West Bend High School - Bend Yearbook (West Bend, WI)

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THE R 0 o fowl 900 STUDENT NOTE BOOKS For The freshmen, Those fun-loving, Q mischievous, and yeTlovable young- sTers who have Their high school life ahead of Them and who are making The mosT of iT while They have The chance. Wafch Them come along. For The sophomores, who are im- 5 mersed in aThleTics, speech, and recreafions, and are iusTly proud of Their accomplishmenTs. l-lere you will Tind a good accounf of fun and hard work, and a happy second year. For The juniors, sponsors of our Prom, who are busy wiTh secreTs, sfudies, and geomefry. These pages will reveal how acTive we were in speech, arT, and hobbies. We hope we will be able To Till The senior's shoes. , For The seniors, who, finding Their S work finished and behind Them, are sad: buf They reTain whaT The oTh- ers have noT, a chesf of precious memories, memories of evenTs, some happy, oThers sad, buT none which will be forgoTTen. 7fLmgA We .EBM Wiqeikw . . Each class has iTs own parficular acTiviTies, buT like The saying- UniTed we sTand, divided we fall -each musT share in some acTiviTies for school life To be harmonious and successful. lnfer-class aThleTics, such as foofball, baskeTball, and Track. bring sTudenTs of all classes TogeTher. ln The speech conTesTs, all four classes compeTe againsT each oTher. Those more accomplished in speech work belong To The N. F. L. Everyone from freshmen To seniors plays in The band and orchesTra, and finds enioymenf in singing in The glee clubs. ThroughouT The year, plays are given, in which all The sTu- denTs may parTicipaTe. The LaTin club inTeresTs LaTin sTudenTs from all classes, and The Camera and STamp Clubs are made up of boys and girls from I3 To IS. Those in The aThleTic and speech acTiviTies ioin in compeTing againsT oTher schools. All of These inTer-class acTiviTies help To ioin differenf classes info one compacT uniT, working TogeTher for The benefif of The enTire school.

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I Q 4-Lmhmen IWW 'I 0 1 .- 1 .MQ M2915 'Q XhvS.vXB.R--1 W- I Af fhe end of fhe school year someone found fhis diary in an empfy locker. If is nof complefe, buf le+'s open if and read fhe confenfs. We fried fo look imporfanf, buf in our hearfs we sfill had fhaf sinking feeling: we iusf wanfed fo drop righf fhrough fhe floor. When we walked info fhe wrong room lfilled wifh seniorsl, fhey iusf saf fhere and laughed. Sob! All day long we were called green freshies. School is sfill going on. Everyone expecfs so much of us. Oh dear, fhe feachers fhink we cafch on fo everyfhing: if we do one liffle fhing wrong, we gef an eighfh hour. How we laugh af our- selves now, fhough, for having been so confused abouf fhe build- ing: we can find our way around here blindfolded. We had a school parfy lasf nighf. The girls were afraid fo look af fhe boys for fear of being asked fo dance. We didn'f fhink we could dance well enough. Buf we are going fo leam soon. We are geffing ready for fhe homecoming celebrafion now. We have been gafhering maferial from everywhere for fhe bonfire. Of course. our main inferesf is fhe sfunf and parade. We worked secrefly every nighf for a week before fhe home- coming parade. Cardboard was collecfed, painf was boughf, and many ofher fasks had fo be accomplished. Wifh Miss Podruch as our adviser, we worked indusfriously painfing fhese huge cardboard figures. The upperclassmen were frying fheir besf fo gef somefhing ouf of us abouf our plans which we wouldn'f reveal. The boys worked hard on fhe freshmen sfunf which had a very differenf Theme The sfudenfs were surprised when fhe curfain 9 The nighf of fhe homecoming was one of The mosf excifing in GAA, 'i,gHJ was pulled, and fhere sfood fen cardboard figures. E Q ob , ,. . . any freshman s life. We all mef af Jordan s house and lined up. ly Ab h Mr. Runkel and Mr. Hildebrand had charge of fhe freshmen. We NW- Nsbroughf up fhe fail end of fhe parade, buf whaf comes lasf is OS asia. . Km... ' offen besf. We freshmen had a hard fime keeping our foofball field in order, buf fhe people gof fhe general idea of whaf if was supposed fo be. The day of fhe game was cool and blue-skied. lf was a fough fighf, buf we won. This game also infroduced fhe drum-maioreffes who added sparkle and color fo fhe homecoming pep. The fresh- men drum-maioreffes were Rufh Schachf, Margaref Gumm, Mar- jorie Nielsen, and Rifa Seebofh. Finally came fhe homecoming dance. All fhe freshmen were fense. Would we win fhe cup? Thaf was fhe quesfion fhaf ran fhrough fhe minds of fhe green freshmen. Then Mr. Colby gave a speech. He read off all fhe names of fhe classes as fhey had won in years before. l-lonesfly, I fhoughf we would busf before he read fhe winner you fhink if was? The Class of I943. Boy, didn'f know whaf fo do. Nof only had we capfured 'rhe parade evenf. The freshmen wifh a lighf hearf and a happy spirif. of l939. And who do we were so happy, we won fhe sfunf buf also wenf home fhaf nighf As 'rhe monfhs pass on maybe we are a noisy bunch, some- fimesq maybe we do gef some of 'fhe feachers kind of disgusfed. Buf we like our school, and we are doing fhe besf we can fo sup- porf if in all fhe school acfivifiesf'