Oakwood School - Quercus Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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1932 -- DRUS -- 1932 it may sound sort of common place-but I feel that there is something very worthwhile in helping people understand the im- portance of right food and clothing. I would like to specialize in dietetics. Frieda-I want to take up Home Ee., too. I feel that learning and teaching other people to run a home efficiently and neatly is one of the biggest things one can do for society. Happy people come from happy, comfortable homes. I think that I would be happier in this line than studying abstract things or working in a business office. I-Iope1The things that Dot said appeals to me greatly in nursing. It seems that helping people keep well and strong and caring for them when they are sick is one of the greatest services one can do for the world. It is rather like-well-being a helper of God. Carrie-I want to be a nurse too-but altho I feel somewhat as Hope does-something else has a stronger pull for me. It seems to me that a nurse has one of the greatest opportunities for an understand- ing of character-of human hearts and desires. Thru this under- standing there is so much help, mental as well as physical, that can come from a nurse. Bee-Ruth, what are you going to do ? Ruth-Oh, I think I should like to study psychology and criminology. I should like to work with prisoners and mental deficients and help them to adjust themselves to society. Dr. Liepman inter- ested me a great deal when she was here. I should like to do somewhat the same sort of thing she is doing. Danie-I'm afraid you'll all laugh when I tell you what I want to be- but the height of my ambition is to be a dress buyer in Lord and Tayl0r's or Bonwit-Teller. To study designing and styles both here and in Paris. It will mean working up from a sales girl- but I think I can do it. Bee-we haven't heard from you. Bee-Well-I think I'll take a secretarial course for a year and go into that field for awhile, but after that I want to go back to school and study something in the line of bacteriology. A scien- tist working with those tiny microscopic bits of life which mean so much to animal and plant life, and most of all to mang it is an ideal I hope I can reach. Ginnie-Helen takes it all in from the corner-come on-what's your ideal ? Helen-I don't know exactly what I want to be. I want to take up literary work, languages, and psychology. It doesn't make much difference to me what I do as long as I find something I am inter- Eiylztvvlz

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l9g32 - DRUS - 1932 lass ilgrrrphermg Scene I Scene-A room in the Girls' Dorm. Beatrice Merritt, Hope Bulkley, Dot Alley, Carrie Bryan, Ruth Scales and Helen Clark reclining on beds, etc. Ginnie Taylor on floor with tea kettle and electric stove. Ginnie-l wonder where Frieda and Danie are-this water's boiling. fPours teaj. A knock and Danella Murray and Frieda l'lan1 enter. Dot-Here they are. fGeneral confusion as they settle themselves, Frieda-You all look sort of glum-what's wrong ? Helen-Not glum-just that commencement is almost here-it made us feel a little strange. Carrie-Have some cookies-Dot made them, they're good. fsilence while everyone drinks tea, eats cookies and looks as tho they were thinking. Dot-A penny for your thoughts, Ginnie. Ginnie-O nothing-l was just thinking. Ten years from now, twenty years from now-where will we all be? We have such hopes and dreams now-they are so idealistic and so high. We will probably be far apart, maybe we will not even remember some of our friends here. fsilencel. Danie-And we know so little about each other's dreams. We only know the surface things-we are afraid to tell the deepest things in our lives-it's silly, isn't it ? Helen-Well letis start right now-what are our dreams and ambitions? Ginnie looks very sophisticated there on the floor. That tin teapot might turn to silver-Ginnie at a tea table in a large draw- ing room full of distinguished people. But seriously Ginnie, what are your real ideals ? Ginnie-Well, at Holyoke next year l'm going to major in French. Probably in plain ordinary life l shall be a French teacher. But l also want to find some means of self-expression by which I may make other people see and feel my emotions-and also express them to myself. I want to study dramatics and interpretive dancing-maybe not to do anything with them other than amuse myself. Carrie-These cookies speak for Dot-how about it? Dot-Yes, cookies come in it, l suppose, cookies and food in general. I'll be taking a Home Ee. course at Russell Sage next year. l know Sz'1'e11fcr11

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1932 T DRUS l1932 ested in. I like just living. The thing I want more than anything else is to find something which gives me a deep satisfaction which failures and disappointments cannot harm. We all want that, I suppose-so I have yet to find my life work. Ginnie-Well I guess we'll all be far apart twenty years from now, but it's so fascinating it seems hard to wait. But then, life is very full after all: looking back in twenty years to this commencement will probably seem very short. fEnd of first scenel Scene II Scene: room in Boys' Barracks. Time: june IS, I932. As the curtain rises, we discover Jim Reagan, George Kuchler, Walter Ham- mond, Nelson Griggs, Shrimp Shaw, Len Paclgham, Frank Dickerson, Vincent Cochrane, Barton VanVliet and Harold Brown. Nelson: Hot Dog! Get a load of this letter from Oberlin I fReads letterl. Your applicatidn for admission has been considered and accepted. Vincent: What are you going to take up there ? Nelson: Music. Some day I want to conduct an orchestra or even com- pose - but that's a long way off. Anyway, I do want to get enough of a musical education to be able to direct a real orchestra. Len: I think I'll 'leave my music for recreation and go into a more practical field. Take banking for instance. One could do a lot of good helping people with their financial affairs. After all money is rather importantg the lack of it certainly is - George: I like the fight of the business world. The feeling of control- ling hundreds or thousands of other people and working to raise their standards of living. What I really want to do is to try to bridge the gap between capital and labor. Jim: I don't believe that you can bridge class gaps that way-by changing material things. I want to help really close those gaps by educating the members of the various classes so that a fuller understanding may be reached. You don't usually expect the son of a teacher to want to be one, but I guess I'm an exception. Vincent: I don't think that it is possible 'to erase inequalities by any means-not even eugenics. I want to try some phase of psychol- ogy. I don't know how l'll use it, but it looks like an appropriate field. Harold: I'm going to take up psychology too. I think that I'll try teach- ing it. I think that I can be most useful there. Nilzcfvrlz