Monroe High School - M Book Yearbook (Monroe, WI)

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PROLOGUE September 7, 1937. 350 sun-tanned students make their way up two flights of stairs to the Main Room.................They are once again entering familiar portals to begin another year of hard work, studying and fun..............Greetings fly back and forth among students who have not seen each other since school adjourned last June for summer vacation.................Six new faces adorn Ye Old Assembly on this rala morning. The owners are Delores Syvrud of New Glarus, Betty Steinman, Winslow, Charles Beck, Rockton, Illinois, Howard Higgins, Sterling, Illinois, John Norton, Juda, and Hollis Schilt, Marshall, Wisconsin...........................We see the familiar countenances of Marian Zweifel and Mary Burrington, from New York and Monticello, respectively, former students of Monroe .................... Miss Patricia Damon and Miss Viola Norton take up the duties laid down by Miss Anna Driebusch and Miss Marie Doerfer, on June 5, 1937. So the '37-'38 school year begins. Mr. T. R. Holyoke steps before the assembly. All buzzing stops .................... Registration cards are passed out to be filled by the students with the usual emphasis on writing your last name first........................Classes pass to their respective Home Rooms .................. Schedule cards are given out ................ Back stream the Seniors and Juniors to the Main Room, everyone trying to find out where their friends sit and if they have the same schedule.................Many Juniors unfortunate in being assigned a Home Room instead of the Main Room, are heard later in the day discussing the unfairness of it all..................But then, we san't all be winners.' Registration cards, program cards, and book cards follow each other into the office files ............. Workbooks, compasses and rubber aprons are only a few of the necessities needed for future use ............... First Bulletin comes out with latest news and gossip ...............There is a general call for journalistic skill and musicians for band and orchestra openings .............. Eighty-four students crowd into a new Kodak Club .... Fifty-two people show interest in Travel as clubs hold their first meetings...........................Glen I!off heads '38 Prom, and Jack Sery presides over the Student Council .................. Ruth Benkert, senior, and John Pfaeffli, sophomore, lead on as class presidents ..................................... Dorothy Beckman serves as Senior High School Eanker for the coming year .............. ............... Signers for finance plan and M Book are sought ..................... .....................................Junior class pick favorite ring and members place their orders ..................................... Cheerleaders are selected by three groups. Eighty-seven enroll as night school opens ................................ • Teachers sojourn in Milwaukee for convention.................................Students are amused by magician and indoor circus .................. Magazine campaign gets under way ........................... Thanksgiving vacation provides a cheerful interlude. . ................ Helen Hiett gives interesting talk ................................. Norma Smart enrolls in sophomore group ........................ Caveman thrills girls in activity hour. Bulletin members go to another convention. Hiis one is national and held at Des Moines, Iowa ...................................................................... School closes five minutes earlier at noon to avoid heavy traffic ..................... Ranger discusses National Parks ................ .. Magazine sale ends and prizes are forth coming .................... Christmas vacation breaks the old routine once more...................Here we say, Adieu and let Nature take her course in the second semester of active school life. 11

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From September 7, 1937 To June 3, 1938

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OFFICERS: Pres. - John Pfaeffli V. Pres. - Robert Goetz SOPHOMORES Sec. - Lillian Angliker Treas. - Kathryn Welty Sponsor - Jeanette Anderson TOP PICTURE: Back Row: L. Felder, M. R. Goetz, K. Koepnick, 71. Apker, H. Second Row: R. Booth, E. Keister, H. L. Janke, R. Elmer; E. Bolliger, M. Third Row: D. Ault, R. Blackbourn, P. Hanson, G. Lichtenwalner, H. Klassy D. Golaxon. Fourth Row: M. Jacobs, M. Bendickson, V. Fritz, M. Blacy, I. Gempeler, E. Hartwig. Front Row: M. Haeft, K. Gibbons, L. Ienatsch, L. Hyland, B. Lee, F. Klarer, R. Lanz, C. Howe, Ackerman, D. Daley, J. Johnson, L. Bowers. Fritsch, ’A'. Gempeler, R. Hasse, A. Leiser, Hovde, A. Lehnherr, J. Keel, L. Angliker. A. Blum, N. Barney, A. Davis, W. French, ,L. Krueger, M. Brullow,M. Lawver, J. Jaegers, C. Elmer, J. Elmer, R. Lueck, K. Bleiler, L. Duerst, A. Lysser, N. Buhlman, W. Hunter, H. Lewis, P. Blumer, I. Furrer, H. Brunner, Bozile,0. DeVoe, R. Fernstaedt,1. Hendrickson. BOTTOM PICTURE: Back Row: F. Roub,::. Prien, G. Schulthess, I. Phillips, H. Melvin, A. Martini, D. Maurer, A. Morgenthaler, K. Rufenacht, P. Ritschard, J. Pfaeffli. Second Row: W. Wenger, L. Vincent, H. Schilt R. Ott, J. Schild, C. Meichtry, G. Trumpy, J. Roderick, J. Warner T. Stauffacher, W. Tschudy. Third Row: N. Smart, E. Reusser, B. Wyss L. Marty, P. Meichtry, E. Ocker, L. Matzke, R. VonArx, N. Weeks, R. J. Norton. Fourth Row: D. Sweet, K. Ryser, M. Share, K. VanMatre, F. Maddrell, M. Schiesser, B. Smith, G. Welton, L. Wells, M. Wells B. Steinmann. Front Row; R. Thorpe, C. McGrath, C. Metcalf, M. Ritter, L. Meythaler, K. Welty, K. Tschudy, P. Wells, R. Wehinger, E. Streit. B. Pickett II. Martin , E. Priewe , D. Shain , B. Oliver Zuribrunnen M. Perdue , N. Thorp D. Mulligan 12