Oshkosh West High School - Notebook Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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a ae ears, Meet Homer Fratt ... 4. In 1946 Homer Fratt was second lieutenant in the air force. 2. Ted Mertz welcomes Mr. Fratt to the Hero club after school luncheon. 3. Matthew and Becky are two of Mr. Fratt’s ten grandchildren. 4. Mr. Fratt converses in the O-room with biology teacher Mr. Koch. 5. Cory is the Fratt’s family dog. 6. Mr. Fratt and his wife were married on August 4, 1944.

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Dedicated To Students For 37 He would give a friend the shirt off his back. He literally did — by pulling off his fake-front shirt for an assembly of faculty members. Since 1947, Mr. Fratt has been guiding students to pave the way for future generations, first at Oshkosh High School and later, at Oshkosh West High School. He is not the authoritative tyrant most vice princi- pals are stereotyped, but a warm caring individual who bends the rules when necessary. Many times he has gone to bat for students or rearranged programs enabling them to work outside school for financial reasons. He was born in Burlington, Wisconsin, on December 20, 1921. After receiving his Master's Degree in education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mr. Fratt taught math at Oshkosh High School. Why teaching, do you ask? Mr. Fratt enjoys the day-to-day contact with students. He must enjoy children, for he has five: Pat, Mary Lynn, Nancy, Tom, and Bob. And to top it off, ten grandchildren. One of Mr. Fratt’s talents is being ‘well-organized and efficient. He gets back to the teachers on what he’s do- ing,’ stated Pat Kaprelian. Mr. Fratt is in charge of fresh- men and senior disciplinary actions, implementation of school assemblies, pep rallies, and fall registration. “There will be no exceptions,” he has stated and restated after giving faculty members step by step instructions. In his spare time, Mr. Fratt enjoys being outdoors: hiking, fishing, bird-watching, sailing, and just plain puttering around. He is interested in building projects at the family cottage at Waupaca and future traveling. The Fratts have been to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Mr. Fratt is a hardworking administrator who probably isn’t appreciated by all persons in school. | think he has been the glue that has kept the school running efficient- ly. ’ expressed Seraph Kaprelian. ‘If only every school had a Mr. Fratt!’’ 16 AIS Sea Od eat ence 6 ws cn tn

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“== BOOOCOKIRIOO Try This Places Quiz =f Seed + 1. Where can you find pins, needles and other assorted items? 2. Where were government officials looking for traces of the poison EDB? 3. Where don’t Marines and 18-year-olds want to go? 4. Where was the setting of “The Day After’, the controver- sial program about a nuclear holocaust? 5. Where weren't some students January 25th, the date of the all-school performance of Showboaf? 6. Where would you go to win gold, silver, or bronze med- als? 7. Where, after an outbreak of gunfire resulting in the death of a female ‘“‘bobby’’, was an embassy blocked off and relations between the countries ended? 8. Where did President Reagan go on a goodwill tour? 9. Where did the world’s largest volcano, Mauna Loa, erupt? 10. Where's the Beef? August 29- In Lebanon fierce fighting September 2- Jimmy Lee Gray, convict- September 25- Cease- fire in Lebanon. killed two U.S. Marines. They were sec- ed of murder, was executed in a Missis- ond Lt. Donald Losey and staff Soft. sippi gas chamber. He was the second Alexander Ortega. These two Marines person to be executed in 1983. were the first to die in Lebanon. September 12- The biggest 1983 teach- ers strike in St. Louis ended without a settlement. September 5- The space shuttle, Chal- lenger completed its third trip and land- ed at Edwards Air Force Base in Califor- nia. September 26- The Australian yacht Australia Il won the coveted America’s Cup by beating the U.S. yacht Liberty. August 31- A former U.S. senator and representative, John Carrol died. He was 82. September 13- The U.S. Marines were authorized to call on U.S. naval artillery September 1- A South Korean airliner and air strikes for their protection. on route from New York to Seoul was shot down over the Soviet Union. All of the 240 passengers and 29 crew mem- bers were killed when the plane was shot down. 18 ES a We See ee cose.