Oconto High School - Okato Yearbook (Oconto, WI)

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THE OKATO page 21 t'o:n-li B0l'LZSll'0lll H. t'ln'istcnson l.. Murphy N. K1-0n.v, lilnxmgur IC. llnrtz H. Iierth A. Wittkopf E. liillt'llt'1' F. fi3lS'lllllllIl Basket lp924f-J5 Wm' wus tit-vlnrozl. tielnwnl Borgstroin culled for 1 l'l't'l'llll5. :intl fifty nn-n wportiml. l'1'in1z1rily for train- ing :purpose :intl to pick ont good lll'll'f0l'illl, ml- sham btrttlt' wus holtl. 'Flu' Seniors t'u1'1'ie4l the flag lsnvk to wunp. 'l'l14- timitwzll fonntl ,frootl lll2llfL'l'l2ll. nn-tl pit-ke-tl hiv first sqnaul. They wt-ro strenuously tlrillted for ll stomly two ww-ks, lwforv tht-ing t-nllwl out to bflttlv. 'l'l1vir first invasion took plum-v nt Wnlwno, whvrt- thvy wt-re vivtorioits. killing twt-nty1n1v of tin' 011-uiiiy. und losing only fonrtt-on of their own. Next they invtnletl Shnwamo. lloro tfwy were ont,-nnllilu-.11-tl and lost twt-nity-two mon to Slnm'uno's fifteen. whivh was 4-ollnsitlt-n-tl only at slittzlit loss nnrlrvr such ft-arfnl lmmlicn-pts. The nt-xt lmttlt- took plum' nt Ot-onto Falls, wht-in' an stinging.: li1'fl'llf was hztntlt-tl tht- enemy, killing: svvon. of their nn-n, and XVtllUldillg' only one of our wnli riors. 'Pho following wt-ek West tlreml Huy in-vzuliwl the Uconto l!2.l'I1ilI'kS, :intl went Home with :1 vivtory. 'Phvir ranks were tlwfn-:ISMI hy five, :Intl they czlrrival I1-n Ot-onto .svulps with tht-ni. The Ntrong Slinwuno trilw next battled thu tlvonto warriors. nntl tit-t't-:ttrtl tht-in with ai low nf only four nit-n. 04-onto lost sixteen int-n in this fnay. Next Oconto invatlml lVl2ll'ill0fflt'. A lmmtl 'b.1lI.t.h' was fon-ght, but tiht- goth' were with Mnriiwttti. Ten Ot-onto mon tit-ll, 'hut Mnrinottt' lost 1-iight. llt-jetrwtl :Intl itlisutppointvtl. the wnrrions t-anne hut-k to enum. Frirliay the thirtovnth Fklte smiled on -Ucontn. With four fins-t-vlnss offit-4-rs vonrt-niurtiult-tl, and il group of rookies llliilllg' their pllnvv, with only two nights' tlrill to tlwiix' 4-rt-dit., they vlinlkotl up an ovvr- wllofininig vit-tory over VVt-SIL De Pore. cnptnrillg -tliirttwn of tht-ir lllt'll. :intl they inipniisonotl only nina- of ours. tt'ontilnw4l on Page 223

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Page 20 THE OKATO Class Play---Adam and Eva James King, a rich- man .......... Landis Maloney llorintha, his parlor maid .. . . ...... Evelyn Fencil Clinton he Wayne, his son in-law ..... .. ....... l Clarence Armstrongl .lulie ll: Wayne, his eldest -daughter ............ tllymene Darisey Eva Kinix, his youngest dlaughter .............., Winifired Halrlloclr Aunt Athliy K .cker, his sister-in-law ............. I4llizal:eth Daley llr. .lack llclametcr, his neighbor. ...... .Iohn Hynes llorace Pilgrim. his uncle. ........ Edmund Heller Adam Smith, his busin-ess manager ............. . Allen 'Wittkopl Lord Andrew Gordon, 'his winulvl-he-sonein-law. Allen Voy .lames King is tired of family life. The only lime they fuss over him is wlirin they want some- thing. lzllt whori Hill Dvay aririves they are careful t.i' avoid him. Adam Smith, a young gentlemen just .back from the wild-4 of Manouse, is Mir. Kingls business manager and envys .Mr. King and his home life ant' family. Adam anxl Mr. King 'l'llllillIIO places. From this many 'lIlllll'4'lIl'f.f incidents arise. The chief are: Adam pus-tcnxls to hits family that Mr. King.: had gone rbarnkrupt and that the only thing left for them to do is to go to work. At first tney are stunned. hut, thc y gallantly arifle to the