Oconto High School - Okato Yearbook (Oconto, WI)

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Page 26 THE OKATO CLASS JUNIOR NEWS The junior English classes have been rather de- jccted these last few weeks, because they have been studying graninutr. The biology classes have 'been draw maps of city blocks. tliiology teachers assign suclii useless topics. There is a map of the whlntle city down in the office-.J entdeavoring to Miss Graaskamp has been inoculating t.he germ of historical knowledge into her junior history sections. lWo wonder h-nw the 'exam papers rejiifter. The French class tried luind. to master verbs and sundry other things. The notebooks have quite a nlunher of cheerful marks wfhtich seem to indicate that the efforts have not been in vain. lf one were to .wonder into a social problems ella.-'s the flow of or-atory one would hear ntitght be worthy of Allan llfittkopfg We mu.-:t preserve the natural resources of tour wonderful country. XVhere once great hexfds of -deer wander, n lone buck strays in lonely magnificence. etc. etc. tl'erhaps auch bursts of oratory were what caused them to leave.l The busy click of the typewriters indicate that the typing ciasvses are not idle. tOf courre. this is not unusual. for whoever knew a Junior to lbe idle?J SOPHOMORES Miss Mills-r's English classes are doing very interesting.-5 work. The Ii Class just completed the debate, uliusolvetl that the women of to-day are better than the wonuan of yesterday. The ne-ga.tive was exciting when the boys. fbegan to argue for the women of tostlay. The A Flntss lms been having Friday p1'0lIl'EllllS. Each work. a committee is appointed and requested to work on a pro-gmrani they think the class would like. Tfle 'students of the class like the workinr,: up of the program as well as the ent.e.t'tainment it affords. The geometry A class can- boast of especially bright students. Une dny while studying a difficult. theorem writ.ten by Garfield, one of the :students thought it was by President Garfield and said: If hc w.nt.e that. it's no wonder they shot him. The Latin 10 stud-ents are makintg -a large book. takint: in Roman artiteeture. Roman History, deri- vations in English taken from tal? Lirtin. and ad- vertisements with Latin words or Latin derivitives. The home economics classes. 2ll 0 busy making delicious brexnls and tbuns. If anyone would like to have t'Iist proved ask Mr. Pfaffuntn about them-he has sampled them. OTES FRESHMEN NOTES The table for tile radio that is in the office was made by the freslunzm manual arts boys. They have also completed a radio cabinet which they 'started a short time ago. All but two of the freshman boys have finished their fern stands. and nrariy all the boys! 'llllV0 filled. t-ftained. and varnished their book racks. necktie taacks, and handkerchief boxes. Several are wiring their tnnle lamps, and! by the end of the week, the boys will take their completed projects home. The science classes have been studying on tree. plant, animal, and bird life and their influence upon man. 'llllose who take Latin have been working on their notebooks which contain every exercise they have completed up to the present time. rmgulsli 9 B. have finished reading the book. The Vision of Sir Launfal. Some of the algebxa 9 classes completed the work reqniretd of the freshmen and' took some ad- vanced algebra wonk. RADIOPHANS During the pa-st School yeear the boys took a vezy active. interest in radio, and some of them built setls for themselves. At the beginning of the term. Mr. 1'faffman suangestetl that the pupils of the physics 4-lass who were interested in radio get tllgixtll-till' and build sets. So some of the boys started .saving heir small change. and they 'soon had enough for parts. Th-ei iris of the physics class did not. seein to like the id.e.a of building sets. Probably the financial or possibly it was tue building of them which they disliked. tHowt-ver, they like to listen to a good radi0.J ' The boys who made sets were: Lan-dis Maloney. Norman Tennisen, Stanley Hellnum. Hensly George.. lkhester l'2l1'4llll'ill, Russell -Pocqtlette, Allen Wittkopf. Tluiotlore Riewe, Albert Hi-dde. Raymond Zimmer- man, and Clarence Mienke. Most of these were one tube sets. A few were three tufbe sets. All the boys report good reception and long distance. sitle of it botsheretl tllehl. In addition. to a .new supply or regular phytsics laboratory equipment bought this year. partts for a tllrce-tulbe radio set. were ordered. The set is to remain in school, in order to Show physics and science classes the way a- radio works. The set was built by Landis Maloney and Norman Tennisen. Most of the boys who built, theit' own were uieinbers of the senior class. So don't be su-rprised if you hear of some of them being great radio ,engineers and electricians in a few years.

