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

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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'

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ry X ,Lf 3 . gil?-.ws M055 T ks' W' Top: Tvlargarel Gumm, Calvin Claus, T Sonnenberq, CenTer: Lyman Unruh. BoTTom: Audrey Beqer, Lois Erber. .Um SZM7 Early in The monTh oT SepTember, The Treshmen elecTecl Their oTTicers, choosing candidaTes who had well-known records. Quick, sTudious, inTelligenT, kind, These are The ad- IecTives ThaT describe Tommy Sonnenberg, our presi- denT. Tom has aTTended public schools aT Escanaba, Michi- gan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Wesr Bend, Wiscon- sin. l'Tis TavoriTe subiecTs are band and ciTizenship. ln sporTs, he preTers TooTball. l-le is bashTul around girls, louT give him Time. The orchesTra which he enioys mosT is Kay Kyser. Tom Thinks high school is loTs oT Tun, and he likes The parTies very much. When Tom wenT inTo oTTice, we didn'T have To worry, Tor we all knew ThaT he was reliable and would do his iob well. Our vice-presidenT, Calvin Claus, is expecTed To go places in high school, Tor he has a good sTarT. AT The beginning oT The year, he led The band wiTh his Twirling baTon. LaTer he won Third place, paying Two dollars, in exTempore speaking and sTood high in oraTofy in The LiTTle Ten conTesTs. Calvin is a regular aTTendanT oT boTh mixed and boys' choruses. l-le plays piano in an orchesTra which was organized This year by several sTudenTs. Calvin, being also a musical sTudenT, shows up in The band wiTh his bass horn, and he plays The bass violin The orchesTra. lVlargareT Gumm, The girl wiTh The six nicknames, is The mosT popular girl oT The Treshman class. Shes ouTsTanding in sporTs and oTher ouTside acTiviTies. She is a drum maioreTTe, an acTive member oT The ArT Club, a member oT The Girls' Glee Club besides playing The piano Tor boTh The girls' and boys' glee clubs. She has dark hair and dark eyes. MargareT likes everyThing excepT sTeak. As secreTary-Treasurer CT The Treshman class, she does her duTies well. This sTudious young Treshman boy lin The nexT pic- Turel is Lyman Unruh who seems To have The whole main room Tor himselT while he crams away Tor a TesT which The Treshman Teachers give. Audrey Seger and Lois Erber are Trying Their hand aT cooking in The new kiTchen in The vocaTional school. Besides a sTudy oT Toods and nuTriTion, we learn abouT cloThing, house-planning and Turnishing, home manage- menT, child care and developmenT, and oTher social relaTionships. By solving our school problems, we hope To solve many oT our laTer diTTiculTies. Page N-ine