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Class of 1945

Class Officers:

President:   Angelo Scappa
Vice President:   Marjorie Patterson
Secretary:   Charles Riggio
Treasurer:   Dean Ernst
Valedictorian:   Shirley Grehlinger
Salutatorian:   Mary Bates

Photos from the 1945 yearbook:

Boys Intramural Basketball: Quito Cassiano, Anthony Ferrari, Richard Hale, Coach White, Bernard Corbelli, Charles Puma

Cheerleaders: First Row: Pauline Merkel, Beverly Betters, Nancy Frosdick; Second Row: Marjorie Patterson, Beverly Fidinger, Joycelyn Hammond

Principal Harrison E. Williams and Vice Principal John F. Hambel

1945 Honors Students: Salutatorian Mary Bates, Valedictorian Shirley Grehlinger

1945 Class Officers: Seated: Angelo Scappa, President; Standing: Dean Ernst, Treasurer; Charles Riggio, Secretary; Marjorie Patterson, Vice-President

School Entrance Door facing Drake Street with Horace Mann quote: "Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power"

The War

World War II would end two months after the Class of 1945 graduated, but it was the the dominant news story during the school year. Besides the ultimate sacrifice made by many Oakfield students (below), even the Oracle was affected, as noted in its Forward:

This marks the twenty-fifth anniversary or silver anniversary
of the Oracle. Because of war restrictions, we could not obtain the silver
colors desired for the book. Therefore, we have resorted to the school
colors - blue and gold.

In Memoriam

IN SINCERE APPRECIATION

for the
lives they have given
that we may be free
to pursue our work.

Seaman, Second Class, Oren Stevens
Private, First Class, Seneca G. Mann
Staff Sergeant Malcolm C. Davis
Technician, Fifth Grade, Leonard L. Joslyn
Private George W. Roberts
Seaman, Second Class, Peter Demmer

Seaman, First Class, Spencer T. Gill
Private, First Class, Walter F. Bond
Second Lieutenant Francis M. Hackley
Seaman, Second Class, Fred H. Gray
Private Leo W. Kedzierski
Private, First Class, Donald H. Towne

Corporal John M. Mikolakczyk