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

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' An Eye T ard usiness With business in full swing, as it is today, the job- getting possibilities of the commercial subjects of this school are great indeed. West Bend's commercial course includes a wide scope of subjects. A girl or boy following a com- plete business course would begin with business training as a freshman, learning the fundamentals, such as banking and credit, checks, interest, types of money, notes, and stocks and bonds. Thereafter, he takes bookkeeping for either personal or business use as a sophomore or senior subject. First year typ- ing may also be taken during that year, and it is followed by a year of advanced typing in the junior or senior year. ln l942, two hundred students pounded the keys of forty typewriters as they pre- pared for future work. Shorthand is begun in the third year, and in the last, a practical course in office practice can be taken. The latter embodies try-outs and exploratory experience in defense and draft board offices, in the Red Cross office, and one week's training for each student in the high school office. raining Hands After starting with a session at the drafting table, then following with a lot of sawing, drilling, nailing, gluing, and finally finishing, the boys who take the manual arts course complete end-tables, magazine racks, coffee tables, lamps, and other furniture with the workmanship of a master-craftsman. The ll5 boys in Mr. Schuelke's classes learn the trade from the draftsmanis angle by working with elementary drawing, mechanical, sheetmetal, architectural and machine drawing, inking, tracing, and blue-print making. After obtaining a working knowledge of these principles they put them into practice in the work-shop, from the very elementary task of squaring boards to the completion of a fine, intricate book shelf. The manual arts department consists of a wood- working shop, finishing room, mechanical drawing room and a machine room. All these have complete equipment ranging from large power drills to the minutest screw driver. This year the work shop was enlarged and new wood-turning lathes, jig saw, drill press, table saw, shaper, and jointer added to the machine room. The course is elective for two years. It is equally divided between the study of mechanical drawing and the workshop projects. Besides teaching the high school classes, Mr. Schuelke also had an adult vocational class of I7 students on two nights a week. Page Eighteen Further stenographic and clerical work is gained by working for a faculty member to whom each student is assigned at the beginning of the year. This year found an increasing number of boys preparing for jobs along a commercial line. The seniors can present actual proof of their accomplishments in typing and shorthand classes. Twenty-six fourth year students secured their Order of Artistic Typing certificates, and thirty-three of them their eighty, one-hundred, and one-hundred- twenty word a minute shorthand transcript awards. Dorothy Weiss and Helen Boettcher were the first two to earn the one-hundred-twenty word awards. 'A' 1. Buddy Weinand shows Mr. Egge1't's senior bookkeepers how it's done. 2. First year typing students. 3. Miss Kucirek lends a helping hand to Ruth Gehl. 4. Senior shorthand students. for Home Tasks The manual arts classes fell in line with the school's defense effort, making stretchers for the West Bend Emergency Squad, and model planes for the use and training of the aviation cadets of the United States Navy. The stretcher-making project was undertaken by the fourth year drafting class. At the request of Dr. Kauth, and using lumber donated by the Brit- tingham and l-lixon Lumber Company and canvas salvaged from the panels enclosing the City Park baseball diamond, the boys made a dozen sturdy stretchers. These are to be used by the city's Emer- gency Squad for emergency work. Cooperating in a nation-wide program of mod- el-plane building, the manual arts classes also worked on fifty different aircraft models. Thirty boys cut, glued and painted models, following pat- terns issued by the Navy Department. These models are to be used for study purposes by the naval avia- tion cadets. Prolonged study of the models enables the cadets to recognize any ship on sight, from a far distance, for when viewed from a distance of 35 feet, they are the exact size of a ship flying one-half mile from the observer. ir 5. A session at the drafting-board. 6. Making stretchers for the Red Cross. W. Wendt, C. Meyer, F. Murphy.

