Oil City High School - Oil Can Yearbook (Oil City, PA)

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JUNE THE O I C I H I 1921 HAROLD EDWARD BALSIGER. “Bally,” like Fox, has (or rather had) two claims on Fame, his pompadour and his quiet, unassuming nature. Now, due to the activities of the Juniors he has only the scccn claim. In our opinion that one will suffice. RUTH WILMA BARTLETT. “How pretty her blushing was, and how she blushed again.” Add to that a lot of winsome little gestures, a pleasant smile and lots of fun and you have Ruth. She once confided to us that she was going to establish a Home for Maiden Ladies. An example of her kindliness, for you may be sure you will not find Ruth there. BERTHA ANNA BASHOR. That is the name that was on a model bookeeping sheet at the frcnt of the bookkeeping room. This rival of Professor Bacon has done equally good work in all departments and has often lent a hand to less gifted or perhaps less industrious students. RUBY ADELINE BEIGHLEY. “Wherefore those faint smiles of thine, shadowy, dreamy, Adeline.”—Tennyson. They were lucky enough to have “shadowy, dreamy, Adelines” even back in Tennyson’s day. But don’t be mislead. There has been nothing shadowy about Adeline’s career in High school and her marks show that she has been doing something besides dreaming. Page Ten

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JUNE THE OICIHI 1921 EI.MER SIGFRED ANDERSON. We know of no member of the class who laughs so constantly and so heartily as does Elmer. This leads us to believe that his philosophy of life must be “eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” Elmer could hardly have chosen a better motto, considering his temperament, and the fact that he intends becoming a doctor. MABEL ALEXANDER. This is Mabel, of the Class of ’21. Please do not confuse her with “Dere Mabel,” for our Mabel has more intellectual friends than the Mabel of the book, and is herself more intellectual. Has she not received a diploma from the Oil City High school for that attribute? FLORENCE ANDREWS. Florence heads the lcng line of Florence’s in our school. She is a good-natured sort, and she would not be hard to come to like. She expresses her ideas quite forcibly upcn the superiority of the female of the species, and besides that she takes hikes and all that sort of thing. She looks most too formidable for us. RALPH MORELAND ANDREWS. Business Manager of OiCiHi 4, O. C. H. S. A. A. Constitution Revision Committee 4. Andy was always sort of a “dark horse for introspective biography until one day at last Christmas recess, he and some other young fellows went to Franklin to sit in on a court trial. When Ralph saw how easy it was to get a client off by “spouting” a few fetching phrases at the jury, his mind was made up. So abandoning his fathers saws and cement mixers he plunged wildly into “Blackstone’s Commentaries.” Paf;c n i ne

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JUNE THE O I CI H I 1921 GLADYS ISABELLE BILTZ. “Oh1 She will sing the savageness out of a bear.” —Shakespeare. Yea. And it might be said that she sang the savageness out of a fox at the Senior picnic; anyway, she captured him. Also ’tis Gladys who puts I he glee in the Glee Club every Wednesday afternoon. When Gladys sings, we feel thrills of real pleasure surging through us. The mystery is how does she escape Edison with his tone tests and Victor with her true to life slogans? We really appreciate her voice, and we have great confidence in her future. X ELIZABETH KATHRYN CAMPBELL. Elizabeth has a sly, vampish glance that is sure to attract one’s attention but it is guileless, for she is a quiet demure lass. We never heard of Elizabeth late or without a lesson and the faculty will miss her next year while she is putting her knowledge of bookkeeping into practice. GEORGE A. CHACONA. Basketball ’18-’19, ’19-20, Captain ’20-’21. Football ’18, ’19, ’20. “Chick” leaves 0. C. H. S. as the captain of the greatest basketball team that the school has yet produced. His leadership had much to do with the team’s success and should have much to do with his y HAZEL MAY CHRISTY, Did you ever hear Hazel translate French? She can do it. The only trouble is the fact that +he rest of the class needs a megaphone—er ear trumpet, when she begins. She has a quiet dignity about her which is rarely seen m High school, and is always a real lady. Page Eleven