Oakwood School - Quercus Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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QHLOI SUNNIEST SIDE OF OAKWOOD I M USUALLY SEEN INTENDED OCCUPATION PROBABLE OCCUPATION I LL NEVER FORGET the Gxrls Dorrr' letters from my dog Greenvale Farm perlod between Frrday 3 30 p m to Sunday 9 40 P m faculty meeungs fLnal bell on Frlday all nrght lrghts squeakless doors and accessrble wrndows the graduatron mound on the day of my graduatxon Senror Hall team bus wlth Irvmg Krngwood Park exrt Suzy Rose boller room Katrtna ask ng permrssron for Croft Qcensoredj I try not to be wlth my mouth open buzzrng around the B ox where I shouldn t somewhere along the banks of the Hudson lounglng rn the luxury of my superror mtellr gence fday dreamtngj workrng on the Spec tator places where I shouldn t be and heardl studyrng ln the Chem La chastng a pau of blue eyes wrth Katrlna P mechanrcal engrneer Pope takrng care of our frve ch1ldren curtam puller at the Met professronal baseball astratron runmng a 24 hour rocket servlce between Earth and Mars publrsher of an mter natronal newspaper New Deal Dean at Oakwood rarsrng a basketball team frndlng one bouncer teacher Katrrna 19 trnker toy genrus Holy Ghost Jarl matron torch smger assrstant water boy ferryman on the R1ver Styx pamtxng Batman covers presrdent of temper ance socrety rarsrng a .1 tl eyball team not fmdlng one barfly skatrng at the roller derby retrrmg try ng to arrrve before Frscher to Engllsh fwhy?j the trarns and the r1ver at nrght door to room 24 anyone I ve ever known at Oakwood Baccalaureate I9 O what I should forget lrfe at Crarg rn 48 and I ll always re member Engllsh III learnrng Baltlmore nrght lrfe second hand but frrst ratel orange peels Sophomore Englrsh class YVIIII Mr B the radrcal changes that sull need to be made playrng football for Oakwood the nrght I was caught Katrlna O ' 0 - 1 Y no A l I v , ' 1- H I ' - V Y 1 . , I T i K I, , I A . . . - t . vi . P I f . . . . 5 ,. .. b ' ' ' be ' ' aftemoon and business admin- . . . - . . . , , I I . , I , . . . . - p . . , . ' ' I ' ' ' ' Y z 1 ' c . , . b.

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2lll0l NAME I LEAVE MY GREATEST MISTAKE MY GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT MY PET M AUSENDA BELDOCK BERRY BOOTH BUNZEL COHEN COLLINS DAVIS DAVIS deCORDOVA DOSKOW DUNCAN EARP the prrvxlege of argu rng wrth Fernandez to hrs next roommate Mr Clark wrth apprecratron Yup B McOak to Trna my fellow consprrator arsenxc to all draft board members room 28 to whomever wants to freeze rn the w1nter my fabulous etchrngs to one Mark Strand matedj my arustrc tempera ment to Terry Foster to Patty Feldsrne my -coffee pot t at she can survrve morn mg classes better than II drd my Brooks Brothers dues to John Coulter my French accent to nyone brave enough o take rt my abrlrty to get along wrth people to certarn grrls on lower hall lKatr1na Are you krddrng? No IIIISIKRCSI lrstenrng to bagel women lendtng Al that mrllton dollars exercrsrng above yearbook meetrngs l'1O COITIITICIII drrvrng wrth Atty rn the Leaprng Lena make mrstakes urnakrng great mrstakes mrstakrng Mr Hen derson for Mr Butt freld was to thrnk soccer Just an exercrse roomtng wrth Kaufman roomxng wrth Ruth Church Katrtna 18 CI You are askrng too much Flomken Schecken Gatz Far South Joe fquotatrons pleasej getttng thru P T s geometry class getttng accepted to college skrpprng krndergarten and farlrng Lattn Oakwood s meat that s to come I hopel roomrng wrth Ann two years! remarnrng on basket ball team as long as 1 roomrng wrth Kaufman berng able to put up wrth teasrng Lrvrng 3 weeks rn Infrrmary Roommates I e Elephants no marl cocoa rnstead of coffee for breakfast wartrng for mall untrl noon Unrted States Army vespers and gremlrns and phumphrng havtng to use e srde door Post Cover Oc 21 1950 sttff collared shrrts wrth tres srx foot tall basket ball players betng rgnored by blue eyes Katrrna ' ' po! l A P. , . . . - 4 - - g t P, ' . , ' V ' H U ' B. . ' , A ' . n E. , . - . . . . . I ' ' ' H, -Q ' A E, DANENBERG my ashes Qwhen cre- I might add, I never I will be outliving I.B.M. , traffic C. ' ' - ' ' ' , ' th J' . , , . - . . F ' SO h . If u P. I. f . ' - ' ' ll ' ' ll I ' ' d'd C. I , , , , . - -

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NAME I LEAVE MY GREATEST MISTAKE MY GREATEST AC HIEVEMENT MY PET AVERSIOIN ECKLES EASSNACHT E ISCHER FRIEND GRIFFING HAYES HENDERSON HOMANS M HULLING D KAPPEL M KAUFMAN to Anne Barnard our common fault tn hopes that she may proftt by my mtstakes my half of the room to all those day stu dents who fmd lersure t1me to spend tn rt room I7 to the Eskrmos I leave Isn t that enough? to anyone who wants them, one pack of stale ctgarettes my room to anyone qurck getaway my vrew from the krtchen wmdow to anyone who wants be a srlent observer my saxophone to the guy who rooms next to Mr B my part of the Hullmgr and Werl photo ser vrce to whoever wants to any fool who wants them all the head aches that go wnh be mg Bustness Manager of the 1952 Yearbook my rnjured knee to any future member the football team who wants rt tryrng to wrangle a letter from Mrs Frazter lettrng 22 runs tn one rnntng ml roomtng wlth Elbert Gorng baby srttlng wtthout expertence takmg French gettmg rnvolved wrth the Yearbook Jornmg the Naval Reserve subverstve actrvrtres saytng that I f1n1shed one of P T s SHORT geometry QUIZZCS before he d1d roomlng wtth Doskow 20 expandtng the two weekend ltmtt per semester to fue getttng thru College Boards May 2l 1990 the mommg after ach1evementP fwhat s that?l lockmg my room mate tn the closet for almost an enure waht f 99 learmng to eat Oakwood hash sneakrng out at bemg caught affected tnnocence when questroned by both srdes rn faculty student problems h1d1ng under the beds rn the grrls dorm berng an angel rn the Pageant frnrshrng one of P T s s ort geom etry qurzzes before he d1d room1ng wtth Doskow no mall ttll after lunch shade puller uppers the draft board Tell me lS your real name Vrrgrnra P people who don t tell the truth Aheml betng called Damn Collrns Clara what s gorng to be on the test your father s grvrng us? roller skattng tryrng to ftnd where books are 1n the ltbrary Engl1sh IV my Draft Board S. , . , ,. T . - , A. , , . - R- . . , G- - v V - - - - - 1. D - ' 4 T. , . , . E. . . .. - who wants to make a night without, it Hayes by Sally C. . . . . , ,, ' , to t . B . - V .. it. . - . .' . .' h P of