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

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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

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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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Spirit of West Side! lt our marvel- ous new school is to mean in the years to come what the old house, at present so nearly gone, has meant to the community, the city, cmd even the world, then we must ever keep in our minds what con- stitutes the true spirit of West. This is a spirit not evinced solely by exultation over athletic victo- ries, fine dramatic productions, and the like, but one that is most evident through our eagerness to learn whatever is good, our de- sires to serve others, and our honest attempts to form a more peace-loving world. By our con- stant striving for these shall we show the true Spirit of West Side and insure that, sixty years from now, our present home shall be venerated like the old. CLIFFORD V. WHITCOMB Vice Principal It has often been said, America is a land where free men have made a habit of doing the impos- sible . A free man, however, must be an educated man. Give a young man or a young lady the opportunity to acquire wealth from the world's storehouse of knowledge, and his or her dreams will never really be out of reach. Former students of West have proven this philosophy many times. Milwaukee, your parents, and your teachers are dedicated in their ambition to having each ot you become a free American. ARTHUR H. WILL Principal