Oxford High School - Ravelins Yearbook (Oxford, MA)

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THE RAVELIN S 1938 CLASS HISTORX By Mary E Barnes On September 10 1934 we the graduatmg class of 38 entered our first year of hlgh school wxth an enrollment of forty members and did we thmk we were blgl At the close of chool we could all be seen plodding home wlth books plled sky hlgh 1n an effort to xmpress others that we were studlous However, the book worm att1tude lasted only about three days, due to the fact that most of us began to feel that one or two books were heavy enough to carry at one t1me On September 20th, we gathered to hold our first class meeting and with the aid of Mr Rxch ardson, our class advlser, we elected the follow mg officers pres1dent, Stat1a Sh1V1Ck, v1ce president, Gordon Chaffee secretary, Clara Snyder and treasurer, Evy Carlson We chose Russell Proctor as our representatlve to the Student Councll Statia Sh1v1ck was chosen class reporter for Ravellns Many boys m our class proved themselves qu1te athletic 1n 1ntent, by gomg out for cross country These were Donald Mahoney, Arm and Strack Lyman Rosebrooks Richard Bel lows and Peter Pe1ore many meetmgs ln whlch we had dlscussxons about class dues, and where we should l1ke to go on our p1cn1c at the close of school Summer vaca ion was coming fast and we wanted to go to Whxte Cxty Park for a pxcnxc but It was qu1te xmposslble for us to find any one who would ar1ve us all there and back for less than a half a dollar aplece, so we all went home on the last day of school wlthout a pxc n1c but st1l1 happy because our report cards read passed which meant that we were no longer freshmen It wasn t long however bef re we were back at school again ready and wrllmg to go throu h another mterestmg year at Oxford High, wlth an enrollment of forty members This year we elected our officers as follvws president, Warren Chaffee vice pres1dent, StH'18 Sh1v1ck secretary Clara Snyd r and treasurer Gordon Chaffee M1ss Gahagan was our class advlser Our representatives to the Student Councll were Warren Chaffee and Kathryn Lane we could have two now for we were sophomores We trxed so hard to grow up thxs year but we were hand1capped because Gordon Chaffee and Russell Proctor refused to stop wearmg kmckers In our sophomore year we were well repre sented 1n basketball by Warren Chaffee M1chael Guskey, and Gordon Chaffee Warren was a member of the varsmty team Lost Vmcent Kasehs Fmder please return to Rlchard Ellls Yes, we dld lose Vmcent and seven other members, they were Helen Kallta Marlon Lougee Bessle Lowell Robert Powers, Marcel Devlllers, Vlrglnla Wrlght and Armand Strack Most of them moved to other towns leaving us reduced to a class of 32 members Well now we wonder what good deeds we dxd for O H S during th1s year? Oh yes we remember Russell Proctor s helping to boost the sale of tickets for the fall play Boy' you should have heard hzm give speeches He could have made you buy anything from a tooth brush to a vacuum cleaner On October 9 1935 the first 1ssue of Static ever mxmeographed 1n Oxford Hxgh was pub lished Several members of our class proved runmng around the school to get all the news possxble One of the real news artlcles read Flash' ' Sophomores take part in Radio Play The name of our first great expenence at broadcast1ng over W O R C on January 5 1936 was The Lawyer of Samarcand Our radlo actors were Florma Gendron, Lucille Lapan Evy Carlson, Elizabeth Palge, Mary Barnes, Kathryn Lane Russell Proctor Warren Cha' fee Donald Mahoney Joseph Ma1nv1lle and Elsie Bellows, and dld they show talent' We had lots of fun nn our sophomore year be cause now we felt that we knew all the teach ers and that all the upper classmen were so n1ce, but good thmgs are brief and school closed 1ts doors on June 27th to give us a sum mer vacation our second in hrgh school Thxs of course made us feel down hearted On September 8 1935 Just as we wer feel mg qu1te sat1sfied wlth loafmg, Bunny Sxddall, the school Jamtor found the key that actually op ned the doors at O H S m amng tha we had to go back to school for another vcar but as Juniors we had many good times to look for ' , 23 7 v , , y . I Q . I 7 7 7 7 . - as - va C ' - H . yy . A . . - n ' I 7 . I I 3 ' , 7 7 ' s , .i . . . , W.. H , H 56 77 7 ' 7 n u ' 7 o 7 ' CC ' 77 I l I - . , . , s ' 9 ' ' During our freshman year, our class held themselves very helpful in the production by . . I . , ' ' if ' 77 , . . . . ,. . . . . . . , . 7 . . . . . - ,, ,, . 1 7 7' 7 : .I I 7 7 . I ' v J U' 2 I 7 9 H 77 ' ' ' . ' . 9 , 'Y 1 v ' . . . G 7 Q , . - . 7 ' : , - . 5 . - . - D ' ' 7 I Q . 3 ' - -. . , v 1 1 I . , . . D . A , , . 1 6 ,. ' L X , , 7 e . . ., . -1 , , I . I n 1

