Ohio Mechanics Institute - Omia Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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1:- ' Y f 1 A Y .. r um, -M e t m an Mawr i' C i' -.X ll X.. 9 ' .1 - e - f T fW'i T :'TT'1'2'1Tl-iT7 , Tf' l-'I'-'TL N 4 . Q Q - First Hear Power Laundrq Students Q 2 UP011 the Opening of SCh00l 12-St fall, the POWGI' Lauri- Wesler: Some fellows have very little luck, and some P- Q dry class was the largest class that 0. M. I. has ever had. have all the luck in the world. Wesler belongs to the latter 'P E Sixteen different states and Toronto, Canada, are represented class. He was permitted to miss two days of school because Q- E in the class membership. All are high school graduate, of a sprained ankle. He belongs to the Phi Beta Lambda v i 801118 are college graduates, and a few others have had Fraternity, and how lucky he was that the fraternity brothers .- S some college training. Evidence shows that this class is could not take him out to the country and make him walk . L! SA well fitted to take up the problems in the laundry business. back---he had that sprained ankle! S Wilt! Wilt, kH0WH as Jerry became fam0llS While he Luchauer: He is a very good chap and liked by all the . E tUt01'9d under 0119 H9-I'1'y Pagett, Of the powerful biceps, students. Any stranger is impressed at one glance by that -Q who taught the youngster the gentle art of biting off dyna- smiling face, and the words of wisdom which pour forth if Q mite caps and bullet lead, in addition to a multitude of other from his lips. 'll Q hard-boiled tricks. Jerry was an adept pupil and quickly ac- Todd: Todd is one of the southerners, though he has E quired a rapid fire, non-Websterian vocabulary. He had learn- carefully suppressed his North Carolina accent. His superior , i' ed to hit the flies that circulate in the Machine Shop directly reserve is the envy of all in the class who say he resembles 1' between the eyebrows with the aid of tobacco juice before Mr. President Coolidge in that he has never slapped a man on l S Groome decided that humanity demanded the redemption of the back. ' 3- one of the fallen angels. Jones: We thought that we saw hirmi studying hard one ' , 1? Roberts: A good nickname for him would be sky . This day-- but, no, he was only reading another magazine! Jones 0 25, tall blackhaired youth is another one of our local washmen. is known as Squirrel' and is from way down south in Vicks- ' Well, he had better not be absent from any class for one burg, Mississippi. What he doesn't know about Vicksburg is- ' Q glance you can tell if he is there, even if he does sit in the n't worth knowing. He is a typical southerner and the young- 9 1 back part of each class-room. est member of the class. He's enthusiastic about the laundry I E course, too. l Q. i w St , , Y - I-2 i ni-am -rn-raw .-r Q-.-rm-rm-fav-me-' in -:urns '-am-rnvm-irnx-mvai-rnwgvfnvsn:imma-mvmimiavm -vnrmmvmwma-ins-:nvrm:nvrn'n'.l Page Seventy-one

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First ruwfTODD. LUCHAUER, ED. BOWEN. P21159 Seventy Second rowfBOB DURHAM, JONES, JACK DURHAM

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