Oconto High School - Okato Yearbook (Oconto, WI)

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1 Page I6 THE OKATO N- Cl-GSS!!! LX1 I X, MX U e ,N . A X ffllllbkx 4 V, R .X so Il v ll ll ll l , f ay M, for , , X if A x i' ,. QW 1 X X A j f fill-up fy , L X 5 X TDCKETSJ K ' I g 1?-M'L.'3, I It was in the fall of 11540 on one of th-use dreary, dull, foggy, days. so usual in London, that I happen- ed to go into la hoek-shop to pawn my good old lngersol when lo and l:e'lold and everything else. if there wa'f.n't Albert Hidde perched on a three-legged stool anl looking just like the Czar inf Chezko-Slorka hiniself. Il'e had on the same old suit, he used to wwir when we were fre lnnen in hienll sehool, but my! how he had grown. He looked like u fat ohl Iluteh- man happily misplaced. He haul, on one of those skull ezlps so prominent .among the pompadour-seeking shiaeks of twenty years ago. Well Babe old Kid. says I. How's llllSlllt'95'?'. Oh 'taint so bad, and 'taint so goot eider. Holy suffering gvulvlfisll, he's even got the 'Abit- Goldfish aeeent' on his buetiness thinks I to my-self. Well after I'd passed around the eigurs about the fourth time. he seemed to jolly up ui bit. an-Q we be-gun talking about old times. 'l'he conversation from then on was moftly about our oltd Oeonto High Srhotl elass of '25, The first thing he wanted to know -was whether or not Austin Allen had suceeeded in getting: a .position driving a pulmotor on G'l'2flI'l4l avenue in Suamieo, or if I knew whether or not Rudolph t'isar was still the stage door .lohnie he used to be in his younger dvayf. And poor Ed llerks. he got beat ou.t of all his -l'ard earned dough .by some 'phoney' Unstor-oil well stoekg now ln-'s a prominent fisherman on the Hay Shore. Win-r-e's Floyd Arseueau? Uh. he's presii lent of the lt t'orestration Soeiety for reforesting the Sahara llesert. lfle always planned to be a lnnrber jaek. didn't he? lt-,-nn-nilslrr the vtaeation l'e went up in the woods with a lot of 'imibition for hard Ialnnr and eame ban-k with all the eooties from eamp No. l2? Marion Herald married one of those in-'eet' colleetors who makes abiult three trips yearly up the Annazon looking for .peg-lejzged gilli NVQIIIIIIUSGIS. Well, Marian gets a lot of traveling out of married life anyway. And Mable Degeneftie, yeh. she's runnin: a six l'undref:l aere eow raueh somewhere down in North Dak-0-ta. Say Iivabe. where's t'lara Benson? Oh, shefs he-ad lady for Do Less and Seemore 00.5 you remember they bought out bars Sawbuek tk o., a few years ago. Oh yes. and whatls ibeeome of Natalie Uliosa an-d Verna Gain and those kids? yeh, Nathalie joined the Ziefield follies I think: guess it was because her mother wouldn't let h-er get married to this Rudolph Valentino: she always was a good one at making some kin-d of foolisn move or -other. And Verna Gain. let'is see. well last I heard or her she was parlor maid for the Iiinkledinks. utoae millionaire folks out at one of those Wiseonsin Summer resorts. And Wilbur Hurkhardt? He's a eonstruetlon engineer for sznne big bridge eompany. 'l'hey're builfding a bridge that's to take the place of this Brooklyn bridge, beeause it's too light to earry modern trraffie. Yep, I remember when Wilbur lK 'lilll. he used to be the 'hash stretcher' for some d-inky Uonrtruetion Co.. rl wn at Green Bay when they built ra bridge there. I1et's see. Urval I-!lueher'! You must have heard of him. When he left O. H. S. h-e went to Notre Dame. and l-rat t'rowley's reeord dead blank, the first y-ear. Well he played football there two yerirs and then got a position 'un this Yale team. for a eouple of years. and now I guess hes weoaehing at California State l'. Lorraine Iilauk? I.et's see. just what I thought. Yep she's te-achinfr nnathenrities in some Iligh Sehool in western Ilenn-ylvania. She always did know het groceries. when it Cflllll' to lll'llllil'lll'.lfl4'r'Q remember our old Solid Geoni t'lass'! lt sure was a ,hard studying c-lass.

