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

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THE “OAK Seventh Annual Edition. Editorial Staff. Editor-in-Chief..................Miss Della Parduhn Business Manager...............................Llovd Filbev Society Editor......................Robert McClain Junior Associate Editor..........Miss Leone Lurvey Art Editor....................................Herman Sonn Sophomore Associate Editor... .Carleton Henningsen Athletic Editor........................llalbert Ball Exchange Editor...............................Harold Burns Freshman Associate Editor........Miss Hattie Meyers Faculty Member......................W. L. Patterson

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Editorial Staff

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Ult?r (Dakfidt) £ riuml The fact that Oakfield maintains a high school reveals a condition that reflects credit upon our citizens. Few towns of our size in this progressive state can boast that they have sufficient interest in education, or pride in their community to support a free high school. Our citizens, realizing the advantages to be gained from a high school located in their midst, have shown themselves ready to contribute freely to the cause of education. It is well worth considering for a moment what the school otters to its pupils that will prove of value to them. At the start it might be well to state that our small school gives to its students practically the same advantages offered by any high school in the state, even though that school be located in a large city. In fact, in at least one very important particular, the small school has the advantage over the larger institution, in that it is able to attend much more fully to the needs of the individual student. Anyone who has investigated the matter knows that the classes in a city school are much larger than in the small school. Thus it can be readily seen that the teacher instructing small classes devotes a larger share of his or her time to the individual needs of each student and can show a personal interest in his welfare, which fact is an undisputed gain for the pupil. If we turn to other lines of activity in a high school, such as debating, oratory and athletics, we find that the same fact holds true. Each pupil has the opportunity to enter these fields of work, nor does he meet with such strong competition as to discourage him in his first attempts, as is so often the case in the city school. As careful instruction is the chief requisite in education it is evident that in this respect the small school can hold its own with the city school. Let us examine the course of study briefly with the purpose of discovering what the student gains that will be of value to him in his life work. Several lines of study are offered to all our students. Among the most important are English, history, mathematics, science and the commercial branches. Upon consideration we find that each one of these branches is useful in developing certain faculties in the student which will always be a benefit to him. English is required in each of the four years in order that the pupil may learn not only to write and speak this mother tongue