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

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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.

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Library — English — History . . . “Author of Liberty” PWAtmt DM CH C English is the subject in which pupils and parents are most vitally interested, for it is not only the groundwork of all the other studies but the foundation of culture. A background knowledge of the history of literature is given, the development of the language, development of prose and poetry, insight into the lives of great writers, growth of literature and its connection with the history of the people, and the value and use of present-day literature. Mr. Martin Coutant is the head of the English department. During six thousand years of harsh experience, the human race has developed intelligence and understanding by discovering the world in which it lives. In the study of history, you are able in some measure to re-live these experiences. It will enable you to appropriate the experience of mankind; by means of artificial memory, you can enter into the enlarged time and space world within which the present can be confronted; and with greater intelligence and understanding, the future can he anticipated. '1 he classes are under the direction of Mr. Paul Lutzke. In the modern educational programs, the library holds a strategic position. Modern educational practice builds largely upon the school library. The library recognizes that the aims of education cannot he achieved by narrowing the student’s vision to the scope of a single textbook, however excellent it may be. Our library through its encyclopedias, yearbooks, and periodicals affords the opportunity for building a broad basis of knowledge. Miss Margaret Patterson with a force of eight girls especially trained in library work, carries on the administration and service in our library. Miss M. Patterson Mr. M. Coutant