Woodward High School - Treasures Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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BLUM, RICHARD JOSEPH The flowers that bloom in the Spring, tra-Ia, have nothing to do with this case.” Dick’s chief duty in school life is to open the register in Miss Fillmore’s room when his friend Caniff closes the door. Besides, he is always the first to see the wit in Tecum’s translations and is keenly appreciative. Not content with the course of studies of the Senior Class, he devotes himself zealously to the laws of Natural Philosophy, to the de- light of the Juniors. We have not yet discovered Dick’s particular lady friend, but we venture to say that she does not stroll through the classic halls of Woodward. We will soon see Blum a prosperous barber, whose specialty will be cutting off golden curls. BRUECKNER, LYDIA ADELINE Glee Club , Gym Team. She ' ll make you laugh.” She is always laughing at something or other and it seems to be contagious. She is a girl of unrestrained good humor and is exceptionally kind-hearted. She possesses a jolly disposition, deriving as much pleasure from her school life as those with whom she is intimate seem to derive from her jovial company. Lydia is a very busy young lady, as she is a member of the Gym Team and Glee Club, and is the fastest and best talker in the class. 16

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BENZING, ELMER LEONARD Cadets, Gym Team. This fortunate youtli is endowed witli the first requisite for greatness — he resides in Cumminsville. Nuf Ced! Grave, thoughtful, studious, modest, he has made an indelible mark on the minds of Woodward’s students, who recognize his wonderful genius by his original Greek translations. He loves to study antiques, mythology, dead and living languages, and nature. Cumminsville not being sufficiently rural for him, he intends to V “trek” to Columbus to study agriculture at the State College. He and his friend Seibert are credited with the brilliant performance of getting through Woodward in three and one-half years. Elmer’s solemnity and dignified bearing suggest a successful career as an undertaker in the future. BICKLE, ONEIDA NELLIE “ Without eloquence, one is not a poet.” Miss Bickle, delegate from the “ Baby Class,” made a place for herself in the minds of her fellow-students by the concise, emphatic way in which she presented the grievances of her companions at one of the Senior Class meetings. Oneida is one of our stately girls and she always sustains the dignity of her class with credit. She is devoted to art in all its forms, but if you should see the picture of a horse drawn by her you would swear it was a table. But then she believes that art should be vague and left to the imagination. Oneida says she will continue her studies unless he proposes and they decide to live in a “cottage just built for two.” 15

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BOYLE, MERRITT ALFRED M. S., Athletic Committee, Track Captain, Baseball Team, Oracle, Glee Club. After four years of coming in from Guinea on the accomodation train, “Mary” has been graduated. He no longer balks at the trolley cars and is fast losing that graceful walk which, together with his running and dancing, has made him famous. Cinderella is a splendid Latin scholar and consequently the mainstay of that celebrated coterie known as the “Jussive Aid Society.” He has broken several records about Loveland, both in running and talking. According to our prophetess, Merritt has a brilliant future before him, as leading clown in Ringling’s Three Ringed Circus. BUTLER, JEANNETTE FLORENCE M. O. B., Annual Staff, Class Secretary, Oracle Staff. Well here’s Miss Butler, it’s a fact she is a “Butler” but how long she will remain one, is hard to tell. Jeannette deserves credit for her literary contributions to the pages of the Annual. She is such an accomplished lady of letters, that she was raised to the exalted position of assistant local editor of the Oracle, which in more expressive terms means assistant knocker, in which capacity she attained the highest eminence. It is now her turn to be “Rap, Rap, Rapped.” There is one dark spot that overshadows Jeannette’s last year at high school. Imbued with the idea that she was endowed with a voice of matchless beauty, it was a most cruel blow, when she was not chosen to sing in the Glee Club. Jeannette would no doubt make a successful war news reporter. Why? ’Cause she was class secretary. 17