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SOCIETIES THE OKATO Page 25 PHILATHEA This past year will certainly remain in the minds of the seniors. Philathea, too, will have something to remember when the seniors of this year have left 0. H. S., never to return as im- mediate members of the Society, but to return an-d find the glorious old Society growing in ,both num- ber and spirit. The advisors for the past year in Phlathea were Miss Miller and Miss Klosterman. The lirst semester held the joint party of Phil- athea and Ilolosfacts which turned out to be a big success. The second party of just Philathea mem- bers was given on St. Patrick's night, and will al- ways be remembered by the- seniors as their last Fhilathea party. The meetings during the year have been un- usually Iull of life. They have brought many freshmen girls into the Society to help fill the places left by the seniors. It will be rather hard to f'.ll their places but if the seniors will will us of their good spirit and pep we are sure we shall get along. Each year Honorary Members are chosen from Philathea. It makes the aiim of every girl in the society higher. The following members were chosen as Honorar- Members for this year: Clymene Parfsey, Olga Moe, Evelyn Fencil, Elizabeth Daily, and Lorraine Blank. They were chosen for the fol- lowing things: being in Philathea for four years, having not only qualities which are needed to build up a good character, having paid their dues each semester, having apipeared in a program at least once each year, an having averages not below 85'W. t . Winifred Hadlock and Madrian Qualley are given honorable mention but were not chosen as Honorary Members because of the fact that they had not been here for four years. It is .in honor, and an honor earned and deserved. Seniors, though you may be far from us next year, do not forget the Philathea sisters who- will always wish ,you well and who will cherish happy memories of you. Mr. Pfnffnnui-Hovv dare you swear before me in class? ' Landis-How did I know you wanted to swear first? Local ipoliceman-You arc under arrest! What are you runnintg this car on? Mr. Dari-s-On my application. flint the Arm of the Law got him.J HOLOSFACTS tlf all sad words of tongue 'or pcn thc sad-dost arc thcsc, It might havc born. But don't ,ect wor- rie.l1 nobody died, und it di1ln't might hayc bt-cn. lvccanusc Holosfacts was thcrc with thc goods thin ycar. Tl'e'c might hav-u been a luck, of intcrcst prcf vahnt in thc society tho last tow ycars duc to tho fact that thc nn-mbcrs didu't take cnough intcrcst in thc tlifffrcnt functions of thc socicty. But this lririi school year everything wont over bil! hccautsc thc l1llllll'll0l'4 wrrc cnthusc-tl with thc proper Holosfacts snirit. and thcy tricd to make Holosfxrcts just what .I l-oys' high school socicty should lic. In tho 'hc.ginnirtg of thc ycar, with thc hclp of ,Mit-1-' llcnnis. a ncw constitution was forincd and a staiidnrrd was sft. Each boy had to como up to this starufaid in ordcr to bv oliwfriblc for ndnii-sion into the society. The scholastic avcrago sm-t Lin orxlcr for n boy to llll'f'Ollll' a mcmbcr was clghty. With tln-sc principlcs sct down, and with riond-whip as thc -1f'z'2't'la1'tl of thc society, forty-fivc lll'l'll1llN'l'S wt-rc cn- rollcd and cnjoyrtd thc cntertainmcnts. busiu-css mcctinlgs. and ref-'cations of thc society. At the lzrgitming of the ye-ar. Mr. A. J. Whit- comlb. a lllt'lllIll0l' of the local Kitwanis Ulutb, spoke to thc boys in the society, and outlincdt for them the beticifits of real friendship in a high school. and how in later life it holps to innkc better citizens. Hr said that a real society always has that spirit of friendshi-,p which mak-es it worth While. hater in thc year the Holosfacts memtbers wcrc tho guests of the Kiwanis Club at several of their luncheons. The society was fortunate that it could attcu-d those meetings and observe how an organiza- t.ion such as Kiwanis carries on its business. and how tht-y combine business in- such a way that it seems a pleasure. ..... . With the good start which the society now has, and .with its equally good principles, it ought to go 'big next year. She has a flying Start. now lct's sec 'er gto. As the only boy's society in high school, next yearis lllPlll'llQI'S ought to do their utmost in combin- ing the busint-ss of the society with the reorcftltions that are possible. They ought to have a 'good haslzct ball team and there isn't any reason- why they cnn't develop some good matcrial in oratory 'and defbatc. Well, fellow members of Holosfacts. let's see you go! Line up to our expectations and be able to show thc future m-cm'bers that the society is one worth .while joining. Be wblc to giive them as good Society as you would want a school orgia-nization 'to bc. '25ers will be with you in spirit! X

