Oakwood School - Quercus Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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1932 - DRUS' -1 1932 VIRGINIA TAYLOR Is there rnore than kindness, integrity, and resolution in nobility? Student Board '32g Girls' Council ,29, ,305 President of Class '3I,' Girls' Basketball Team '31, '32,' Class Play y29, '30, 31, '32, Mt. Holyoke. BARTON VAN VLIET His serene faith in life will always be envied by his associates. l Fifteen

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1932 -' DRUS -- 1932 LEONARD PADCHAM His inextinguishable smile is most conducive to the happiness of others. Class Play ,325 Clee Club '32g Orchestra '32, Oberlin. RUTH SCALES W'hat a charm is sweet reserve! Earlham. ST ANLEY SHAW Here is an able one who does not talk about himself. President Forensic '32g President Boys, Council '32g Vice President Student Board '32g Boys' Council ,315 Captain of Basketball Team '32g Soccer Team '30, '31g Midget Basket' ball '31, QCaptainj. Cornell. Iiozzrfemii

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T 1932 -- DRUS - 1932 Qllaurfs Zhisturg OUR years ago! ln our Freshman year, the high school course seemed to fill an eternity of time. But now that it is over, it seems like no time at all. We look back with pleasure tinged with regret to the carefree days of our first year at Oakwood. We did not DO much, the outstanding formal event was the presentation of the class play, Don't Judge by Appearances . Yet in that year we learned probably more than in any other. Everything was new, most of it was enjoyable. Our attitude all through the past four years has been to a great extent determined by the events of our Freshman year. ive grew in those ten months, unconsciously but none the less certainly. Then the Sophomore year. The forming of new friendships and the re-cementing of old. Activities were more varied and more ap- preciated. The class play, The Perplexing Situation was one of those activities. Parties, games, socials were also included here. It was in our Sophomore year that we began to look ahead to college and, perhaps, to life after college. Plans were made, in many cases careers were chosen in that year. And still we grewg not so much as in the Freshman year, but surely a good deal. During the next year, l930-3l, we juniors began to shape our lives more definitely toward some future goal. However, do not get the idea that we spent all our time working for graduation. The process of preparation was mainly unconscious. We still had good times. Who can forget that Junior-Senior ring fight, and the subsequent banquet? The parties, the hikes, and all the manifold events of last year ? It is impossible for us to describe our Senior year. It is too new to us, we lack perspective. All we can say is that it is in this year that we came to realize that meaning of life at Oakwood. And this realiza- tion did not detract from our enjoymentg it added immeasurably to it. The play Outward Bound is symbolic in a way of the whole year. It is serious, yet abounds in humor. lt has a lesson to teach, but preaches not at all. It took a great deal of work, yet repaid us a thousandfold. And so with the other phases of school life as Seniors. We fear that the traditional Senior dignity this year was more hypothetical than actual, but, after all, dignity is an empty pretense. The final test of anything is the lasting satisfaction it gives: according to this, the year of l93l-32 has been an unqualified success. A class history is not a calendar of events, it is a living, vital record of the lives of a group of people. It is, therefore, absolutely impossible to put down on paper a real class history. We only state the facts and leave the sympathetic reader to infer their real meanings. Sl.1'fl i'Il