Bay View High School - Oracle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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ANNUAL RALLYISTS Page Eighteen Perhaps the thing which impresses us most as we open this record book for 1937 is the general striking effect - the newness of the design, the vividness of black on white, the effective use of the shadows. This modern effect was produced by clever photography, and cleverer design- ing, which began with the cover, and carried its design throughout the book as the 1937 theme. An illustration of the newness of the yearbook is in the divisional pages, introducing each section, where trick photography and make-up combine to present the composite pictures of activities and athletics. Then our eyes travel to the pictures - more than ever, larger than ever! These pictures of seniors in their chosen courses and of students in the roundof Bay View activities were taken at a dozen different times during the year, under the direction of Elizabeth Weber, the editor. On picture-taking days, our much-enduring photographer pa- tiently scurried from Miss Bullwinkel's room to the girls' gym, and then back to the Oracle office, in search of choice shots of this immense Bay View family, so that its members might have a permanent record of their high school life. Now we begin to notice the write-ups, those interesting condensed accounts of what the Viewites are doing. If we are reading a club story, we find that the highlights of each meeting are presented in a snappy paragraph. The senior section gives in a concise paragraph the achieve- ments of each senior. The sports stories carry vivid descriptions of the big moments of every game or meet, with a factual account of scores. In fact, if we were to read these stories years later, they would bring before our

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w in their natural settings: at their desks, in the library, entering the corridors, or awaiting an office interview. The old formal pictures, so often mounted and gracing our bookcases or our piano at home, are not pictures of Susie and Charlie as we knew them best. After all, school days should be school days. Our teach- ers, too, greet us from the Ammal pages just as we saw them 'way back when! One can almost hear Mr. Korn assign the next five chapters , or Miss Welsh urge a student to read the theorem again. The desks, theorems, slide rule, grade cards are all there, visible on the picture. The Bay View family as it is portrayed is distinctly at home , not sitting pretty in some photographers studio! Then, too, the informal annual offers a cross- section of the activities of school as they actually take place. We can really see the Girls' Club officers working out the programs of the semes- ter, the Dramatic Club players, snapped in the middle of a performance, or the Orchestra, paus- ing in its playing for just a moment. The very keynote of the activities section is action! And action! aciioni! is again tops in the athletics section. No stiffly posed pictures find their way into the informal Oracle! Instead, breath-taking dives demand the attention of swimming fans, actual pictures taken at a Bay View football game create memories of that decisive play y and choice shots of a basketball in mid-air invoke cries of Boy, that was a team! Indeed, the advantages of the informal annual are many! And now, shall we enjoy a brief pre- view of this fifth anniversary, informal Oracle' Amzzfal? ELIZABETH IAEGER, Senior Editor PEGGY I-IOTZ, Organization Editor VIRGINIA PLENNES, Organization Editor PEGGY I-IOTZ DONALD WANEK MARION MARX MARION ELLARSON RUTH STELL DOROTHY BERNHARDT MARIORIE MARTEN DOROTHY LEWVIS DOLORES KNEDLEV Page Seventeen ii11:tni1vn

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minds accurate images of that clever operetta , of the time we tied with East . The organization editors, PeqqY l-lotz and Virginia Plennes, and Elizabeth Iaeger, senior editor, were in charge of the write-ups. And finally, some time this spring, all the pictures and write-ups were complete, so the Afmaal was ready for the next step in its production. The pictures were sent to the engraver. They were reduced or enlarged to the correct size, ancl were made into plates . The write-ups, at the print-shop, were set up to fit the space allotted to each section. Proofs, more proofs, and still more proofs were made of individual sections, and were sent back to Bay View to be corrected in order to elim- inate all possible errors. Meanwhile, a cover had been selected, and the bindery department at the print-shop began to make the nineteen hundred covers ordered by the students. Finally, after proofs had been pronounced perfect, the Oracle Amway! went to press! And what a fascin- ating sight it was to watch the huge press roll back and forth, completing page after page. But what good would a book be if no one would buy it? This problem was solved by a sweeping subscrip- tion campaign, which presented stunts for a full week taking students Around the Year with the Oracle . And so the Oracle Amrmal was printed and delivered, and is now in your hands. lt is the sincere hope of the people who worked to give it to you that you enjoy your yearbook, and preserve it for all time as a record of l937 at Bay View High school. HOMEROOM SUBSCRIPTION AGENTS MORE ANNUAL RALLYISTS Page Nineteen