Neenah High School - Rocket Yearbook (Neenah, WI)

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THE SENIORS When as freshmen l09 of us entered the hugh school s seemlngly spa CIOUS halls we were filled with awe but soon we declded there was more to a hlgh school than a large building A deslre to be flrst rn studies and first ln dCtlVltlCS took hold of us l'he tlme for our first class meetmg hastlly arrlved Our cholce of of hcers mcluded Charles Tessendorf presldent Ollve Tlpler vrce president Ruth lVlcCanna secretary and Abe Stone treasurer Our colors became old gold and purple-through a stuffing of the ballot by the boys The gurls flew mto a rage for they knew the rlvht colors by majorxty vote were white and old gold They calmed down however and their first party attended by the fellows as well took place February 77 1973 lVl1ss Smith and lVl1ss Beerbaum ably chaperoned To them many of us owe our first danmnf' steps Regardless of the good tlmes enjoyed and the lnterestlng studles taken sex en of our number dropped durmg the flrst year Our two star debaters Leslle Fadner and Elery Knudson showed us we ne ded lnltxatne ln the first year Leslle made the squad four years Flery in the frosh and soph years and Gunnard Ecklund ln hlS junior ye rr ln beptember I974 96 sophs entered wlth a desire to be boosters We elected Wllll Pearson Roy Casperson and Gretchen Sensenbrenner The operetta The Wlndmllls of Holland dlrected by MISS Gosselln was a b1U success lVlany members took part ln lt The year s social event was a demo cratlc dance fflven on l ebruary I4 Hearts as decoratlons proxed very sult able for the occa lon We enjoyed lt' Cnrls heartlly welcomed lVl1ss lVlath1s when she came to lntroduce Ath letrcs for all to them She started the wmmn of N s Thus brought the ffnl more mto the Splflt of things and they enjosed three sears under her supervlslon Nllldred Neablmv Grace Brextrelter Wxnnlfred Parker and lVla bel Bvlovx won thelr letters whlle Esther Blank Leona Chrlstensen NTHXIHC ohnson and lVl1ldred Popp were awarded emblems The l975 l976 school season found us headed by Valentme Becker Wlth Darrel Buchanan and Frank l-lockholver as h1s assxstants Tho e t kmg S eech took part ID the two plays and the fellows began showmg thexr ath letlc abllxty Svlvan Sommers Francis Hauser Fdwln Tyrlver and Aaron lhde proved valuable on Neenahs eleven Kenneth Olson was the assistant manager T TIVCT was the basketbal' star He was elected as captaln for the following These fellows wlth Olson as manager and Hauser as captam played football the neait year at vshlch tlme Te senclorf came out I' e . 1 . , - 1 1 Y 9 1 - 9 1 1 1 - - . O , -D 1 1 - 1 1 1 , 1 ..-. ... 1 1. ' . , O . . . . . . ' V I 'IJ CD ' , . , , . S ' . , 4 , r 1 N . 1 1 - 1 - - 3 1 1 - 11 . . 11 . . . . - 1 1 1 :1 . . 1 . ,-- . 1 1 K. ' :H ' ' D . . 1 ' - 1 1 . w. . . . . 1. . 11 . . 11 1 11 . - 1 . 1 Q . . OA AQ . . . . i . :N V , r .1 ' ' -:n 1 ' 1 ' I . . . . . 1 - 1 l ' , . . . . c c .- t. ,G R r 1 I ' 1 1 - 1 1 . tv' 4 ' r' Y' r . . Y ea-. . , , g , , A V . . 3 'iv