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THE RAVELIN S 1938 made no provision for a national executive or Judiciary It gave each state an equal vote in a unicameral Congress It made the union only a loose league, and in spite of the fact that the Articles spoke of the union as perpetual the states held no such concept of the duration of their membership In 1787, at Philadelphia all hope of amend mg the existing system of laws was abandoned The men at this convention set to work to draw up a new set of fundamental laws This evolved into the Constitution of the United States On September 17 1787 this document was submitted to the thirteen states for ratifi cation At least nine s ates were required to approve of it before it could be accepted Seven of the state conventions, in ratifying the Constitution expressly stated their desire to have a Bill of Rights to protect the1r inter ests, and made concrete proposals, totaling ov er one hundred, of the specific laws they wish ed to have mcluded To satisfy this desire, Madison, in 1789 intro duced in Congress a number Of amendments to the original Constitution, s ating that they would rally many people to the support of the new government, The House finally passed seventeen of these amendments The Senate reduced the number to twelve In 1791, ten were eventually ratified as the first amend ments to the Constitution In this way a Bill of Rights became an mtegral part of the Federal Constitution These rights were later enlarged by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendment which provide for the legal revision of the Constitution, when changing condi 1d'1S re quired such action ADVICE TO INDI RGRADLA1 ES By Gordon Chaffee We, the class of 1938, welcome you pai ents, teachers, friends, and fellow students to our Class Day Exercises You, our parents friends, and teachers, we are both proud and glad to have with us on this day, which begins the of our local school life These are days that you, as well as we, have worked and wished for, for many years May their realization equal the dreams of them which each one of us has car ried in his heart' Fellow students of O H S we welcome you and we who have passed four year in high school feel qualified to give you sound coun sel Let the voice of our experience tell you to do as we say not always as we did The best words of advice which you will flnd on any seniors lips are For goodness sake watch your school habits' Make it your practice to work hard first then play equally hard after your work IS done Take part 1n every activity of high school life that you can but once you have started a thing carry it through to completion You all know from reading the ads that scientis s have proved that stop and go driv mg 1S expensive because it wastes a great deal of gasoline and causes wear and tear that shortens the life of the car You might compar yourself to an automobile and the energy spent in school and school life to the gasoline If you start many things, and instead of carrying each through to completion you stop, change your aim and start off again on another venture, you are doing the same thing that a car does things you waste a great deal of energy and reach no goal, and more than the automobile does when xt is continually starting and stop ping but never getting very far In order to use your nergy and get the most out of high school do not use the stop and go method get into the habit of carrying what you begin through to its completion When we, who are seniors and about to grad late, were underclassmen we saw things Just about as you do Now, we see them differ cntlv We have reached the end here w car not retrace our path but you are still on the road We are pointing our mistakes out to you for this purpose only that you may avoid not only some of the unhappy situations which ue have experienced, but others that w , too in a mlraculous manner, seem to have escaped On the whole our days at O H S have been delightful and in behalf of our cla of 1938 Iwish to thank each of you for his part in ma 4 mg them such, and to wish you if possible, even greater en3oyment of your school days than we have had 22 ' , , 1 . . y ' , . Y - - I b a r I . , l ' . v ' . . . 3 , - I ,,...........-..- 7 Y 1 7 T , 1 ' l L ' Y I . . f l . , ' I ' 1. A series of ceremonies that mark the completion il1'NSt0P and E0 driving- In this WHY Of doing , , . - . I . . . e ' , ss 77 I , ., L I , I I c 1 , I C v ' - ' . , 7 O V' I D u 0 . 7 4 5 ' , - . . , . , ,, , ' I 7 3 ,- . yy . ' , ' I I y 1 , I C I . . . . , , . -. . . , . vi , . ' ff 7, . , . . . ' ' f N ' - 1 53 1 . ,, . . . - - - 1 - - ss of ' ' ' ' . 1 ' . ' e

