Pittsville High School - Ho Ang Ho Yearbook (Pittsville, WI)

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, o l Q 1 . A N N I l . , x l,' .os'0'?nluuoo'rnIos. oouwiooosolvaooi co -ooouvicoo p as we gne yo sketch f ou lass, Ho ui ly but surely e managed Q X . 1s f1I93I 1 l - ' . l 3 e l wor. dtogeth 'n order we acc m lished mid hine a ain Facu ty haxe acknowledged Our S z My 0 S they st admlt we have been hr gh the mlll conquered at last X e eyes of you all re b1dd1ng farewell xy!!! rxends one and QPWMPW M ll It was the mornlng of May 26 1941 whenl fBeulah Gage! walked lnto my office whlch had a slgn on the door Beulah Gage Manager Inter natxonal Theatrlcal Productlon Com pany I seated myself at my desk and went about my work as usual Soon a new sboy entered my oflice pre the N Y Sun Th headllnes read Mehlbrech famous slnger hurt nn accldent Of course that name was famlllar to me and I found lt was the same Fern Mehlbrech wlth whom l w ent to school I wanted to rush t the hospltal because the papers stat ed that she w as 1n a serlous condxtlon but she was m St Mary s hospltal ln Phlladelphla As mv office w as m New Bork the quickest way I could get there was by aeroplane I rushed to the nearest elexator and to mx sun Page 13 prlse Leland Peart was the operator of xt He sald he had been worklng there for only a short tlme but he hoped to work up to somethlng hlgh er soon When I got to the alrport the manager call h1s most sk11lful pllot to carry me to Phlladelphla Thls awlator was none other than oplane Ernn asked me lf I had heard the latest I thought he meant that about Fern Mehlbrech but he referr ed to the other Fern He sald Fern Werner had Just won lnternatlonal fame as the best dancing teacher When I got to the hospltal I w as surprlsed to flnd Iucllle Hammel there as a nurse Qhe sald Fern was not as bad as the papers had sald and that her condltlon was not SCTIOUS Then Lucllle asked me If I knew any S IA I f . S - 0 a 0 I t J 1 ' 4 ' , J I 11 '. I l We, D g e ' X l J 9 , I Q 3' ,- A I ' ' ur af ' 1 C JE, l of fi 1 9 ' s ' 60 ' I ' senting me with the latest .copy of Ervin Stein. When I got into the aer- L ' .. . ' . 0 s . I -' . can- Sv

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JJ 1 SENIOR HISTORY Four years ago on September 5 1927 twenty sex en trembllng awk ward looklng freshles entered the PIttSXlll9 Hlgh School To our great rcllef we found that the seats asslgn ec' to us were ln a room of our own w here we could escape the odd looks and grlns from the upper classmen When we were begmnlng to un derstand our work two of the pu pxls Marle Behsellch and Stexe Qhlmkus wxthdrew and Beulah Gage yolned us What awful moments and what harrowmg thoughts were devel opxng IH our minds wlth the thought of the 1n1t1at1on drawlng near VIS lons of ourselves belng dragged to a tombstone or ducked 1nto a tub of water plaved before our tear bedlm We soon became accustomed to the school routme and took part ln many school 3CtlXltl69 At the end of the nlne months we had successfully completcd our freshman year if Our sophomore class now con slsted of twenty two m e m b e rs Loulse Huff Connie De Wltt and Ruth Mlnor falled to Jom us Ellxs lfox Charles Chrlstensen Almond kreb and Lawrence Sow atzke wlth drew and Bobb1e Hofer Jolned us The memory of the good razzlng we had when we were freshles was fresh 1n our mmds The freshmen 1r1t1at1on was gn en ln Not ember A return party was gnen by them ln December As JllI'llOl'S we numbered slxteen Norman Werner and Louls Reschel Jomed our ranks but soon dropped N01 ma Hayes and Leona Kelp falled to return We strued to keep up our school Splrlt by the publlcatlon of the Junlor Pep We helped take part ln all the school actlvltles Fern Mehlbrech was chosen Queen to represent the Jun1o1 class ln the Carnlval gnen by the shool We were represented ln ath letlcs by Chester Tyjeskl and Robert Hofer Arlene Waldo brought us hon ors IH taklng part ln the declamatory contest We were lookmg toward thc scnloz year Wlth a feeling of success After three years of hard strug gle we at last could call ourselx es semors Fourteen of us were d1st1n gulshed wlth thls honor Ruth Wer ner and Elolse Brown dld not Joln us Chester Tyjeskl dropped after a few weeks of school and Erx ln Stem Jom ecl us We were 'lgaln represented ln lthl9t1CS by Robert Hofer and Erxln Stem Fern Werner was chosen as the most honorable glrl and Robert Hofer as most loxable boy for the Carnn al contest We could gne you a gllmpse of' the SOC13l part of our class lxfe or we mlght tell of the characterlstlcs of 1tS xarlous members but these mem orles are too preclous for the pen and better untold Once thls was our goal but now success has mox ed from the hlgh school door out Into the w1de hlgh school door out into the wlde A1 Page 12 fr fk A 4 l f 1 u 0 0 s Q.: 0 0 - .J l rf H fl v w I 1 . D 1 v 1, K s . , y . -. v , - A A I n A ' g 4 - 9 x' v . , . . , , , as ' H I 1 1 1 Y ' ' ' , v . ' ' ' 1 v s Y - , Q ' ' 1 . , , K ' a mums v K1 v ' A' a ' , - ' .T . ac , n , K ' - L' ' V ' v ' Q nu: ll Y? ' Y 9 . ' ar as med eyes. ' . w . . 7 Y L. . v . g 1 1 - 5 x k K K . , v f v 1 ' ' . , , . . . L' A s v ' k L u - L v A Q , 1 . . . x ng ' L A 7 - . . , I . 7. C- n n n ' , V x' .' , , , n ' H L A - n 5 ' ' ' ll 7 3? Y 7 1 A ' t , . . . . . , . 1 Y , v v - ' 0 , - , , 9 - , 1 K ' , , , as ' 19 , - - 4' . . , . A . V . Y . A 7 u V 7 1 ' ' ' 7 I

