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

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RALPH NOWAK Assistant Circulation Manager HENRY FELLOWS, Circulation Manager Pictures of club officers, of athletes, of teachers, and of graduates were taken almost Weekly during March and April. Both editors and photog- raphers found it amusing, after Watch- ing the principals in thirty or forty pictures a day, to View the different reactions of the persons being photo- graphed. More than ninety percent insisted that they Winked when the flash bulb was set off, and about ninety-nine percent refused to pose for a profile view. Despite all protests, however, hundreds of pictures were taken. It has been a great deal of fun for those Working on the Annual to see its progress through the many stages in its development, to see it actually taking shape from a founda- QUILT. AND SCROLL MEMBERS ROBERT ZENTNER BETTIE CROSS MARIE CROSS CHARLES ZAHN Page E1.f7Il104'll

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'41 HOMEROOM SUBS CRIFTION AGENTS HOMEROO M SUBSCRIPTION AG publicity was arranged to tit the slogan. And it did tit. Electrical transcriptions, actual record- ings oi previously staged programs were played over the public address system each morning, featuring parodies on popular songs. Afternoon public address programs, tiith hour rallies, and the traditional, though modernized, eighth hour homeroom skits rounded out a week oi varied attention-rousing publicity. The drive was a success in two ways: well over seventy people had many hours ot good, clean tun in staging it, and the campaign sold over two thousand subscriptions. Came the days when class pictures were taken. ln record time, an etticient crew ot twelve divided over eighteen hundred students in groups and directed the taking oi their pictures The HP. A. system was used tor the tirst time in calling classes to the auditorium, and much ot the speed with which the entire schedule worked was undoubtedly due to its use. Page .Sl8T'PJ!fK'FJ ENTS 1

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tion ot mere ideas. It has been a source oi strange joy to see pictures coming back from the photographers, cuts from the engravers, finished pages from the printers, The l94O Oracle Annual has twice brought pleasure to those working on it, during its preparation, and now after its completion. The members of the Oracle Annual staff hope that you who turn the pages ot the book will derive the same pleasure in viewing it that they had in compiling it, and that the i940 edition ot the Bay View yearbook is worthy to take its place in the long line oi outstanding Gracie Annuals. May it bring students whose pictures till its pages happy moments ot recognition now, and in the years to come the mellow pleasure that attends revived memories. SUBSCRIBE NOW! HOMEROOM SUBSCRIPTION AGENTS