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

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APRONS CELEBRITIES IN THE MAKING soft-wood floors, knotty walls, leaky roofs, and walls so thin that Miss jameson forbade ing English verbs hurled back. Equality of burdens made the bungalow a success. using pointers in her classes for fear of hav- The age of the bungalow is past now and a million-dollar odern student. Past , did we say? Hardl - Y that - rather, the age of the bungalow is eternally alive, and a edifice serves the m magnificent school pays it eternal tribute! ,Q

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curricular activities, the seventh, a per- iod corresponding to our ninth hour. Suntime controlled the periods for study of the academics, for lamps were few and gas jets fewer. There was in the barrack classes, an ever-present spirit of companionship, impossible to duplicate in our present school. Companionship, it is said, is always strengthened when the partici- pants undergo hardships together. Thatls probably how the happy fam- ily spirit of early Bay View came about. All ubungalowl' students alike had to smile when taunted about their school, Fritsche's Foundry , or when they were asked by strangers how large their really non-existent library was. All alike were victims of antiquated heat- ing and water systems, faulty building construction, poor lighting, splintery, CHEMISTS STYLE SHOW WAS IT RAGTIME?

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The 015. Barracks The youthful pioneers who gathered at the Barracks one September morning twenty-five years ago, came to that crude, stove-heated, rough-hewn, dimly-lighted structure, from bright, Warm, modern schools. They were to learn how little all that is material really means. And what still brightens the eyes of now greying men and Women, when they look back on their years in the Barracks, is the exuberance, the gaiety of spirit, the camaraderie that came with hardships shared in the high adventure of learning. i Y' sl ' ? 1j 5 A.LQ, ,' U ef he ll H 32-' ,,,.M g V ,W 1 9 1 4