Oshkosh High School - Index Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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he Nay at 16? Wvsif HE MAY NOT BE Rosie, the Riveter , but she is doing industrial work. This year courses in shop work were olifered to senior girls, and what a responsel- There are around hfty girls who spend their afternoons until live o'clock learning some course in industrial work. The courses offered include electri- city, welding, sheet metal, inspection, and machine shop. Most girls seem to like it, and thank the government for giving them the op- portunity. Their instructors !'1ltC them as good as, if not better Qin some casesj, than boys. The girls taking electricity under Mr. Klitzke are Lucille Hielsburg, Marion Hackbarth, Margaret Holst, Elaine Cornell, Helen Roberts, Alice Bigford, Kathryn Hollister, Carolyn Stoll, Edith Koffke, Doris Pollnow, Lois Hentz, Dorothy Nieman, Gxvynda Conliff, and Florence Ebersberger. The welding course taught by Mr. Terry has in it Virginia Hintl, Jeanette Dichtl, Betty Litke, Patsy Loewen, Gloria Tessen- dorf, Delores Ehrenberg, Doris Fife, and Barry. Mr. Cerlat teaches the biggest class, that of inspection. Loretta Brown, Rita Bublitz, Eleanor Ebersberger, Patricia Engle, Bonnie Hart, Genevieve Ising, Betty Nayes, Lucille Nigl, Virginia Pen- zenstadler, Patricia Rosencranz, june Scheller, jean Sweet, june Teal, Barbara Webster, and Geraldine Zimdars make up this class. The smallest class is sheet metal, under the direction of Mr. Worthen, who teaches Helen DeLap, Dorothy Spatt, and Ottelia Cleland. The fifth class is in machine shop and is taught by Mr. Weber. The girls taking it are Ruth Ann Abrahamson, Marion Bloesl, VVin- ona Dahms, Joyce Lewellvn, Ruth Lueck, Rosemary Lux, Arlene Passolt, Mary Jane Reicheiiberger, Betty Rescheske, Bernice Walter, and Connie 'Warnke. Who knows, perhaps the work these girls are doing now may prove in the days to came a real step to Victory? Certainly, they are helping both themselves and their country. Yes, she may not be Rosie , but she is just as important. Che cflass Of Qorty- Chrce is rationing of gasoline, oil, coffee, sugar, shoes, and canned and frozen foods, along with meat. Thanks to the American system there has been no rationing of education. The curriculum has changed, to add gym for seniors, pre-flight and pre-induction work, and also industrial courses for girls. Everyone in school will undergo anything else the govern- ment decides to ration, as long as they have the opportunity to learn, the chance to ad- vance themselves, and the good fortune to be able to go to school in America.

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CLASS COOPERATION James Allen Jacqueline Balda Douglas Bauer Theodore Buchholz Ruth Casey Ralph Kennedy Ellen Lehnigk Patricia Lynch Pat Oleson Genevieve Phillip Bertha Thorndike Mary Katherine Wagner Barbara Webster Robert Wiggins Donald Zuehlke CLUB ACTIVITIES James Allen Jacqueline Balda Douglas Bauer Ruth Casey Ralph Kennedy Patricia Lynch Pat Oleson Genevieve Phillip Jeanne Thomas Mary Katherine Wagner F ORENSICS James Allen Jacqueline Balda Ruth Casey Pat Oleson Marie Rothlesberger Helen Schuster Page zo of THE INDEX for JUNE, 1943 Srfrzz Hfiufs Mary Katherine Wagner SCHOLARSHIP James Allen Jacqueline Balda Ted Buchholz Ruth Casey Ralph Kennedy Mary Leach Patricia Lynch Pat Oleson Genevieve Phillip Robert Siemens Bertha Thorndike Barbara Webster Clyde Zielke DRA MATICS James Allen Ruth Casey William Fritz Ellen Lehnigk Patricia Lynch Par Olesori Jerry Robien Helen Schuster Mary Katherine YVagner Robert Wiggins ATHLETICS Ruth Ann Abrahamson Theodore Buchholz Donald Hugo John Muza Jerry Robien Norman Schein Robert Wiggins INDEX Lois Nelson Patricia Rosenkranz Jeanne Thomas Bertha Thorndike Clarence Thuer RADIO Keith Sparr MUSIC Eileen Andresen Donald Brink Amber Drews Ellen Lehnigk George Miller June Scheller Robert Schettle Steven Zellmer

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