Oakfield High School - Acorn Yearbook (Oakfield, ME)

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A JUNIOR S MIND You ve heard people talk about how changeable Marne weather rs well that s what I compare my mmd to as a Jlmror rn hrgh school I s1t back and watch the Semors order therr ptctures put on then play publrsh therr yearbook and numerous other bold thmgs Wrth starry eyes I wonder can I do all that next year? Next some member of the faculty w1ll tnvrte you rn to talk over your fu ture career Scared? Well I should say you are! You stammer and stutter Career! What career? Your faculty member IS as surpnsed as you are be cause he or she wrll thmk you surely have constdered one by thrs trme Then they w1ll leave you wrth that thought that scares you almost to death you re gomg to graduate before you know A few weeks pass by and you most lrkely forget the subject when sudden ly what you call rrght out of the clear blue sky Mom and Dad pop the ques tend after graduatton dear? Agam that forlorn look crosses your face and you thrnk Oh no they can t have the college bug too But sure enough af ter they are done you go to bed wrth college echomg through your thoughts After all thrs you get to thmkmg Suppose they know what they are talk mg about Then suddenly some day rt all comes to you that you won t be wandertng up a Wlfldlllg lrttle road to one of the most dear and memorable places tn your lrfe forever You really thmk serrously for a few mmutes then realrze that the saymg don t cross the bndge unt1l you come to rt Just doesn t apply to you Iudy Crandall 59 THEMES for almost two weeks There are two or three of the boys frncludmg myselfj that are one day behmd the others but I thmk we had better catch up to them because the teacher IS after us Just lrke a cat rs after a mouse I thmk that one reason that we are behmd the rest IS because we do not lrke to have them read rn front of everybody Ph1l1p Sherman 59 GIRLS! Grrls sort of fascinate me Some days they are so mce to you they ask for advrce on their subjects and tell you thmgs they just know you would l1ke to hear They fool arormd and tell Jokes and everybody has fun Other days they d1sagree wrth every thmg you say You ask them somethrng and what do you suppose they say No I don t know and I wouldn t tell you rf I dxd Ask them somethmg else and rt s No and w1ll you turn around you got your theme done? Goodrel Can I read rt? As soon as rt s read you should hear 'If you read that Arnold Swallow 1 ll k1ll you G1ve me that! Boy oh boy' You just wart I ll flx you I don t know I just srmply can t un derstand xt I must be dumb or some thrng Arnold Swallow 59 FOR DRIVER EDUCATION STUDENTS Although some new cars come equrp ped wrth automatrc transmrsslons one armed drrvers Sllll are usmg the same old conventxonal clutch FRANKLY FRIEND Forgxve me 1fI don t pursue Themes are one thmg that I dread more The subJect when you talk of you than anythmg else In our Engltsh Class It s fascrnatrng I ll agree we have been Wflllflg Lhem 6VeI'y day BUI I would rather talk of me . . ' . . ' . ' . . . . ' it. ' , ' , HOD. What College do you plan to al' Then a few minutes later, Arnold, have ' ' ' , N ' . . 1 - . - l . . . , . . ' , ,

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FRESHMEN Frrst row Joan Bartlett Gordon Cook Mary Shrelds Lynne Brown Roger Dyer Mlldred Brown Bonn1eSh1elds Second row James Nadeau Adrrenne -C McDonald Sheldon York Polly Crane A7 Donnre Swallow Dallas Hosford Thrrd row Denn1sTarr Ronald Thomas Floyd Shrelds Rrchard Burton Clrfford Slauenwhrte Starr Sanders Dale Bout rlrer Mr Cormrer Advrsor 7 CLASS OFFICERS Presrdent LYNNE BROWN Vrce Presrdent ROGER DYER Secretary MARY SHIELDS Treasurer GORDON COOK Student Councrl Member MILDRED BROWN We the Freshman Class entered Oakfreld Hrgh School with twenty one students but later lost Judrth Hardy now makmg us twenty Those partrclpatmg tn basketball were Polly Crane Sheldon York Donnre Swallow Rrchard Burton and Floyd Shrelds We presented the Chrrstmas Play Joan Bartlett was our candrdate for Harvest Queen and won ln competrtron wrth the other three classes

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A TALL GREEN TREE A tall green tree wrth branches leafy and wlde Grew seemrngly wrthout effort on a rocky fnountaxnsxde Small buds used rts branches for nests Hunters and wanderers tts shade for rests Seekers of beauty found ll a srght to see Artrsts parnted rt Joyfully Just a tall green tree on a mountain Slde Wrth branches luxurrously leafy and wrde But what It was to those who knew It A place of peace lulled by the wrnds that blew rt M Brown 58 CHILDREN AND PRAYER Prayer IS a true glft of God Sometrmes used but often dow ntrod Mothers laugh Fathers condone Oh mother when you teach your chrl dren to pray Let them mean the words they say M Brown 58 NOW IS THE HOUR FRESHMAN Please mama let me out tonrght SOPHOMORE May I go out tonrght? The show IS over at ten JUNIOR I m gorng out tonxght Dad SENIOR Goodnrght folks I ll brrng ln the MILK Srgn on a chicken coop on a farm In southern Wrsconsrn Warnrng' Any one found prowlmg around thrs chrcken coop durrng the nrght wrll be found III the mornmg IT HAPPENED Some may thrnkl m a poet Burl m one that don t know rt I m thrnlong very hard when all of a sudden Somethrng around me starts a thuddm I look all around to see what IS the reason And frnd rt IS Bruce s heart who Carolyn rs teasrn He thrnks she s a doll And for her would do anythmg at all So he losses her twrce And says she s so n1ce Then wrth a wrnk of hrs eye He goes back to h1s work Wllh a srgh L Mcmeuy ss ENGLISH IV Here placed before me rs pencrl and paper or a Skyscraper? No that s too hrgh class for me As you can probably see But as I tread rnto Engllsh Class I wrsh the day would surely pass Mrs Mayberry looks us all over and speaks Then everyone crouches low and dares only to peek She calls on Rowland frrst of all Rowland hasn t got a poem so he be gms to stall Frnally the whole class has recrted the1r say The 3 01 bell rrngs and that s our pay C Drew 58 Small tongues speak words unknown, What shall I write about, an Architect : , , go -