Bay View High School - Oracle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

Page 12 text:

DEDICATION To all explorers by the grace of Gutenberg who, we hope, will delight in rambling through the halls of Bay View High School, wondering at the many faces, participating in the gay round of activities, laughing at the age-old capers of students at play, but in particular to those who are now studehts of Bay View, enjoying a profitable intimacy with the teacher's red pencil, experiencing the delights of comradeship as well as the value of concentrated study, and perhaps still feeling the weariness of cramming the night before the examination, to the alumni, who will happily recall familiar faces of instructors, muse at the strange lilceness born by some students to classmates they once lcnew, or? delightedly recognize old, familiar ones, and wonder at the inany changes which have occurred with the years, to those who are to come, unaware now ofthe engrossing experiences awaiting them, and to those who have never lcnown student days at Bay View, but are curious to learn of the life within its huge, red walls and the source of the cheery laughter which rings forth, from homeward bound students, we dedicate this Oracle Annual of 1931 . . .

Page 11 text:

1931 ANNUAL THEME l I I All times and lands that ever toolc the sun, indeed, lie open equally, to the explorer by the grace ol Gutenberg, and trans- portation into Greece or Rome or Persia or Chicago, equally, is the allair ol a moment. Then, too, the islands ol Avalon and Ogygia and Theleme stay always accessible, and magic casements open readily upon the surf ol Sea-coast Bohemia. For the arm- chair traveller alone enjoys enlranchisement ol a chronology, and ol a geography, that has escaped the wear-and-tear ol ever act- ually existing . . . Peregrination in the realms ol gold possesses also the quite inestimahle advantage that therein one's personality is contraband . . .The traveller has lor the hall-hour exchanged his personality lor that ol his guide: such is the rule in literary highways, a very necessary trallic ordinance: and so long as many ol us are, upon.the whole, inferior to Dante or Shelley - or Sophocles, or Thaclceray, or even Shakespeare -2- the change need not malce entirely lor loss. ' The Cream Of the .lest-James Branch Cabell

Page 13 text:

3 w As the armchair traveller by the grace of Gutenberg explores and lives the experiences which appear in the boolc before him, FOREWORD 1 talcing into account neither time nor space, so shall you who for a brief time are willing to doff your personality for that ol your guide enter the Land of Bay View , an enchanted isle of Ava- lon to us for whom it holds more than mere daily routine, and behold school lile as it is- . . . Through the magic casementsn you will see the actuality ol Bay View life, the humorous incidents of a student's career, as well as the serious problems and experien- ces which malce the all too short four years of his life memorable. ln your peregrination through the land, you will greet as friends the characters who comprise a democratic educational institution lilce ours . . . Whether you are a student, an alumnus, or even a stranger interested for the moment in the lrivolity and joy ol youth, forget your present preoccupation, and with a sympathetic understanding, a tolerant spirit, and an ever-ready sense of humor, wander with us through BayView-and the change need not malce entirely for loss .