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I THE OKATO Page 15 Class History reverted to the hegiiming of the time of Adam and l-Iva, and its' sentiment wins as old as Adam. People from evrrywliri-e attended the great event, and none was dlsaippointed hy his effortls. Another affair -of the moment .was when Father lleis, at the Baccalaureate Sermon. gave the mem- liers eoim-eil that would be of great use on t-he new nulvenlture to he undertaken, the voyage in the Sea of Life. Grzlduzltion malzfked the last series: of momentous erises. and was the greatest triumph and most im- portant of them all. The great aims' and ideals that had been set up at the first had been earrieltl out hy jul it sixty-six of the ,lin-purest and most pemerver- ing. lt .was an impressive eene w-Tien eaeh wa handed the si-roll that meant so mueh, and repre-ienbed so mum-h. 'Phe passing out of the Greult Republic will be un ot-eision always remembered hy everyone who knrw of it. lt will leave its mark upon eiv'ilizat,ion. t'or it was n stu-eess. and Sum-ess Crown l'1ffo1't. Important Dates Sept. 5.ff-'l'he lnv.isii:n of the frrslimen in lligarh School. Szpt. ii Al irst Impression. of the Main Room. tldx- plorationl. Sept. ti fYalu:ible dit-coreriusf'l'he Fire Est-ape. Sept. S -Initiation-IOeonto River vit-tim.j October t ometiinejilfirst attempt at politiesg l'Ile1-tion ot' officers. tu-t .lzer tl.aterl-f,l ir.-t attempt'at. business, tFi-sth l'ond-nt'arnivalJ. Jun. lil--f-First social attempts. l l't'Slllllt'll Party. Fein. QS-Mr. Riley displays his ability as 1-ook! tl r: Sllllll'll m lrvel ! I fb ' . . June ti 'l l'.'SllllllIl sum up u sueeessful yetar. .lime T Y Our ret-ond impression of the Main Room. The llark Ages 1922-1923 - S'1'YJt. -l --The set-onul assault-Soplimures at 0. II. S. Sept. tlateri-l'retty ltlllfll-l'lilllltlI. l'l't'2ll?llt'l'S divoree the elzlss as pool' workersl. tletohtr - llall'd 'l'ilnes. Class dues. Ncuveniber-lioblned hair makes its dehut. .lllllll'Ill'j' --tlrippe epieIenii-t--Heasy-going? 1 i.1r the weaii ones. l rbl'lri1'y ff-fSopl1o1nore tent-hers get the mumps. llurrahZZ ---l:ut no! We had very eapnlnle substitutes. l4'e'ln'lmry 4luteri-Sophnlore Issue of the 0kato. May- - Barely makes the marks. Soplnnores reviv- inv:--llunning on will four. .Iune--tloozlihye to at hetter year. The Restoration 1923-1924 Sinpt. 7- lf at first you ,don't sueeeed try again. Junior Spiniit. Sept. 2S-Running tslow hut suriel. 01-toluer-Our fellow eiassmen appear with long' Jeans. Y! tietobei'-l ii'st teacher to appear with locks 1-lippedg Alr. Sllllfll sends his approvalg Mr. Pfaffnian is undeeided. November-Looks rather bad for the Prom, but .luniom are pulling h-ard. I.lt'1'9lX1bGl'-uI'1Ulll0 .lomnal driveg Juniors are sup- plied with peneils. ' .lanuary-Lots of resolutions and more resolutions. tl'rom disputesi. Fohruary-Still pulling hard. March-iMad-e the grade. All set for the great event!! April 25-The thing- Prom , April 26-Beloved Ils!! the newly-rieh. Uateh. our dust? .. April 27- Most siiecessful prom in ye'a'rs -qu0t'at- ion from Mr. Smitl1's Speech. May-To the last. hut fllot least, liapse of our inwas- ion. The Modem Age . .1924-1925 and still running fine Sept. 5- Slow and lCasy iSenior spirit. Oetoher-Mr. Pfaffman .deei-des to raise a moustache tSupport of Seniors! .Ianuary-tlutiside at-tivities' made suit-ex'-ss by brillia-nt m.:isculi.ne l'lillSSlll2li0S. l-'elrruarygliasket-hall-tlperetta. Maifeh-Prom rules Supreme. April-Information to puhlic. Open dates. fIl'u-rrah!j Mr. Thompson. Mr. llorgstrom. Flor-wi Dates. t'1'oo ha-d.j Mr. Louis Smith. Mr. Hedl'gerg. A pri I 4- The l'lllS1'Illbli '+0f our Early Birds. l'h1ilathea Bird llikens. April 17i 'l'he flilllul' of the eommotion -lirom! April 18-2:00 A. M.