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

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2 O00 SUBSCRIPTIONS IF You PLEASE ! Bernice Krause, Ass't Bookkeeper Irma Strothenke, Ass't Bookkeeper Dorothy Geske, Bookkeeper furie Steirzaicker, Bookkeeper Lucille Geiger, Stenographer our teachers are self-conscious. Many of them didn't want their pictures taken in front of a class, but insisted that the room be emptied first. In an effort to take the faculty pictures someplace different from the usual classroom or corridor, one group of teachers was taken into the attic!'. To reach this, it was necessary to crawl through steel bars and along uneven floors and then to squeeze through the little cubby-hole of a door, and on into a small square room, enclosed by a sky-light. Daisy Estes, the Organization Editor, was particularly fascinated by the place, and after the picture had been taken and the photographers and teachers had departed, she remained to explore this interesting room. As she cautiously lifted one of the many covers in the floor, she heard Miss Lane closing the attic door from the outside, and clambered through the door just in time to save herself from being locked in. More than one senior biographer mourned the day he ever saw a questionnaire. Before his section was finally finished, corrected, and accepted, he was a walking shadow, a poor player that fretsu but never struts. The timid soul, the bane of every biographer, too modest to put down Ugreat mo-m,ents', or exciting experiences, gave his writer-upper many a headache, for the biographer was forced to chase from one person to another, inquiring feverishly 'fDo you know anything about ...... ...... ? 'y Representatives of the various clubs had their troubles, too, when they came to writing the activity stories. Deadlines wait for no one, and stories had to be in the write-up. Trying to make a minstrel show, a tennis match, or a water carnival materialize before the calendar date set is not easy, but it was done. fOr wasn,t it?j YVith the engraver requesting more pictures and the printer clamoring for copy, the editor was kept in a state of general dishevelment, pasting dummies, checking picture and cut-numbers, and distracted- ly endeavoring to remember whether a print was being made of such-and-such a picture and conse- quently was down at the engraver's, or whether it is was still in one of the boxes in Mr. Korn's office. just when she was firmly convinced that this was the one day she could be in her Public Speaking class a call from the printer that another section should be brought immediately, if possible, meant a fever- ish scurry for comp-le-ted copy, and an up-hill down-dale search for information as to the name of the people in the pictures. Cornered teachers or unwary students proved helpful. Finally, after care- ful check-up, another section of the dummy would be ready for the printer. The certainty that a much-pasted handkerchief would be in the wash the next day after having been used as a paste-rag, when no other cloth was handy and captions had to be pasted in immediately, was a 5 PAGE 18

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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

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FIRST Row: Lonise Kovaicezficlz, Annette Vogel, Eleanor Knjczwtz SECOND Row: Fern-e Dailey, Daisy Estes, Alice Enders, Lorraine Knbiak THIRD ROW: Jeanine illitclzell, fanzes Tlzornbery, Lorraizzc Benn, Gordon Klopf, Kenneth Houston part of many a day, and a laborious scrubbing of hands and faces was made necessary by a too-genero-us appli- cation of ink. Such things did not diminish the en- thusiasm of the editors, however, and they waited eagerly until the actual printing of the book began, and they could make daily trips to the printers. As more and more sections were completed, with the pictures carefully pasted on their spaces, with a p generous amount of paste smeared around the edges, and captions flapping under every picture, and the copy for each page numbered and re-numbered to avoid any mistakes, it became necessary for the editors to become experienced proof readers. VVhether to check the omis- sion of a comma or an and, when it meant a change in line-up of an entire line, or even paragraph, was a question that came up far too often to suit those in charge of the check-up. HTO be, or not to be,', was the slogan of those harassed beings, as they had to decide time and time again as to the importance of certain words or phrases in a paragraph, when the copy extended too far towards the bottom of the page. As the strips of galley came off the presses at the North American Press, it was necessary to check and re-check against errors, to add words, or subtract words, in order that the page be the required length, to acquire a tenacious memory so that when the question arose as to whether a name was spelled with an ein or an ie , it could be settled then and there, and corrected. When the copy had been set up, and came off the presses in huge sheets, the actual cutting of pages and binding together of pages and cover followed-the second last Ubridgen had been crossed! After the color-scheme for the cover had been decided, and the materials selected, it was still neces- sary to choose the 'fend-pages , those colored pages between the cover and the actual material. XYavering hncertainly between choosinga creamy ivory or any other color in the spectrum, those in charge of the Annual remained undecided until the last possible moment, when they finally selected what you now see. This momentous decision over, the advisors waited anxiously for the completed flnnntzl to see how the hnished product compared with that in their imagination. It compared most fav- orably. .Xnd now the book is yours. XVHo's A DUNCE? Unwzafmd PAGE 19