West Division High School - Comet Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Braun Graco loask OUT OF THIS WORLD!! Martian hats for men and women allowed for antennae, cmd costumes are dyed beautiful colors such as moon green, heavenly blue, starry yellow, comet red and space purple. Mrs. Perrigo's family living classes have chosen two students from each class to welcome the space visitors. One girl has studied good groom- ing of hair, nails, face, and so on and decided she would explain these things to the space peo- ple. She had to make emergency preparations, in case the visitors had none of these attributes. The physical education department is preparing for the coming of the spaceship. Miss Boettcher is throwing ropes up to attach to the clouds surrounding the ship. Miss Glunn is really going all out for swimming. She has some idea that the earth will become flooded and only those who can swim will survive. Mr. Kotecki and his classes are building up their muscles in order to be aggressive and defend good old West against the spacemen in case they are hostile. The industrial arts department built a spaceship to provide for a quick evacuation, should this flying saucer prove hostile. Mr. Onarheim had a contest in his drawing classes using isometric proiection to design a fast rocket June Weigand .. ., K 11

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pen because they'd have to start geography all over again. In the history classes Mr. Kitzke is paging through the international law books waiting to see if any laws are being broken. Mr. Bahr is thorough- ly convinced the Russians are invading the earth from space. Mr. Rounds, who is doing a book on Space History, says he is tired of the earth and he wants to go into space exploration. The Art Department, under Mrs. Sweeney's direc- tion, has put up many Welcome posters. These posters, in many different sizes, shapes, colors, and languages have been placed around the school to welcome the spacemen. Many of these posters are friendly welcome signs. Some are warnings to the students that we have in- structions for air raids. Some humorous artists have completed a mural in the cafeteria, with space monsters reminiscent of the Purple People Eater. The home economics classes checked their cook books and made up recipes of Martian delicacies. Bar-B-Q Meteors and Green Cheese Cake are featured. The sewing classes started making outfits for the latest fashion show. Some of the fashions are 10

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ship. The best drawing was then proiected into orthographic and Mr. Puehler took the plans, hammer and saw, and started building the scaf- folding. He wants to be the pilot, and so was very concerned about building a safe, strong ship. As soon as the scaffolding was up, Mr. Braun took his metal work classes outside to do the welding. Finally the finished ship sat out in the teachers' parking lot, alert for any danger. Miss Devoy, French and Spanish teacher, Miss Jansen, Latin teacher, and Mr. Koepsell, German teacher, are having a small argument. Miss Devoy is positive the spacemen will speak French or Spanish, because she has taught her classes words and phrases to use when speaking to a space- man. Miss Jansen thinks they will speak Latin because Latin is the root of all languages. Mr. Koepsell is absolutely sure the spacemen will speak German because all his classes have writ- ten welcome speeches in German. lf they don't speak German, Mr. Koepsell's classes have said, Mr, Koepsell had better teach them, so the speeches wouldn't be wasted. Of course, there was the unstated worry that the space people would speak Russian, as the result of a new Sputnik. Roy Weidman Sylvia Catherine Devoy 12