Ohio Mechanics Institute - OMIA Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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study English, which we did. Immediately after the refreshing- sleep in English we hastened to the ancient history room where we amus- ed ourselves twhen we were not trying to take down in short hand the esserce of our instructorls dictationl by placing thumb tacks on other peoples seats-a harmless pastime which is guaranteed to bring a howl from the unlucky individual. We managed, however, in spite of all these happenings, to pull ourselves through our sophomore year, and in June, 1921, having completed our second lap we were more than ready for the summer vacation. 192171922 After the first few weeks of getting acquainted, we hit our stride and we were all set for the second half of our journey towards --graduati0n. We organized early in the year and selected Hilman Smith as president and Joe Jorling as Vice president to lead us for the year. Our studies were somewhat harder, but they were not so hard that we couldn't be the main factor in the school activities. Upon finding that there would be no MICROMETER that year due to the inability of the senior class to produce, the juniors set up an awful howl till the student council thought they might as well let us take a whack at it and see what we could do. Did we put it across? Illl say we did. Hilman Smith was appointed editor With Jimmie Campbell his associate, and together they made the book what it was never known to be before. Athletics! We had our share of them too, more than any other class in the Institute. Three men from our class, Joe Jorling, Carl Koehler, and Bud Schuster represented the juniors on the basketball team. The forge shop was at times the scene of many unusual happen- nings. The tlunch in forging idea was originated by Smith and Schusw ter, and it was not long before the whole class would have their lunch tucked under their belts by the time the bell rang, which gave us the complete lunch hour for other things we had to do. At the beginning of the second semester Herman Yung joined us, and those of us Who thought we were apt in math simply had to take a back seat. We have come to the conclusion that he is nothing short of a math genius. The junior picnic, held on Decoration Day, was one that will long he remembered by the class. Smith. Schuster, and Browder traveled all the way up to Oxford to get some co-eds to join them, and then back to Miamitown. The speed cop! Oh, yes, that cost Brow- der a dollar. Koehler and Weig- Iein had some friends from VVinton Place, while Gerdes and Meyer decided that they would much rather fish than to be bothered With a girl, but Judging from the way they at- tacked the eats, I think they meant they would much rather eat. Business trips were frequent with the class that year, Oxford and Loveland being the objective of most of them. When the riders re- turned, they would bring with them a road sign to verify the fact that they had really been gene. These road signs, for the remainder of the year adorned the Micrometer office. After tabling the motion to get rings and pins for half the year, we had an unsual design drawn up and the rings made. After the delivery of the rings and pins, the juniors were seen for the next week walking jauntily about the halls with their hands held in such a posi- tion that the rings could he flashed in the eyes of any member of the opposite sex who happened by. During their junior year Joe Jorling, Carl Koehler, and Johnny Schuster received sweaters from the Institute for their work on the basketball team, while Hilman Smith, James Campbell and John Schuster received Micrometer pins for their work on THE MICRO- METER. ' JUNIOR DAY 1922e1923 Alas! ttis sad, but true. Welve reached the last rung on the lad- der! and June will see us bid farewell to the portals of O. M. I. Sep-

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SENIORS CLASS HISTORY 1919e1920 It seems but yesterday that we entered the Institute as freshmen the four years have hown so fast. We well remember the first day we entered school. We were green, felt green, and looked green. We had all heard the rumors of how they treat freshies in high school and were exceedingly worried. We did not know which would come first, a drop off the roof or a ducking in the river. After a few days of half-fear and hope that the upper classmen would either start the hazing and get it over with or leave us alone altogether, we realized that we had sixty men in our class, which was more than the total number of the other classes; so we took heart and organized. The upper classmen too seemed to realize the number of men in our class, and consequently we were never made the subjects of those rough and interesting hazings-rirough for the freshies but interesting for the upper classmenewhich freshmen often have to bear. An election of officers that year resulted in two of the remaining members of that class being elected to omce Joseph Jorling becoming; vice president, and Hilman Smith secretary. Smittie rose in prom- inence that year due to a green tie he was fond of wearing, as a rew print from one of The Micrometerts shows: HSmittie had a pretty tie Its hue was Irish green And every where that Smittie