN l l I9 The same picTure. We see ArdyTh Dobbles cornering Bob WalTers. who has esTab- lished a beTTer air-mail sysTem Tor This counTry, To Tell him abouT her Trials and Tribu- lafions as a physical educaTion insTrucTor. Now we pop over and Talk To Reba WrighT abouT The laTesT news she's dug up Tor The New York Times . She Tells us ThaT she saw Wanda Sadler VanZandT, whose husband is prospering as a caTTle-buyer, aT The circus The oTher aTTernoon enjoying The anTics of ThaT clown, Gale GosseTT. And iT seems ThaT Wilma Womacks aTTempTed To drown herselT because Henry LeRoy, ThaT hearT-breaker. has disconTinued Their engagemem' and is being seen wiTh Alice Bock. We see ThaT Miss VanAllen has hired a high-Toned waiTress. Helen Burke, Tor The evening, and has ordered Tood from RuTh Condon's delicaTessen shop. MerediTh CrawTord isn'T here-ouT in Hollywood designing dresses. so we hear. Lillian Fahey is away on a Trip To Europe. A Tew hours laTer we reTurn To our hoTel, of which Joe Cain is The proprieTor. Then, To repenT Tor our sins of The pasT week, we aTTend church services aT dawn. The Theme oT Reverend Donald Cox's sermon This morning concerns love and TaiTh. lT would seem ThaT he has The Nevada Wolfe versus James Mason case on his mind, The Tormer oT which is suing Tor divorce-alienaTion oT aTTecTions. There's Bonnie STipp in The congregaTion-iusT back from a missionary Trip To China. ln The aTTernoon we go To The hospiTal To visiT ChesTer Peugh, who was iniured while working in a coal mine. Franklin BenTon did his biT by rushing him To The hospiTal in his milk-delivery Truck. Some of The Tlowers have come from RoberTa Green's Tlor- isT shop. The Sabbarh is over, and we see Bill STeube Taking baskeTs of vegeTables and TruiT To his usual place in The public markeT. WinTress Thompson, manager oT a Thriv- ing beauTy parlor. hasTens over in her car Tor some Tresh TruiT. Merle Miller, a man of leisure since he inheriTed his uncle's TorTune, passes and asks iT we have TickeTs To The symphony concerT in which Wilbur Royer is playing. Lunching aT Halma l-larden's Tea room, we encounTer Wilma JohnsTon, a hisTorian: EsTher BroThers. a popular lecTurer on Home subiecTs, and GreTchen Dobbles. The buyer Tor Cunningham's Dress Shop. No Time now Tor musing. We musT Tip The waiTer and hurry back To The oTTice To give our secreTary, Mary RuTh Clapp, some dicTaTion, including a leTTer To RoberT Fagaly, in relaTion To Tunds Tor The SalvaTion Army, oT which Mr. Fagaly is The direcTor. -R. G. 81 W. J.

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936 l l THE ACORN l I I9 CLASS PROPHECY Friends and fellow classmafes, go wiTh us a few years info The fufure, and IeT your imaginafion wander as ours has. FirsT, we visiT Washingfon, our cenfer of inTeresT being The Capifol building. There we see Gene -l-larT sTiII going sTrong afTer a few hours of filibusTering , while The differenf members in The Senafe lamong whom are Bill' Grimes and Virgil SmiThl have long since given up any prefense of inTeresT. lWe have seen in The newspaper ThaT James Davis is campaigning for The office of presidenf of The Unifed STaTes.l We waiT impaTienTly Through The resT of The speech and hurry ouT inTo The sTreeT where The Taxi-driver, Harvey Schneider, was Told To waiT. We are hailed by James Myers, now The proud fafher of James, Jr., and a Tireless Talker on child psychology. We wiTh- draw as soon as iT is polifely possible and insTrucT our driver To hasTen To a deparT- menT sTore of his own choosing. As The elevaTor boy, Carlile Wafkins, Takes us To The Top floor we discuss The happy marriage of Eva Cox-buT here we are aT The Top floor. Lo and behold! There's Freida Reeder. She's evidenfly modeling gowns for ThaT wealThy socieTy dame-why, bless my soul, iT's Carmel CarTerl Before long we leave The