Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Fithian, IL)

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OUR HIGH SCHOOL AND THE WAR 0. T. H. S. has exerted every effort to assist where possible in winning the war. Besides serving on various war effort committees, the teachers registered for the gasoline rationing. The F. F. A. executed a most successful scrap drive, scouring the district with trucks for all available metal. The Agriculture Department through the O. S. Y. A. conducted eight classes for adults on Soybean and Pork Production, and the Preservation of Food. Classes were held at Newtown, Oakwood, and Central Church. A class in Farm Machinery Repairing was conducted in Fithian by Grittens. Student Council members sponsored a successful war stamp and bond sales campaign. Added emphasis and adaptation of suitable material were deemed best in fitting the curriculum to the war situation. Guidance assumed the form of preparing our boys for their new environment and life in the armed forces. Army and Navy tests for the V12 program were conducted in our school. Most of all, we are preparing ourselves for a new philosophy of life situations after this war—preparing to live successfully as a democratic group in the coming “Air Age.”

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Class Member Branch of Class Member Branch of Service Service 1937 Donald Blue Armv 1940 Paul Dobbles Navy Glen Duke Navy Leland Downing Army Jacob Gutterridge Army Kenneth Foley Navy John Hume Navy Donald Haines Army Ralph Johnson Army Jim Hayes Marines Reed Lewis Army Cloyd Jones Army Earl Macy Army Laurence Majercin Army Everett Peugh Navy Merle Mauck Army Robert Taylor Army Charles Miller Army Louis Tellier Army Albert Mitchell Army James Thatcher Army Robert Neff Army Eugene Wilson Army Ivan Richter Army Albert Schramm Navy 1938 George Graham Marines James Scott Army Elmer Grimes Marines Hubert Seymour Army Walter Mason Army Dale Shepherd Army Dale Miller Army Harry Sperry Army Wavne Montel Army William Tellier Army Merle Womacks Navy Jack Toms Army Dwight Watkins Army 1939 Fred Balbach Navy Jim Cade Army 1941 Francis Baker Navy Richard Condon Army John Engleman Army Glen Cunningham Navy Bob Eyestone Navy Joe DeJonghe Army Marion Hayes Navy Ferris Gillen Army John Miles Army Edward Harden Army Homer Myers Army Edward McClure Navy Raymond Payne Army Lowell Murphy Army John Sullivan Navy Max Myers Army Clyde Trimmell Army Leo Palmer Army Everette Wheeler Army Bob Palmer (deceased) Cullman Reed Army 1942 Junior Balbach Army Howard Richter Army Bob Casteel Army Charles Smith Army Ernie Cox Army Frank Thompson Navy David Doggett Army Jack Van Zandt Marines Bob Grunden Army William Watson Army Bob Kirkpatrick Army Andrew Young Navy Lestle Mayberry Army Jim McMahon Army 1940 (iene Alverson Army Frank Morris Army Clinton Condon Army Bill Norris Marines Delbert Cunningham Army Bob C. Snyder Army STUDENTS 1943 Dean Cunningham Army 1944 Bob Payne Navy Carl Largent Navy Leland Tellier Army Floyd Schramm Navy Howard Wright Marines ♦ Honorably discharged.

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(fjsttie'c Blackburn We, the Class of 1943, do respectfully dedicate this volume of the Acorn to Mrs. Blackburn, In appreciation of her services to O. !• H« S and to our Class of 43»