Oberlin Academy - Etean Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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I ftvfi CLASS PROPHECY It was a brlght b62l.L1t1fLll day that broke on the mornlng of June 20th 1930 As I walked down the old fam1l1a1 street toward the Academy I savx changes on ever y slde b1g stone houses replacmg buck or wooden ones landscape gardemng conc1 ete COLl1tS and pelgolas where there had only been gl eat stretches or green lawn 1n my Academy days The Academy grounds vxere a marvel of beauty wlth '1 complete athletlc held 111 the lear extendmg from the new gym whele once had stood the old barn to the A1b0l etum Plum Cleek had been dammed at Molgan Street makmv 'L broad stream that vudened 1nto a small lake where the frult trees had been and fl,lI'11lSh111g excellent ca noelng Low drooplng feathely w1l1ows and great clumps of bamboo and Japanese 1119 ot all shades funged the stream and lake Small pebbly p mths wound through the park hke grounds and 1lLZWEl.S at a turn 1n one of these that I came upon the group ol fourteenels who had come back to 1o1n ln the11 slxteenth anmvelsaly 1811111011 All had ach1eved fame 1n one way O1 anothel and It was dec1cled that each one should tell In a few wo1 ds our eloquent EX Presldent 'Ted Greene told us of h1s steady TISS 1n oratory untll he had at length won honol as the barkel 1n Greene and MCB11Cl6 s Unexcelled C11 cus the G1 eatest Show on Earth He hnnself controlled the mam show wh1le Tex lVIcBr1de havlng become a second Buffalo B111 had charge of the W1ld West palt Seemlngly th1s hfe of t1avel and adventure appealed to qulte '1 iew of ou1 number for Matt D1se11o ran the Mmstrel Show that followed evelv performance and he and Touch Matthews Whlt M3126 and Doc Campbell folmed the Qualtette of Harmomzed D1scord that had made such '1 sensatlon ln South Af11ca and caused the crowned heads of Europe to s1t up and gaze ln WOHCIQI and avxe Paul Lomen and W1l ham Stevens dld breath taking feats the one as plate luggler the other as tlght lope . y I Q A . Q I , I 5 - - X- 1 . C Al 7 7 - 1 v T y a I 5 I 'J' 1 ' K' ' A , 1 a ' -. c i . I 7 c , c 1 9 1 A u 7 1' A' . ' , c c Q' 7 Q . u , C . -- . - ' , . ' V c L 4 -t. ' - . z ' - , ' C ' . Q . ' an Q, . . - C V what he or she had been domg smce that never-to-be-forgotten Commencement of 1914. , - , 7 A ry , ' ' , it ,sr ' ,- 9 , , ' H ,, H ' . ' n , 4 . f. c , . ,, ,, . . . . p b . . , 1 . X , C 1 n 1 . u , . C . . . zz ar ' ,' - . ,, ,, . 9 . 9 4 it as cc ' if ' ll DY , . ,, . .' , , c 1 c , C . , . A c c 7 . c c ' J K '. I 7 A . 7i ,- ve

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CLASS HISTORY In the fall of 1910, there was a great stirring in the east and west, and over the whole country. Clearly, some great event was about to happen. Perhaps it might be a Presidential election. But no, it was something of vastly greater import. The class of 1914, of Oberlin Academy was getting started. As we joined up, in old French Hall, the eyes of the Nation were upon us, and we have not disappointed them. The first year, as was fitting, we were seen, and not heard. The second year we began to be heard a little. Three successful parties came off, and we began to be known as the class. The next year, in the new Academy Building, we began to show our orig- inality. That party in the barn, and that banquet we gave the Seniors were truly works of art and genius. But it is as Seniors that we shine. Though we have had one or two good parties, the crowning achievement in our record is the beginning of what we hope may be a long series of Academy Annuals. The need for such a book has only recently developed. It therefore fell to us, with our characteristic get up and go to fill this need-how Well, it is for others to say. But we saw what was to be done, and did it. We are a singularly fortunate class. We had half our course in the old buildings, which makes two years in the new ones the more acceptable. We have been well repre- sented in all branches of outside interests. We have pulled together as have few other Academy classes. Our class duties have been well performedg our pleasures have been many. We have no small honor in that we are the last class that can ever graduate under Mr. Peck. We may well style ourselves one of the notable classes of Oberlin Academy. NORMAN I-I. WRIGHT. Fifty-fo

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walkerg and once the Great Show even advertised a contest between K'Samson Penn and Tiger Wilson, competing for the light-weight championship of America. Several of our class had achieved national or even international fame. One of these was Jimmy Freer, now Secretary of Agriculture at Washington, who spent every spare moment in his own little back yard, experimenting on a new variety of cauliflower he had discovered. Another was Frank Farley, President of the Great Northern, who sat in his mahogany revolving chair and dictated to three private secretaries, between puffs on fifty cent cigars. Then came the famous inventor and manufacturer of Long- ren's Everlasting Chewing Gum, that Boon to Mankind. Nelle Balsiger had become an actress of world-wide reputation and was at her best in the role of Juliette,,' her favorite part. Of course a few fourteeners had specialized in Physical Training, with the result that their names were often seen on the Pink Red Hudson was football coach at Harvard, and it caused him no little consternation that he was unable to wear the crimson sweater of his school. Tucky, who had starred on the Cad eleven, now cap- tained the Invincible Soccer Team of Australia, and Bob Gray taught P. T. at Alle- ghany. Helen Cowles had given up her literary career, and was the favorite pupil of Annette Kellermann, while Mary Alexander conducted a very select and highly exclusive dancing academy on Long Island. Some of the more literary among us had won laurels in circles of Higher Education. Chet Van Allen, Editor of The Ladies' Worldji has made a brilliant success of that noted piece of literature, assisted by Norman Wright, who had charge of those parts of the magazine devoted to Gir1s' Affairs and Pretty Girl Questions. Besides these, there were two others, Dorothy Nichols andBessie Barnard. The former was star re- porter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, while the latter held the important position of Head Librarian in the Boston Carnegie Library. Then Estella Creditt, the Ornithol- ogy shark, had become absorbed in Natural Science, and was writing a volume on Fiflj'-.vz.r 1' A