Oconto High School - Okato Yearbook (Oconto, WI)

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mr new SQ xagueist , 5 uw P+ f 9 ' So here, too, leadership was essential smooth functioning in maintaining a organzkalion, in guiding the talents, the skills, the aspirations, and the ideals of the Forty-ninersn of Oconto High j S h ' ' c ool in their quest for knowledge i n' P11110 7 i-Q..

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Page 6 Faculty Merchants, farmers, physicians, lawyers, artisans, shopkeepers, and servants abandoned their business to stake out claims in the gold valley . . . The fever extended to the Atlantic coast. Men started on the nine-months' sail around Cape Horn or, crossing the pestilence- laden Isthmus of Panama, fought like wild animals for a passage on the dirty, crowded ships plying up to the Californian Coast. Others went overland, across the great plains of the West, braving starvation, the fever of the alkali wastes, and the danger of Indian attacks, and leaving a telltale track of broken wagons, dead animals, and human bones.-Muzzey, The American People, Ginn Cd Co., 1933- Life in California, too, was hard and rugged. The gambling dens and the drinking halls, the rowdyism and disorder created a situation that called for leadership and organization. Men of stern fiber rose to the occasion, leading the Forty-niners so that many who had intended to return to the East and to the far countries from whence they came, remained to make the Golden State their home. Chaos gave way to order, and laws and regulations culminated in the forma- tion of a state constitution. .X .5 N fr Wt f f ,, ,t i t 5 I t I 'Ethic g A' 1

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He Leads Us Un Qur Way X This appears to be afriendly little chat between Clyde Bridger and Mr. Bjorge-probably discussing a faulty alarm clock. john Bjorge, Ph.M. University of Wisconsin Superintendent of Schools Second Year at O. H. S. Mr. Bjorge, a talented director of group singing, leads the Future Homemakers' Club in A Tree in the Meadow. E 2 A master of the square dance, Mr. Bjorge teaches Dean, Bill, Bob, Announcements are brought to each mom Lucilgli' Sllglleyxfgui jegxbieihnffaiafles of the beginning of the second Period, e HL 'On' a anc ' june looks to Mr. Bjorge for help. Page X dailg