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Celebrating Arbor Day in Wyckoff

Working with volunteers from the Wyckoff Reformed Church, the Friends of Wyckoff planted two red oak trees on church property, adding to the half-dozen elm trees planted last year in an effort to replenish the stock of shade trees that have been lost along Wyckoff Avenue. Special thanks go to "What's Blooming" in Wyckoff for donating one of the trees.

Volunteers from the Wyckoff Reformed Church and Friends of Wyckoff plant the Masker oak.

A red oak was dedicated to Zachary Masker, who gave all for his country in World War I. Little is known about Zachary Masker, whose name is listed first on Wyckoff's memorial to fallen veterans. From a record of his draft card, which is number 69 and was completed in Ridgewood on June 5, 1917, we know he was born January 19, 1887, and lived in Crystal Lake, which is now part of Oakland, before the incorporation of Wyckoff with today's borders.

The draft card also tells us he was white, tall and of medium build with grey eyes. He was single with no dependents (for instance, a younger sister or brother) and healthy, and therefore eligible for the draft. At the time he went into the army he was working as a "Stationary Engineer's Helper" at the Crystal Weaving Company, in Crystal Lake. There is no record we could find of how and where he died during the war.

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