Oakfield High School - Acorn Yearbook (Oakfield, ME)

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NEWS STAFF 1 unused The Oakiield High School News Staff Although the Oakfield High School does not have a newspaper of its own, a part of the 0akfield Independent is devoted to school news so that the public may become acquainted with what is going on at school. The staff includes Marion Mason, editor-in-chiefg Anna Damiani, high school news editorg Rose Marie Sapienza, grade news editorg Haworth Traver, social news editorg Josephine Olmsted, music editorg Mabel Genesky, home economics editorg Malley Feeney, industrial arts editorg Vernon Campbell and Rowena Hoertz, sports editorsg Everett McClurg, Future Farmers of America news editorg Mary Angeles, Angeline Mosco and Joyce Domm, typists. Miss Prior is the staff faculty advisor. -IS

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LIBRARY IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE Sinclair Lewis N idealist of modern literature possessing extreme enthusiasm in the field of political controversy, Sinclair Lewis, writes his novel to satisfy the more satirical and ironical people, to present pictures of the jigsaw puzzle in Europe, and to inform the citizens of this country on our thrifty and industrious nation. This writer wishes us to read the novel not only for appreciation, but he encourages us to study facts. He speaks of Jew financiers controlling practi- cally all business and currency, labor unions submitting themselves as money- grabbers, Jew spies posing as American liberals, arguments for and against Fascism and Communism, debates on Social Democracy and communism, and differences of liberals and conservatives which enter into the lives of the peo- ple. Something very striking and noticeable is his portrayal of the conservative Senators, United States Chamber of Commerce, giant bankers, monarchs of steel motors, electricity, and coal, brokers, and the holding companies to the Bourbon kings of whom it was said that they forgot nothing and they learned nothing. Digging into economic situations causes him to reveal that money isn't everything in our progressive world, that our country needs discipline to restore its senses, and that the need of highbrow intellectuality and book-learn- ing is rapidly decreasing. Politics enters Mr. Lewis' life because of his keen interest in showing the difficulties of a modern nation. When a country has gone money-mad, and our labor unions and workmen with their propaganda have raised income taxes so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay the people, then Mr. Lewis thinks that to save the lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good end. There is no country in the world that can get more hysterical or more obsequious than America. This book is the product of a talented writer who has a clear imagination, and who forecasts with powerful vision, a most logical picture of the scenes which stand out in a simple, truthful, and vivid manner. Angeline Mosco, English IV. 47

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HIGHLIGHTS Sept. 5 Sept. 6 Sept. 7 Sept 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 20 Sept 23 Sept. 30 Oct. 1 Oct. 7 Oct. 8 Oct. 12 Oct. 13 Oct. 14 Oct. 17 Oct. 21 Oct. 22 Oct. 27 Oct. 28 Oct. 29 Nov. 2-3-4 Nov. 4 Nov. 5 Nov. 10 Highlights of '38-'39 Faculty meeting held Monday evening at 7:30. Oakfield High School opened for the first term. Students were dismissed at 11:00. Back to work again. Quite a few new faculty members have been engaged: Mr. Strunk, Industrial Artsg Miss Johnston, Commer- cialg Miss Uphill, Domestic Scienceg Mr. Bruce, boys' physical trainingg Miss Meadoff, girls' physical trainingg Miss Schuler, Musicg Miss Rudd, Librarian and sixth gradeg Miss Armer, kin- dergarten and first grade. Assembly: Movies at night entitled Paradise For Three and Roll Along Cowboy. Short assembly in the afternoon. The picture In Old Chicago was shown in the evening. The Oakfield High School dance club was organized under the direction of Miss Meadoff. Assembly was given on Girl of the Golden West, which was shown in the evening. Movie Professor Beware was shown at night. Oakfield defeated by Amherst in the first game of the football season. Hoosier School Boy and Rose of the Rio Grande was given at night. Oakfield was defeated by the Akron players, 40-7, for its second gridiron setback. Columbus Day-no school. Kentucky Moonshine with the Ritz brothers, was shown in the evening. Assembly: short pep meeting. It was not successful, for we lost the game with LeRoy 19-0. School closed for Teachers' Conference. Pupils all thankful for the short vacation. Motion pictures in the evening: Boys of the Streets and Dan- ger--Love at Work . Football game was held with 13-7. The movie The Crowd, Roars Another vacation from school. Oakfield Played Medina here first victory of the season. First Quarterly tests. Quite a few long faces. The movie Yellow Jack was given in the evening as a Girl Scout benefit. Oakfield defeated Batavia for the first time in the history of foot- ball by a score of 19-0. The Oakfield crowd celebrated by march- ing up Batavia's main street with the band. Almost had to call out the marines! A double feature program Hold 'Em Navy and Judge Hardy's Children was presented. ' 49 Pine Hill. They were victorious, was shown at night. Buffalo Teachers' Conference. and was victorious, 14-0, for our