occasion. The girls run a chicken farm while bhe men are all employed at viarinus positions. Best of all Adam has accomplished his purvpose and the family is contented and happy. Mr. King returns from Manouse lonesoin-e for his family and gets the surpri'-e of his life when he finds This spend thrift family at work. During this time Eva and Adam have begun an acquraiutance which has .already passed the hounds of friendship. .lamew Kim: was portrayed well ilny Landis Maloney. Ilan-dis as an indulgent imposed upon father ueminded us a wee bit of our own Daddy. Evelyn Fencil in the part of Corinthia. a sympathetic aml thoroughly dlrnnesticateil maid, had ai of the qualifications. The religious affairs inf the play were augmented lay the l'ious' ideas of Clarence Armstrong as the -cake eater son-in-law of James King. Ulymene l arii-ey as the l'fft'l'Vt'l't'lllf,!4 matron. .lulie De 1Wayue. played the part to perfection. Winifred Hznllock. as Eva King. was in t'!e role of a partner in the chicken and bee inliustuy and was evrn more bewitching than as a society butterfly. Elizabeth Daily, as aunt Ahluy, fund m1 mory classes su-ch il fine thing. but then it is hard to X't l!l0lIl-ll0l' prices. A fortune hunter? tWhoi-ver woulsl have thought of .lohn Hynes as a fortune f1unter'H But we can point to none Letter' or more able to play the part than J'uhn. A pen-nilness. hut warmheaiitexl hnchelor with bad digestion 'an'l lI'l'0Illlll l.u XVho el-ie could play the part of Uncle Horace with such naturalness as Eil- mu-nd Heller? 0h! Anlam! Adam took a bite from the apple offered him by Eva. Nothing else to do but get llcr for his partner in life. Allen Wittkopf as a modern Adam was so real 'and so well adapted to it that he made all of the girls' hearts accelerate. Allen Voy, a Scotchman .with lns charming man ner anid his abbreviated woids made us like him. He chcanged so that we could fongive +l1is coming over te marry an heirem. Q 0. H. s. CAMPAIGNS 1. Mir. Pfaffan for Order. 2. Miss Bovee vs llllS'llWRFhillg'. 3. Miss Bogie for Strictness. 4. Mr. Louis Smith vs baseball. 5. Mr. Thompson for jokes. G. Eva 0'Neil for dancing. 7. Monica Williams v-s tardiness. 8. Henry Ryan v-s detention. 0. Marvin Hynes for lhetter chewing gum. 10. Clarence Becker vs more zeros. ll. Ulymene Pa-risey vs study. 12. Trmuan Drake for girls. 13. Lut-her 'Madison for more Phy. Ed. 14. Girls vs swearing. 15. Boys vs lll69kiHES3. 16. Whole school vs spring fever. 17. Orval Grunert vs obesity. 124. Seniors for diplomas. 19. Mr. Borgstrum for less loafing in Phy. Ed. 20. Students for a gym farther from school. 21. Teachers vs spring rush for library passes. 22. rblturlents vs iamhithin. 23. Mr. H. Smith for leavtintf: a thought with us. 24. Clarence Armstrong for that indifferent attitude. 25. Mr. Pfaffman for a class in which to put theories into practice. 26. Francis K. vs his growing popularity with hi-s the gi-rls. 27. Miss Miller for 'successful Dhilathea meet- ings. 28. Russell Poequette for the use of big words. 29. The faculty vs loitering in the halls. 30. :Mi-'s Ream vs chewing gum. 31. Winifrcd Htadlock vs showing emotion. 32. Girls for a bid to the Prom. 33. Fellows for showing their independence re- igarfding Poem bids , 34. Christy vs reciting. 35. Miss Ames for getting numerou-s Senior af- fairs underway. 36. GlFLQ for pa-:ses to the roller rink. 37. Junior classes of '24 and '25 for funds to finance fhe Prom. 38. Evelyn Swiedarke for a chlance to ala' her laugh. silvery 39. Floyd Arsencan vis blnsihing. 40. Peanuts vs hashfulness.

