Oakfield High School - Acorn Yearbook (Oakfield, ME)

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I REMEMBER WHEN In our house there 15 a storage room over the garage Just about everythtng IS kept rn th1s room except the k1tchen stnk Most of the stuff kept here rs not much good but we just can t throw ll away I l1ke to go up to th1s room once rn a wh1le and just look around One day asI was lookmg around I came upon an old f1shpole standrng 1n the corner It was covered w1th dust and the sprders had woven many br1dges of stlk to and from If As I pxcked up the old frshpole I remembered that day not so many years ago when I went ftshrng for the frrst trme The sun rose bnght and the skres were clear In the f1sh basket my father took along were all kmds of thtngs A I remember II was a long walk to Dyer Brook stream but we finally made rt after many stops to rest The fust thmg Pop drd was to put an angle worm on hrs hook and throw tt 1nto the water After try1ng th1s method for an hour or so he gave up the worm deal and declded to try somethmg else He reached tnto hrs basket and brought forth a box of starch He dumped the box of starch Into the brook and then got the rope he had brought along out of the f1sh basket We then proceeded downstream unt1l we came to a bend rn the brook From there Pop waded 1nto the brook and ned the rope around a very large trout Between us both we managed to pull the f1Sh to shore Later upon gomg home my father told me how he was able to catch all Of of those b1g fxsh He explamed rt to me and I quote After I put the starch 1nto the brook the f1sh got so strff they couldn t turn a corner IH order to go around the bend w1thout gettmg caught Leslle McNelly 58 MY CASTLE ON WHEELS Summer days 1n my ltfe were not spent 111 one or two places but rn many places for a boxcar and IIS boxcar famrly does not stay in one place for very long lts wheels constantly seem to remtnd ll that thelr purpose was tor movlng and that thev d1d not thtnk much of staytng rn that spot on the tracks The tracks also seem to stretch for an known number of mtles and seem to con txnually urge the wheels of the boxcar onward Of course th1s rs only pure tmagtnatron but the fact remams that the boxcar and ns famxly dxd not stay in one place more than three weeks and somettmes only a day or two We were Just such a famrly My father operates a rallroad bulldozer durlng the summer and the rarlroad com pany sends htm all over Mame Of course we drd not lrke the ldea of stay 1ng home all alone and 1f we could pos s1bly help tt we were not gotng to Slnce the rarlroad company supplred my father wrth a boxcar to l1ve m and srnce there was room m that boxcar qwtth a ltttle f1x1ng overj for all of us Qmother three brothers and a srsterj we declded to go along wxth htm I cannot remember too clearly the f1rst few years out but I can remember that we klds slept rn bunks whrch were sep arated from the rest of the boxcar by a curtarn But as we grew older we need ed somethtng more permanent so my father d1v1ded the car IHIO two bedrooms a large kltchen and a very small bath room My brothers had the larger bed room and we had the very small one whlch could hardly house one bunk bed My mother and father slept rn the far ther end of the krtchen Th1S was far from a mrlltonarre s domam but at the trme I liked to thmk of ll as my muua ture castle on wheels Our appllances were not modern gal though we d1d have electr1c1ty at most of the places we stayedj O ' I I l un- 9 I ' ' . s ' ' - '. . .- ' ' . . . - , . - . . ., I D l 9 U 1 , I . .. . , u I ' '

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HOW I LOST MY SHYNESS I remember when 1f a boy sat bes1de a gtrl rn school church or any actrvtty he was teased by the other fellows Thrs used to happen to me rn the lower grades of grammar school Durrng the ftrst four grades I had no use for glrls but tt always worked out so that I was betng teased about certatn gtrls Thrs teasrng used to really get me angry I used to frght wrth a boy tf he called me a gul s name somettmes I would even cry One mcrdent comes to me whtch happened 1n the second grade were readmg out loud and I couldn fmd my book The teacher told me go stt wtth someone wrth a book I got up and looked to see whtch boy I could s1t wtth but the boys were all srtttng double So I had to s1t wtth a gtrl The boys had been teasrng me about a certam gul rn that class and well I guess she was about the only gtrl I pard any attentron to Butl thought 1fI s1t wrth her I w1ll be teased even worse so I sat wrth a drfferent grrl But thrs only complrcated thrngs The boys began teasrng me about two gtrls and the grrl I wanted to srt wxth got mad at me becausel d1dn t When I reached the stxth grade I be gan to lose my shyness But sttll when ever the sub1ect of grrls came up I usually left the scene but knew I d rather enjoy the sub1ect At about the age of 12 If a boy sat bes1de a grrl tn the mov1es or a party he was really gone The other boys sort of rgnored htm I drd th1s once and even to my surprrse mustered up enough courage to put my arm around the grrl The fellows told me that sort of stuff was Just for s1ss1es so I forgot all about rt and sat wrth the boys after that Althoughl wasn t too smooth a talker I d1d walk gtrls home from grammar school soctals once tn a wh1le But I never walked any of them up to thexr front door and passed germs Oh no not me' I wasnt a srssyl I usually only walked home wtth guls who were gotng by my house If they ltved below my house when I came to thetr drrveway I sa1d Goodmght and went tnto my house lettmg them walk the rest of the way themselves I mlght have walked farther but my father used to tease me about how I walked home so I drdn t To put tt tnto a nutshell durmg grammar school I preferred boys rather than gtrls But 1fI had known as much asI do now rt would have been Just the other way around After my ftrst year of hxgh school I really changed When I got my drtver s ltcense I was all set I decrded that I wasn t goxng to let teasrng keep me from havrng dates Only one thmg stood 1n my way then my looks Th1s created a problem but when you have a car thrs doesn t htnder you too much At f1rstI used to take boys w1th me whenl got the famtly car but my curtos 1ty got the best of me so I decrded to take out a grrl On my frrst date I took a gtrl to the mov1es We went to the movte then came stratght home Upon reachrng home she satd Goodnrght She got out and I went home Thtnk of tt home by 10 30 Gradually II became later unt1l one ttme I took a g1rl out and got rn at around 1 00 That was the frrst trme I mustered up enough courage to krss a grrl It was short but rt really educated m But now at the present rf I go to the mov1es wtth a gul I get home at about 12 00 The movres let out at 10 00 Durmg that trme between I am just an ordmary red blooded Amer1 can boy lettrng tnstmct ta ke tts course Don t get me wrong though I am a boy who just ltkes to s1t and talk All rn all, I would say th1s IS the story of how I lost my shyness Rlchard McGraw 58 . . ' .. ' . l , . . . ' - - . . ' . i . . . ' - y . , ' I I n ' o I ' . We ' - ' 1 It ' ' ' ' . to - . . . . . , ' ' , . ' 1 I . . . - . - I , - , , . . u ' Q . . ' - i . .. . ' 1 - n ' ' 9 ' I ' u , . . ' I I ' , e. I , . . . 5 z I . : ' 1 - ' ' . , . . . . . . . I