-Many Nil private. parties. fno goodj May 27-Our ln-i:11'ts speed up ihut not for love, Senior Class Play. May 28-'tlfarewell to thee, oh 0. ll. S. Uoininemre- ment Exereises. May 29-Our last impression of 0. II. S, May 251-Seniors forget their dignity. Seniors' pienie ,-tno- not at all privatej. May 2:1- we came. we saw, we conquered. Senior Statistics Xunrher enrolled as Freshman ...... .... 1 2-i . .xnmoer enrolled as Sophomores ....l04 Number enrolled as Juniors .......... 843 Numlver enrolled ns Seniors ............ Lili Nllllllfhl' graduated end of lst Semester .. 2 Nunmer of girls ...................... 2? NIlllllYl'l' of boys . . . . ............ .. . 38 Highest Average: Ki Girls: Madrian Qnalley .... 93 -S 39 37 Boys: Wilbur Burkliardt .... .. 86 --A ' 40 Senior girls with bohhod, hair .. 27 Senior girls with lorry: hiair .... . 1 Senior girls in Glee t'luh ..... . 9 Senior girls in l'h-iluth-ea .. 15 Senior boys in Ilolofaets .. 12

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THE OKATO Page 17 CLASS PRGPHECY And what became of Harold Berth? I haven't lrcarzl of .nm for Rl. long: time. I guess hc's trwveling snleswxnaxi for the Elgin Watch t'o. Harold always was u fast man: all travel- ln.: 1.-alesmen get tthut wuy. Do you rcnrember the wise tx-racks hc usrrl to ,pull in French class, and he got away with it too. Poor Roland Franksg he jointed the Barnum and Rally circus us an expert blacksmith, but one left lhinzl leg ofa day when hc- was shocillg the polcenorsc, 'ie got a kick in tile solar-plexus a-ml now ln-'le tickling.: u lmrp with Saint Peter fnct that famous tlaton of O. H. SJ. llidn't you ever hear of Vurtis Davis? Well l..ut's funny! Ile went in thc 1-inf: a few years after ln- lcl't O. ll. S,n:1n.l was making a bi! hit until he liumpel up against Kid Tonsilitis. Now I guess hc's selling matches on the street corners trying to niakc u living. A'f'i2ll l'lI1'L Armstrong? He madc the worst break of ull thc fellows I ever knew. He in-irriezl some jane that had a rich unclcg tliouzrhlt he'd get some easy 'jul-k'. but the rich uncle gave l1in1 the air and now. 'Doe' is w'lel-ling a pick :lu-d shovel trying to support one wife. one dog, and six children. Oh, well. the fili-'it fifty year.-1 are the hclrdestg hc'lI lem n. I Say Babe. you must have heard alzont this trunscontintenal air line didn't yill? Well Henry t'l1i'istIs'11sen is the lad tlmt's sole owner, ,proprietor manager. and janitor of that great concern. I knew that he'd uphold the 'Great Dane' ,title and set his aim high. l+Iliza'beth Dail-ey is one of the most prominent l'illll'1l-i'l1 lS of the 'Ladies Heavy Artillery Anti-tongue Wranfzliug Assoc-iation.' You know they have those littlc Wotliu-slliuy afternoon crackers. aml tea parties and they di-:russ bobbed hair, wild parties. funerals and the like don't-chu know? l+'1-iendly little associat- ion. never breaks up in a row-Oh. no! And remrmher Ro-se I-'alque and Greta Franks and Evelyn Fcncil and those kids? 'llhcy all made glllilli. llosc lffulquc owlls and an-perates one of thc largest hat shops in the little city of flhicmwo. She claims that her success its due to the fact that 'two heads a'c hetter than one,' when- it comes to fitting tln'-in out with li-rits. Yep, Evelyn Frncil is a stenog' for the great huun Magiqc Uzrmpany. She's Mr. Gunn's private secretary: last I heard she had quite a case on Chic, the office clerk. Nice going eh? Ycp. Greta- F'rank-s has more ,popularity than an umbrella on a uainy day: she .invented some new kind of anti-wrinkle post-toastiest and now -she's the person thats responsible for 'savinqg five million corn-fed Armenians. Did you hear of the wontdlerfiil honor given to Bi.ll?'