sTore and are driven To The airporT, where our piloT. Don Duke, alerTly awaiTs our insTrucTions. IT is dark when we end our journey, and we go To a celebrafed nighf club, where Wilma Wilson, The blues singer , is performing. The head-waiTer, Raymond Duke. direcTs us To our favorife Table. The Masfer of Ceremonies, Orville GuTTerridge, announces The nexT number, a Tap-dance feafuring Marian Ray, wiTh The musical accompanimenf of Cliff CronkhiTe's Champions. The pianisT is Dorofhy Michael-noT a bad job she's doing, eiTher. Having finished an excellenf meal, The doorman, David Cole, bids us good evening as we deparf. Then, speeding down The sTreeT, we see a new-fangled fire Truck. As our driver makes way for iT we caTch a glimpse of The dignified fire chief. Can iT be-iT IS Russell Hen- dricksonl LaTer on we break in on a parTy aT Eileen VanAllen's sTudio. There's Louise Alberf wiTh a flock of sTill-eligible bachelors craving her aTTenTion. Why, one of Them is Cloyd McFarland! There's Josephine DyserT, famous aufhoress of ThaT new book, SophisTicaTed Senior. We hear ThaT Wilda VanAllen is Teamed wiTh Earl Banfz in a new screen role, and ThaT Winifred Mayhew has been promised a balleT parT in

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936 l l THE ACORN l... l I9 IUNIOR CLASS PresidenT ........ .... J uaniTa Sperry Vice PresidenT .... ........ V ernon Jones SecreTary ...... .... K enneTh Seymour Treasurer ..... ...... R alph Johnson Adviser .................................... Miss RuTherTord When KenneTh Seymour resigned, Jack LamberT was elecTed To fill his posiTion as secreTary. The Seniors enTerTained The Juniors wiTh a parTy aT The school December l7. GiTTs were exchanged and reTreshmenTs were served in The gymnasium. Dancing and card playing Tilled in The resT of The Time and everyone wenT home in good spiriTs. As The big social evenT oT The year The Juniors enTerTained The Seniors May 23rd wiTh The annual dinner-dance aT The Grier-Lincoln hoTel in Danville., Chinese lanTerns as decoraTions and Chinese Tood creaTed an a+mosphere of old China Tor The diners and dancers. OTFicers: Kenne+h Seymour, JuaniTa Sperry, Vernon Jones, Ralph Johnson. Top Row-John Hume, Louis Tellier, CurTis Gilliland, WalTer ScoTT, Claude Bridgman. Verne SaulTs. James ThaTcher, Reed Lewis, EvereTT Peugh, Wesley Fairchild. Second Row-MargareT Gillen. Anna Mae Green, RoberT Taylor, Lois Huclcin, Arnold Elchferr, Alvin OsTerbur, DoroThy RichTer, LaVern CarpenTer, Earl Macy, Norman . o n. Third Row-Orville CasTle, Donald Blue, Erma Rice, Ora RichTer, DelberT STrong, Gene Wilson, Harold Downing, Henry Eourez, HarrieT Pichon, Jacob GuTTerridge. FourTh Row-MargareT Williams, RuTh Lee, Glen Dulce, Vivian Giacone, Edi+h Clem, James Rouse, Rosalia McAlisTer, Louise Shipman. Jack LamberT. FiTTh Row-Miss RuTherTord, Nellie Wonderlin, Mary Rose, Lois MiddleTon, BeTTy ScoTT, Geneva HunT, Barbara CasTeel, Wilma CronlchiTe, Zuleime HarT. THE BLACK ACE The TirsT big evenT OT The year Tor The Juniors Tool: place November 8Th and 9Th in The Torm oT The Junior play. The play was oT The mysTery varieTy and was Tilled wiTh several Thrilling murders which were solved in clue course by The deducTions of The shrewd deTecTive and his able assisTanT. The coaching oT Miss Youmans and Mrs. Blackburn, and The cooperaTion oT The resT oT The class made The play a Two-nighT success, in spiTe of bad weaTher. The casT was as Tollows: Philip MarTin, EvereTT Peugh: Alice MarTin, JuaniTa Sperry: Lydia Halsey, Barbara CasTeel: Ronald Carey, RoberT Taylor: STanley PeTers, LaVern CarpenTer: Louise Oakley, Erma Rice: Myra Conlclin, Vivian Giacone: EsTelle Hannard. Rosalia McAlisTer: Thomas Newbury, KenneTh Sey- mour: Royce Bradley, John Hume: lnspecTor, Jaclc Larnberf: Harry Ryan, James Rouse: Cora FlinT, MargareT Gillen. 1