South Division High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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f ' ADMINISTRATION AND DEPARTMENTS THE CLASSES III ACTIVITIES CLASS PLAYS PROGRAMS CLUBS PUBLICATIONS WARTIME PURSUITS SPORTS IV THE SENIORS FEBRUARY GRADUATES JUNE GRADUATES

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fron? J 615.4 0 Aetuzce ln l893 nearly Two hundred SouTh sude boys and gurls wended Theur way To The cream colored bruck buuldung sTandung proudly on The corner oT SouTh SevenTh and WesT Maduson sTreeTs ThaT year had broughT wuTh uT Thus baby among Mulwaukee hugh schools SouTh Duvusuon Through The unTur1ng eTTorTs oT Mr Wulluam George Bruce and a group oT persusTenT SouTh suders The common councul had been persuaded To appropruaTe S25 OOO Toward a new suTe Every one gloaTed wuTh saTusTacTuon over The superb sTrucTure whuch became The cenTer oT educa Tuonal and communuTy luTe on The SouTh sude fl As Tume wenT by The IuTTle buuldung became crowded and un I896 The need Tor a new and more commoduous hugh school was TelT A new organuzaTuon The SouTh Sude EducaTuonal assocuaTuon backed up The supporTers oT The udea and broughT pressure To bear upon The councul The resul+ oT whuch was a SIOO OOO appropru aTuon Tor a new hugh school whuch was To grow up on The Odell properTy fl. The orugunal sTrucTure was T shaped consusTung oT assembly A a gymnasuum whuch us now The caTeTerua a Gurls club room a manual Traunung deparTmenT and The presenT norTh corrudor In l9l2 The easT and wesT wungs were added provudung Tor The orugunal assembly B and a caTeTerua un The easT wung and household arTs room and a model TlaT un The wesT wung The year T929 presenTed SouTh wuTh uTs laTesT modern adduTuon The souTh corrudor Thus adduTuon housed a new lubrary Two well eguupped gyms and The new assembly B Assembly A was guven a Tace luTTung and whaT was Then The back oT The room was TransTormed unTo a beauTuTul new sTage AThleTes were also blessed wuTh a large playung Tueld To The souTh oT The buuldung fl All The whule The SouTh Duvusuon Cuvuc assocuaTuon successor To The old SouTh Sude EducaTuonal assocuaTuon was conTunuung To promoTe The welTare oT The school One oT uTs mosT hughly apprecuaTed servuces was The guTT oT The greaT Tlag pole deducaTed on May 30 l9l5 Then Too The assocuaTuon sponsored essay conTesTs awardung a medal To The sTudenTs oT SouTh sude hugh schools namely SouTh Duvusuon and Bay Vuew who wroTe The besT essays on a problem perTaunung To cuvuc luTe Q Fuve greaT pruncupals have guuded our mughTy school Through TuTTy years oT ouTsTandung servuce To The communuTy Mr Samford A Hooper led The group Tol lowed by Mr ArThur Burch Mr Edward Russmanru held The reuns unTul Mr Harry E CoblenTz Took over The pruncupalshup Mr Ray D CrouT compleTes The lusT oT SouTh s TaThers Q The TaculTy un I893 numbered nune members The charTer members were Mr Russmann languages Mr Jack scuence Muss PeTerson maThemaTucs Muss Goodwun arT Mr Baker manualTraunung Mr RoberTs Englush Muss French scuence and maThemaTucs Muss Braband commercual sub uecTs and Mr Hardy husTory These veTerans gave way un The course oT Tume To a TaculTy whuch aT presenT numbers sevenTy Three ll World War l conTronTed SouTh wuTh many duTTuculT Tasks all oT whuch were cheerTully and successTully underTaken ThruTT clubs were organuzed Red Cross and LuberTy Bond druves wenT over un a bug way Programs were TrequenTly held To bolsTer morale unTul The Tlu epudemuc unvaded The cuTy un OcTober I9I8 The school was Torced To close uTs doors Trom OcTober I4 To November 4 lusT one week beTore The Armus Tuce a day whuch uT was hoped would brung peace To The world Q ln l943 as almosT Two Thousand SouTh sude boys and gurls make Theur way To The porTals oT a much larger cream colored bruck buuldung anoTher war us beung ToughT BuT SouTh Duvusuon wuTh uTs Shoulder To Shoulder spuruT un The sale oT war sTamps and bonds and Red Cross druves maunTauns uTs record and The Amerucan way oT luTe