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

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OFFICERS: Co-Editors - Margaret Kuster Marian Trukenbrod BULLETIN Business Manager - John Marty Sponsor - Helen Zimmerman Coming into Miss Zimmerman's room after school any night, shortly before the next issue of the Bulletin, one will find a group of students scurrying in, oxit, and around digging up news. Confusion reigns.' There is much shouting to each other to find out different facts, groans from those having a difficult time, and gleeful noises from the lucky ones whose efforts have been successful. Here in one corner is Betty Benkert racking her memory for a few more bits of gossip for Breezes . A group of cubs are gathered along the back blackboard trying to aid each other in their headlines and doing a little bit of everything and nothing much of anything. In another part of the room Mary Karlen and Margaret Schindler are busy reading proof. The co-editors, Margaret Kuster and Marian Trukenbrod, are also hard at work. Kusie is working on the make-up and Trukie is writing the editorials. Oh, Miss Zimmerman, what'll I do? I can't find Miss Nommenson for my story and it's due today. ----- --- What is another word for nervous disappoint? Everyone is wreck? --- Are there two ---- Where can I find Mr. s' s in Evans?'1 One wonders how anyone talking simultaneously, can do his work here. A somewhat similar scene takes place in the print shop the two nights preceding the date of the issue of the paper. Added to the bedlam that occurs in Miss Zimmerman's room is the click, click, click of the linotype machine. Everybody is putting last minute touches on his labors. But in spite of all the noise, the staff really does accomplish its purpose of producing a fine high school paper. Compared with others of its size, the Bulletin ranks among the highest. It has received an All-American rating from the National Scholastic Press Association six times since 1930. Of course there is not only work connected with the Bulletin. Several fortunate staff members were able to attend the state and national conventions. They are still talking about their grand times. As for the cubs, they will in due time receive higher positions. 19

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KODAK CLUB OFFICERS: OFFICERS: Pres. - Evelyn Voss Pres. - Leo Lisser V. Pres. - Patricia Jaegers V. Pres. - Willis Etter Sec.-Treas. - Sylvia Schild Sec.-Treas. - Mary Meythaler Sponsor - Leona Priem Sponsor - J. C. Calder As a result of a suggestion last year for a kodak club, it was put into effect this year for the first time with eighty-four students wanting to become members. With too many students turning out for the club, it was impossible for the formation of just one club. Even when two clubs were organized they were over-crowded; so an elimination contest was planned, in which each member was to take two pictures showing his photographic ability and bring them back to the club. Many students did not enter this contest. Therefore it was possible to include all the people who did show an active interest. Two clubs of twenty-five members each were formed, one under the direction of Mr. J. C. Calder and the other having Miss Leona Priem as sponsor. The purpose of this club is to encourage and improve each member's general photographic abilities and study in detail the defects, causes, and improvements in snapshots. First having a general discussion on how to take good pictures,the members were sent out to take and bring them back, criticizing both the good and bad points. For the greater part of the year the students were sent out to take shots of football and basketball games, students' life in school, and of the teachers. Since these clubs have just been newly organized this year, it is expected that the M Book will contain many more photos than previous years because of the increasing interest and the adaptability of the students to their cameras. Receiving slides from kodak companies showing the difference between good and bad pictures, some of the students wished further information on this subject, so they also received pamphlets and gave reports to the rest of the club. A talk was also given by W. E. Trukenbrod on kodaks and pictures. One of the members brought his enlarging equipment and gave the clubs demonstrations on how to enlarge and develop pictures, a subject taken up by the clubs the latter part of the year. The credit for this demonstration and also for the developing he has done for other students of the school should be given to Leo Lisser. 18

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STAMP CLUB OFFICERS: Fres. - Philip Blair Sponsor - Patricia Damon Sec Treas ) Elizabeth Ladner Kow much am I bid? --- 5 cents. --- Who'll raise it to 4? ----Such is the chant coming from Stamp Club members, under the direction of Kiss Patricia Damon, in their weekly stamp auction. Various groups of stamps are discussed and reported upon and the desired ones ordered. A list of the stamps for sale is made. At the auction the catalogue value is the minimum price. Bids made over the catalogue value raise the amount which goes into the club treasury. Another feature of this club tor enthusiastic philatelists is a quizz, concerning the history and design of stamps,--planned every week by a different member to give to the rest of the group. A sense of competition is brought into the club's activities by the division of the members into two groups or teams. The results of these quizzes are averaged to find which team ranks highest. Occasionally Superintendent E. 0. Evans, who is very interested in stamp collecting speaks to the group. Fart of the activity hour is devoted to work on projects for the annual Hobby Show in the spring. If time permits, the stamp albums are brought out and worked upon individually. It is interesting to note that today more than two million people in the United States are working on stamp albums. This hobby is encouraged in school not only for its value in stimulating interest in various fields of knowledge,but for the training it gives in classifying materials, and arranging them in an orderly fashion. Because there are so many kin.ds of postage stamps, there are nearly 90,000 government issues. It is estimated that collectors have been forced to specialize. A collector may concentrate on rare stamps,historical pageants, on commemorative stamps, a geographical study from stamps bearing maps, or any one of a hundred subjects. Emerson,in his Essay on Civilization writes about the stamp: The power of a wafer........ to guard a letter as it flies over sea, over land, and comes to its address as if a battalion of artilleries brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization. Harold Vogel and his Stamp Album 20