went The tie, too, could be seen. tWhat makes him love the green tie so? The eager students cried. Why Smittie is a patriot, And that ties his joy and pride, We don,t know, but we still wonder if his being patriotic has anything to do with his using green ink in his fountain pen. 1920e1921 When we returned to school in the fall of 1920, we found many striking changes in the men who were to travel with us on our second lap. Many new faces appeared; many old ones were gone. This year we were fewer in number, but we were, in our own estimation, considerably wiser, which we thought more than made up for the loss. We lost no time in organizing, and Joe Jorling and Hilman Smith were again our vice president and secretary. During this year a member of our class became captain of the basketball team, and consequently we were enthusiastic and turned out for every game. We had laid off the freshmen and were just ripe for an initiation; so upon the approach of the game between 0. M. I. and Norwood, our greatest rival, we sent orders to the freshmen to attend the game or suffer the consequences. The freshmen held an indignation meeting and decided they wouldn't attend. On the morning of the game word was passed around the halls that the initiation was to take place at noon, and accordingly when the freshmen were liberated from their last class, they were seized with none too gentle hands and conveyed to the roof. Lawrence Schroeder, their president, ob- jected strenously to this, and ' so it was decided to make an example of him. After gener- ously smearing his face with paint we hung a sign around his neck on Which was printed, I am going to the game, and he was marched around town. Next he was taken to a telephone booth Where he informed his mother that he could not possibly ar- rive home immediately after school. A roll call of the freshmen at the game showed one hundred per cent attendance. English and ancient history proved to be the banes of our ex- istence that year. The English period came directly after lunch, and everyone will agree that it is better to sleep after lunch than to

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tember, 1922, found many among the missing. Those answering the roll call were Campbell, Fischer, Jorling, Koehler, Meyer, Schuster, Smith; and Yung dropping in a month late it made a total of eight. With but seven members we were undaunted and easily led the school in activities. THE MICROMETER executive staff was chiefly composed of sen- iors; Hilman Smith and James J. Camp- bell were the editors, while John Schustei' was associate and Joseph Jorling the busi- ness manager. How they put the book across and made it among the foremost high school journals in the country can be found elsewhere in this issue. Joseph Jorling tcaptaim and John Schuster were the main defense of the basketball team for this year. As for representatives on THE OMIA staff you ye Eds have only to look at the staff page of this publication and you can see at a glance how well we are represented there. Literary talent in our midst was far from lacking, for in the Maxwell Prize Essay Contest the seniors won four of the five prizes that were given, Hilman Smith, first prize, John Schuster, second prize, James Campbell, third prize, and Herman Yung', fourth prize. Although one of the smallest classes in the Institute to graduate, we have done as much, if not more than any class of three or even four times our number in boosting the activities of the school. Well do we remember the two weeks after our editor's trip to Marietta as a delegate of THE MICROMETER to the - North Central Association of High Sch001 ii Journalist, for it took him that long to get The Senior De fense over talking about it. Marietta seems a town of great possibilities; yes, very great. We decided to have a class election and select officers. Not that we thought that we would ever have any necessity for calling a meet- ing, but then, ttWhaVs a class without officers ; so Joe Jorling was elected president and Herman Yung was elected vice president. The vote was unanimous in both cases. One day, it being too hot to work, we decided on a trip to the water works. The class adjourned and accompanied by Mr. Ecker we set out to find out how Cincin- nati water is made pure. We found out how it is purified and Meyer, Koehler, and Schuster also found out how cold it is. They went swimming. After Four Years of It . . . . It took them an hour to make up their mind to go In, and one mlnute sufficed for them to make up their minds to come out. No casualties resulted, and all appeared at school the next day. Koehlerts marcel wave remained unaffected. The first day that Robin Hood came to town the senior class took a half holiday and marched en masse to view the picture from the heights of the gallery at the Strand. These and many other happenings have marked the course of our four years at the Institute, and we, the class of ,23, are experiencing that vagUe feeling of regret that our high school life is nearly over and our good times drawing to a close, but we find consolation in the fact that in the future we shall think of these four years with thrills of pleasure and a knowledge of having done our duty to the school to the best of our ability. -John E. Schuster.