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

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DR. BERNHARD C. KORN, Principal

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,M -' kg vi, - - :lk 'wigs J, F 1915 'rv 'D 1960 o Dr. Bernhard C. Korn we dedicate the 1960 Oracle Annual to express our appreciation for his forty-five years of devoted service to the Bay View High School- our teacher, principal, and friend.

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Vice-Principal Korn confers with a teacher at the vice- principal's desk in a corner of the outer office. Hail fo Our Chief readily lead to destruction in these days when man so desperately looks for peace for all the world? Man must be concerned for the welfare of others! Such concern has led to the development of an outstanding student-government organization, in which the student officers are not errand boys of the administration but Bay View citizens tak- ing responsibility in as many school situations as they show them- selves capable of handling. This organization is an outgrowth of the war years, during which Bay View led the nation's schools On September 6, 1940, when Dr. Bernhard C. Korn took over the duties of the principalship of the Bay View High School, he said: l appreciate the honor which has been conferred upon me and realize the solemn duty with which l am entrusted. The granting of the principal- ship to me is a challenge to carry onthe work in the same manner as Gustav A. Fritsche, and l shall do all in my power to live up to the high standards which he has set. In June of 1960 we look back not only upon those twenty years of principalship, but also upon the complete forty-five years of lifetime which Dr. Korn has given to the Bay View High School, for he joined its faculty in 1915 and served as its Vice-Principal from 1922 to 1940. Certainly, he has kept his promise. His assignment has been a challenge to him, for has he not faced the prob- lems of two world wars, economic depressions, increased high school enrollments, and maintained always the great American principle of education, namely education for every boy and girl, the slow performer, the rapid learner, and the one with special aptitude in various fields? And best of all, has he not maintained throughout the years that faith without works is dead, that concern only for the intellect and not for the character of the intellectual can make of man only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal , in fact, that intellect without character can Page Ten From this desk of the vicevprincipal, in Room 225, Dr. Korn moved to the principal's office in 1939 and to the acting principalship of Bay View High School. in war-bond drives, paper salvage, and, best of all, in active gratitude for their democratic heritage. Such an incident as collecting 93,000 tons of paper on one Saturday afternoon speaks convincingly of how Bay View faced the problems of the times. Said Dr. Korn, War demands great sacrifices from youth, it offers equally great opportunities. lt is the func- tion of education to prepare youth for both. The school of today aims to develop young men and young women