Wausau High School - Wahiscan Yearbook (Wausau, WI)

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Radio Club The Radio Club, one ot the youngest in the school, is comprised oi twelve boys interested in amateur radio. One ot the purposes ot the club is to teach the meni- bers the theory ot radio and the Inter- national Morse code, so that they may pass the Federal Communications exams tor their amateur licenses. ln an ettort to bolster national morale, a program ot Trainee Message handling was success- fully carried out. Two amateur stations, WQIIB, with Merritt Olson, operator, and WQSMP, with George Weible as operator, handled over 250 messages tor the stu- dents and teachers, to their friends in the various army camps throughout the na- tion, including all United States posses- sions and posts. Since the war, however, all communications have been prohibited. At the present time, club members are studying the Morse code, theory, and working out some very interesting experi- ments on high voltages in vacuums. Row 3-Klostermann, Will, Baker, Swanson, Kass, Kane. Row 2-Grcibel, Rudell, Glirnrn, Dernbach, Plantiko, I. Schubring, Mr. Burton. How l--G. Sohubring, Nimz, Pruess, Beasa, Burson, lohnson, Pepper. Passow, Glasbrenner, Bugbee, Olson, Finken, lehn. Conservation Club l think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree. To the Conservation Club should go the deepest commendation from all lovers ot nature tor the splendid service they performed last summer-that of helping to plant over 27,000 trees in newer parks of Wausau. The club has obtained a piece of land three miles south ot Rilo Mountain from the county on a 99 year lease. This spring in the month ot May, while the rest ot us will be autographing Wahis- cans and taking those horrible tinal exams, all the club members will be busily planting about 25,000 trees and anxiously await- ing summer when they contem- plate on building a Conservation Club cottage on their land. Con- servation is not conversation to them. They do it!

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Speech The 1942 forensics sea- son further established the Wausau record as one of the outstanding speech squads in the Wisconsin River Valley. At the W. R. V. meet, which was held at Antigo, March 23, the Wausau forensics squad won highest individual team honors by capturing three firsts and two sec- onds. Iames Abegglen, Rosemary Zirbel and Betty Wolman represented Wau- sau at the district meet at Wisconsin Rapids, March 26. SPEECH WINNERS Row 2---Genrich, Wolman, Freeman, I-leinrichs, Delaney, Abegglan, Zirbel. Row le Lenz, Mr, Marquardt, Miss D. Anderson, Miss Elstrom, Miss Pedersen, Miss Thomas. The above activities are coached as follows: Oratorical and extemporaneous speak- ing-Mr. E. C. Marquardty extemporaneous reading and serious and humorous declamation mMiss Thomas, Miss Elstrom, Miss D. Anderson, Miss Pedersen and Miss Wiese. Externporaneous Reading Oratory Humorous Declamation Dramatic Declamation Betty Wolman Rosemary Zirbel Dorothy Heinrichs Io-Io Ruder Virginia Genrich Ioe Freeman Bill Lenz lack Delaney IANE LEWIS Extemporaneous Speaking Iames Abegglen Speech ln the American Legion original oratorical contest, Wausau maintained its record as the outstanding school in Wisconsin. In this field of competition, lane Lewis won the unanimous de- cision of the judges in the regional meet held at Marshfield, March l3. This makes the fourth time that a Wausau orator has been in the top rank in the regional contest and the third time a W.H.S. orator has participated in the state legion finals. The Wausau high school remains the only school in Wisconsin that has ever entered a national finals. IO

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