Oran High School - Oranite Yearbook (Oran, MO)

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7-t- .. .- -.-,-W Y - ,.. -,-,..... ,YV, fy- ..' . . . .- -., ,, H ,,,,, nw, TEEN dimlillmmiii m lIinimlnmmmmwnnnmnnnrnmiimlmmilmlmuummmlllunmmulnummllnlilmlmmrmlli I ki.ni1iiuin11lli.iiiuiirlmirlmmnumiummmlllluunlnnnnlmmmwmnlmlzimlnllinn iirunnulunmrminlulillllliulllllli' rmnrunmimmulnluim nil' llrruvllurmlummllui HI ill imuE'nlfI'fmy lil' I Jil mi ,- -f - - . ---g-.. Wg-.. ----.---. .-,,, Wwmflmleiflmewnmiiw-mmwniwiifiinun Senior Cilass fl-listoru It was a bright September morn in the year of 1916 when nineteen happy faced freshmen, along with many others of the Oran High, filed into the assembly hall and were addressed by our new superintendent. When he talked to us his voice sounded with the force of a thundering command. A lion's roaring could not have equalled it. We quaked and we shaked. We did not know the first step to take. How many years we had looked toward entering high school, only now to be nervous and weak in the knees. But it was a consola- tion to think that we might become accustomed to the environment and would share in the thrills of study produced in high school. We staggered thru the year under the heavy burden of poor grades, taunts from those higher up, and innumerable demerits. The next year our class had decreased to ten. Things moved along very nicely until about December, when our principal left. We pleaded, entreated and im- plored, but to no avail. A Methodist preacher took her place. You might think we put on long faces and look- ed like saints, and our wings began to sprout, but no such thing. This man proved most congenial, or we did, I do not know which. Anyhow, we were having a blissful time courting the teachers for better grades. We obtained about all knowledge within reach of man fin one rather small bookl. Six were able to pull thru the year. And then begins our support of Darwin's theory. that in the struggle for existence there is a survival of the Httestf' Three out of the class survived. The others decided on varying courses to pursue. Some have since married and have troubles of their own. The momentous task of raising the standard of the school was undertaken. Work was increased and struggle would not define the way we went at those books. To leave our foot-prints on the sand of time , we were instrumental in organizing the everlasting, renowned, illustrious, distinguished and celebrated S. A . K. Society. Now don't guess the name. Some have cal!- miuiiTmiEiuiiJiii1EJiiuLfiiiiiimiu1unniumnmEuiimim.iinnnmu1iuiiinn uiumniiilnidmiiiimii 5. iiilimiiiiiimmiiliimiwniiiuiiuiiiiiiiuiillE ir i:'7el' 'THR ed it Seekers After Kisses , others South African Knights , and Satin And Kaiser. It is plain Seek- ers After Knowledge. With some hesitation our fourth year began. It seemed that no one wanted to be assistant prinicipal. Whether we were a bad lot, or the trouble lay with the teachers, was something we never could make out. Finally we secured one who-wait a minute! Then the principal married and wanted to leave us. After plead- ing, beseeching with tears in our eyes, and wearing our hearts on our sleeves, she condescended to stay. Perhaps I'd better tell you something about our illustrious Big Three and surroundings. We have our study hall in the Superintendent's oflice, where we pre- side with much dignity over the library. The cares of the office and duties of sometimes sending a lass or laddie, to look for Professor Moyers for an absence excuse, often prove provoking and burdensome. But never a word of complaint. We are used to that thing which is awfully big, but is spelled in a mighty small word work, The lower classes raised a howl when we asker? them to help us organize a Glee Club and Athletic As- sociation, but they consented after some deliberation. More of this in other pages. However, it proves that we are responsible for the self-imposed task. But a word of the Seniors. Original from the be- ginning, we have receded from the custom of electing class ollicers, and united into the Executive Committee to work together under the Crimson and Gold. Earl aspires to be an artist of the poetic type, writ- ing love ditties to the fairest maid in all the land. Always blamed for the infamous deeds of making love, he says he will take his spite out on some poor young- ster in a little country school next year. Woe be unto thee, little man! Alpha says there is one word she can spell well, even backwards, but she won't tell. Attractive, fasci- Yfgcf, ,,,,, , ,,, T-, ,, , i T- ..... .1 :i11U,:,v ii ' .,,i..ii ..ii1L.tiiimninin.ii1iiiiv : . wal.: rrrnrin..i..1nuuiimi.1mn.pruiuliLwumIifin.mmi1ziuininn1imi3'u1iiimnnmmmum

