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

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Mr. L. G. Curtis was born in Juneau, February 11, 1880. He received his elementary education in the Hartford and Waupun City schools and was graduated from the Waupun High School in '1897. After teaching a district school, he attended Milton College. He was graduated from Milwaukee State Normal School in 1902, taught in the Milwaukee City Schools, accepted the position of principal of Hustisford Public Schools. In the fall of 1906 he was elected to the principalship of the Oakfield High School. During the year he has conducted the classes in Physics, Geometry, Botany, Civics, Physical Geography, and Business Law.

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HISTORY OF THE OAKFIELD HIGH SCHOOL. The Oakfield High School was founded in 1888. The first clas was graduated in 1891 with nine members. In 1891 the basement was fitted up for the Primary room.. In 1898 the interior of the building was remodeled and a room for the Grammar department was made on the second floor. Our school had but a three years course until 1903, when the fourth year was added. The course was proposed but defeated in the years of 1900 and 1902. The largest classes which were ever graduated from our school contained sixteen members and were the classes of 1897, 1898 and 1900. The smallest ihat were ever graduated had five members.. These were the classes of 1895 and 1904. The largest enrollment of the school was in 1897 when there were fifty-five enrolled. The smallest enrollment was in 1902, when there were only thirty-three enrolled. The average enrollment is forty-five. At the beginning of the year, 1906, we note two very important changes: the remodeled and enlarged building and the addition of a second assistant to our corps of High School teachers.. The building as changed provided ample room for both the High School and the Graded School Departments. The addition of a second assistant made it possible for the school to offer its students an English and a German Scientific Course. This change placed our school in position to better train students whose varying talents called for a varied selection of studies. We have every reason to be proud of our High School, for its graduates have obtained honors in the higher schools.. We sincerely hope that it will be still more improved, so that its pupils will have much better advantages than we have enjoyed.