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

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“Backward, turn backward, ()! Time in .vour flight, Make me a child again, just for tonight.” The Editorial Staff of the “Oak Leaves lias very kindly dedicated a page in this year's edition, to the Alumni, and I hope, dear members of the association, to be able to bring back pleasantly to your minds some of the loving thoughts and deeds of our happy school days, which perhaps have been crowded out by an absorbing interest in your chosen work. The words of Webster, “It is a small school, and yet there are those who love it,” are very applicable to us; for in spite of our busy life with its toils and cares, its pleasures and its pains, our thoughts fondly turn to the lessons learned, and the high ideals placed before us in our Alma Mater. To some of us who have graduated from the Oakfield High School, the avenues to a college education were not opened; but the majority of our members have enjoyed the privileges of a higher education, and have attained heights of which we are justly proud. You will be interested to know what our one hundred forty nine graduates are doing, and what walks in life are being benefited by them, but first let us pause for one brief moment in loving remembrance of the five, who have ceased to tread our earthly paths of learning, and have joined the ranks of the faithful in that city. “Not made with hands.” These are : Leo F. Worthing, 1897: Edward Price, 1898; Ix ttie G. Holland, 1899; Flora L. Worthing, 190(5; and Ernest 1). Susan, 1900. Three of our Alumni have chosen to serve their fellow men through the medical profession : C. A. DeVoe, 1892; L. R. Burns, 1893; II. J. Smith, 1899; and so far but one dentist can be registered, J. II. Burns, 1898. Three, Edwin A. Ripley, 1892, E. P. Worthing, 1893, and John J. Zeilke, 1897, are graduates of law schools, and are practicing their chosen professions. We point with pride to twenty-nine of our sweet girl graduates, who have chosen the highest calling open to woman, that of queen of the home; for a greater influence can be weilded in this position, than in any other calling or 16