Foxcroft Academy - Review Yearbook (Dover Foxcroft, ME)

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L O U I S O A K E S Alumnus- --Benefactor With the death of Louis Oakes in Greenville on November 5, 1964, Foxcroft Acad- emy lost its greatest single benefactor. His death, however, did not mark the ter- mination of his interest in or benefactions to the school, for as long as the institution exists it will have reason to remember and to be grateful to him. Louis Oakes was born in Sangerville February 15, 1871, the oldest child of Wil- liam Pitt and Edith N. Clgewisj Oakes. Whenthe time for his secondary education ar- rived his father piu'chas d a farm inwhat was thenthe Town of Foxcroft and which is now the site of Foxcroft Academy. After graduating from Foxcroft Mr. Oakes attended the University of Maine and later engaged in the management of timberlands in the Moosehead Lake area, developing a respect and love for growingtrees and their proper culture which he maintained during his entire life. As a result of association with the gold mining enterprise of his brother, who later became Sir Harry Oakes, Mr. Oakes acquired the wealth which he so generously used for the benefit of education in Greenville, at the University of Maine, and parti- cularly at Foxcroft Academy. His first benefaction to Foxcroft was the gift to the Trustees in 1941 of his homestead and the subsequent construction of Oakes Field, one of the finest football and track areas in the state. Following World War II he began work on the academic building which was first used in February of 1952. His will pro- vided for a trust fund of approximately 3185,000 with the likelihood in years to come of a further fund. To Mr. Oakes Foxcroft Academy was not just a pile of brick and stone, nor was it simply a place where boys and girls could acquire aformal education. He fully be- lieved in Juvenal's mens sana in corpore sano --a sound mind ina sound body. Dur- ing most of his more than 90 years his vigor attested to the fact that he had lived up to that rule. Foxcroft Academy was to him something which would prepare young people for living, physically as well as mentally. He was most interested inthe pro- ject culminating in the construction of the gymnasium and attended its opening at the age of 91 years. Louis Oakes will no longer be able to sit on the knoll above Oakes Field on a fall afternoon and watch Foxcroft Academy teams play the football he loved so much and which he played himself as a member of the first team to represent the school. But the building which he made possible, and his continuing benefactions will, like the oak trees bordering the campus, keep his memory forever green. Ora L. Evans 5

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REVIEW STAFF SEATED: C. Stitham, K. Plummer, D. Thomas, J. Anderson, D. Merrill, STANDING: Mrs. Gerrish, D. Nickerson, L. Pullen, A. Smith, A. Coy, K. Anderson, C. Plummer, N. Snow, A. Hayes. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FROM THE EDITORS We of the 1965 Review Staff wish to thank the following for their invaluable contributions: the advisor, Mrs. Gerrish, Stevens Studios, THE OBSERVER and Lou Stevens, and all those who have contributed to this yearbook. 6