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but they served us well For mstance we called our refrlgerator an 1ce box for that was Just what It was and a very dark green one at that My father who has a very rngemous mrnd concocted many thrngs whrch helped us to enJoy nearly a normal ltfe 1n such a castle Thxs nce box would hold both Ice and food and served very well when rt came to keepxng food from sporlmg Thrs box bemg near the table often trmes served as a seat for my srsterand myself dunng meal trme I ll admrt that sometlmes we got down from the table much colder than when we got up The vrew from our window sometrmes changed da1ly One mornmg we would look out upon the glory of the sun nsrng over a beauttful mountain top and the next morn mg perhaps our vlew would be the splendor of the sun shrmng upon the ocean Or per haps we would even look upon the moun tam called Mosqurte although there d1d not seem to be any of such pests present than rn our fly mfested axr at home These mountams of sand were very pleasant to play fll'Sl, for although the sun was beatlng tts rays down upon underneath the sand was lovely and cool Often we were moved rn the mght wrth hardly a warmng by a tram that otherwrse would not get by At fust lt was harr ralsrng wak1ng up to fmd myself movxng mcludrng the castle I was sleeprng rn The dishes would rattle 1n the cupboard the water would sprll from the pall ln the s1nk and our beds would attempt to rock us back to sleep agam It was truly the begmnrng of the rock and roll age Of course days such as these could not go by wrthout the makrng of new fnends Most of these frrends I can stlll remember quite well but of course there are a few who have left me At Mosqurto Mountaxn our only fnends were Donna Lee Ramey and her older brother who had red ha1r and many freckles Donna had not started school at the trme we fust met her and her brother, my srster and I fage seveny tned to teach her the alphabet They had rabbrts a mother who could make soup brkes swings and many such thlngs which left a mark on my memory Once there was another outfrt on the tracks right behlnd us and the cook s daughter befnended us I can remember drstrnctly srttmg upon a plle of tres and lrstenmg to her play the harmomca There was also Dolly who was really 21 years old but acted much as a srx year old would act She collected dolls I don t belleve I w1ll ever forget her Then, of course there was Nancy Ross whom we kept ln contact wrth nght up unt1l a year ago, when she was marned We had great tlmes wlth her and made plans each year rf we should happen to stay rn her town to go see her lf th1s wasn t possrble we strll found ways to get together I can strll remember when we were very l1ttle glrls her tellmg us about her great great great great grandmother who made the f1.rst Amerlcan Flag Whether th1s was true or not I have never found out Boxcar summers have been some of the best summers of my lrfe and I wouldn t trade them for a golden castle Because of such summers I have been to and l1ved IH many know nothrng about We have a new box car now and I still enjoy gettrng out rn lt but I don't belleve the memones of these days wrll ever surpass those I have Just mentroned And whlle the boxcar IS restrng on the track through the wmter I shall lay thrs away and rest my remembrances Ardeen Goodall 58 IDON T NEED MONEY TO BE HAPPY One must have a certarn amount of money to get along on, but many tlmes I have learned ll can be made to go a lot further 1f you earn rt yourself than rf II s passed out to you Money can provrde a great deal of pleasure lf 1t's used rrght Wrth out rt you are sure of your fnends wrth sur plus money you are uncertarn The fun one can have wrthout money rt s lrmrtless The ma1n thrng IS rf I'm do1ng some thrng I lrke I'm happy I can be happy wrthout a lot ot money even though xt rs a necessrty at umes Moms Frtzgerald 59 . . ' O . I . . - I . ' . . . . . . . . ' . - . . , . , n 9 . , . . . . . . , . . ' l . , . . , . . D - . . , . . , D I I I ' I in with bare feet UI we were not caught places in Maine that I otherwise would ' r . . . . D D . . . . . . , . - . , . . ' ' , . 1 f . . - - - I