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FOREIGN LANGUAGE For the past four years Emuly Francous has been at the head of thus unter estung and very Important department The languages offered are French and Latun The first year of Latun consusts of grammar and syntax study whule Caeser s commentarues are read durung the second year French I consusts of grammar study whule durung the second year the composutuon and luterature of thus language are studued HISTORY M I-I Holzman and Muss Blanche Buck head the hustory department Two years of hustory are requured European hustory un the sophomore year and Amerucan hustory un the senuor year The teachers have made hustory one of the most unterestung subjects taught un thus school HOME ECONOMICS The 'home economucs department has had a very successful busy year The varuous classes made cotton wool and sulk dresses and they studued unfant care hyguene nutrutuon advanced cookery textules unteruor decorat ung costume desugnung color home nursung house plannung and famuly relatuonshup The work of the home economucs classes throughout the year was repre sented at the exhubut held May Z6 Z7 and 28 MANUAL TRAINING The manual traunung department of our hugh school us one to be very proud f The two teachers to whom we must guve the credut for teachung our boys are Mr Chrustensen and Mr Sumonuch Every year the manual arts of the hugh school are exhubuted and show the good work on the part of both the students and teachers MATHEMATICS The mathematucs department offers three years of mathematucs Algebra and Geometry are taught The teachers un thus department are Muss Smuth and Mr Nuehaus MUSIC The musuc department of the hugh school us durected by Muss ones She has charge of the boys glee club whuch meets every Wednesday and the gurls glee club whuch meets each Monday uhese clubs have sung at pro grams thus year The orchestra us under the leadershup of Mr Schneuder of Appleton lt has fuun shed musuc on many occasuons PHYSICAL EDUCATION Keen unterest was shown thus year un the athletuc department of the hugh school One hundred and twenty boys and one hundred and thurty two gurls took part un the gym classes Muss Mathus and Coach orgensen have carrued out nearly all kunds of athletuc competutuon guvunv us a physncal educatuon department to be proud of PRINTING Flhe pruntung teacher Mr St Louus and the prunt shop are unseparable Much prause us due Mr St Louus and the luttle brown prunt shop back of the chool for they are constantly un demand un the edutung of the Cub and other school material Seventh grade students are requured to take composu tuon and press work Few hugh school boys are takung a course un pruntun thu year SCIENCE The followung hugh chool subjects whuch are requured and ele tuve wull furnush suffucuent credut for a major un scuence r-crueral cuewce fMr Car y Mr Nuehaus phv uoloffv geog aohv M Treucc IJ clue nu try Mr Carey plcysucs Mr Ballantune Mr Carey four , - , r.j.. - U ALF ,r . , . , . . gn., Q 1 1 n - ..xk o. . c , . . , .. . .,. n K -as 0 C s , . I9 9 - . . ..q ' o s . I . S . . . A. . : . Q e . 1 . ,Q F, - S ,,- . .fr. us,f. J. n w 4 u- uf- . - D-

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A keener mterest was manlfested rn outslde 3CtlVltlCS when the Phlloma thean soclety was organlzed The social calendn ended wlth the receptlon for the class of 1926 held at the Roosevelt gym on May 22 By this tlme lll of the 62 starters xn the junlor class had left Whlle two entered The semor year cxme and went too qulclxlv for the 70 graduates Though five members dropped from the enrollment the deflcrt was made by those enterlng from other schools It IS mterestlng to note that D3 of the O1'lglI1al l09 are nn the graduatmg class Edwm Tyrlver Grace Breltrelter and Nlelba lVl1tchell were elected as oth ers More of the class members worked on The Cub than 1n former years Leslle Fadner Nlabel Bylow Lucxlle Hart lVl1lclred Popp Vlfglnla Foth As comencement IS not far away our class members a k What IS xfe without a hugh sch0ol3 and What IS hlgh school without the faculty3 We appreclate our educatlon made Dossrble by cxtlzens and our teachers W hope to show that apprecxatlon by llves ruled by the :deals of our alma mater TO THE CLASS OF 7 I Commencement IS their start Wlth alma mater xdeals at heart Conquerlng and still to conquer IS thel gulde To lessen the tlmes they slxp and slxcle To the class of Z7 all success Wrth many years of happmess May each and every member find A world so helpful yet so klnd 'NX Kathryn Klausner, Olive Tipler ,and Edith Meyer were on the staff. A . 9 Q S .. . I. . . . .r . 4 Q 1