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

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SUZANNE RILEY, RUTH STELL, GENE IOHNSON, IACK SYVERTSEN, ANN REGIS Seated: DONALD GATES Marion Marx and her staff set new records for typing copy, and Kawai tried to keep track of everything: to get copy to send to the printers, to create headlines, and to plan layouts. The one omnipresent question in the Oracle office was Who has anything to eat? invariably all went hungry. Staying in school ninth, tenth, and even eleventh hours working hard Cplease believe me, they dol resulted in many never-to-be-forgotten, imaginary spreads. But a calm precedes every storm. The storm broke when it was announced to the staff it had eight days in which to turn out the twelve-page Christmas issue. A new glint appeared in the eyes of the business staff as they went about breaking all ad records for previous Christmas issues. A new spirit appeared in the editorial staff as they raced around the halls during the day looking up reporters and then peacefully and contentedly resting their weary limbs and headlining' copy until six o'clock for three successive nights. Another three full days were spent down at the print-shop, reading galley proof, pasting up, reading more proof, and finally send- ing the forms to press. The result was the largest Christmas issue in the school's history, with fancy borders, a picture of the three Wise Men on the front page and one of the benevolent old gentle- man, Santa Claus himself, on the back page, all dressed up in news and holiday sentiment. For the second semester the staff remained al- most unchanqed in its personnel. Elizabeth Weber was promoted to the editorship of the Ammal as a result of her excellent work on the newspaper, and Kwiatkowski was reappointed editor of the paper. I age Twenty-two VIRGINIA PLENNES Business Manager Reading from the Top: RUTH GOETZ, WALTER BORMAN, HAROLD KRAUSE, ANITA ROS- SOW, DOROTHY WEBER, EDITH RISCH, LUCILLE SCHMIDT

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ELIZABETH WEBER, Associate Editor IEANNE CAMPBELL, Assistant Business Manager HAROLD HAMPTON, Sports Editor ETHEL ZAHN, Associate Editor V PEGGY HOTZ, News Editor DONALD WANEK, Circulation Manager The Newspaper Editor-in-Chief The Oracle began its service to the students of Bay View the second Friday of school last September and ended the current year just recently. Cutting short their vacation one week, Marion Marx, Elizabeth Weber, and Ervin Kwiatkowski came back to an unoccupied school so that the first issue might come out as scheduled. With only the main office staff and the janitors for company, these three wrote and gathered news until even the prolific minds of the girls were entirely without stories and leads. With the official opening of school, the announcement came from the teachers in charge of the newspaper campaign, Miss Lane and Miss Watson, that the drive would take on the as- pects of the presidential race. The insignia of each party, the Democratic Donkey and the Re- publican Elephant, paraded the halls, and humorous skits were presented in the homerooms and in the auditorium. Despite the fact that the enrollment had dropped to 2110 students, the school responded magnificently to post the highest subscription total since the boom days of '29, Life returned to a normal pace for Kenneth Barbian, the banjo-playing subscription mana- ger, and Donald Wanek, his genial assistant, for they were responsible for making the cam- paign a success. Everything moved with more regularity, once the semester was well under way. Peggy Hotz and Ethel Zahn gathered news and assigned stories, Elizabeth Weber served as a general handy- woman, Wilbert Evers and Virginia Plennes obtained more ads than the business staff heretofore, Page Twenty-one

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KENNETH BARBIAN, Circulation Manager ELMER LIPINSKI, Mailing Clerk WILBERT EVERS, Business Manager Peggy Hotz was retained as news editor, Harold Hampton was made sports editor, and Gene Iohnson, the columnist, was retained, Wilbert Evers, Kenneth Barbian, and Elmer Lipinski were graduated. Virginia Plennes became business manager, Donald Wanek was promoted to cir- culation manager, Harold Krause became his assistant, and Walter Borman became mailing clerk. A near catastrophe was caused when the operetta, Oh, Doctor! was not selected in time to make an earlier issue than the Easter edition, but Mr. Korn came to the rescue this time with a senior meeting. And once after that a senior meeting prevented the appearance of some pre- mature gray hair on the staff's heads. Spring fever came early, and thoughts strayed to golf, tennis, and track rather than to the spring issues. Amidst many similar circumstances not con- ducive to study, enough work was found for all The Oracle typists: Mildred Marifke, Mildred lones, Lois Thompson, Ruth Thoms, Beatrice Gompper, Agnes Koscielniak, Ethel Van Auken, Virginia Ryan, Lenore Hoy, and Emma Zerbe. The ambitious ad solicitors kept the billing clerks Ruth Goetz and Grace Konek busy throughout the year, and Anita Ptossow and Dorothy Weber, the bookkeepers, had their ledgers abounding in work. During the past year more work from the Creative Writers has been published than ever be- fore. The winning pieces in their contest have been printed in the Christmas and Easter edi- tionsg besides contributing much of the work anonymously, they had special sections reserved for their work. Also there has been a closer relation this year between the printers and the staff. Copy was taken clown early so as not to rush them. lt was the best staff we have ever had the pleasure of working With was the printers statement. The Oracle has just finished its seventh year of service to the school as a newspaper. Some twenty Oracle workers will complete their high school car- eers Iune 25. To all future staffs they bid God speed with the hope that the Oracle office may once in a while whisper that they spent many happy hours there. CUB REPORTERS