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

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PAGE 16 The Oracle Annual The high Schaol ,Xnnual had its origin in the monthly magazine, the popular publication in the high school of twenty years ago. One issue of that magazine was dedicated to the seniors and with the de- velopment of mid-year commencement two issues were set aside. Bay View published her Aumzal in 1917, a paper-covered book of forty-eight pages. In 1923, her first stiff-covered Ammal appeared, hold- ing its own with any vellum-bound books on our sh elves. All of our volumes submitted to- the Nation- al Scholastic Press Association judges were awarded the rank of Pace-maker, the highest group award to be earned. ln 1927, with our Hawthorne issue, piloted by Irene Ponto, Bay View was awarded not only a Pace-maker rank, but was awarded first place among the pace-makers, that is, first place in the Nation. ln 1929 we commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Bay View and o-ur Annual, filled with pictures of pioneers and old settings, has become an authentic bit of Bay View history. This book, our largest, consisted of 246 pages. lt, too, was a first place winner. Caroline Tremain edited it. ln 1932 we commemorated the tercentenary of George VVashington. This was our first black and white book, color plates no longer being featured, and pen sketches coming to the fore. In 1933 our first informal 5111111101 was published. Our green and gold cloth covers were a new idea, but an informal arrangement of seniors in groups according to courses pursued, plus informal biographies. and our club stories with feature pictures of the activities represented real development in Annual building and made it possible for liay View to continue publishing Annuals during the depression when many of the more costly, formal books had to be discontinued in many schools. VX'ith the informal Armual came our informal corridor rallies, a creation in themselves. And so it is that Bay View has for seventeen years left her flllllllfll Hchaini' unbroken. The eighteenth is now before you. Indeed, a year book as an accurate mirror of school events and activities is a valuable history of the school year. The influence of such a publication is great. lt brings the school co-mmunity into closer touch with school life and its curriculum, and preserves for students those school days which adults de- clare can be lived but once. Annuals are no longer expected to be merely a hackneyed representation of senior pictures, faculty, officers, and classes, conforming strictly to certain set rules and standards. Instead of vying with each other in an effort to be as much alike as possible, Annuals today have become representative of the school of which they are a part, an interesting 'fmemory-booku for all EDITOR-TN-CHIEF concerned. Proof that our Amzual has an important place in Bay View High School life is shown by the record breaking number of subscriptions-over two thousand! The Annual Rally, held during the week of March 4 to 8, aroused the interest of the students, and they responded whole-heartedly to the call for subscriptions. Lookie, lookie, lookie, here comes a bookiey' was sung lustily every eighth hour during the rally week by the Girls' Glee Club, and echoed through the corridors, competing vigorously with School Days, school days, dear old golden rule days. As the singing became louder, curious students craned their necks as far as possible around home-room doors or eased themselves noiselessly into empty seats from which better to observe these amusing antics. Small groups of students, supposedly from way back thar , dressed in short dresses, hairbows, and whoopie socks, or overalls, suspenders, and flowing ties, and clutching rag-dolls, lolly- pops, or battered slates, skipped nervously into each room, recited their piecel' and departed. fmium O.'1'7lflllIf AND 'liHE SENIORS VVONI

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ORGANIZATION EDITOR Phyllis Tri111be1'gor Daisy Estes SENIOR EDITOR A Betty Manlow, fohn O'Laughlin, Zoe Bohl, Curtis Gray, Sally Reichharclt, Houston Wood, John Schejffler, ferry Schinzeta, Ray Bethke, Ethel Glpp, Sara Kurtz, W illlant Wostphal Daily, students crowded before the mural to view the latest developments among the athletic racersi', strung against the background of black netting. Representing the freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, these figures, made in the Art class, were moved along each day according to the number of subscriptions taken in for each o-f the four classes. The race was won, after a closely contested sprint for first place, by the seniors. Questions, written in vivid orange letters each day on the blackboard before the auditorium, aroused spectators to bewilderment. Question: What was the personnel of the Latin Grammar School ? Answer: Boys only. The girls waited on the steps. Surely no June examinations were even half so pleasant as the one the Annual inflicted and from which there were no exemptions. When the orgy of dunce hats, sandwich boards, short dresses, nonsensical questions, stunts in the Auditorium during lunch hours, and black and yellow subscription tags subsided, work on the Annual started in earnest. Assured of support of the students for the year-book, plans took shape rapidly, and preparation for taking pictures. assigning write-ups, and pasting dummies were made. Early in the second semester, the new editors were appointed to their positions by the Annual fac- ulty advisors, Mr. Korn, Miss Watson, and Miss Lane. Jeanne Oxnam was appointed Editor-in-Chief, and Daisy Estes, Organization Editor. Phyllis Trimberger, the Senior Editor, had been appointed the first semester in order to take charge of the January graduates. Classes took second place during the hectic two days of picture-taking in the auditorium. As students straggled in, looking suspiciously as though they had recently come in contact with a powder- puff or comb, they were hurriedly separated into alphabetical groups, lined up against the wall, shortest ones down at this end, please , and marched up onto the stage, where they were arranged in rows on the steps, with the editor's eye weathered to the task of rounding the corners of the pictures. Blazing stage lights, a harassed photographer, and shiny-nosed edito-rs, greeted the students, as they adjusted best bib and tucker , and the plaintive cry of Phyllis Trimberger, the Senior Editor, as she requested them to pass your slips to the left, and put your own on top , echoed through the auditorium every time a new group was correctly placed to the satisfaction of the photographer. VVhen the stories of the club activities had been assigned and the senior biographers supplied with questionnaires, more pictures had to be taken. After the teachers in charge of the various activities and the students who were to be photographed had been notified, a date set, and a place designated. it only remained for everyone to appear. Fitting fifteen people into a two-inch circle took dexterous handling, but finally it was accomplished to the satisfaction of everyone Cwe hopej, and the picture snapped. Faculty pictures were next, and what fun they were! It really was surprising to find how many of PAGE 17