Wisconsin High School - Wisconsin Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Miss Ball-The husky, bouncing liall, Queen of the sore musclefl Gym Girls. All the girls like her despite their stiff fiexors and ex- tensors and strained fat. Everybody calls her llotty, Miss Borchers-If she hadn't been a Doctor of Speech and an authority on everything relating to that lield, we still contend that she would have been just as famous as a chef de cuisine. Mrs. Burr-French, Latin, Greek, German, lXlathematics. She knows them ally teaches the last two. She has been with the school since its founding, some twenty years ago. Besides being a teacher, she is dean of girls, and assistant to the principal. Mr. Claxton-One stroke of his dynamic brush and lo and be- hold, a picture lifichelanglo would have envied. Yea, the very essence of genius is incarnate in this man, that he may produce those master- pieces. Mr. Davise-In the laboratory, in the classroom, over testube, over student, let it never be said that the eagle eye of Ira C. Davis ceases to keep watch and pierce the innermost secrets therof. Here is a real scientist, a master of chemistry and physics. Mr. Divers-If for no other reason than he gave hearing unto those deaf ears gathered in the assembly chamber, the name of Lang- don Divers will be forever inscribed upon the annals of this our .Xlma lllater, Ulr. For it was he, a teacher of manual arts who constructed minute pieces, labored throughout the fervid summer to fabricate the public address system now in use. Nay his name be praised ad infinitum. Mr. Edgerton-ls a newcomer to our institution and caused quite a Hutter among the hearts of our female students, 'til he got married during Christmas vacation. Has been kno-wn to entertain one of his classes at his home. Miss Guyles--Miss Guyles will long be remembered by us Latin students as the teacher who patiently implanted conjugations and de- clensions in our knowledge restricted minds. After dusting them off tthey need it, seeing they're 2000 years oldj she doses us with Caesar, Cicero, and Vergil in a luost interesting and enjoyable manner. Mr. Hartung-Dr. Maurice Leslie Hartung, better known as Einstein prime, returned to NV. H. S. after a year's absence to impress upon our tunj mathematical minds the importance of deductive rea- soning and the analytic method of thinking. He has saturated us with syllogisms, differentiae, etc., etc., and we have all become most logical minded. Miss Henderson-Rookies, cookies, bakers, takers, of cooking' Find they're food fiends when they learn to turn 'em and burn 'em un- der the guidance of llliss Henderson. Mr. Hinderman- The Dean, teller of fish stories, financial and political genius, god-father of sports and protector of Hi-Y. Also teaches-mechanical drawing, shop and Vocations to them as wants 'em. A mental and physical heavy weight whose cheery smile which he uses to advertise his teeth is well known and loved. Miss. Heard-Ah! Found! An English teacher who teaches litera- ture with a laugh, and grammar as it should be taught-that is pain- lessly. She nurtures our spelling tor lack of ith, and doses us with Shakespeare. Miss Laura Johnson- La belle langue francaisef' is her dish. She speaks it like a true Frenchtwojman and has gained the reputa- tion of being one of the foremost French teachers in this country. She is a linguist in the true sense of the word, a linguist of the o-ld, inter- mediate, a.nd new schools. Languages might almost be called her hobby. By her cheery Bonjour and rotating gestures shall ye know her. Miss Ruth Johnson-History is her forte, non stop monologues her specialty. A thorough teacher of history and social problems. A liberal with convictions well Jmirtetl by e dence, Personally very likeable. Q.. Mr. Kivlin-Hops over ex ry ni mrning' fr n the School of Xgri- culture to teach Plant Culture. Many of you, especially the girls. prob- ably don't kno-w him but all who've known him so far have said that he's a great fellow. Mr. Knapp-Here is an lXllXllXl. Not to let the government get ahead of us, this means Man of Muscle and Mind, not to mention big words. He was a greenhorn with relation to the school, this year. His football team was fairly successful but it seems that the basketball team was sort of caught knapping.