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

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BERNHARD C. KORN, Principal

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The 1956 Oracle Annual presents a record of life at Bay View during the school year 1955-1956, which is only one in the forty-two years since a few pioneer teachers and students answered the bell on opening day at the new barrack high school on Russell Avenue. The story of Bay View's past is one of growth and progress. Dur- ing the years 1918 to 1922, a new building arose to crown the hill on Lenox Street. Enrollments grew until the annual roster went well beyond two thousand in the numbers who came each year to use the various opportunities for learning. At times, important crises in the history of our country brought changes to our very classrooms, as well as to the life of every boy and girl. There were distress-filled days of nation-wide depression and years when war cast heavy shadows on the lives of all. The new in education, the new in methods and equipment, made their way into our classrooms and into the curriculum through the years. A film or slide proiector now aids a class in science, history, or art, tape recorders prepare programs, electric typewriters speed the work of prospective secretaries, a course in aeronautics leads our boys to challenging careers in aviation, and especially enriched courses in English, science, history, and mathematics prepare students for competency in meeting and understanding life. The years pass and Bay View goes on, continuing in its contribution to the march of progress, enduring in its loyalties and ideals, and constant as the unflinching gaze of the gargoyles that have surveyed the varying scenes below for some forty-two years now.

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Administration The interest that Bay View has in its students begins while they are still enrolled as eighth graders in the public territorial schools from which they are soon to graduate. A high school counselor makes the first contact with these pupils when he visits each of the schools and administers a mathematics aptitude test to the prospective graduates. The results of this test are valuable later when the pupils are planning their high school courses. This initial visit is followed by another, at which the counselor, who will be responsible for these students the four years they are in high school, is accompanied by two graduates of the particular school who are still enrolled at Bay View. At this visit, the curricular and co-curricular offerings of Bay View are explained. Following this second visit, the eighth graders are invited to Bay View, where they are entertained in the auditorium and taken on a tour of the building. MR. WILEY, Counselor Chairman Page Twenty-eight MR. DONDLINGER, Vice-Principal Later, after the parents of these pupils have attended a meeting held for them at Bay View, the counselor again visits the elementary school. In consultation with the pupil, the eighth grade teacher, often the school principal, and usually the student's parents, the counselor helps the pupil plan the course he will follow all through high school. These plans are naturally subiect to change, but always these changes are considered with reference to the entire course the student has chosen. They are always approved by the parents and counselor. After students are enrolled at Bay View, they are assigned to homeroom teachers for the four years they are to remain in high school. To these teachers the students report twice daily, in the morning and again in the afternoon. To these teachers belongs the responsibility for the welfare of these pupils. In this they are assisted by the counselor, who brought the pupils into high school and will speed them on their way as graduates on their commencement night.