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Page 22 THE OKATO ATHLETICS H'ontinued from Page 21 l The following week the Faillls uttnu-ked us. Ex- pecting a victory, they went home -defeated-only wound-ing three of our men, and losing twenty-two of their own. Next a huttle was fought at West De Pere, where the locals were lllllillllylltlll and defeat-ell before they could get the men in onlie . Twenty-four local war- riors weve lost. io twelve of De l'el'e s. The lust lmtlle on the home field 'wus played wgvainst the ohl foe. Marinette. Vim-tory wais 0conto's until the lust minute, when men llllSllIll0l'SfOfNl the eomman-'l. Mnrimtte took the ll'ill'2lIll'l'l'g0. and de' feated Oc-onto in the last few minutes. They c-f1.ntured fifteen 01-onto men, and Oconto took only nine of theirs. Our warriors ne-ver gave up the ship. but nl- ways f0llfJlli their hest in every eneountor. ATHLETICS OF THE YEAR The fact that football was out of the question hit the' biggest part of the students very hard but such a thing was unavoidable. It would be alto- gether too much of a chance for the school to as- sume the responsibility of putting a team on the gridiron with that enormous debt on its hands. Next year's chances for a football team-a winner too-look mighty rosy just now. The receipts from Community .School Day almost took care of much of the deficiency. In order to clear the debt en- tirely the Seniors are debating- as to the advisabil- ity of paying off this-deficiency from their treas- ury instead of leaving the school a memorial in the form of pictures or furniture. As we go to press prospects look mighty good for the adoption of this plan. Let's hope it goes through! With the football season put. out of the way we looked eagerly forward to the basketball season, when Oconto High could do her stuff. The team played professional ball all through the season and we certainly enjoyed an unusual number of wins at the expense of Wabeno. Oconto Falls, Gillett, and West DePere. After the schedule was done' we gave the terms at the bournament quite a scare' by defeat'ng Gillett, the Falls, and' also by holding Marinette to a tie in a two pevriod ovefr-time game which resulted in a tie between Marfinette and us for third honors in the distrfct. The High School had every reason to be proud of the team and the coach. After the basketball togs had been tucked away and the moth balls inserted, Mr. Louis Smith sprung a new one on us. He asked that all boys stay after school one night and then he unfolded his plans to develo class base-ball teams. As the season has been rather cold to date. not much prac- trice can be done as yet but it will soon be warm- ing up a bit and then we can have some real sport with the pill. A class tournament is planned if the teams can get in enough practice before school closes. TOURNAMENT The quintette left for Marinette on Thursday, March 12, and played that night against the old rival, Marinette. The flrst half was hard fought, Marinette scoring' five points fall on foulsl and Oconto scoring three, on a field goal and a foul. The second half things went wrong'and Mari- nette came back and gave our five- a walloping to the tune of 25 to 7. The second game was with Gillett. The boys' spirit seemed downhearted and the enemy almost trimmed them. They had to play a five minute over time period to beat Gillettg the- score ended fourteen and: thirteen, with Gille-tt on the short end. Next our warriors battled Oconto Falls and their spirit seemed still somewhat broken. They had another hard time beating the Falls, any other t'me the boys would have walked away with them. After beating them twice' before, the team couldn't let them win so' they trimmed the Falls to a score of eight and six. The next battle was with Marinette again and the boys fought for third place. Marinette ex- pected an easy game but something happened. Four of the team were seniors playing their last game for the Gold and Blue. So Dolly , Allie , Christy and Tubb-a with the help of little Mickey went into that game to win and when the final whistle blew it was a tie game. They played five minutes over time and it was still a tie game, so the judges figured the teams were o-n a par and they called off the game and gave both Oconto and Marineitte the honor of third' place. This was the end of the tournament as far as Ocon- to was concerned and the coach and the boys were satisfied with themselves and called it a victorious year. The letter men are: Harold Berth, Allen Witt- kopf, F-rank Cashman, Henry Christenson, Alfred Rhode. Sad bu-t True A pnper is a great invention, The school gets all the fnmegl- The printer gets nigh all the money Anil the stuff gets ull the lvlaune., AC-H, Loui fSJ ! One day as I ehancerl to pass. A beaver wins dnnnning u river: A man who had run out of gas Was doin-g the gsmne to his flivver.