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

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Robert Kaller, Editor-in-Chief, Semester I The Newspaper Come 011, Eolksg right this way. See the greatest side show ever presented to any audience. Right this way,'l cried the barker amid the blare of the East Indian side show band as the curtain opened upon the Oracle newspaper rally which swung under way Vllednesday, September 26, 1934, in the auditorium. f'Right this way, folks. The show begins in a minute,' continued Robert Kaller, the editor-in- chief of the official bi-weekly publication of the Bay View High.School. The audience was literally taken inside the big tent, and the East Indian Side Show, an original production, was staged by Miss De la Huntls fifth hour speech class, assisted by Mr. J. Smith's salesmanship classes, the art department, and the school band. Following the show, Bob Kaller dropped his role as the barker, spoke to the audience as the editor-in-chief of the Oracle, and introduced the associate editors, Josephine Roberts and Earl Heiseg the literary editor, Alice Enders, the sports editor, Ray Oddoneg and the circulation manager, Clyde March. After a busy week of campaigns, Clyde March, assisted by Gilbert Bruder, announced the success of the rally, and the work of the 1934-35 Oracle began in earnest. Many changes were made in the organization of the staff. Warren Service, news editor of the Oracle during the first semester of 1933, passed away on June 27, following a long illness. Ted Gates was appointed news editor in his place, and Jack O'Laughlin became assistant sports editor. New staff positions were o-pened, and Dolores Stintl and Leo-ra Gilder became the club editors. Mary Ramage was named the alumni editor. K'West-Wood Shavings and Double You and Ditto, the two new humor columns were placed in the hands of Williani Weistphal and Houston Woo-d. After a meeting of the Oracle Advisory staff consisting of Mr. Costello, Miss Durham, Mr. Korn, Miss Landwehr, Miss Pierson, Miss Roberts, Mrs. Royal, Mr. Smith, Miss Steel, and Miss Zarling, the plans for a single staff were announced and instead of the two- staffs of last semester working on alternate issues, one staff was formed to work on every issue. Line books and rating cards were introduced. Each reporter was required to clip all of his published material and mount it in a scrap book. The advisors began a system of rating cards which contain a record of punctuality, dependability, and the general worth of stories. These records govern the pro- motions on the Oracle staff and election to Quill and Scroll, National Honorary Society of High School journalists. Witness a typical Friday, half past four! Every one in the Oracle office is busy. The stenographers, Marjorie Sanfo-rd, Regina Neitzel, Mary Karas, Goldie Krisberg, Vivian - Riemann, and -lane Kubiak, headed by Ade- line Dzikiewicz, stop every once in a while to rest their tired lingers after hours of Earl H else, Editor-in-Chief, Semester II PAGE 21 L....C .,1.,,., Roland Tfwirzem, Ass't Business Manager Arthur U mbs, Business Manager

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SEATED : Alice Estes, Oracle Annual Staff IEANNE OXNAM Editor-in-Chief PHYLLIS TRIMBERGER Senior Editor Assistants: LORRAINE BENN RAY BETHKE FERNE DAILEY ALICE ENDERS TED GATES JAMES GAVAN ETHEL GIPP GERTRUDE HEINRICH . KENNETH HOUSTON GORDON KLOPF LOUISE KOVACEVICH' MARNAE KRYSKO LORRAINE KUBIAK ELEANOR KUJAWA JEANNE MITCHELL JERRY SHIMETA JAMES THORNBERY ANNETTE VOGEL DAISY ESTES Organization Editor Assistants : EDWARD BAUER DOROTHY BURNETT HAROLD HAMPTON LYDIA HEINTZ EARL HEISE EDWARD HUTCIIINS GORDON KLOPF MILDRED KNEISLER JACK KRAIL ARTHUR KURSCH KENNETH NIEMANN RAY ODDONE ROBERT PHILIPP JERRY PRIES DOROTHY ROSMARYNOWSKI TOM SARGENT DONALD SCHMECHEL ELIZABETH WEBER Faculty Advisors MR. KORN, Chairman MISS LANE MISS WATSON MR. COSTELLO MR. J. J. SMITH MR. BOERNER MR. ERITSCHE, Ex-Officio QUILL AND SCROLL MEMBERS: STANDING: Earl Heise, Robert Kaller, Clyde March, Ray Oddone Josephine Roberts, Enders, D a i s y Jeanne Oxnain PAGE 2 0

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--ldcline Dzikirwicz, Office Manager speedy typing. Arthur Umbs and Norman Stolz, co-business managers, are carefully planning the layout for their ads, when Bob Kaller bree-zes in. Everything Hmsf be finished tonight. Here, write a number two head for this story, and think up a snappy column head. Alice Enders, famous for her quick stepping Qshe was tennis champion last yearj, grabs the stack of papers and pages through for any editorial-page material she can find. Nothing like writing headlines on a11 empty stomach, somebody chirps cheerfully between short jabs at the paper. By Monday morning, all of the copy has been set up by the printers, and the proof has been sent to school. The proof readers, Betsy Schroeder, Eleanor Kujawa, Verne Schuette, and Mary Ann O,Hara, are kept busy checking copy, search- ing for the correct spelling of names, and attempting to figure out the correct assemblage of transposed lines. VVilliam Paulik, the mailing clerk, has his big day when the newspapers arrive, for he must see that the Oracle is mailed to dozens of schools throughout the country, and also to speakers and guests who have a write-up in the issue. The bookkeepers, Dorothy Geske and June Steinacher, are always busy. Every night they stay until five ofclock, working over sets o-f books for the Oracle. The billing clerks are Lucille Scheibel and Florence Smukowski. They, also, have a con- tinuous job . The Christmas issue was the largest newspaper ever pub- lished by Bay View. For the first time in the history of the school paper, a ten-page paper was published. The combined efforts of over thirty-five regular reporters, assisted by many student contributors and artists. were represented. The entire advisory staff supervised the work. Poems, stories, and essays, contributed by Miss Lane's Creative VVriting class and the English classes, were featured on double literary pages. Christmas etchings lined the outside margins of the editorial page-spread, and the smiling face of Santa Claus greeted the readers as they opened the paper. In recognition of their Work on the Oracle, eight students were elected to Quill and Scroll, and were presented with gold pins by Mr. Fritsche at the Thanksgiving day program, namely, Robert Kaller, Earl Heise, Josephine Roberts, Alice Enders. RaypOddone, Jeanne Oxnam, Daisy Estes, and Clyde March. Staff changes were again necessary at the beginning of semeste-r two. Earl Heise became edito-r-in-chief of the Oracle bi-weekly newspaper, and Donald Schmechel, star reporter, associate editor. The position of alumni editor was awarded to Genevieve Bloch, whose Hnose for newsl' resulted in many ex- cellent f'tips on stories. UPPER PICTURE: Gencvievfe Bloch, Dolores Stiatl, Leara Gilder, Robert Daiwa, .lorry Pries, Edward H1lfC1lF'7Z.Y, Donald farrel SEATED: Clyde lldarch, Circulation Manager, Mary Karnage STaNDING: l7Vill1'am Wesfplzal, John Olauglz- l .Mary Karas, Typist Goldie Krisberg, Typist Regina Neitzcl, Typist PAGE 2 2