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

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The Ilraele Annual From a fine kettle of soup , and what good soup it did prove itself, you have rescued an .flmmrzl -saved it before it was really lost, and made the publication of a year book possible. Months ago, of course, before most people had begun even to think of it, we knew we should have an Annual. A number of the pictures had been taken, some of the writing had been done, certainly, no matter' what else happened, an Amina! there would be, but we didn't know just how much of a success it would be. If, after all those preparations, few subscriptions resulted, we'd be in a fine kettle of soup .... kettle of-and then Miss VVatson had it! No kettle of soup was going to drown our prospects, rather, we should turn the tables and make it help' satisfy our hunger for-subscriptions. That idea, together with the great use of Hal- phabet soup terms in the political world, gave the advisers the inspiration for the Animal campaign and rally. There should be a daily performance before the mural, a jumble of letters to be explained in subsequent stunts, all to create interest in the - l1l1I-11111. llest of all, the daily skits were to point out ways making it possible for every Bay View student to have an Aaznzzal of his own. l3U2'c'1'Ij' YOIIIIQ, Editor VVith that idea as a background, Bliss Wlatson and Miss Lane, with Mr. Smitlrs help, succeeded in rounding up a group of students who were only too eager to help. Some were to be cooks, to keep the alphabet soup boiling, of course, some were to take the part of laborers working for money to buy an A11i1zzmI,' many, even though little children in the stunts, showed how pennies might be earned by performing small tasks, one group represented loyal church- goers, giving their pennies to Oracle'5 cause-each skit had a moral hidden under its surface horseplay. Each afternoon for over a week these stunts were pre- sented. That they held interest for the general student body was attested by the fact that by 3 :ll each afternoon, all corridors and stairways in the vicinity of the Auditorium were blocked with throngs of curious onlookers. There was usually such a crowd about the 1nural that it was hard for most people to see what was going on, but that was all right-they could still hear the lusty voices of the Faculty Cooks' Trio, composed, at various times, of such good sports as Mr. Gillo Cwho consented to take part in the programs onlyafter much pleading on Miss XYatson,s partj, Mr. Tomkiewicz, Mr. Nelson, Mr. May. Mr. I. J. Smith, and Mr. VVhitcomb as they sang the edifying theme song, Mon-day ro-o-o-st be-e-fn. The 01111710 ,ffllllltlll was gaining attention-subscriptions were coming in daily through the home- rooms-prospects were bright. Our Animal was going to be a success! But it was not until Friday the thirteenth, the day of the big rally in the Auditorium, that the real extent of our good luck was to be seen. lior just as the spirits of self-sacrifice and loyalty, portrayed in that rally. overcame' indifference, laziness, and all other vices, so did the true Bay View spirit triumph over the Jinx that was threaten- ing. Our students, over nineteen hundred of them, pledged themselves to support our major school project, to assure publication of the greatest Annual in Bay View's history. Sylvia Howard, author of the one-act play used in the rally, concluded with stirring words that Bay View should long remember: PAGE 18 i , A P -fv 7 fx.

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THE SPIRIT TRIUMPHANT Go, hated Laziness, Go to the gloomy cave from whence you came And live there with the squatty toads and creeping snakes That crawl along the cold and dirty ground. Take with you to the hole Indifference And Depression with his morbid face- And dwell there in the darkness evermore. Come, Loyalty, That I may see you in the light. Now that the hour of witchery is past The evil spell is broken, And my eyes are clear. I see a long procession grouped in two's Pass by with rapid step, their shining eyes Fixed on the goal ahead. 'Tis through their loyalty, their self-sacrifice, The devotion of l9OO loyal students That I, the Spirit Triumphant of this school, May give to you this book to place upon the shelf Beside the Ammals of other years? A record of their service. And may it bring you thoughts of this successful year, And joy to all in all the years to come. XVe heaved a sigh of relief as we realized that now we could go ahead and take more pictures, write more stories, and paste more dummies Cand pasting a dummy , dear reader, has nothing to do with tisticuffs and pugnacious acquaintances, as some slanguage expert has imaginedj. The subscriptions were in, thanks to the help of the home-room representatives. Taking the pictures was fun! Miss Vklatson carefully watching that no suspenders were flagrantly displayed, and that collars were 'closed and ties worn straight, Miss Lane suggesting novel ways for getting informality into the pictures, and Mr. Boerner contriving to achieve artistic poses and effects were a cartoonist's first heaven! The affair usually resolved itself into a kind of f'5ee Bay View First expedition, with those concerned trotting from floor to tloor and room to room, and ending by leaving the editor in a. sad state of disrepair, the damage including a shiny nose, disheveled hair. and, like as not, a round hole at the heel of each stocking, the holes at the toes being mercifully hidden from the public gaze. Getting the pictures taken with dispatch required lots more than an all-informing' dummy and a willing Jair of heels, however, . 5 . as l ' for behind the scenes on those da s when the Jhotoffra Jher s black l F b l box was parked in Room 223 there was an almost endless stream of telephoning. TOP Row: EXKTTUI-'ll Hzzlwlmnf, folm O Lfzz1g7zI1f11, Ed- 'warzf Hzrfrlzmzx, Ted Cclfaf. Borro at R ow: Slzirlcy Pagan, Carol K y ji ef 1' I ' cf 1' 11. D 11 71 71 l7cIz'1'd Brozzscl, Logan Osffrn- n'01'f. 1 1 PAGE l9 Ilazlvy E.ri'v.r, fl.r.x t O1'gc11'zi:m'i01z Edz't01',' lrffr Bixzvdmx .S'0111'0a' Ed1'i01',' feaazm' O.l'll1Il1I, f21'glHII.3CZfIOJI Eli'If01'.