Washington High School - Scroll Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Welcome, General Washington! At last you have decided to pay us a visit. We hope you don't mind our calling you 'tGeneral and per- haps even Georgie.', QYou see, We're rather partial to the name George as well as Washi1zg- t0n.J How strange it must have seemed riding up to the steps on your white charger! We hope you didn't have any trouble opening those huge east doors. Luckily our photographer caught you shortly after you had made your way to Mr. Balzer's office. We wanted you to make yourself right at home, but my goodness! Lean- ing on our principal's desk! Since he couldn't see you though, it was all right. We're glad you had an opportunity to observe the man who inspires such eiiiciency and cooperation in our 80-some pedagogues. In your day there was only the high collared school master as an inspiration to the students. Did you expect to see the symbol of that inspiration, the birch rod in the corner of our classrooms? COf course, by now you've seen 219.9 There are many things which have changed a great deal in the last 160 years. Were you surprised, General, to find each teacher occupied with a very limited number of sub- jects? You see our faculty must direct and guide many extra activities and in that way must be more versatile than ever. This extra-curricular work is the only chance we students have of becoming better acquainted with our instructors, for they don,t board ,roundn as yours did. Per- haps you quirked a rather skeptical eye at the idea of so many women teaching the subjects which in your day were limited to boys' academ- ies. Nowadays the members of the weaker sex have the same opportunity as the men in teach- ing and learning. And they, too, enter whole- heartedly into the scho0l,s many war activities. Each day you'll find our teachers answering the call to extra service in war salvage or bond-and- stamp drives. For now, as in your day, we are fighting in defense of our freedom-as well as the freedom of all peoples of the world. ll Lb1ll4l2'llLA.'lL2l

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O 1 Qur Principal-George Balzer To keep a school Hrst in war and first in peace requires the leadership of a man of great initiative and potentiality-Principal George Balzer. Amid the maze of problems that War activities bring to an already busy program, Mr. Balzer finds time to give valuable and timely advice to individual students as Well as extend a warm Welcome to service-men and -Women Who are registered daily in the guest-book. Indeed, Without him Washington would just not be Washington.