West High School - Senior Occident Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Mr. Joseph P. O’Hern Joseph P. O'Horn was born in Cuba. N. Y.. September the nineteenth, 1S6S. After a few years in the village school, he began life as a messenger boy. In 1SS1 he entered the service of the Erie Railroad Company as telegraph operator. He continued in that work for six years and during vacations, while in college. The desire for an education led Mr. O’Hern to enter the Geneseo State Normal 'School where he completed his college entrance studies in one year. In 1S88 he entered the University of Rochester and was graduated in 1892 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. While in college he became a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. Thirst for knowledge and the love of study seem to have been prominent traits of Mr. O’Hern's character. After leaving college he spent two years in Europe devoted to post- graduate study in Philosophy; and one year in Harvard devoted to post- graduate study in English. In 1894 the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy was conferred upon Mr. O’Hern by the American College at Rome, and in 1895 the degree of Master of Arts by the University of Rochester. Mr. O’Hern lias traveled extensively and has visited in his travels nearly all the countries of Europe, and also Iceland, the Land of the Midnight Sun. For ten years he taught English and History in the Bradstreet Prepara- tory School. When the West High School was opened he was made head of the English Department. For two years Mr. O’Hern has been with us. a constant companion in our journeys through the field of English Literature. He has given us a broader outlook on life, he has developed in us an appre- ciation of all that is true and lasting in literature, and it is in appreciation of all that Mr. O’Hern has meant to the Seniors and to West High School that we dedicato this little book, with the hope that—imperfect as it is it may yet merit his approval. It is our wish for West High School that Mr. O’Hern. a man who has traveled much and who loves all that is best in art and literature, may long continue a member of her faculty.

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Executive Council, 1906-’07 Officers President....................................................... Herbert S. Weet Vice-President...................................................A lolph Stuber secretary....................................................... John M. Colt Treasurer ............................................... Theodore C. Hazard Publication Committee Dorotlhy C. Cross, '07, Chairman. Gerald Williamson, Jan., '08, Horace Barnes, '08, James Spinning. Jau.. 09. John M. Colt. 09, Raymond Cross. Jan., 10, J. P. 0‘Hern, Faculty Member. Athletic Committee Theodore C. Hazard. 07, Chairman. Frank Moody, Jan.. 07, Harry Edward. Jan., 08, George Uderltz. 08. Roy Riley, Jan., '0 9. William Crossett, 09, James Gallery, Jan., 10, Louis Miller, Faculty Member. Music and Literary Committee Adolph Stuber, ’07, Chairman. Raymond Landers, Jan.. 07. Carl Keller, Jan., 08, Earl Patterson. 08, Be rt Woo da ms, Jan.. 09. Karl Hibbard. 09, Wilbur Woo da ms, Jan., '10, Mrs. Charles Ellis. Faculty Member.