Appleton High School - Clarion Yearbook (Appleton, WI)

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Congratulatuons to Appleton Hlgh upon uts flftueth ann: versary In all the years sunce my graduatuon un 1916 I have ... always been proud to claum Appleton Hugh School as my hugh school I am stull proud of that dustunctuon Recollectuon of days at Appleton? The questuon causes one to lean back un hus chaur momentaruly close hus eyes and let ones memory do those trucks that only older memorues can do I thunk of classmates and wonder where they are and what they are doung I remember our class presudent who along wuth others of the class paud the supreme sacrufice un World War I un order that we theur classmates mught enloy the benef1ts of a free Ameruca I f1nally seek out my old Clar uon and peruse the puctures the comments and the preduc Tuons My fleetung memory goes wuth these classmates to class rooms Immedlately and easuly I f1nd myself un Latun German Hustory Scuence and Algebra classes I remember wuth a sur prusung keenness how the student councul was formed I can remember varuous other assugnments and opportunutues that came to me whule a student un Appleton Hugh lectuons are not of buuldungs or of adolescent capers My recol But when I close the book and recollect agaun my recol E5 M lectuons are of people people such as our outstandung but not then fully apprecuated pruncupal Paul G W Keller My recollectuons are of people classmates now fruends for 40 years My recollectuons are of people teachers who set goals for me encouraged me to work toward those goals teachers and better thungs teachers whose fruendshups have lasted all One of Appleton Hugh Schools famous graduates as Supertntendent of Publuc lnstructuoru George E Watson It us Mr Watson who durects much of the publuc school thru the years and whom I suncerely hope I now apprecuate polucy throughout une state 145 Whule AHS us celebratung uts flftueth annuversary thus year John Stewart Mulls wull be celebratung hus thurtueth year un the Armed Forces Between has graduatuon from W st Pount un 1924 and hus promotuon to Malor General un 1952 he has earned an astonushung rumber of awards and cutatuons uncludung the Sulver Star Dustunguushed Flyung Cross Leguon of Merut French Croux d Guerre and many others There comes a feelung of deep nostalgua when I remun usce on my days at Appleton Hugh School 11919 231 In addutuon to athletucs I thunk the part that stands out most vuvudly un my memory us the wonderful teachers that I had I mught name a few Muss Carter Muss Hahn Muss Guyles Muss McKennan Muss Muelke Mr Wells Mr Helble Mr Rasey and Coach Art Denny These unduvuduals d others gave me a basuc traunung un educatuon that has proved unvaluable throughout the past 30 years and whuch wull keep me undebted forever to Apple ton Hugh School Page 8 . , j A M . ' ' , . I . 4 ' ' X f I ,Q I I - ' I I . I I I 1 1 - ' 1 1 1 ' .Q . I 5 l , , , : - f I who inspired me and teachers who required me to do bigger whose influence is directly felt by Wisconsin students, . e , . , , -I - I. ' . , . . I . , ' I - e 3' .- fp . . - , . . . . A 5 I x . . . . I ' 1' . . . . - - 1 I yy . . . I 1 1 1 ' I ' I 5 . , . X Q ' ' ' ' it xx I I ' - - x , ' 1' H fl 3 l .

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1'- fx., rub ZlSfTIu Though relatuvely young Edward Weusmuller p tron of AHS s Quull and Scroll chapter has ac quured a remarkable record as a poet When only Serves of Young Poets As a Rhodes Scholar h stcdued at Oxford he receuved a doctors degree there and later became presudent of the Unuverslly s poetucal socuety In addutuon to orugunal poetry Mr Weusmuller us also famous for hus versonuflcatuon of Multon As presudent of the Campbell Soup Company Beverly Murphy represents AHS un the busuness world He made a very valuable contrubutuon durung the war by workung as a commuttee head for the War Productuon Board The hugh school years must be a partucularly umpressuon In 1931 when I graduated from Appleton Hugh School the old buuldung was stull un use So my physucal recollectuons are of dark halls worn staurs and rooms luke crammed pock ets of the racket of saggung locker doors beung slammed and of the uourneyung odors of damp bruck gym socks cook ung sweepung compound escaped H S and agung wood and plaster Yet these are pleasant memorues because I enuoyed myself un hugh school What dud I en oy? Everythung Ut cant have been true but ut seems so nowl Blowung glass and doung uduot experu ments un the chem lab after hours Wrutung a new land really unnecessaryl Hfth act for Macbeth Doodlung wuth my com pass and protractor un geometry class Wrutung features for the Talusman features whuch un our unnocence I and my classmates thought slyly sophustucated and excrucuatungly funny Dud I learn anythung'? Less perhaps than I thought but an astonushung amount I wush I could pun medals on those who let me learn un class and out they cannot be named here but they are all fondly remembered What paragons they were and are' For to be a hugh school teacher and survuve a person must surely have a cast uron constututuon nerves luke hawsers the udealusm and the dusposutuon of an apprentuce saunt and a practucal untellu gence whuch applued say to Bug Busuness would blow the lud off the stock market unsude sux months Why should such magnuflcent beungs remaun as hugh school teachers when any one of them could obvuously hold wuth dustunctuon any uob Gabruel'P The answer can only be that IGod help them and God bless themll they want to be hugh school teachers to help a luttle along the uneasy way those muddled demand ung strudent cheerful lazy acquusutuve uuttery affectuonate touchy secretuve frustrated uproaruous anumals that are the young of Man Thats you But dont look now later wull be soon enough Say twenty three years from now 'QW' able peruod un ones lufe or the unfluence of Appleton Hugh School must be potent I suspect that both factors are um portant because my recollectuons of the four years spent un the old Appleton Hugh School buuldung are remarkably vuvud The many hours devoted to preparatuon of materual for the CLARION the excutement over the vuctorues of the football and basketball teams and the perQ'taI unterest and the un spuratuon provuded by the teachers, uncludung Mr Rasey Mr Helble Muss Harper Muss Klumb Muss Mueller Mr Hugh Muss Jacobs and others seem as clear un my mund today as they were thurty years ago I owe much to Appleton Hugh School uts faculty and my classmates for an exceptuonally happy tume of my Iufe and for a preparatuon that has meant much to me for many years I O Page 9 I I 1 1 ' I. I I ' I I - ' . 1 l 1 Lg 1 O . . y - ' 1 ' 1 I ' ' . A . i A . D , I I , , I , . 1 ' I O I ' I -. . , I . I . . , 1 , . I , . I as . . . . I twenty-one, he received flrst place in The Yale up to and including the one at present filled by the Archangel I - ' A - 1 l e . . 1 .l . . . 4 . A - I 4 I I . . . I . . . ' ' I , , , ' A ' ' 1 l I I 1 . I . 1 H 1 . 1 I I I . Q ' . . . . as ' 1 s 1 . 4 L I I, 1 ' ' - I K I I I ' ' I I I I . I I .