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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Page Twenty Today's Problems Are Tornorrowas History The Dark Ages, the Renaissance, Bis- marck's unification, Waterloo, Bunker Hill, Manassas, all these and more com- pose the modern and American history courses. ln addition, the senior American history students are extensively versed in the history ofwashington County, supple- mented by the large county historical museum maintained by Miss Heidner. The citizenship classes learn about their government. They also conduct a state-sponsored automobile drivers' test among all students each year. Adding a new wrinkle to the semester economics course, an extensive study of Utopias culminated in student versions of an ideal world. Slums, poverty, divorce, and popula- tion are among the great American prob- lems studied in the social problems course. ir 1. C. Abel and E. Harns examine new museum pieces. 2. Where is yesterday's boundary, Mr. Runkel? With Divers Tongues - - Many are the Senors, Fraeulein, and Romanites who have mastered the arts of a language formerly foreign to them. Miss Podruch instructs the linguists in the fundamentals, grammar, and vocab- ulary, gives them opportunity to read well-known German writings, and con- verse in the German language. Miss Huff teaches the students Latin, the cornerstone of all languages, by giv- ing them grand old Julius Caesar. Something new has been added to the school curriculum in the form of Spanish, taught by Miss Huff, who also teaches it in the vocational classes. The language of our good neighbors to the south has proved to be immensely pop- ular with the students. 'A' 3. Pondering over conjugations. G. Hood, C. Wagner, G. Gadow. 4. Flag day in Spanish class.