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

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Senior Class Play Due to the many activities going on during the fall of 1941, the play, “Leave It To Us,” was held over until the Seniors could present it on the evening of April 24, 1942. The cast chosen by the faculty was as follows: SAMUEL SMITH gave an excellent performance as Johnny Reynolds, president of Promotions Limited. Tall, good-looking Johnny played opposite lovely Margaret Procter, well-known in Oakfield High as GEORGIANA DOYLE. WILLIAM GUELZOW as the lazy, but likeable Charlie Smith, vice-president of Promotions Limited, did a good job of taking this part. MARY COOK’S portrayal and characterization of a secretary was certainly shown as she took the part of Miss Harriet Jones, who was falling in love with Charlie Smith. BETTY ROESKE gave us a complete idea of what Roberta Hemple, a spinster, would be doing in an office of this type. Ruby Wilson, charwoman of the building, whose only ambition in life was to marry a good, strong man, was played by RITA HALFMANN, who did an excellent job of getting her man. Who would think that ORLIN ZAHN would turn out to be such a good janitor? After seeing him take the part of Lars Larson, one would think this might be his occupation some day. DONALD GUELZOW was known as J. August Peabody, a little, timid inventor. JEANNETTE WAGENKNECHT, as Mrs. Henry Clark, certainly was worried about her daughter, DOLORES OGLE, who was her dominated child. Due to the fact that two of our Senior boys couldn’t be in the play, Donald Guelzow, a Sophomore, substituted for us. His cooperation was greatly appreciated. Miss Bartel Is deserves a great deal of credit for her part in making the play a success. Congratulations to Miss Bartells and the Senior class. Senior Dance A very small and disappointed Junior Class had to abandon the annual prom idea and substitute in its place the “Senior Dance.” The dance is to be held at Liberty Hall, on Friday, May 15. Slim Man-they and his orchestra will furnish the music. The decorations will be limited. However, a few patriotic decorations and lighting effects will be used. It is the wish of everyone that the dance will be a huge success both financially and socially. This edition of the Oakleaves published by the Senior Class of 1942. Editor........Betty Roeske Assistant Editor........Rosemary DeJardin Advisor.........Mr. Heimerl Page 8

