Oconto High School - Okato Yearbook (Oconto, WI)

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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.

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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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Page 28 g THE OKATO Departments MUSIC DEPARTMENT A Mt-ssner piano has been purchased from the Maigatter Music House by the Music rlepartiiiurllt. l'art of the money for it was paid with profits of the different operettas and social functions given by tlu- sz-hools of the city. The r-emaimller of the bill will be ipaid by the school lnoarlzl. The piano will be used for the lillHll'l'HtIl'l'l'll only. Much credit must be given to the lower lZl'l.l'Tlt'S, and to Miss Taft for their co.- opcration in this work. GRADE SCHOOL OPERETTA C'nderella, given by the grade schools of Oconto, was certainly a huge success. The fairies and elves were as dainty and fairy-like as any real onesg the Ladies were as charming as one could wish, and the Lords were as gallant and courtly as any gentleman who lived in the earlier days. The first scene took place' in Woodland, where the Fairy Queen and all the fairies and elves held a meetingg the Fairy Queen told of a poor kitchen maid who wanted to go to the Prince's Ball, which was to be given that night, but she had no pretty dress or any slippers to wear. So the Fairy Queen was going to make it possible for the imaid to go by giving her a beautiful yellow dress to match her hair, and by giving 'her a pair of golden slip- pers. The second scene was in the kitchen in Cin- derella's home, where' Cinderella was sitting by the fire, weeping, because she could not attend the Ball. Her two step-s sters entered and she helped them get ready, for they were going. When they finally left and she was again sitting alone, the Fairy Godmother appeared and changed Cinderella's ragged dress into a beautiful ye-llow one and gave her a pair of golden slippers. Then she sent Cin- derella to the Ball, with the command that she be home by twelve o'clock. The third scene was in the Ball Room at the Palace. The Lords and Ladies were all assembled, waiting for the Prince, when Cinderella stole in. When the Prince arrived, he saw Cinderella and immediately fell in love with her. They led the quadrille and as soon as the dance- ended, the clock struck twelve. Cinderella ran quickly from the room, the others following almost immediately, but all that they found was a golden slipper. The fourth scene took place in the parlor of Cinderella's home. The Prince was ushered in by Cinderella's stepmother. He carried a golden slip- per in his hand, and explained that he was trying to find the person to whom it belonged and fit. The stepmother immedfately called in her two daugh- ters, but after trying the slipper on both of them, it was found to be much too small. The Prince then requested to see the kitc'hen maid, so Cinder- ella was brought in. The slipper was tried on her and it fit to perfection. She produced its mate and the Prince knew he had found the girl whom he was to marry. So he took her away and they lived happily ever after. GLEE CLUB NOTES 'lille Girlls Gle-e Club has an enrollment of sixty members. This is 'an im-.reaseil number over other years. The girls started in with the right spirit and wer-r all willing and hepful. They made a llllillllllvl' of public tl'pDt'2ll'flI'll'l's. ..... . Tim- boys formwl an ortette and units-d with the givls in giving tile Uperetta, The Gypsy Rover. This was -a succes- and showed the progress made luy table clubs. A Girls' l'hoir was formed of twelve ineiulvcrs instead of thx' usual doulrle quartet. These girls have prolglressoll fllpiilly and also have appeared publicly szvaral timeis. The lllt'llllI0l'S of this are: lxiura Perry. Ulymcnc Par-isey, Agnes Mullen. Kath-'yn Harvey. Helcn .lare I'I'.ll'l't'j', Beulah Nichols. Shirley Nichols. Margarite Iieauxlin. Marcella Burkliardt, lone Kocfl. Alice R'2llllSflyv Abbie .lane Hall. SCIENCE IN OCONTO HIGH SCHOOL lWe speak of science and picture it as something daily activies are subject to in every detail of its l'a.Ws. Science is then a study of laws that iulfluiencc llli-il direct our every tlioulgaht and act. To introduce students into this study wc teach gl IlPI'll1 science. This simply means that the student's attei1tion,is directed to the commoul, every- -day things surrounding him. Thi-s creates a desire to know more and hence leads into tile study of fDlll'fif'fl tlllll lfielogy. It would be well it' we coulrl also add chrmistry. Biology calls attention to plant and animal life. 'Some time is also given to the study of the humazi body and the functions of its parts. Physics is more material in its application. lt d-rals with the mechanics of the material thimrs about us. In a general way the lalws of the following arlo ftudiedg motion, liquids, gases. lnacliinery. electri- city. sound, and lignlit. To this we ad-fl the latest and lll'VJP1 'l-l'Htll0 telephone. Enough intrest has been crratcd in this last subject so that about ten or tw-rlve radio sets have been built. Both science rooms of the On-onto High School h-.ive kbccn equipped in the last, two years with the most up-to-date tables and dcinoaistration desks. lt is doubtful if any other high school can be found with any better. Apparatus is being adlded yearly- an.l it its hopped that in -another year or two Oconto will also be ini the front line with enouagli apparatus for every istudcnt takinlg the work, to keep the in- terest allive throughout the whole year. This article cannot be closed without mention of the school radio set made by boys of the physics classes. The -aerial, has been so arranged that the set can be operated in both office and assemlbly.L We a-re confident that all students in our science claisses learn enough .of the fundamental laws- and principles so that with open minds they can con-tinuc their stud-y of science throughout life. Scienue serves its greatest purpose when it adds to the llvnily hap- piness and success of the individual. It is hoped that students of our High School will find their know- ledge of science a source of daily lnispina-tion.