Oakfield High School - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Oakfield, WI)

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publication of each. I thought Miss Rakow was to come with you but th's morning I received word that important business was detaining her for a few days at Washington, D. C. The secret of it all is that she has convinced the men in Congress so that “The Teacher’s Pension Bill” has now passed both houses, and the U. S. President has signed it. There will be no more teaching for Miss Rakow, and the remainder of her life will probably be spent in travel. Well, here comes Frank Morgan and Flora Worthing, they always were so chummy in their school days and I see they have carried the old feeling ever since. Frank you know is a great electrician, a professor at Yale, I believe, and really they say that he acquired his immense store of. knowledge by making outlines for everything he read. Now he drills that system into every student’s head and shows them by his own example that that is the “true system.” Oh! Flora, how did you leave your scchool for making girls prim, polite, pretty, patient and pessimistic? They say you make a fine preceptress, and manage your school so well and severely that your fine young ladies have learned to abhor the very sight of a man’s picture to say nothing of the real article. You are certainly fully rewarded for the efforts which you have put into the worthy cause. Grace Town do hurry along here so we can jabber with you a while before the rest rush in. Classmates, behold the fair prima donna of the twentieth century. She signs only in Chicago, New York and Paris where her houses are always crowded to the doors. It is strange that Mr. Hansen does not get here, his boat was due nearly an hour ago. What’s tiiat? Oh, you say he is a great Shakespearean actor and that perhaps he has stopped on the way to ponder over the great question “To be or not to be” —Well, maybe so. But Lila is late too, her auto has probably refused to carry its gentle load any further. She studied for seven years after 190C and during the course she made a specialty ot auto-mobileology. Now sne travels about in a touring car demonstrat’ng the good qualities of a “Reo” and showing its great conveniences as a home on wheels propelled by gasoline. Clara Maxfield you are the last but not the least I assure you . Your life s’nce graduation has been spent on the old Maxfield ranch, I hear, and you find it real easy to stay at home with your father and mother. You have undoubtedly made their declining years a paradise by means of the sweet music which flows from the pianola at your dainty pressure on the pedals. Come friends, let’s go to the music room and brighten up the occasion by s’nging our Class Song.

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PROPHECY. Come with me dear friends and allow your thoughts to leap the space of but ten pleasant years, and I will try to let you know all about the conditions of this wonderful class as they exist in the year 191G. Only a short time has passed over our heads since we graduated from the Oakfield High School. Th's evening I find m -self at Manila in the Philippines, where I have been spending a month with Lula. We have planned a house party for July and have invited as our guests the class of ’OG and the two instructors under whom we graduated. They are all to arrive this evening from various directions on different boats and roads. But before they arrive, I must tell you about Lula. You all know that when we graduated she moved West and you also know that her thoughts wandered still farther in that direction. Well after she had lived in Iowa for nearly two years, a telegram came one day from a person on the Southern Pacific R. R. bridge, saying that he, having secured a government appointment in the Philipp'nes, wished her to come there at once. She went and they were married there. You may be pleased to hear that she makes a great “Hitt”. She still retains her great love for the theatre and thru her influence she has persuaded her husband to buy the Manila Opera House where nearly every night you will find her in her box surrounded by her fashionable friends, fairly glowing with joy over the fact that she can now attend “shows” to her hearts content. Hark! I hear some one coming up the walk. Ah! I can see them now thru the open door, it is our dear Senior President. Hello, lone, I am so glad to see you and now that you are here before the rest we’ll just sit down here and have a little chat all by ourselves. Do tell me all about yourself and what you have been doing these last ten years. So you have become an elocution teacher, have you, and trained the president of the United States on h:s campaign speeches? Well how grand; and still you find yourself able to give your entertainments in all of the large cities of America and Europe, for which did I understand you to say you got $5,000 an evening? You certainly have been an honor to our class, but here comes Jessie Paynter; now we will sea what has happened to her. You are welcome Jessie and we are glad to see that your long journey has not played havoc with your health or humor. Now please tell lone and me what you have accomplished since we parted. If I tinder-stand you correctly you mean to say that you are a librarian in the New York City public library and can without a bit of hesitation, name in alphabetical order every book ever published and the author and time of

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