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

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PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. Ladies and Gentlemen: The class of 1907 extends to you a hearty welcome to the Class Play tonight and the Commencement Exercises tomorrow night. We wish to thank you for the interest which you have shown in us thus far. Especially do we wish to thank the teachers, the Members of the Board ok Education, and our schoolmates, who have made so pleasant our association with the Oakfield High School. In the interest of parents and for the benefit of those who come after us I wish to say a few words in regard to the value of a High School education. A High School education, in the first place, is the basis upon which our future work in life is established.. The true value of a High School course does not lie wholly in the knowledge that one acquires; but the power to do, to think to apply this knowledge, is of the most vital importance. Thus, if we obtain the knowledge, without the power to develop further, our chances of success are very small. But if with the knowledge obtained, we derive a power to learn, the only thing which will prevent success, is lack of ambition. This brings us to the second purpose of a High School education—to stimulate the desire to learn.. If we have the knowledge obtained in High School and if coupled with this knowledge we have derived the power to learn, as was said before, a lack of ambition is the only thing which will prevent success. A person who has a sufficient High School education but who lacks the power to apply this knowledge in the problems of life, has attained his highest oosition in life.. He must, in other words, simply trust to luck and as Garfield has said, “You may follow Luck to ruin, but not to success.” Any success which one may achieve is not worth the having unless we have to fight for it. Thirdly, the High School draws forth and develops our inherent powers. vSvery child certainly has certain inherent powers, capable of development. The High School cannot create a power that is not present; its great mission being only to make the most of those that are present. The fourth and last value of a High School education lies in the fact that students are thereby enabled to find out the points where'n they are strong and thus better able to choose in what line their future work will be. We will now present our Class Play, entitled “Willowdale .”. In behalf of the Class of 1907, I wish to again extend to you a cordial welcome. Grant Wells SOPHOMORE WANT AD3. WANTED—A thinking cap, 300x300, to fit Walter Lamb’s head. WANTED—Ncse specs c-f unquestionable texiure to serve as playthings and general laugh provokers—to be used by Edwin Hitt. WANTED—At least ten inches cf bench rocm in Ancient History class and nobody on either side. HAROLD BENETT. WANTED—A machine to do my laughing for me in Ancient History. JENNIE PRATT. WANTED—A good time without any special effort of my frail frame. ROYAL WELLS. WANTED—A paper of pins for immediate use as punishment to be inflicted upon Hugh Worthing EVA PAYNTER. WANTED—One stick of best chewing gum with special permission to chew it at any time and in any place. CL ARY A GORDON.

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Carl Cragoe— “And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.” Lenora Zielke— “I like above all other things in the world to be loved. Ella Messner— . Do you not know that I am a woman? When I think I must speak.” Mayme Schraven— “She was a quiet little lady.” Emma Burleton— “Her look is always full of smiles, The joy of health her eyes display, The ease of heart her every look conveys.” Blanche Cowles— “Her-ways are ways of pleasantness And all her paths are peace.” Walter Lamb— “Wise from the top of my head up.” Royal Wells— “As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.” Hugh Worthing— “I have no ambition to see a goodlier man.” Tom Worthing— “Better late than never.” Edwin Hitt— “Happy am I, from care I’m free, Why ain’t they all content like me?” “TEACHERS.” Mr. Curtis— “He who in his watchcase wears His sweetheart’s pretty face, Is sure to have a time, for there’s A woman in the case.” Miss Bovee— “I would so like to go hunting, When the “Deer” season opens this fall, If I was sure the gun would not be exploding. And I were not quite so tall.” Miss Halbach— “We shall never forget if a hundred years old, How it was to Frank that Miss Halbach told That she was sorry, but her answer would do And—‘You asked me once and I refused you’.” thou was made.”.................................

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CLASS POEM. Consisting of numbers twenty one, Our class entered the first year High; But now when four years by have run, There are only eight to say “Good bye.” Of these eight that are left together, We have descriptions of every sort; For like all birds of feather, They are tall, lean, fat and short. We have two generals, Grant and Lee, Just like two blooming roses; But to keep in full bloom as I see, Both will have to Marshall Mcses. Grant is known as great in speaking, While Lee doctors horses every night. Marshall is crazy over hunting and trapping, For he says it is his greatest delight. Then there’s Lillian, very meek and mild, Who knows her lessens from A to Z; And Ethel, our studious, industrious child, Who is just as good as good can be. Alvin, you know, is the cyclist great, And says machines are his greatest hobby; But Edward says he thinks it is his fate To teach an arguing class in some lobby. Then comes our dear teacher, For what should we have done, If Curtis had turned preacher? He would have made us all run. And Miss Bcvee in English Lit, Knows all about the poets: In elocution she makes a hit, And does not profess to know it. Miss Kalbach has the German class, And talks Dutch by the hour; And si is in the library, as you pass, Like some new fresh blown flower. Then there is Jessie, last but not least, Who in trying to tell of the rest, By a flow of wit, and of soul a feast; And in so doing is doubly blest. —Class Poet.