Washington Park High School - Kipikawi Yearbook (Racine, WI)

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Yested Jensen Arthur Buse Charles Doolin Edward Evans George Freeman Stanley Hood Lyle Lewis Harold Van Wie Edward Rapps Walter Mogenson Frank Raymon Mason Roberts Elmer Stoffel Arthur Rowley Thomas Tulloeh Allie Zirbes Max Zirbes .Iohn Carre .lim Clancy Arthur Stoffel Stanley lluguenin William Kaiser William Kannenberg Albert Kauselt Paul Kristopeit Carroll Lange Fred Maxted .Iaek Melvin Irving Nelson Donald Oliver Edgar Olson Paul Olson Eugene Prostrednik George Rybaeek Karel Salak Earl Ray Donald Erickson Lloyd Abramson Milo D. Johnson Devvfv F. Liegler Russell Gardner Harold Abramson Floyd Davies Elbert Carpenter Arthur Tooman Charles Smader George Nelson Lloyd Evans David Se-mines HenrY Snyder xl2llll'lf'P Yan Arsdale Hartwig' Sauenian XX'illia1n Soininers William Taylor Vlaiwiir-o Yoellaer I-Idwin Zilia Norman Tlioinas .I+-ssc llzlvles Miner Peterson Harry Le Poidivan K H. C. Johnson 'William Ehrlich Edmund Strand Ereel Thomas Herbert Brown RACINE BATTERIES . The following letter relates the movement of the boys of Battery F up to November 24. lVe left the U. S. Blarch 14, and arrived over here at Brest the 26th. After a four mile hike, we arrived at one of Napoleoirs old prison camps. Here we remained one day, and helped to unload boats. As l came over with the casuals, we started out in search of the Battery. The Battery was located at Camp Coetquidon, an American training camp. NVC' left Camp Coetquidon June 8th, and arrived in Bedford, June IOlll, and marched to our Battery headquarters. June Ilfll we went to the front and took up our first position. This position was a quiet sector, and people lived right in the village where we stayed. NVe were there thirty-eight days and the Germans fired two shells back at us, but we fired a lot more than that at them. July 2ISf we landed at Bedford, and after a time we landed at Cha- teu Thierry. Our division at this front chased the Germans 18 kilometers and the helds were covered with dead, but mostly Germans. From here we marched to Soissons and this was a tougher place than Chateau Thierry. VVe were here ten days. Then we got on the train and went to VVassey. From there we went to our third and last front, Argonne Forest. VVe were there forty-three days, got relieved November 5th, and on the Ilfll the armistice was signed, and l guess it's all over now. But don't expect us home too soon as in the war you never can tell what welre go- ing to do nevtf' Mflur Racine Lwnits belong to the splendid ldliirty-Second Division which since the close or the fighting. has been made a part of the grim otjflccupation. ,Ji tee gf, fo p,A,4fy ffl, nrzm fnzfff'1'1zav nw' ffXf7l't'flfll lmfmf ,my 1,011,- -lfffiifniv,

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To OUR READERS. Although the VVAR NUMBER or THE KIPI- KAWI contained a record of the war activities of 1917-1918, we have thought it best to pub- lish a resume of them together with the activi- ties of 1918-1919, in the LIBERTY number, in order to co1nply with the following request: The National lfducational Association has urged that every county and city school sys- tem, every normal scl1ool, college and univer- sity print a concise summary of its war activi- ties, place a copy in the local library, a11d send :1 copy to the National lfducational Asso- ciation at VVashington to be placed in the archives of XVashington.'l --Editors. rlillli R Iill CROSS CAMPAIGN. 1918. Saturday morning, December 15, 1018, promptly at eight olclock, nine hundred of us -High School students with our captains- started out on the Red Cross Drive. The goal was ten thousand memberships. VVe all had b11t one thought in mind, and that was to see that not a single person i11 Racine should escape. Racine was the first city in the United States to put so important a piece of war work into the hands of High School students. Natur- ally, having been given such a great task to per- form, we worked zealously. Although the streets and sidewalks show- ed evidence of a recent snow storm, we all worked diligently, notwithstanding the fact that in a great many instances, we met with opposition. Wye were so successful that at the end of the day, reports showed that S1903 had been collected: and the Fifth. Ninth and lfleventh wards were still to be heard from. l he captains of the different wards were as follows: XYards Captains 1 lflmer Grover 1 llarry Yan fyflllllll I Clinton Dayies 4 James Foley 5 George Gates 6 Glenn lNIcCaughey 7 Harold Jensen 8 Evald Clausen 9 Alfred Fedderson IO Elizabeth Pottinger II VVallace Nelson I2 Joe Higgins I3 llflelvin Nelson I4 Robert VVidmer I5 Anthony Nerad Country llflarjorie Piper A mass meeting was held on lldoiiday, Dec- ember 17, the object being to arouse enthusi- asm for this great cause which has done and is still doing such splendid work Over Theren as well as at home. The ward captains met at Hotel Racine, hlonday noon, December 17, and gave their reports for the preceding twenty-four hours. They decided that 'fCourtesy First was very essential in soliciting subscriptions. Sugges- tions were made by several of tl1e captains in regard to the campaign. ln many instances, solicited parties were unable to speak lfnglish, for Racine has a large foreign population. Finally Greek, Italian, Polish, Bohemian, and other interpreters were found. Several business men spoke to us at the Tues- day morning mass meeting, urging us to bend every effort to the Red Cross work. It was explained in detail how important and neces- sary it was that as many memberships as pos- sible be secured. VVe were reminded how thousands of our own boys were giving up their lives for their country. Each day our enthusiasm increased and every minute of spare time was given to the Red Cross XVork. On Thursday morning the captains addressed the school. Up to this time, 7,879 memberships had been secured. It was decided to close all recitations for that dav and lfriday, in order that we might put in full tllnf. The driye was to close lfonday noon. Could