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THE RAVELIN S 1938 ward to Would you belleve lt Gordon Chaffee and Russell Proctor were really wearmg long pants' Good for them' Now we were really grown up at last We held our first class meetmg as Jumors on October 1 1936 w1th our advlsers M1ss Wmter and M1ss Kennedy We elected the followmg officers presrdent Gordon Chaffee, v1ce presx dent, R1chard Elhs, secretary Clara Snyder, and Warren Chaffee, treasurer Our Student Counc1l members were Russell Proctor, Kath ryn Lane, and R1chard E111s On October 27, we welcomed a new teacher to our schlol, namely Mr OConnor who 15 st1ll one of our favorltes On November 5 the Athletxc Assoclatlon sponsored a play F1x1ng lt for Father w1th the followmg Juniors takmg part Kathryn Lane, Warren Chaffee, and Russell Proctor You see, we also had dramatlc ab111ty m our class We may modestly state that, w1th our members to asslst, the success of th1S play was overwhelmmg Our growmg up process was further hasten ed by the most sbocklng experlence of our ten and one half years of school llfe On December 7 1936 Helen Campbell, our artlst, and the best beloved one of us all, dled For most of us, It was our first encounter w1th the sadder slde of 11fe We can not phrase our trlbute to her 1n better words than by quotmg here, the poem wrxtten by a fnend that appeared m the December 1ssue of Ravehn s 1n 1936 A g1r1 w1th pen and brush 1n hand walked slowly down the wood And stopped to draw as thmgs she knew Came 1nto slght sometlmes a face a bxt of frosted dew Or sunshme llght would speak because she understood She dxd not always walk w1th thmg she loved Sometxmes forgettmg she was Arts own chlld She ran and played w1th youth or qulckly smlled And then rememberxng back to her world she moved The road for her was not long but much she saw Each day She spoke w1th many thmg we do not know And travelled well known places where we may not go Unt11 she turned a corner from our slght and went away Alberta Carey and Margaret Carlson left our class, and two new gxrls Martha Glonet and Norma Ball, entered our classroom to replace them In January basketball season came round and Warren Ch ffee agam was the only boy from our class who had a place on the varslty team Boy' could he slnk that ball 1nto the basket' Stat1a Shlvlck, Martha Glonet and El s1e Bellows enJoyed a very successful season while playlng on the glrls ba ketball team It wasnt long before baseball season came and two of our boys Wllllam K1lbOTn and War ren Chaffee, helped the O H S baseball team to w1n a beautxful cup 1n the Western Worccs ter County Hlgn School Baseball League We are grateful to them, but th1S wasnt the only pr1ze that our class members worked for or won On May 11 Nell1e Whxte and Ehzabeth Palge each won a pr1ze rn the County Hxgh School Typewrxtxng Contest held annually at Beckers BUSIDCSS College Sta 1a Shlvlck won the Fletcher Award g1ven to her because she had the hxghest scholastxc average among the gxrls earnmg athlet1c awards We comph ment you agam Stat1a you have not only re cexved th1s award once, but for four consecu trve years On March 17 1937 we held our Junror prom Dxd we have fun makmg plans for th1s event' We decorated the hall beautrfully w1th orchld and green The Boyntonlans furnlshed music for our prom We do hope that our spec 1al guests, the semors enjoyed the dance, be cause we certa1nly dxd Whlle havmg many good txmes at O H S we dldn t reahze that vacatlon would roll around so qu1ckly, but good thmgs are soon ended and we found ourselves 1n the mldst of another vacatxon On September 6 1937 we began our last year 1n hxgh school w1th an enrollment of 33 members Jack Lebo came to us from Sprmg field Techamcal Hlgh We held our usual clas meetmg for the purpose of electxng class ofli cers, those chosen were presldent Gordon Chaffee, vxce presrdent Lyman Rosebrooks, secretary Clara Snyder and treasurer, Everett Perry Members appomted to the Student Councxl were Stat1a Shlvxck Kathryn Lane Russell Proctor and Warren Chaffee Our class adviser was Mr Sannella and our home room teacher was M1ss Wmter for M1ss Mxrxam Man n1ng had been granted a year's leave of absence to study at John Hopkms Un1vers1ty Two new 24 ' , . . - 1 D 1 l 0 I . , 1 . . . B , 1 1 U i . . . - .- . , . , . . - - . U . . . . 1 - ' ' I . . . . , N ' S . . . , , - . , . , - . . . I - . . . . 1 , . as - - 1 11 - - 1 , 1 1 . . . . . . . . . , 4. . . . ,y . . . . . . . . . . . , . U . . S . L . ' ' fa o ' 1 1 ' - . . F - 1 1 1 1 . . . , . . . . , , I . I . - . . . N . . . G '1 , . . - ' . . ., 5 . , - I . . . , . -W Y ... , 1 1 . . 3 . . . , 2 - . . , . 2 . . . 3- , . - N . . , - 1 ' 9 ' D ' ' 0 1 Y ' , 1 9 1 . 7 e s I ' . . . , 1 3 . - , l , . . . , - . . .A f ,, . . . ' - .