Oconto High School - Okato Yearbook (Oconto, WI)

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THE OKATO Page 13 ROBERT SULLIVAN Murphy 1-Iolusfacts 1-3, Glee Club 1. The wo1'ld's no better if we worry, L fe's no longer if we hurry. WESLEY TALM ADGE --Peter Holosfacts 1. Men of few words are the best men. NORMAN TENNISEN urrennyn Okato Staff 3-4, Commercial Play 4. Some day in the future all over the nation This chap will head ag big radio station! MARIE VAN ROSSUM ALLAN J. VOY Doug Basket Ball 3-4, Holosfac-ts 1-2-3-4, Uperetta 4, Football 3, May Fete 3, Glee Club-Double Quartette 2-3-4, I Class Play 4. T's nice that the school has many girls So all we boys may choose our pearls. ALLAN WITTKOPF s6Yung9v Class Treas. 1, Sec'y 2, Prom Chairman 3, Vice-Pres. 4, Holosfacts 1-2-3-4, Vice-Pres. 4, Operetta 4, Football 3, Baskehball 3-4, Okato Editor 4, Class Play 4, Oratory 4. 1 A fellow who has lots of pep, Combined with his amount oi rep. HAZEL WITTKOPF uMaria,, ssnayasv Declamatory 4. Commercial' Contest.3-4, Okato Staff 4. 1-some of the best keep their thoughts to But lt is such a serious thing to be such themselves. a tall, tall woman. RAYMOND ZIMMERMAN uzilnn Football 1-2-3-4. He is head of the class in inches.

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Page 12 THE OKATO RUBY REMINGTON Rube Modest and quiet and a value to her class. THEODORE RIEWE Teedore Holosfacts 2-3-4, Sec. 3, Lalin Club 1, Operetta 3-4. Glee Club 3, Class Play Property Manager, A fellow of great knowledge is he, For all hard subjects are met with ease. ALFRED RHODE Dolly Class Vim- Pres. -l Basket Ball 3-4, Captain 4. Little of stature but winner of fame. EDNA RUSSELL Skinny A little work, a little play, A sunbeam on a winter's day. HENRY E. RYAN tlcabn Debate 3, Oratory 3, Holosfacts 4. Why can't they all be contented like me. ILSE SCH LUENZ Jumbo Philathea 2-3-4, Declamatory 2-3, Okato 4, Commercial Contest 4. The one type of phonlograph that has no automatic stop. LUCILLE SCHWEDLER uswmevv Glee Clubs 2-3-4, Declamatory 1-2-3-4, Okato 3, Operetta 2-4, Philathea 1-2-3-4. I know the way to men's hearts. 'l'hat's why I took household arts. GAYTON ST. PETER s-Katoyvr Holosfacts 1-2-3-4, Vice-Pres. 3, Glee Club 3-4, Oratory 4, Okato Staff 3, Debate 3, Operetta 1-2-3-4. The easiest way to solve a studying prob- lem is not to study.

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Page 14 THE OKATO 'fy' f I , ir I D ' 5 1' ' 4, ' K ' -X as-:T ,- ,-.. gr- if - -in . Q A Q l - W I 1 IIT!-'Nr gurus: 'J , ' 9' lr tl pusrmo- wgymy I lj, l H-N ' . ' in 5 i W as ' Z 'F W1 vu.: voi..n I ll -Al 1 . -A 2 4- , The year ot' 1921 was the heginning of a series of eventful years whieh were destined to- change the entlu- eourse of events on the little island of 0. H. S.. for that year witnessed the flllillillllg of tile llepuhlie of '25, I One hundred and twenty-'one of :he izrarest and most toarless of tl-e island 'not in ar. :issemlny to diseu-ss an-d .plan the affairs of stafte. The first prusident et' the new repulblie was ehosen, with a meretnry of the treasury .und a seeretary of state. These lenders led the state eaplallily duri-rllg their terni. One of the iinpomtant bills palssed. in the session provided for a party. lt proved the success of the new government. Nor dill this thriving trepulnie prosper only in a social WIl3'. lt lshowed its prowess in support of the advancement of wc-hool spirit 'in education by furn- is-him: a yell leader of school pep meetings during the four years of its slrpzenniey. This yell lea-der of the asse-nitlaly sessions was Hallie Hidde. Diplomatic' and jorensie relativns were established hy Allen Wittko,pf and Ulyniene Parisey. Prosperity continued througth the next year, and all went well. Another party was 'lu-ld, which proved more -sueeessful than the first. This time our close alli-es. the freshmen, were ineluded in our court, The spirit of fellowship and denioeiwacy was heightxnelxl hy variuius organizations of the nations. in whieh the llepuhlie .was at all times an nnportanl fact.or. Hlee t'lulf, l'hilathea. Basketball. group sing:- ing. .sind llolosfaets ull figrured elosely in its history. ln the first year of t.he Replrbiifs stuttehood the 1'21ftl'l' soc-'-ety was organized, and the passiiig governineut eontuins the lust of tlle 'eltartrr nn-nihews ef that soeieety. liililllltlltltl was also reorganized tduri.ul:,f the third year ot' rule. and sefverhl new lnetihods and de. partmznts were introduced. Two other important eontributions were made toward the prosperity and stu-cess of the island. A lll1'llltl.4'l' ot' the Party led u eanipzlign to pay the standing athletie deht. Throufgh his efforts it proved Nl '1'I'FNl'Ul and the deht was efaneelled. The third period of the Repulvlit-'s eureer was -started somewhat under a handieap. The treasury was low, and the greatest campaign yet to 'he ear- ried on, the Proxn. was rapidly upproaeliini-'I- 'PRNUS were mnised, and the public sale 'uf randy und 'hot- dogs filled the depletecl t11'easury. The Prom on April 25th proved to he one of the most hrilliunt and vi-etorious eauipuigns ever undertaken on the orisis of O. H. S., and surely was the inoft sueeessful. It not 1-nly grain-ed glory and honor for its pmrtieipnnts. hut proved an advantagzeous undertl-iking finaneially At the beginning of the last und fourth ad- ministration a census was taken and it was astonish ing' to find that the population had decrezised to sixty-six. Only sixty six .of the one hundred and tlwenty four remained to witness the finish ut' the grand old Repwlilie. The fiufst of the events in this most eventful year was the Ju.u.ior-Senior Ihirty, arranged by treaties with our neiglnhoring repuhlie, the Juniors. It was held in the Guild Hall. and was one of 'the most pompous of its kind in the history of O. H. S. Sports and Olylnpiun pursuits were not lost sight of in the pressing affairs of state. The great teani dlllllllg the last YHII' of t-he Reirgn of '25 was eoniposod largely rf '25 nreuiherf. land euu-'ed many an enemy to Ho down lhefore its vulorous attaelcs. Toward the :pi-ing of thnr year the eitizens of the Repulhlie of '25 wlrr warned of an npprozu-lr ing erisis in r eir lives by the nppenrallee, on the Ilulletin Board of u list C-:xlled Eligible for Gradua- tion. This was the first thing: that threatz-ne'l the disunion of the 1-tate. for no siiiiilutiy eonstrueted eountry, lnade up entirely of student eitizens, Ullll lust long after grauluation. Later even mere warnings were issuezl, advising the illlIl'lt'fli2lf-P settlement of questions 'nlrout in- vitations, tlhe lust issue of the Uk':lto. pit-tures. ete. Diploinatie relations .with the Juniors were fuuther strengthened hy their l'roin. held April 17, :tt whieh the Republic- of '25 was well representwl. May 27 represented another of the lllost' inl- portant events in history. the Senior Floss Play. It