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

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-- JUNIORS IN DISGUISE Dear Reader:— Enclosed please find the last names of the members of the .Junior Class. They are carefully wrapped in admit tale of our excursion with the first letter of each name in italics. Do not say before you have finished the story, chat it ought to have and liar us and all convinced of its little icorth. In gipsy style we set out for our trip in the charm. It has the Ast entrance of any cave of its ar. Rattlers are exempt in this cave. Von would know the place because at its entrance is a small field of rye. Derricks lifted us up and down the opening. Debris told us we were standing in the dry bed of a creek. Soon we thot we heard the sound of water. We started a lire, getting Aims on our hands in doing so, and at last, by watching closely and being mum, eye really detected a slight ripple-you could hardly see-of very clear water. As soon as the water was found, we did not care to be mum, Organ music of any sort was not to be had but we kept up several good tunes without it. When we came out of the cave we were tired and we stopped at Kinsfolk’s home to rest. After a long walk we caught glimpses or visions of our homes and we thot we were never happier than then. I am sorry that the names of three girls have slight mistakes but hope you will receive the other eleven in perfect order. Yours truly, A Junior. -------JUNIOR RECEPTION ■■■■■■- The great social affair in school circles each year is the Juniors’ Reception to the Faculty and Seniors. The Juniors of this year were especially effiicent as entertainers. The gathering was held in the Bank Hall, Feb. ■4, 1910. The guests were delighted at first with the beautiful decoration.' of the hall and with the delightful games, and still later with the refreshments which were without doubt an epicurean triumph. One game especially delighted the guests by its novelties and its laughter producing qualities This was catechism, ’ which did not prove true to its name since it dealt mostly with the vanitiesand frivolities of society. The guest' learned with hilarious joy, the identity of the girl who powdered the most, wore the most rats, or liked the boys best, and of the man whose feet were the largest or who was the worst flirt. Strange to say the answers were almost invariably apparently applicable. The fun and laughter went on without interruption until certain hours of the morning which were not particularly wee” nor “sma.” The Juniors have certainly, in social affairs, lived up to their usual high standard of excellence.

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Lillian Meyers, whose quiet manners and soft ways have smoothed her way thru High School: Harry Atkins, who being one of our four boys among the ten girls is fast forgetting his bashfulness; Olive Susan, pianist for the Girls’ Glee Club; Bessie Burns, who is not quite as dangerous as her name implies; Elsie Parratt, who is often absent from school because of the calls (Kaul) she receives; Chester Shortt, who played center on the Basket Ball Team this year; Lida Best and Ethel Ryder, our two hot headed girls; Lulu Ripley, who does most of the talking for us except in recitations: Hazel Worthing, president of the Girls’ Glee Club; Will Orvis, altho a small is yet a great member of our class. A Junior. OUR EDI ! OK IN CHIEF

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--- e: “THE SOPHS EXPOSED” —..............- One day the little Sophs brot a nicely prepared lunch to school and silently, without a word to anyone except their classmates, hid the feast in the basement. Oh! how they anticipated and planned to eat that in school! How they nudged each other and smiled and said they couldn’t wait! But the ever sharp and witty Juniors in their turn nudged one another and also smiled and said in low but meaning whispers, that they would make them wait. IIow these self-same Juniors discovered and hid this elegant lunch in a more secluded place is a mystery to the Sophs and will always remain as such. Oh! but the worse is yet to come. Would you believe that, when those Sophmores found that their lunch was gone, they got spunky, and, pardon me for saying it, acted like a lot of Freshmen ? I am sorry to say it, but that is what they did. altho one can’t really blame them for so doing, especially so when knowing the state of their minds. I am sure the Juniors will all agree that the feast was very carefully prepared, and extend their hearty thanks to the Sophs for their thotfulness in their preparations. The greatest social event of the Sophomoresduringthisyear wasasur-prise party given in honor of Miss Binnie’s birthday. Altho this was claimed by the Sophomores to be a very swell affair, it could not in any way compare with the Junior reception given Feb. 4, lhlO. Considerable crowing and self-praise have been heard in the school amongst the Sophomores about their great and wonderful victory in Lyceum, as two of their classmates were elected to the offices of Secretary and Treasurer. This so called great victory for the Sophs was due to a deal between the Seniors and Sophs, w herein the Sophomore vote was given to the Seniors for the offices of president and vice president and in return the Seniors were to transfer their votes to the Sophomores for the coveted offices of Secretary and Treasurer. I)o you consider such a victory a great honor? During the first half of this year every office, please notice that every office was held by the Juniors. We received these offices unsolicited as a gift of the whole school and made no deal to secure them. Yet the Sophs point to their victory with pride and to our so called defeat with derision. The Sophomores laughed a little too soon, for in the election of officers for the Athletic Association the Juniors received three offices and the Freshmen one. What was the matter of the Sophomores then? I am sure you would get a very sweet answer if you would ask them these questions (?)