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

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MILDRED PFORR, Business Manager RUTH SZULCZEWSKI, Assistant Business Manager Charles Zahn gathered school news, wrote the stories, headlined them, and completed the Oracle newspaper so that it could be issued three days after the session opened. The Oracle campaign was introduced with a radio skit by Charles Zahn and the Cross twins, editors. The public address system was used extensively tor the first time as a sales' medium. Daily radio skits and traveling troupes ot singers, dancers, and entertainers made the campaign an acknowledged success. Then came the fascinating routine ot getting the paper out. Assignments to reporters, checking copy, writing headlines, taking pictures and laying out pages-all were the prelude to the best days ot all when they gathered car checks, passes, lunch, wraps, and papers and went down to the printers. Once there, the statt numbered and proofread galleys, pasted pages, STAR RE PORTERS WILLIAM WIGHT STANLEY KLUKOWSKI ROSEMARY TANGER GUNNAR HELBERG WILLIAM SHIMETA BEATRICE MORBECK ERNA ROZMARYNOWSKI IEAN OSTERNDORF ELLEN KNUEPPEL GENEVIEVE STEIN Pnyc Twenty-two

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5 CO-EDITORS-IN cH1EP x BETTIE ANN CROSS MARIE ELLEN CROSS Newspaper Four years ago, when Oracle meetings were announced every other week, some of the more venturous among the freshmen wandered in and waited hopefully for a chance to do something - just anything on the Oracle. ln time opportunity came to them as it had to a long line of Oracle workers throughout the years. They too became star reporters, assist- ant editors, and associate editors. Finally, a few of them who had worked, waited, and hoped, became the newspaper editors of l939 and l94O. By that time they had learned to write news, features, editorials, headlines, and had perhaps even gone to the printers as messengers or helpers. But the thrill of responsibility still lay ahead. Returning from summer vacation one week before the school year opened, Bettie and Marie Cross, lack Kirby, George Rusteilca, and WILMOT GAULKE, Feature Editor IAMES VANDERHOOF, Assistant Sports Editor MARILYN WYSOCKI, Assistant Feature Editor MARY LOUISE SOHEFFLER, MARIANNE HOERRES, Humor Editors

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rechecked page-proofs, and then breathed a huge sigh of satisfaction as the Oracle was sent to press. Duty, however, was mixed with pleasure in the Oracle Office and at the printers. Round- table discussions on subjects ranging from school gossip to the war were often held once the whirl of preparation for an Oracle issue was over and the Oracle was put to bed. After the twelve-page Christmas issue was distributed, several changes were made in the personnel of the staff. Charles Zahn, editor-in- chief of the newspaper, became editor-in-chief of the annual, and Bettie and Marie Cross bee came the first co-editors-in-chief of the news- paper in the history of the school. With the close of the year, those who worked together on the Oracle newspaper start on their chosen paths, bound together by the memory of the fun they had in the struggle to produce a newspaper worthy of Bay View High school. TYPISTS VIOLA BURKE HOWARD SHAW LORNA YOUNG URSULA POMMERENING GERTRUDE SCHULTZ IANE HALE GRACE LUDORF ELAINE REDLIN IRENE CIESLAK BILLING crsrarcs - CATHERINE BERTLING DESANKA LATINOVICH 1 47' STAR REPORTERS LORRAINE LORENZEN IAMES WOODHAMS EDWARD WOODHAMS SHIRLEY RUX MARY ANN IOHNSON EDITH IANOT IUNE IANOT DOROTHY RUSTEIKA Ijlljjf' Tvwlzfy-llrrcf