Oakfield High School - Acorn Yearbook (Oakfield, ME)

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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 -

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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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WE THREE Clearly and drstrnctly I can see the old weatherbeaten whrte house that used to be home to my srsters and me It was the house my grandfather and father before me had been born rn Completely bereft of modem con venrences no electrrcrty or runmng water rt was nevertheless a fme place for children to work play and row u We three were always very close even though we drd frght a lot Mrldred the youngest of us was also the most 111 tempered of the group Maureen was the rnventrve one she once made a mud ple usmg an egg to add flavor to the mud and water As you proba bly guessed Maureen was usually rn trouble I would classlfy myself as the v1lla1n for I always kept track of to Mom much to therr drsmay Asl thrnk of those daysl can t seem to re call dorng thrs to cause them trouble but rn accordance w1th a rather crude sense of duty for when they were spanked for theu' mrschrevousness would cry rrght along w1th them Playrng house was our favorrte as trme rn our younger years We would hardly leave off to eat Sometrmes we played 1n a corner of the krtchen or l1v1ng room and other trmes out under two great crabapple trees that grew IH back of the house But our favorrte spot to play house was up m the old attrc over the krtchen and lrvrng room Nobody ever went up there fexcept to clean the place or store clothesj so we had full relgn It was a dark musty place pxled wrth boxes rn wh1ch were stored many clothes of days gone by We would paw mercrlessly through these boxes untrl we found just the rrght costume Every trme we started playmg we had to decxde how many chxldren each of us would have and tn whrch part of the attxc each would l1ve Often some body would have to get marrred before we would play rn earnest Smce M11 dred was the youngest she usually played the groom much agarnst her wrshes Maureen was a most rrdrculous brrde wrapped up rn an assortment of ancrent lace curtarns and I played whatl thought was the most rmportant part I was the m1n1ster The ceremony as I remember was very short The brrde would stumble rn to the famrlrar strarns of the weddrng march hummed III our young off key vorces If she made rt to the groom wrthout fallmg flat on her lovely face I would pronounce them man and wrfe The prelrmmanes frnrshed, we would settle down to the maln event whrch would probably last all day I say rt was surely a lot of fun Marrlyn Brown 58 REAL COOL The cat was dead as he Jumped and J1ved By hrs cool set of wheels of 45 He d1d a beat that was cut by the feet And hrs real crazy babe helped dlg that beat She was the kmd that could Jump around Frrst she was up then she was down But by the trme the cat was through, You could tell the babe was too So they stopped rt all and called rt a sessron And after seerng that we all learned our lesson She got U1 the car and she was so fat That all the ttres went dead flat B Nadeau 58 g P. . . . the other two and relayed their schemes Wolff go into further details but 1 will . . . , I . . P - U '