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

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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

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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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' I X P' ,, .si Joseph Bonfiglio The marching band broke out its repertoire of patriotic American and West Side songs and has been practicing continually since the news came. With Mr. Bonfiglio at the head, the band marches up and down all corridors, in and out of the build- ing all day. This adds to the feeling of disorientation, but some of the faculty suspect all students in West Division do not always study every minute anyway. The library is having the best business it has had since 'The Martian Invasion', by Orson Welles, says Miss Barnett, school librarian. She continued, Books have been coming in and out of this library like missiles off the launching pods at Cape Canaveral. Everyone is reading science fiction books and using the encyclopedia to find information on astronomy. ,... flfh ,, .V 0 0 e 0 ' Mrs .lean Ralph Cin, Emil Rucktenwold Mrs. Myrtle Hyman Michael 13