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T e Clipper C vers the Campus The Campus Clipper is the official newspaper of West Bend High. From reporting to production it is almost entirely student work. This year this has been true to a greater degree than in previous years because the staff had a rotation of faculty advisers. Miss Hickey, Miss Stanf'-ield, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Olson, and Mr. Eggert took turns in supervising the various issues. Miss Kucirek was the permanent production adviser of the student staff. To the average student the Clipper is fifteen minutes of reading time. To the staff members it is fifteen hours of work per issue. This includes ferret- ing out information, writing the articles, typing, justifying, stenciling, mimeographing, stacking and distributing the editions. The routine of the Campus Clipper is simplified into the following steps: First, a meeting is called on the Monday follow- ing publication of the paper. At this meeting the last issue is criticized, suggestions are made for im- provement, and assignments are given out. The re- porters pursue their leads and write their articles. These are proofed and typed. The words are so spaced as to make the lines even at the margins. Next, the pages are set up by the make-up crew, the ads cut, and the articles typed on the stencils. The stencils are then placed on the mimeograph and the pages run off. The stacks of paper are then placed on two tables around which an assembly line forms and arranges the paper. The finished product is then distributed. The writing experience obtained helps the indi- vidual be more exact in expressing his thoughts and in organizing his ideas. The threat of the deadline teaches him to budget his time, and incidentally, the work is a lot of fun. 'A' 1. The make-up crew inserts a scoop. Top row: M. Gumm, R. Hiller, H. Ross, D, Schowalter. Bottom Row: F. Niel- sen, R. Jaekel, D. Klein. 2. The staff reads the Clippers still Wet with ink. 3. Production staff puts on finishing touches. Left to right: C. Groom, L. Held, D. Vanderwalker, J. Froede, A. Jagow. Memories Made Permanent Because of the disturbing factor of a war, a few changes have come about in this year's Bend. A one- third cut in the budget, soft covers, and paper re- ductions were the orders. This meant copy took a severe cut, but pictures were increased in size to compensate for a slight reduction in number. Loss of quantity, however, meant a gain in quality, and in fairness to the subscribers, the price was reduced in proportion to the size. Scrapping all other plans and working with a timely military theme, we called our book the Vic- tory Bend and dedicated it to our former faculty members and students who are in service. Planning pictures, writing and re-writing copy, cutting, mounting, subscription sales, and all details which go into the production of an annual, provided the staff with plenty of work, a few headaches, and lots of excitement. l-lowever, they were equal to the task. For instance, the advertising staff, led by Austin Hancock, went over the top in sponsorships. Vernon Dengel, the business manager, put over the student subscription sales with a bang. Carl Heuer, Walter Wendt, George Herman, and Mr. Baxter did the fine job on the pictures. Copy-editor Mirabel Hansen, pencil in hand, slashed down, built up, and rewrote copy while Jean I-lorlamus and Joy Schnei- der, the staff editors, worked and worried to meet the budget, the deadlines, and did some general kibitzing among the staff members to get the book out on time. Early in winter the editors of the Bend and Clip- per, as well as several of the staff members, made a trip to the Nackie Paper Company at Milwaukee to study an extensive display of annuals in order to gain some new angles in book layouts. Throughout the production of the annual, Mr. Baxter, the Bend adviser, worked hand in hand with Jean and Joy, the staff editors, and helped them immeasurably with the tough problems which arose. ir 4. Time out for a check-up on Bend accounts. V. Dengel, A. Hancock, G. Altendorf. 5 and 8. The Bend staff poses for its pictures. 5. Top row: E. Schmidt, R. Malzahn, D. Heid, F. Yahr, H. Gumm, C. Meyer, R. Bennett, A, Froede. Center row: F. Nielsen, J. Horlamus, J. Schmidt, V. Weyres, H. Kienholz, G. Lenz, D. Frank, J. Schneider. Bottom row: H. Boettcher, L. Hetebrueg, M. Hansen, R. Hiller, B. Kremsreiter, B. Barens, A. Frederick. 8. Top row: G. Altendorf, E. St. Thomas, A. Hancock, W. Dhein, F. Yahr, L. Geib. Center row: H. Cechvala, M. Seyfert, D. Klein, M, Koch, L. Held, M. Gonnering. Bottom row: D. Weiss, F. Friede- mann, A. Cechvala, D. Schemmel, R. Jaekel, K. Driessel. 6. Searching for yearbook ideas at Milwaukee. J. Schnei- der, D. Schowalter, M. Gumm, J. Horlamus. 7. A new idea pops up at the annual display. D. Weiss, J. Frcede, G. Grogan, M. Hansen. Page Seventeen

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