Waukesha High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Waukesha, WI)

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if .P L GIRLS Top Row-Chase, Kliest. Basile. Lamp, V. Ward. Second Row-Franz, Holtz, Horn. Christoph. Vick. Trakel. Bottom Row-J. Jarden, Bohrman, D'Amato, Savatski, Thompson, Zitk, Boortz, Racluege. they discover the joy of creative living as expressed in the ideals for which the Y. W. C. A. stands. Every girl who is a member of the Y. W. C. A. uses the blue triangle, representing the Body, Mind, and Spirit, within a circle, or the world, to picture how she thinks about a way of living. It is a symbol to show how she lives and grows with other people. VVV junior High School Athletics The program of the Junior Boys' Athletic Association plays an important part in the school life of the Junior High boys. It is there that our future Waukesha athletes are made, if indeed, the saying heroes are made, not born be true. This is the fourth successful year of its organization, during which three hundred boys took part in developing ability in volleyball, tennis, free throw shooting, and skating, as well as the major sports, football, basketball, track, and baseball. Mr. Corrigan, Junior High coach, attributes much of the success of this extensive program to the whole-hearted cooperation and spirit of the Junior Boys' Athletic Board, Mr. Kusche, and Mr. Rahn. The organization of the Junior B. A. A. consists of a board made up of two representatives from each of the classes, who meet with Mr. Corrigan each week to carry out the organization's plans. Approximately two hundred boys participated in inter-school and class track meets. The program is organized on a point system, in which the boys receive a certain number of points for sportsmanship, being on a winning team, being captain, etc. Those who obtain 500 points receive their much coveted award, the Page One Hundred Nineteen

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GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL standards of all their associates. The club meets once a week and usually there is a discussion of the matters which are especially interesting and beneficial to Juniors and Seniors in High School. The members cooperate by reading books pertain- ing to the subjects discussed and reporting the findings at the meetings. Often special speakers talk to the club. The Hi-Y Club is an international association and the different clubs are in constant contact with each other through frequent international conferences. Two delegates from the Waukesha Club attended the last one at Toronto. The National Honor Society is based on four cardinal principles, Scholar- ship. Leadership, Character, and Service, all known to the Cireeks. The purpose of the society is to create an enthusiasm for scholarship, to stimulate a desire to render service, to promote leadership, and to develop character. The members are elected according to grades and the number of points they have in outside activities. The emblem is the keystone and the flaming torch. The keystone bears as its base the letters S. L. C. S., which stand for the four principles above mentioned. Aristotle is said to be the sanest and most roundly developed man that ever lived. No age can place a man at his side. His Ethics show the nobleness, simplicity, purity, and moderateness of his nature, His idea that to find the best in life and to give the best to that which is at hand has been made the aim of the Laf-a-Lot Club, composed of Senior High School girls in the Y. W. C. A. The club provides for a very versatile program. Interest groups have been organized. Each girl chooses the group in which she is interested, dancing, dramatics, handi- craft. or whatever it may be: and she participates in its projects and duties. Cnirl Reserves stand united in a common purpose to find and give the best. ln this movement girls have come to know the meaning of abundant living in friendship with girls and women of many nations. Through their activities Page One Hundred Eighteen

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if 'WV' GIRLS ourth Row. left to right-liishsr. l.. J. Birch. Fuchs, Granicher, Nl. Knoebel. XVakeman. Third Row-Emling. Hardtl-tc. Magnusson, Sherman, Drake, XVilliams. Second Row-Garrow. E. Zillmcr. Keppcn. E. Assman. Roch. Christison. Lfipslce. First Row-Marion hflclxlaught. Vctto. Bower. Martha McNaught, D, Storclx. Preston, Goldsmith. I. The Art of Living Selections from the last chapter of Our Business Civilization, by James Truslow Adams, Printed by special permission of the author and of the publishers, Messrs. Charles and Albert Boni. Many people seem to believe that the life of the savage is one of delightful independence, of doing what suits himself all day long. No idea could be further from the truth. The savage is hemmed and circumscribed at almost every point in his personal life by the mores of his tribe. Liberty, freedom of speech and action. the right and opportunity for free self-expression, are among the highest products of civilization. not of savagery, and the belief that the reverse is the case is merely an example of the present day tendency to exalt the ideal of savagery and to return on our tracks, evident in all the arts. Democracy, a certain weariness of the complexities of that very process of civilization that has made freedom possible, and the misunderstood teachings of scientific research, all three are tending to make the tyranny of the crowd greater and an art of life more difficult. ln a recent American prize contest for defini- tions of morality, for example, one of the three which won prizes was as follows: Morality is that form of human behavior conceded to be virtuous by the conven- tions ofthe group to which the individual belongs, and we are told that among all the definitions submitted there was little disagreement as to the general concept. Of course this is the muddiest sort of thinking. The particular social forms which morality takes among the crowd at any given time is confused with morality itself, and, if the definition were true, any advance in moral concepts on the part of either society or the individual would become impossible, as no society ever changed its moral opinions unanimously overnight. That such a definition Page One Hundred Twenty