West Bend High School - Bend Yearbook (West Bend, WI)

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Add I School Ioasuros and special arrangemenTs oT ChrisTmas hymns. AT abouT The same Time They provided some music Tor The Kiwanis Club. ln spring The special chorus appeared beTore The RoTary Club. Songs Trom The Mikado were TeaT- ured. AnoTher ouTsTanding group was The boys' quarTeT consisTing oT Calvin Claus, Lewis Rose, Bob VornholT, and Brownie Grogan. This group specialized in negro spiriTuals. They sang aT several oT The local service clubs, churches, special gaTherings, and were even booked Tor several engagemenTs in Milwaukee. ln May, The eighTh annual music TesTival wiTh PorT WashingTon was held here and aT PorT. The selecTions were The besT ever ren- dered. The occasion, eagerly anTicipaTed by The sTudenTs, proved To be Tun Tor all. TI.- -,,-. J--. '.-J.--,-J. :E .--..-1- -,.J.f.,:J.f-- L-, IHC QIKJVYIIIH IIIICIUQI III IIIUDIL OLIIVIYIGU IIUJ resulTed in The deparTmenT underTaking new and beTTer Things To presenT Tor The enjoy- menT oT The public. One oT The mosT colorTul addiTions To The music deparTmenT has been The drum-maior- eTTes. ATTired in snappy cosTumes and wiTh baTons Twirling, These girls add a decoraTive eTTecT To The band when They are on The march. They are led Through Their inTricaTe maneuvers by Calvin Claus who is a Trick arTisT wiTh The heavy sTeel baTon. IT is signiTicanT To noTe ThaT This modern innovaTion has been copied by oTher surrounding schools. Besides acquiring The mechanics oT playing an insTrumenT and The TundamenTals oT orches- TraTion, The music sTudenTs learn To appreciaTe greaT music. A radio-phonograph and a supf ply oT records were presenTed To The music deparTmenT. The proceeds oT The varieTy show were used To purchase new addiTions To The sTore oT records. Mr. ChrisTensen, who came To WesT Bend Trom Mayville, has builT our music deparTmenT To iTs presenT level. He sTudied music aT Mil- waukee STaTeTeachers College, and in addiTion has carried on graduaTe work aT The NorTh- wesTern UniversiTy. STudy under The direcTor oT The Tamed ST. OlaT's choir has given him invaluable Training in choral and voice work. Top-- The special chorus sang Tor The ChrisTmas play. CenTer-- G, Grogan, C. Claus, C. Hansen, E. Schmidt M. Hansen. BoTTom, lTopl -- E. Barber, J. Kolar, lBoTToml -- W. Grady, R. SchachT, R. BenneTT, J. BaumgarTner. THE NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FGRTY-ONE BEND Page TwenTy-one

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Musical I-leurs The organizaTions which are aT The disposal oT Those who are musically inclined are band, orchesTra, boys' and girls' chorus, and mixed chorus. Nearly Two-hundred sTudenTs parTici- paTe in some Torm OT music acTiviTy. The sopho- mores ouTnumber every oTher class. The Band has become a pad oT The regular curriculum and is conducTed during The second and lasT periods OT The day. A halT crediT is given To all who parTicipaTe. Because oT The large number oT experi- enced musicians, The A band which prac- Tices during The sevenTh hour, is divided inTo Two groups. On cerTain days boTh worlc To- geTher. The band led by The drum-maioreTTes sTruTTed on such occasions as homecoming and The music TesTivals. Mr. ChrisTensen is building up maTerial Tor The TuTure high school band. l-le has a TiTTh and sixTh grade band which perTormed Tor The counTy school board convenTion. Some oT The members had Their picTures Taken wiTh John Callahan, The sTaTe superinTendenT OT schools. As a reward Tor good worlc in music, ThirTy- Tour oT our musicians were Taken To PlymouTh on May IO To wiTness The disTricT music Tourna- menT. In I942 The WesT Bend musical organi- zaTions will parTicipaTe. Each year a Musical VarieTy Show is held aT which The diTTerenT organizaTions demon- sTraTe Their abiliTy. This year's show revealed a loT oT hidden TalenT among The sTudenTs who were asked To presenT novelTy numbers. Cal- vin l-luber's swing band made iTs debuT aT This VarieTy Show and played Tor The dance aTTer The perTormance. Mr. ChrisTensen's special chorus oT TwenTy- Tour voices made a hiT wiTh all who heard Them. This group presenTed an assembly pro- gram aT ChrisTmas Time. They sang old carols Top -- R. SchachT, J. Flaher- Ty, lvl. Nielsen, M. Gon- nerinq, M. Gumm, F. Niel- sen. BoTTom l.eTT--WesT Bend's band, sowin' wild noTes. BoTTom RighT--Mr. Chris- Tensen serves a plaTTer.

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We ill Grow I One oT our school's newesT and mosT inTeresT- ing deparTmenTs is The agriculTure course, or- ganized on July I, I94O, as a Tour year course. Our agriculTure-minded boys responded whole- hearTedly and enThusiasTically To The new course. ForTy sTudenTs enrolled This year and TiTTy-Tive are expecTed To Take The course nexT year. There are ThirTy-Tive To TorTy parT-Time vocaTional agriculTure boys enrolled in aTTer- noon insTrucTion. Besides These, ThirTy farmers who wanT To learn more abouT Their chosen work spend Their evenings in a special agricul- Ture course. The agriculTure insTrucTor, Mr. l-lolzheuTer, is employed TiTTy per cenT oT The Time in The high school and TiTTy per cenT oT The Time in The vocaTional school. His job does noT end in The classroom, Tor he has Tield work in The counTry, on The home Tarms oT boys en- rolled in his classes, working ouT problems and Teaching The principles oT new Tarming meTh- ods as an aid To Their TuTure success. He worlcs Twelve monThs a year supervising The many Types oT programs carried on during The summer monThs. Over TorTy herds, num- bering 600 dairy cows, are TesTed monThly aT The deparTmenT's TesTing laboraTory. The boys learned how To prune apple Trees and oTTered Their services To Townspeople Tree oT charge. The FuTure Farmers OT America chapTer oT The high school is an organizaTion ThaT is spon- sored in connecTion wiTh The agriculTure de- parTmenT. While The F. F. A. emphasizes Train- ing in agriculTural lines, iT also gives The boys Training in public speaking and in aThleTics. The agriculTure sTudenTs learn pracTical Tarm managemenT by acTual experience in Tarm Tasks. A caTTle iuclging Team which aT- Tained The raTing oT good in a sTaTe conTesT is shown below in The upper leTT-hand picTure. The oTTicers oT The local F. F. A. chapTer are shown in The nexT picTure. They are Norman l-lembel, ReporTerg Ralph Wardius, Treasurer: George FalTer, President Carl Wagner, Vice- presidenT: and Carroll Hembel, SecreTary. Ex- amples oT The pracTical Teachings oT The agri- culTure course are The milk TesTing scene, and The insTrucTion Mr. l-lolzhueTer gives The sTu- denTs in rope splicing shown below. WiTh This spiriTed enThusiasm shown Tor our new agriculTure course bumper crops can be expecTed Trom The FuTure Farmers oT America. Top H LaaTsch Mr T-lolzhueTer, G. FalTer, Top -- N. l-lembel, R. Wardius, G. FalTer, E, Wagner N DeTTn-iann. C. l-iembel P. Lemlce, Mr. T-lolzhueTer BoTTom Cv FalTer M McCarTney, M. Derge. BoTTorn -- E. Wagner, P. Lemlce, C. Hembel THE NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE BEND Page TwenTy-Two