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21- COUDCiC 'C C-C-CC NC C-GNU-C-C th1ng about our other classmates I told her about Leland Erxm and Fern Werner She In turn told me that Hllda Sow atzke w as commerclal teacher In the Franklln Hlgh School In Phlladelphla and that Arlene Wal do was prn ate secretary to Phlladel phla s may or After talk1ng w 1th Lucllle for a whlle and after haxlng seen Fern I went out and halled a taxlcab to the a1rport as I Intended to take a xaca tlon and Hy to Pxttsulle To my sur prlse Glenn Buchanan was drlx er of the taxl When I reached the alrport It was about ten 0 clock I Immedlate ly started out for Plttsulle and flew all day and nlght In the mormng we were flymg ox er a large dalry farm whlch had a slgn on the roof of the barns to attract aeroplanes It read Sllwerdale Dalry Carl Erdman Prop port at the same tlme another aero plane d1d When the passenger from the other plane came out I was sur fJ1 lS8d to see Dennls Perner Dennls sald he had come home for h1s sum mer Iacatlon from hls pos1t1on as presxdent of the Rn er Falls State Teachers College We went Into the hangar and there I met Harold Llpka who was manager of the PlttSX1ll6 Alrport I thcn took a walk In Plttsx 1lle s streets The flrst person I met was Amanda Pankonm She told me she had been teachlng for some tlme but that she was now marrled to a wealthy farmer What a changed place Plttsx 1lle was' It had a new hlgh school a new communlty hall water works and a the bank wmdow there was a large Flrst INat1onal Bank of P1ttSV1ll8 In trophy It caught my attentlon and I remembered the trophy that our boys won In 1930 Yes lt was the same trophy' Beslde It sat another trophy tlon Won by PlttSX1ll9 s Champlon Basketball Team 1941 under the klllful management of Robert Hofer hlgh school coach FlUOLLfQ ontgs of the enters Glenn Buchanan Carl Erdmann I ucllle Hammel Beulah Gage Pobert Hofer Harold Llpka Vern Mehlbrech Amanda Pankonm Ieland Peart Dennls Pelner Erun Stem Hllda Sowatzke Arlene Waldo Fern Werner I onely ' ll lf I had a glrl l1ke you Im dancmg wlth tears In mv eyes Just a llttle closer I m looklng at the world through rose colored glasses and ex erythlng I Rosy now Yobody s sweetheart now Gne me somethmg to remember you by I Ittle w hlte llse You re drnmg me cra7v Im alone because I loxe you l stlll get a thrlll thmkmg of you Im crylng myself to sleep Bye Bye Blues We d make a peach of a pear fpalrb Page 14 ZHI1'lH5ZH21 . . . 'A t Z. i , . . . - 1 I I- 2 -Z ' , ,' ' . 1. . .- VD . ' :S . CL , . . ' W cn , - - ' , . CL . ' , . . N ' , . - . F? s. , . ' ,4 4 . l , l I PN :Q I . Q. . . ' I . , 1 2 ' - , , 7. w .. , . , ' . 4 . . , , , , .-. . - , , I , .I II I . ', . , . , - - rn' - '. , I ' m ' . 5. , I I I I I CJD 'A Us ' '- 4 I :LI , I I W - I . I-. 1 - I ' I l , l : X l , X ' I I Ts -. I I I I I I ' I l I I I I , , I I l l , , ' 0 1 1 l I I I ' - .. ,. I 'L' ' 7. - . 'll I ' Q - . r if 0 ,, ' 4 ' ' Ill o ' s 'F ,CZ - 4 4 - '- H , ,A -, U -5 - . . I ' - - ,- I . : ' .. 3 ' f' . ' ' ,A :sg , , , ' 4 . U1 ' 515. ' ' ' .L '-'- ' ' . 4 Q , r ' . . I 5' 4 . . 5 : 4 - b - . . 'E , 4 . ' , ' ' , Q 1 Z 1 ' . ' I . ,.-. . , Q H. . - e Q Q5 4 I . I I Y Z-P N' ' D.. .. cn ., ' . ' r . - H- 'A -. ' . 4 I - . , 5 . . M r 4 , . 1 '. 4 , ,... IU - - I - . . . I