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

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Oil City High School OIL CAN - 1934 At the next stop, we elected Victorine Wolstoncroft and Sheridan Stoudt as Junior representatives to the Oil Can. Next, we headed east in our course as far as Henry’s Bend where we alighted to enjoy a hilarious Junior-Senior Picnic. Peg Inglis, Anna Marie Hall and Walter Lindquist were the Juniors who in cooperation with the Seniors made the outing literally a howling success. As we soared to the finish of the third lap of our journey, there finally came the biggest event of our Junior Year, the Prom — our gift to departing Seniors—in charge of a committee which consisted of Hugh Martin, Chairman, Mary Jane Phillips, Jane Bruner, Grace Underwood. Emily Exley, Gail Depew, and Frank Tambourine, who selected Tal Henry and his North Carolinians to furnish the musical inspiration. It was a huge success- a fitting end to our Junior year. Then, with the opening of our Senior Year and the goal of our journey in sight, we elected new leaders from a group of students selected by the Senior nominating committee composed of Jack Wilson Chairman, William Buckley, Robert Leach, Geraldine McCoy, Kenneth Simpson, Mary Jane Goodrich and Dorothy Hanna. Pilot ...............................................Gail Depew Co-Pilot.................................. Betty Ryan Hostess .............................................Grace Underwood Purser.....................................................Dick White Mr. Townsend and Mr. Stanton were elected to guide us through the most outstanding year of our high school life. Our first landing in the Senior year was to hold a football dance staged by the Senior Dance Committee of Sheridan Stoudt, Chairman. Hugh Martin, Benedict DunLany, Madeline Wilbert, and Mary Jane Phillips. With the festive day of Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, a play committee consisting of John McFate, William Beuck, Ted Stoudt, Victorine Wolstoncroft, Geraldine McCoy, Emily Exley, Eileen Saltzmann, was chosen. They selected an unusual play “Out of the Fog,” which was brilliantly portrayed by Sloan O’Donnell, Victorine Wolstoncroft, Elvina Logan. Dorothy Hanna, Martha Berry, Edytha Homan, Emily Exley, Albert McFall, Dan Breene, Benedict DunLany, Matthew Donohue, Thomas Grisell, Eugene Russell, who were under the direction of F. L. Lewis. With this impetus the fate of our Oil Can rose with us out of the fog into the sunny heights above. Our dance committee, encouraged by the success of our Football Dance, presented a very enjoyable and successful Christmas Dance with music rendered by Jerry Chic and his Orchestra. The next business of our flight was to elect an Oil Can Committee which consisted of Richard White, Chairman, Ted Stoudt. Sloan O’Donnell, Waldron Schruers. Stephen Szalewicz, Jack Seaton, Walter Lindquist, Dorothy Hanna, and Mary Lou Carlon. They chose Sloan O’Donnell, Editor-in-Chief and Jerome Silverman, business manager of our annual. Soon after the election of the Oil Can Staff came the selection of the cast of our Commencement Play, another of the joyful activities of Graduation. Barrie’s “The Little Minister” was the play selected, Mr. Lewis, the director. The cast chosen was Eva Goldman, Dick DunLany, Page 19

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OIL CAN - 1954 Oil City High School HISTORY of THE SENIOR CLASS Contact! To the symphony of jangling bells, our ships of destiny soared away on the great four-year journey of our life—High School, 1930-1934. We took off in two groups, one at Lincoln and one at South with passengers of both planes watchfully viewing the accomplishments of upper classmen in the ship ahead; that, when we would begin the real work of our high school career, we might profit by their experiences and carry the banner of our class to heights untouched by preceding classes. In the closing days of our Sophomore year, our ships landed at South’s gymnasium for a dance with Merle Keyes ’Orchestra. The committee was composed of Robert Jones. Chairman. Richard White, John Ward, Madeline Wilbert and Elinore Hitchcock, who carried the affair successfully. At this particular point of the flight, character medals were awarded to Richard White and Mary Lou Carlon on the South Ship, and on the Lincoln Ship to Frank Tambourine and Dorothy Hanna who were the outstanding boys and girls of our class. Then came our Junior Year with the journey of both the South and Lincoln factions of our class at Senior for manoeuvers. We elected the following students to pilot us through the ever-increasing undertakings of our school life. Pilot Richard Stoudt Co-Pilot Mary Jane Strickland Hostess Grace Underwood Purser Sheridan Stoudt These were finally selected from a group of students recommended by the following nominating committee: John Moltz, Chairman, Dan Breene, Anna Marie Hall, Sloan O’Donnell, Helen Reimann, and Betty Millhizer. We elected Miss Eddy and Miss Pinney as our guiding beacons. During the course of our Junior year, we were floating leisurely in mid-air when suddenly we dived again to the South gymnasium to stage the annual Valentine Dance, ably managed by a committee of LeRoy Cousins, Chairman, Dorothy Hanna, Sheridan Stoudt, Richard Earley, Dan Breene and Harriet Carlson, who contracted Merle Keyes and his band to play for us. This was followed by the election of the following Easter Dance committee who likewise planned and staged a highly successful dance: Harry Ziegler, Chairman, Richard Earley, Dorothy Hanna, Dan Breene and Harriet Carlson. Merle Keyes furnished the music. Page 18

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OIL CAN - 1954 Oil City High School 1 Victorinc Wolstoncroft, Eugene Harriger, Thomas Grisell, Harold Blakely, Philip Montgomery, Elvina Logan, Roger Yaple, George Mohr, Hazel Barr, Jack Couch, Floyd Daum, Milton Marks, and Eugene Russell. Thus we were assured of a fitting landing to mark the end of our high school career. We elected a committee composed of Joseph Wojtowicz, Chairman, Peg Inglis. Betty Millhizer, Jane Bruner, Dorothy Hanna, Philip Montgomery, and Sheridan Stoudt to select our class rings and pins as souvenirs of our memorable flight. Several members of our Senior class were members of the cast of the school play, Cat O Nine Tails, sponsored by the Student Council and directed by Miss McAtee, Miss Brewster, and Miss Zalzneck. Martha Berry, Harry Ziegler, Jerome Silverman, Geraldine McCoy and Hazel Barr were among the participating Seniors. Jack Wilson and Betty Griffith sang admirably the solos in the Music Clubs, concertized edition of the opera “Faust”; there were also many Seniors in the choruses and orchestra of this laudable production. These final committees were selected on the last wing of our flight—Banquet, Betty Ryan, Chairman—John Perry, Jerome Silve-man. Eva Goldman, and Harold Blakely; Picnic— Philip Montgomery, Dorothy Hanna, Edwin Jory, Harry Ziegler, and Waldron Schruers. Color Margaret Inglis, Helen Leroux, Paul Nelson, Jack Walker, and Jack Seaton. With our ship rushing onward and our goal, graduation, in view, we are sorry to be unable to record the result of our May Dance. Picnic, and Senior Banquet. EDWIN JORY. MARY LOU CARLON. PAUL NELSON, Page 20