-Bill I,acourc'ere. of course. He's been chosen poet-laureate of the Figi Islands. His :greatest poem ls 'Who Made All the Noise on. bilent Night'. They say hc's rushing the queen of the islands, one of those 'Nuitsbrown maildens'. Imndis? Oh, he's one of the big guns in radio Has a new 31.000000 plant at Pensaukee that turns out over two hundred an hou-rg all you have to do is concentrate real illargl on the .station you .want and you get it. His llntcst invention is the 'Radio Bug' you hear so much about. He's the one who is really responsible for static too, they say. Alla-n Wittkopf has been a roal ere-dit to his clasf. Prominent? Say, he's running for President now, on the Independent. ticket. The bifrgest plank in his .platform is that the nnlximum number of wives ll main. can have shziullrl. be six. Ht-'s practically in the Whitc House now, and it's elcv-cn months till election. Remy Reininrton runs .a dance hall in Pcshtigo. She has made the town what it is. Henry Gvvltlc? Say-you must have kept track of him. Nels in grand opera-he mn sing five dif- ferent languagrs at once and just now hm-'s on a toni through Europe. Anvil Florence l.el'omte-She'-s happily married somewhere in the southern part of the Il. S. and has thc healthiest pair of twins you ever saw. Recently -'he won a l!.,Il0ll2Ii prize for being t'1c most sucooess t'ul mother. Ray Moss?-l,: t nn- -see-oh to he sureelle's gprominent in Hollywood circles-rrim-mber when Rudolph Valentino was so popular? They say Ray is falling right in his foot-lteps,-and Evelyn O'Connor, -sheis played leading lrrdy opposite him several times. -Ney say she's a secirnd Bebe lla-nicls-tand isn't it a coincidrncc?-V-Uharlotte Mclfalltllcn is hcr m-uid-in real life I mean. Iiatlller nice to have so much of Ucouto down there iso L it? 'Marvin Johnson? lle's depot agent at Pensautkee and is married and quietly settled down-lies seems contented. And Olga Moewyoifd never believe it, She's gone ln for politics and is elcctionccring for Allan Wittkopf for the coming election.-And 'away in tho -rutskill mountains living as a hermit in his nice little hutsfor you know he is a great poet---in Kenneth Noonan. As for Lina Mac M u-Farlanc! You'd never guess! She lives in New York and is tihe wife of an artistg she is his chief model they say. And John Kenny? Uh-he runs an orange uzrovc somewhere in llalifirrniu. Ilc's a scconld l,ut.her Hur- bank-he h-as allready produced a seezllessspnlp- less? jnilcclessetastelesa orange that surpasses any that has yet been produced. And who do you su.ppo'se is our chief conlediun? I-Ir' plays in all the leading Vauldeville Ilouses in the Vnited States. l'at Halloran, of l'll'lllTFtl'. Ile surely niak-ev a hit-he's thinkin.: of goinlf: into the lnoviesn As for .lohnny Hynes-we always knew hc woutld make a man out of hinraelfelie is the head one of the Chicziam 'l'ribune. He speciallizes on the 'Womenis Pa,':e's-l+'asl1iori.s, A-dviee to thc Love-lorn, etc. He writes that part up himself. And Cecile Nagle! She won the National Ulhaiiipionship game of tennis in .the U. S. and this summer is playinig in the Olympic games-Home l'll see her when she comes overg her husband, lby the way, won the championship for swinnninlg mud they are coming over together. They are very devoted to one another. As for Edmund Heller. 'lle's not such a lfig man-merely making millions yearly-owns the largest moving-pictures in the world. For a while he was la rival of the Paramount Pictures but now he's far ahead.