Prairie Du Chien High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Prairie Du Chien, WI)

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, Junior High Ji u TO 1 HOW: THIRD ROW: SECOND ROW: BOTTOM ROW Ma 1 80. Evplyn Copsey. Eld re Ixv's ( amine. -Cl«C6 dU jLH.. Tesar. Ivan Gibbs, neuthin. Betty I’ake. Bernard Lynette. Helen Stuckey. Robert McEarlano. Donald Schultz. Mildred Margie Mae Benish. Ann (’hand erlaui, Roy Roger Anderson, Jean Walton. Wayne Lytle. Jeanette Erdenberger, Jack Erdenberger, Laddie SteVens, Lyle Dvorak. Darleen Martin. Normalee Cook. Aithur Langford. Virginia Gauger. Marion Jambura, Clyde Radloff. Ruth K alley. Michael Jones. Arden j ey, Nora Garnsworthy. Jane Kissel. Donald Reh u. Ruth Daughcity. Luvrcfioe Standorf. Marjorie Smith. Kenneth Borne. Emma Woodward. Hazel Martin. Bob Husted. Ruth Schreiner. TO I ROW: THIRD ROW: SECOND ROW: BOTTOM ROW Paul Splker. Lyndon Sawvell, Carl I'nut son. Madonna Hill, Kathryn Gauger, Betty Elvert, Roberta Strannian. Dale Marro. Roger Th cde. Gay Ian Kmney, Vernon Les°ard. Nelson I .arson. Betty Manccke, Neal Kramer, Robert Sawvell, Dorothy Hand. Lucille White, Gordon I-ake. Wflljiim Weightier. Harry Borne. 1 hit old Palmer. Joyce Tollefson, Robert Welsch. Robert Erdenberger. Myrtle Ward. Jack I’cinrvtzer, James Crad.v. La Verne Boucher. Helen Wetzel. Delores Daugherty. Robert Jambur . Clinton Strong. Rosemary Crawford, Dorothy Lundberg. Kenneth Hubbard. James Bittner, William Husted.

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Junior High At last we made it!! Yes, finally we are in high school. It is only junior high, but to he sure, we have worked our way into a bigger and more satisfying atmosphere of education. Our class advisor and teacher is Miss Lila Murton. For our class officers were elected Jane Kissel as president, Ruth Schreiner as vice-president, and Kldre Beuthin as secretary and treasurer. Miss Kissel was made an honorary member of the Student Council, and along with the eighth grade president, gave the junior high some very fine representation throughout the year. “Hanzel and Gretel”, the grade school operetta, gave us a chance to show some of the fine musical and dramatic talent in the class. Boys in the class who had participated in sports throughout the year, succeeded in making a good name for themselves and in promising the high school some future sports stars. Kenneth Borne was very proud to he the only seventh grade member to he awarded a medal for his participation in basketball with the junior high team which placed second in a tournament at Boscobel. Girls in the class also competed in seasonal intramural sports such as archery, volleyball, girls basketball, pingpong, and badminton. Under the expert guidance of M iss Murton, these future high school students have made a very good showing and we know that they will continue with their good work. Backing the “V” for Victory Club 100%, the eighth grade stood out, along with their co-workers, the seventh grade, as one of the outstanding classes of the year. These pupils, staunch and hearty, and understanding the present cjrisis as one who can understand a subject that requires much concentration, were not a class that shirked defense work. Lead by M iss Helen Vi etzle as president, and assisted by Bernard Strauman as vice-president, with Madonna Hill as secretary-treasurer, the eighth grade donated large sums of money to various organizations as the milk fund. Red Cross war drive, and civil defense arm WVlsV - Social ctivities'h1ive been one of the greatest functions set'Torth by Miss Nona Deary, instructor, hi prompting the pupils to mix with one another. Several of the pupils have joined together in various parties, and their greatest thrill came when they were allowed to go to pre-prom. Among the social events that the pupils participated in were “Hansel and Gretel”, grade school operetta, Valentine parties, Christmas party, and Easter get-to-gether, as well as selling tickets for the senior and junior activities, making artistic properties and posters to advertise their activities. The thought that next year, “We’ll be sitting up in the assembly along with those above us,” gives a thrill unequaled to many of the students. Next year-I t'c will be called high school students’.! in their minds, and they strive to wu!vj fici class for their main object, Miss N. Deary Miss L. Murton

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 1h: ■i Safety Patrol ' - Who More Than Self, Their Country Loved” TOP HOW: ('arl Knutson. James Crady. Edward Koel. Neal Kramer. Robert Sawvell, Harold Palmer, Vernon Eessard, Lyndon Sawvell. SECOND ROW: Dale Marso, l iVerne Boucher, Robert ErdenberKer. Clinton Strong. Robert Welsch. Robert Jambura. Kenneth Hubbard, William Husted. BOTTOM ROW: Gaylan Finney. Gordon Lake. Lieutenant Nelson Larson. Captain Jimmy Bittner, Lieutenant Harry Borne. Jack Kemnitzer. William Weightier, Roger Theide. I nder the guidance of their director, Miss Nona Deary, eighth grade, ami Miss Lila Minton, seventh grade, the junior high students have participated in many activities. Without any doubt the most outstanding of them all is the one in which three lives have already been saved along with several serious accidents being prevented—the Safety Patrol. This organization consists of the eighth grade boys, who, among their other duties, patrol the school grounds, act as ushers at all school activities, frequently assist the local police, and help to promote better safety in the community. The Safety Patrol is an activity that develops high ideals of service among students: that provides opportunities to teach sportsmanship, loyalty, courtesy, teamwork, and leadership; that affords a chance to learn how to think and act quickly and wisely in emergencies; that creates a love of exercise and play for the fun of doing; that makes the kind of citizen our schools should send out. Each year the members of the Safety Patrol are sworn in by the chief of police of the city, and presented with official belts and badges. The Kiwanis Club has sponsored the Patrol for the past seven years. Anything needed by the patrol is supplied by the club and the boys meet with the Kiwanis members once every year. This year, the patrol had an enrollment of twenty-two. Besides the patrol, which is made up of only hoys, there is a group of sixteen girls which acts as an Auxiliary unit. Throughout the year the attractive posters that decorated the halls of the school and the store windows of the community, were constructed by the Auxiliary unit. The acting officers of the patrol this year were: Harry Borne and Nel- son Larson, lieutenants; captain, Jimmy Bittner: and Miss Deary, advisor. This is the second year that the State of Wisconsin has offered as a reward to the boys’ constant service a Safety Patrol certificate which is signed by the Governor, Julius P. Heil, and the Commissioner of the Motor Vehicle Department, Hugh M. Jones. Because of their outstanding work in the field of safety, the Prairie du Chien Public Schools is enrolled in the National Safety Council.