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Class Prophecy Here we are in the year 1948, just wondering what happened to our classmates back in Oakfield. After the war we (ARLENE and DOLORES) were kind of left in Ireland. We drove ambulances during the war and came in contact with a few shells, anyway we discovered each other in the hospital where we were recuperating. Now that we are again all right, we're on our way to good, old U. S. A. After a few weeks of traveling over the Atlantic with the B-19 airship, we finally landed in New York City. As we climb out of the plane we are assisted by a young lady who does look very familiar. Then ARLENE says suddenly, “Why, GEORGIANA, are you air hostess here? I didn’t see you before.” GEORGIANA explains that she is just about to leave with another plane, but wanted to see us before she left. After a brief talk we left her. Then we bought a “Times” to see if they still looked the same, as we had not seen one for quite a while. The headlines were “America’s Enemy No. 1 captured by F.B.I. Agent.” We lead on and found to our amazement that BILL GUELZOW, who was now an F.B.I. Agent had been the one to make this capture. We were hungry as usual so we looked for a place to eat. We found a plain little place that had “German Cooking” advertised, so we went in. After eating we remarked about the good food, when a waitress told us that the proprietress wanted to speak to us. Wondering why, we followed the waitress to a small office. There behind the desk sat MILDRED SCHMIDT. We were surprised to find her in New York and asked her what brought her this far from Oakfield. She replied that she and her husband had come on account of his job and that this restaurant was just for a little extra cash. We left MILLY and hurried to catch our plane for Chicago. When we arrived there we took a plane to Milwaukee. We had decided to stay in Milwaukee for a couple of days and enjoy ourselves so we started by going to the Riverside Theater to see the new dancer that was supposed to be there in person that night. To our astonishment Paula Mann, the star, was none other than RITA HALFMANN. We went back stage after the show to see RITA only to find that she had many more admirers. Finally we got through the crowd and by giving our names gained admittance. RITA was both surprised and glad to see us. She invited us to a party at the Schroeder Hotel Ballroom. When we arrived, we found many of our classmates there too. Among those present were MARY COOK, and her boyfriend; JEANNETTE WAGEN-KNECHT, HAROLD SMITH, SAM SMITH. ORLIN ZAHN, MARCELLA SCHULTZ, JEANNE and Dale; and a lot more of RITA’S friends. After visiting with them awhile, we found that HAROLD and SAM had been in the Army and were now settling down to farming, which was what they had really planned on doing for a future. MARY did become a very successful school teacher. JEANNETTE had made a good name for herself as a secretary at a big company in Milwaukee, and MARCELLA was a school teacher who didn’t plan to stay on very much longer as she was to be married soon, but we couldn’t find out who the fellow was. ORLIN was a big business man of Mayville, an undertaker. JEANNE was married to Dale as always supposed and was worrying about the twins at home. Oh, what a night, but it’s over and dawn is here again. We’re trying to get up but can’t seem to get used to the idea. Here we sit at the breakfast table discussing our friends again. LUELLA HANSON, JIMMY STUMPF, and BETTY ROESKE are among the one’s not accounted for in our minds. Oh, we must correct that. The gang told us that BETTY is the DEAN of a girls’ college in Michigan. We always knew BETTY would be one of importance with her brains and ambition. We are then interrupted by a news flash on our little portable radio that a great forest fire started and that the forest rangers are fighting hard to get control of it. The next day the papers carried the news of the big fire. There in the center of the front page in the midst of all the news JIMMY STUMPF’S picture stares up at us. Under the picture it reads: “Forest Ranger JIM STUMPF is to be presented a medal by the President of the United States, at a banquet given in his honor on Tuesday, JIM earned this by risking his own life to save three fellow rangers and Lieut-John Martin from burning to death. There we found the where-abouts of our classmate JIM and his heroic deed. Today is Friday and we're going back to Oakfield in great style—in a taxi. Ah, after that ride we’re here. Good old Oakfield!!! The town hasn't changed much. It is kind of dead though. Did we say we couldn’t find LUELLA, well, here she comes down the street wheeling a baby carriage. She seems to have stuck by old Oakfield. “Hi, LUELLA, it’s good to see you again, tell us all about yourself, is Oakfield still the same?” Oh, we just showered her with questions. She answered most of them and also told us she was happily married and had a little black-haired fellow at home. We’ve found out about all of our classmates, now we can settle down and start living again too. —Dolores and Arlene. Page 7

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Junior Class Back—E. Kaul, R. Geisthardt, Mr. Droegkamp, D. Hill Front—W. Reents, R. Dejardin, E. Dille Rosemary Dejardin............................. President Roiland Geisthardt. .......................Vice President Ethel Dille ................Secretary-Treasurer Motto: Great Oaks From Little Acorns Grow Flower: For-get-me-not Color: Blue and Gold Class History Upon entering our Junior year, we found to our amazement that we were grown up. Only one more step and we will have reached the coveted goal of a high school Senior. In number our class disintegrated by leaps and bounds. Those who left our midst are: Alvin Briggs, Lowell Horning, Jean Norenberg, Dorothy McKnight, Dorothy Wachendorf, and Roland Steinke. This left six Juniors, but we made up for it, for we six participated in almost every extracurricular activity. Rosemary Dejardin was elected president; Roiland Geisthardt, vice-president and Ethel Dille, secretary and treasurer. These three represented us on the Student Council. Don Hill and Roiland are our athletes, Don playing basketball and Rollie both football and basketball. Enough can’t be said about their value to the team. In band, Ethel, Roiland and Rosemary proved to be quite active. They all play reed instruments. The former a clarinet and the latter two, alto sax s. Elton Kaul and Bill Reents were members of the Oak’s Club. Rosemary and Ethel belonged to the G.A.A. Bill Reents was the only Junior who took part in forensics. Mr. Droegkamp, our advisor, guided us bravely through the many problems w'hich any Junior Class encounters. Class rings of modern design were purchased from the Josten Company. Because of the conditions we decided not to have a regular promenade in Spring, but a Senior Dance in its place. Slim Manthey and his orchestra will furnish the music. Instead of our motto being, “Great Oaks From Little Acorns Grow,” perhaps it should be, “It’s not the quantity, but the quality that counts. Page 9