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THE OKATO Page 27 DEPARTMENTS COMMERCIAL NOTES The tag day which is a yearly event with the commercial classes was quite a success this year and the department wishes to thank all the students and friends who helped to make it such. The commercial play, Not to the Swift put on by the senior shorthand class was also success- ful. These two events made it possible for the contestants to go to the State contest held at Whitewater. At the state contest our contestants saw George Hossfeld, who has been one of the World's Cham- pion typists for four years, put on a demonstration at the Normal on an Underwood typewriter. In some of the work he was able to write 235 words per minute without an error. All the students who have not earned an hon- orable mention in the shorthand work sent out by Whitewater Normal are planning to do so in the next two weeks. Watch the list.. The commercial arithmetic class has planned to have a candy sale as their part in helping the con- testants meet all expenses. ' Manitowoc Wins First Place in Commercial Contest The annual State commercial contest was held Saturday, May 9, at Whitewater Normal School. Ninety schools were represented in competition by 290 contestants. . Six contestants from Oconto, Hazel Wittkopf, Katherine O'Hearn, Ilse Schluenz, Margaret Good- man, Shirley Nichols, and Maria Wittkopf, left Oconto Friday morning to attend the contest. The contest started at 9:20 Saturday morning and con- tinued until 3:30 in the afternoon. Manitowoc high school took first place and won the silver cup, having won the greatest number of points. Marinette took second place, and Racine won third place. A full report was not ready be- fore trains left Whitewater so the only full report we have any knowledge of is rapid calculation and penmanship. Shirley Nichols won one point for Oconto in penmarrship. The first place winners in each event were as follows: Senior typing, Theresa Caldwell, Poynette, 71.8 words a minuteg junior typing, Alice Stoltenberg, Manitowoc, 51.8 words per minuteg shorthand, Rose Krause, Sheboygan, penmanship, Elinor Herman, Manitowocg rapid cal- culation, Ray Shebesto, Manitowocg advanced book- ekeping, Josephine Johnson, Oshkoshg beginning bookkeeping, Victor Anderson, Marinette. DRAMATICS CLASS ENTERTAINS 'Flu' Drnlnatics Vllzuss entertained us Wvllm-stluy. May ti. in tht- Assembly. l'nt Hnllornn wzls chnirnmn of 11 p1-orrrann which im-linls-tl tho following selections: iltllllli'-vl'lll'lg' Her Patil-nr ........ Marion Linmlgrcn lla- Colorotl Lntly in Sow-ivty ........ Shirley Nichols Inc l'nexpm-ctvtl Gnu-t' .............. lCrln:1 Russell The stuwlcnts' in this class are wowjkinig on the following devlzunntions whioil we may look f0l'Vt':ll'll to llt'lll'lTl2' in fntnrv usscinhlit-s: illlllllglllg H-rn vs ................ Helen .I. llnrvcy l'or's Raven in tlle Ifllevntor.. Clnrcm-o Arun--tronu l cnrod's Lt-ttt 1- ..................... Cecile Nagle Uur Gmlrtlialil Gontlvnlcn ....,, Russell l'ot-qinfttc Mr. Iinsn's Kintlvrgartvn Twistt-r ...... Nom-l Kem-no .Iinnny Tenrls the Bzllvy ............ Arthur F:tIln'y HOME ECONOMTCS The sophomore girls of Miss Bovee's cooking classes served group dinners on Thursday, May 14. The girls have had practical lessons on meats of various kinds, also. In high school, the girls who took the prizes for their cakes were Florence Rugg, who took first, and Marcella Chezek, who took second. The girls worked doubly hard on these cakes, for they had to. make a second one for each cake that was missing, and they deserve much credit for their labors. Elizabeth Housner took first and Marion Portertield second, among the grade schools. Miss Ames' classes are having some practical sewing lessons which are a. summary andg general testing of the girls' sewing ability. The tests cover everything the girls have done during the year and they will receive no help whatsoever on their sewing. They are also to take up lessons in etiquette soon and are going to study practical purchasing. In high school the girls who took the prizes for their dresses were Alice Benson, first, and Ce- celia Auger, second. Mary Heroux took first and Mary' McAllister second among the grade girls. HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA As nn org:nniv.ution we hope the high school Orcliestru is hero to to stay. During tho school your they lmve plnyoml on Illlllly occnvsions even though their program selections lun'-o not het-n at varied one. Nevis-rtlicless the expetience thc lll0IlllJOI'S gained by playing toegetlrer has ht-en invuluahlo. One thing has been very evident. and thnt is thc arlrseiice of -girl music-innts in the Ol'l'llt'Stl'll, with tho 'exception of the pianist. Besidvs the boys now at-tir-ely playing, there ure several more b02'lllIllllg' who will ha- of orcliesti':1 rulilhei' next your. This ll1l'2lllSIllillTl'll0l'0llllQ,'lll' be twenty or more boy inwsicinns hut no girl insicians. There is no doubt that the incinhers have enjoyed their experiom-e inl- nien-ely. and with the-in as at n-uclcns an larger and Letter trained organization can bo formed in-xt yt-nr.