Ohio Mechanics Institute - OMIA Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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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.

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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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WILL OF THE SENIOR CLASS OF ,23 We, the senior class of 1923, being of sane judgment and sound mind, knowing that ere long we will be no more of the Ohio Mechan- ics Institute school world, do deem it both wise and necessary to make, publish, and declare this our last will and testament Article One: The parking space in front of the building, for- merly occupied by seniorsi machines, we bequeath to our beloved president, Mr. John T. Faig, as a parking place for his Franklin. Article Two: To our faculty we give our most sincere gratitude for the hard labor spent in forcing knowledege into our heads. We also leave in the minds of the faculty a beloved memory of our studious ways. Article Three: To the juniors we give and bequeath all executive positions on both THE MICROMETER and THE OMIA staff. Article Four: To the sophomore class we bequeath our wonder- ful ability to make excuses when tardy or absent. We also give them. a rope with which to pull themselves through xtheir junior year. Article Five: To the present freshman class we leave well- trained ancient history ponies; also the privilege of initiating the incoming freshman class. Article Six: To the incoming freshman class we leave that re- nowned and illustrious work of literature, Sympathy. 7 Article Seven: To Miss Noble We bequeath the three hundred and some odd themes which it has been our pleasure to hand in to her at various times for grading tF., P., V. PJ Article Eight: To Mr. Johnston we bequeath our physics lab notebooks, full of novel tif not correctl observations and data taken during our school year. We also give him the privilege of pounding alternating; currents into the domes of the present junior class. Article Nine: To Mr. Richard we leave our solid knowledge of college algebra. We also leave him the right to feed doped chewing gum to the college algebra class of the next year. Article Ten: To Mr. Ecker We leave all our broken test tubes, flasks, and beakers, together with our five dollar breakage fee. We also leave him the privilege of wearing rose-colored socks and a differ- ent colored tie every day. Article Eleven: To Mr. Frey we leave our four-year old, worn-out drawing boards and T-squares and also the right to assign a new drawing each week to the future senior class. Article Twelve: To Mr. Mitchell we bequeath all the tools, gears, and other machinery which we have constructed during the past year. We also leave him all the goldfish which the juniors may be so rash as to put into his cooling tank. Article Thirteen: James J. Campbell and H. Hilman Smith be- queath to Joseph Weber, their successor, their respective gifts of diplomacy and argumentativeness. Article Fourteen: To any ambitious member of the junior class we leave a megaphone so that the loyal CM rooters of O. M. I. may be able to hear his voice. Article Fifteen: To any member of the junior, sophomore, 0r freshman class so desiring, the individual members of the senior class leave the following: 1. Jimmie Campbell: The dictionary from which he writes his English themes. 2. Joe Jorling: His ability to smoke other peoples cigarettes and his own pipe. 3. Carl Koehler: Wonderful curly hair, the result of standing out in the rain night after night. 4. Gordon Meyer: Two books entitled, itThe Morning After the Night Before, and HThe Face on the Barroom Floor? 5. Bud Schuster: Beautiful Mephistophelian eyebrows, to be applied for at once. 6. Hilman Smith: One scarlet fever edition of thride and Preju- dice. '7. Herman Yung: His college algebra and solid geometry genius. eeJohn E. Schuster.