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W l I il IH El rl ll 3 I tl E F3 I. B., he mnmiuminnnn' A Ul-WlmlmlhlllmnumnMmm1m. DmH'mJlmllmmn UUNlmUm UWm mll-lllll lUUl'l lTmUUll1mll-Ulllll.ml1lllllll l'mIl.lm.lIlmIlDlU I1Lfll'lI A-K E 'V I v v 11 ' 'gi Y 'A' -- - Y - --- . mf--' --------Q W---ii-W ff 34 3 'ff - 4 W' f W f Af 'f f 1- 'Ulf WP 'W'Wf.a.LgUi4fF P-'Ui '1f!ULm'WfflW1-WWHLW''LHFQIBIILmlmevawfmMmmvmrmmwvrigniygrlrwiungnpiingnnuInnmnnmnimiiunivmpfgiiimpnmmmngnfmQ1 'Qjhe Seniors' CProphecq 1 dip ima lhe fufure For as hurrlan eye Feffeluei, SBC A vision of the world. And fhe life of wcfrllie Seniors llrrce. This is not to be a dream, as generally, but a vision. Old men dream dreams, but young men see visions. Before I start my story concerning that life in the great world into which we, the Seniors three, are about to launch, I wish to let my readers know what this period in our lives means to us. This period, the brink of life, when we must separate after we have been to- gether through grammar school days as well as these. struggling always for the goal we have almost reached. The history of each is almost the same. Now we three Seniors, from among many, are the only survivals of a large class, and altho glad to know that we have stood the tests and have triumphed where others failed. there is still mingled a sad note at the thought of part- ing at the threshold of life, that threshold which awaits us all with, or without, that honor of having finished twelve years of training. The lights have not yet been lighted and as I sit here alone in the flickering rays of the fire, which are chasing shadows up and down the wall and leaving the corners in darkness, my thoughts return to my high school days and to the time of the graduation of the Senior Class of 1920. As I gaze into the embers I see the same old school house and the rooms where we used to congregate to study those lessons, then oh, so hard, but now nothing compared to the Lessons of Life. I live over again that separation on commence- ment day, when the sight of diplomas thrilled us, to YY Y'Ym I11l.l!!llll'A'lEl11'Il4.lJlllll.lllIl11Illl1'llll'Il1XllYl.lllLllllllllll'll.ll'lll1llf.llll!l'l1ll.ll1l1lI.IIII1l1Il.lllll.lllI I.IIlllfIllllll lUilIlI.mll.lLc:,-,I uimin.2I1.1muliui.m.iuriz.lJuiLuAl1.uuiiu-1l..l mlui,luulunmn!llimiu1mu...uiuDluulU'uLu1iTnvEiLhvlmm1mmWmIm mmm ,q,., , ,, ,, ,,,, ,am , , take the Seats of Time, which the world offered to us to fill. The fire burns lower and my thoughts center on Helen Bowman, my only girl friend of the class, and follow her career from the time we bade farewell to- gether to old walls in which we had spent so many happy hours. Helen was always interested in the sciences, especially Home Economics. So from her High School training she aspired to higher training, and never stopped until she was graduated from one of the noted colleges, and became a teacher in a school of no limited reputation. After filling her work in public schools she had married her sweetheart of high school days. Helen always said, when she spoke of matri- mony, that she thought it was a woman's Christian duty to marry when she had received training to make herself capable to manage a home and be a pal, as she said, to her husband. As my mind recedes from Helen, settled now with her girlhood dreams fulfilled, I retrace my thoughts again to the little school house and follow Earl Crader, the only man in the class, a rose among the thorns as he used to dub himself, in his career, since he sepa- rated from us. While in school the question of Woman Suffrage was talked of a great deal, and although Earl was in favor of it he used to hit the Queer Sex, as he called the women, every chance he got. He was also interested in sciences to some degree, but Sociology de- manded more of his attention, and after he graduated he attended college after college always seeking to un- derstand the relations of this great society-the world. He branched oil' from Sociology into the other 'ologies. w E E' I I? l 'i I il ,K mi Q