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

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FAREWELL POEM. June time is here now in all of its glory, The season when Poets and Seniors spring forth To make themselves known in rhyme and in story, And show to the world just how much they’re worth. This is the month when the roses are blooming, Which urges us each at our best to appear; We think it went be at all to presuming, To ask of our friends a listening ear. We will not tell ycu of worldly ambition, Or of fond hopes for the bright years to come; For little we know of the glad fruition That flows o’er the soul when the race is near run. We have not wings, we cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb; By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of cur time. Memory binds us with her spell To the school days past and gone; Ambition calls us, who shall tell What bolder heights may yet be won. Our play days are gone and we sigh at the thot, No longer we know what our portion shall be; On the river of youth, Hope’s breezes we’ve caught, But how shall we fare on life’s broader sea. To those who still below us stand, We’d gladly give one cheering word; As heart to heart, and hand to hand, They list the call which we have heard. The hills may be rugged and steep, The calm of the valleys alluring; But the idler no harvest can reap, No good but the toil won is enduring. Arfd now this happy class must break, A strange new world before us lies; We’ve heard the voice divine that spake, And called as tongue of morn, “Arise.” But wherever we go, to warm regions or cold, Where-so-ever our frail barks are driven; We’ll never forget our Oakfield High School, And the best of all classes, our own ’07.

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SOME THINGS WHICH WE WOULD LIKE TO REMEMBER. 1. The first day of school, Sept. ’03. 2. How Walter Burns visited the Physics Class one day. 3. How Edward accepted his punishment and taught the 8th Grade Civics. 4. The music lessens Miss Bcvec gave us. 5. How well some of our illustrious Freshmen liked Algebra. 6. What bright studen s the Soplicmores were. 7. What an interesting study Solid Geometry was to the Jmiors. 8. How Lilian asked to go to the dictoinary. 9. How Mr. Curtis smiled. 10. The “Two-faced Girls.’’ 11. Hew we were entertained by the Badger Quartette. 12. How we used to sing “Die Wacht am Rhein.’’ 13. The day the Seniors had their tin types “took.’’ 14. All things which we said and did in school. SOME THINGS WHICH WE WOULD LIKE TO FORGET. 1. Disputes, etc., in our Senior Class Meetings. 2. How Miss Halblch refused Frank. 3. How the Girls’ Basket Ball Team met defeat at the hands of the H. D.’s. 4. I7ow the village justice cf the peace had six of our venerable High School Girls 5. How lonely it was after Fred and Clifford left our midst. 6. How we were scolded for whispering in Economics. 7. All cf the bad. things which we said and did in'school. ACORNS. How we all liked this little poem: Keute nur heute bin ich so sclion, Morgen ach rncrgsn, muss alles vergehen. Keute nur heute, bist du noch mein, Sterben ach sierben, scl ich allein. ” Listen my children, and you shall hear Of the class of 1S07. Eelieve me that it will be queer If they don’t all go to heaven. A quotation worthy of remembrance: “He told o lot of lies and there weren’t any of them true.” Has Edward found the text? “I don’t want to be a Smith all cf my days.”—Maggie. R-G-: “My feet were made to stand on, but they were given to me.” L-- (in the primary room): “Spelling class, stand! B Class stands! Good bye.” Two boys of great renown, Who live in Oakfield town, To escape from the teacher’s sight. Hid behind the door one night,

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Dear teachers, we shall ne’er forget, The lessons you have taught, We trust the future may perfect, The work ycur hands have wrought. And may they bring good gifts to you, These years that swiftly fly; And may you kindly think of those, Who bid you now “Good-bye.” “Good bye!” It shall not be farewell, We hope again to meet; But happy hours are ever short, And days of youth are fleet. There’s much to learn and much to do; Oh, may our aims be high, And ever lead to that bright land, Where none shall say ‘ ‘ good bye. ’ ’ ----Class Poet. WHEN WE GRADUATE. Ed has decided as to graduation day, He will show how past events our future actions sway; He will speak of how the world goes ever on and on, Steered across the sea of time by happenings agcne. Ethel’s undecided, says she can’t make up her mind, If her graduation waist should not be lined. Grant doesn’t waver; he will take his stand and show How and why, and when and where the nations ought to go. He has solved the problems that confront the human race; He will tell us all about the troubles we must face. Lilian’s hesitating, she is trying hard to plan Cuffs and belt and collar that will match her filmy fan. Alvin knows when Congress made its great mistakes; He shows where diplomats made their gravest breaks; He is satisfied with what conclusions he has reached. Shows us how to keep the ship of state from being beached. Jessie still is worried, she’ll decide, then she’ll annul; First she wants an organdie, then she wants a mull. Marshall has statistics on the influence of deeds; He finds new problems in every newspaper he reads. He knows precisely how the country should be run; But he’s in hysterics, for his coat is not begun. Lee views the future with a calm, unbiased air, And not in a fidget, for he knows what he’s to wear.