Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Joe K. U'c, Kditor; Kirliard Corbin. Assistant Kditor; and Sam Zocckler, Associate Kditor. netting ideas from other yearbooks. • Center: Miss l)oroth Doenneckr. Art Advisor; and Mr. Clarence V. Ilaeh. Business and Kditorial Advisor, chocking layouts. • Itelow: Otto Sehroeder. Virginia Hansen, and Warren Cly- lucr. artists, working on layouts. 20

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Suited around the desk are: Mr. K. M. Hantme . Mr. Forrest D. Sissel. Mr. C. G. Holbrook. Standing: Mr. Charles A. Gcsell. Mr. Italic Goss, Mr. W. C. Wood, Mr. Elliott W. Swenson. 9MxLiA.biicd Anti The industrial arts are just what the name im- plies. In these classes are included mechanical drawing, pattern making and wood turning. Then there are also forge, foundry work and print- ing. In connection with the printing training, the school newspaper, the Blackhawk, has been printed once every two weeks for the past three years by the students. From the ranks of the industrial arts students will come carpenters, metal workers, architects, printers, and engineers for the industrial pro- jects of tomorrow. The man on the Hying trapeze has lothing on the boys who take gym. rhroughout the year they are constant- y training in one phase or another of jym work. A variety of sports is offered includ- ing boxing, tennis, track, wrestling, bas- ketball, volleyball, and work on parallel ars. Sometimes Mr. 0. E. Johnson, the in- structor, makes certain work, such as asketball, compulsory. When this is lone each boy must pass an examination o prove his skill, and, until this is done, his student cannot obtain a grade. Miss Deone Gibson is director of girls' fym and with an assistant, Miss Helen Jmelin, she plans the choice of various ports that the girls can enjoy. Iler program for the girls includes umbling, volleyball, basketball, ping- K ng, reducing, baseball, modern danc- ng, and individual sports. Standing: Mr. Johnston. Suited: Mist» Gibson, Mins Gmclin.

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tUcaiiojiA The editors and staff of the 1940 Yearbook welcome you to another edition of the Dav- enport high school “Blackhawk.” Let’s start when the semester starts. The first problem is the theme. Having picked the seasons as the theme, the next step was to enumerate or pick out the con- tents of each season. Our next act was to figure out the total number of pages, the number of pages for each season, and the advertising; thence to the making of the first “dummy.” The first “dummy” was a very rough plan of the book, page by page. This was the job of the three editors, who, after school, strained weary brows for ideas. Mean- while the advertising staff was “rolling,” hunting prospective customers, all this tak- ing place the first few weeks of school. In November a committee from the staff went to the National Scholastic Press Asso- ciation convention in Chicago, where they re- ceived hints and suggestions on the construc- tion and development of high school year- books. At last the Fall section was finished. What a relief! Then, up to Miss Doennecke for her students to begin work on the final draft. Here art students designed and added the vital color and layouts needed to help make the book a success. On to the Winter section. Hmmmmmmmmmm! Let’s see. Cut a few pages here; add one there; need one more for intramurals; better take one out here..... And so it went, day in and day out. All departments were running smoothly. The sports editor was busy with football, the class editor with data on graduates, the pho- tographer was bringing pictures regularly for page “layouts.” Then came Spring! In most cases ‘a young man’s fancy lightly turns-’ as the old say- ing goes, but the editors just heaved a sigh and rolled up their sleeves. For it is in Spring that things really “hum.” Now all the pic- tures of clubs, R. 0. T. C., and gymnasium classes were taken and most important, that old ‘deadline’ was creeping closer and closer. Club pictures were taken, the club editor worked at top speed; R. O. T. C., and gymna- sium pictures were taken and slowly but surely the book was being finished. Finally came the deadline. The copy was in, the advertising had been cleaned up, the pictures were in place, and the book was on its way to the printers. The result? A very satisfied staff and. well, see for yourself! Standing: Malcom Kraut- hanter. Richard Corbin. IIoukIks Bruner, Joe Matous, Sam Zoeckler. Joe I.cc. Joan Klcchurg. Virginia Hansen. .Mar- jorie Hull, Mary Klixa- beth Baker, Velma Walli- ker. Mai narcl Colbert. Scaled: Patricia Leonard. ImoKcn Tabor, Marjorie Ross, Janccy Witcher, Belle Sirota, Mildred Blair, Jeanne Rodgers, Catherine Harmeier. Neither Ann Wiese nor Alfred Lawton. Advertis- ing Manager. were pre- sent when the picture was taken. 21