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

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Home Economics Home Economics courses help prepare us for our future no matter what occupation we decided to pursue. No matter if you are a girl or boy these classes will help in everyday life. The classes being offered this year are Home Economics, Foods I and II, Cloth- ing I and II, Family Relations, Child Development, and a new course, Health. Health is the only class in the Home Economic related area that is not an elective. Everyone, except the seniors this year, are required to take this class to graduate. Upper left: S. Boeder, P. Guell, and A. Balfe putting the finishing touches on in foods class. Upper right: G. Birschbach finishes the hem on her dress in Clothing I. Left: D. Bacon cuts her pattern in Clothing I. Above: D. DeBoer pins her pattern in Clothing 1. 11

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Espanol Spanish classes are one credit and are electives for students to take. The courses are all one year long. There are three levels of Spanish I,II, and Advanced Spanish. Spanish I is an introduction to grammar, verb tenses, sentences, and dialogues. Spanish II is a step higher. It teaches more vocabu- lary and language phases. Advanced Spanish is for students with two years of Spanish. This class focuses on advanced readings and writings. Materials for classes are the language lab, Spanish magazines, and text books. Mrs. Dehn; Mrs. Dehn has been a teacher at Oakfield High School for 16 years. Her classes are Spanish I, II, and III. She also teaches a sophomore English class. Mrs. Dehn has a great sense of humor, is cheerful, and friendly. She is easy to talk to, a good listener, and supportive of others. Last year she missed some of the school year because she was on maternity leave, she had a son-Mitchell Dehn. Upper right: B. Wackendorf, J. Myers, and T. Mulder listen intently in Spanish II. Above, left to right: J. Wolf studies for a Spanish test. M. Seyfert, T. Patchet, and H. Fife are studying in Spanish I. Mrs. Dehn gives a lecture to one of her Spanish classes. I V 10

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Industrial Arts General Technology is offered to the freshman and in order to take shop you must complete one year of General Technology. Drafting, project work, wood working, metals, welding, computer designing, textbook study, finishing and plastics are some of the shop classes. Energy and power, construction, technology, and processes are the different units available in general technology. Mr. Helm is in charge of all the classes given down in the shop. Above left: T. Mittlestadt concentrating very hard as he carefully cuts a piece of wood. Above right: P. Reetz thoughtfully working on a rough draft for his shop project. Bottom right: P. Nickel carefully paints his picture frame that he made in shop. 12