West Division High School - Comet Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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g l LoRRA1NE RYSTROM Soft lights, the delicate aroma of flowers, lovely evening dresses, sweet melodious music and shades of old Spain-West's annlualgigala event of the year, the lunior prom. The :from decora- tions, made by members of the Ii,1rffor,.1-tirttblasses, transformed our Girls' gyrn intolb veritable Span- ish garden through which 'loiyely ,ladies and their handsome escorts danceld 'to the' strains of the' i The Junior Prom IOHN HOLZSCHUH ln a courtly and gracious manner befitting a queen, pretty Lorraine Rystrom, on the arm of her king, lohnny Holzschuh, headed the receiving line and led the traditional grand march, the colorful climax of the evening. Miss Theo Donnelly, di- rector of social affairs, was in charge. The prom was the crowning event of the social year. All those who attended remember with sighs of regret that one whole year will elapse -l 4 . um, 11 ! I I I I Ofchestfs- , ' ' , wsi before another West Drvision lunior Prom. ,J MJ J' f .f My f f' 1' F if 3 f U ff' ' .- it if S 'X J J ti't ,, 1 ,1 , ., 1 ' - . The Class , IUNIOR OFFICERS Iohn Holzschuh, Robert I-laeger, Franklin Grow, Tom Koenig, Hazel Ebert, Myrtle Ruenzel, f115j

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Top Row: lrene Tooley, Betty Swanston, Cora Owen, Marion Schollmeyer, Beatrice Erbach, Florence Norris, Aurice Lamphere, Thomas Andrews. Row 2: Eugene Smaler, Sol Wexler, Mary Head, Marian Ketay, Denak Kalin, lanet Knoblauch, Virginia Carbis, Ida Lorman. 4 How 3: Otto Schultz, lack Martin, Louise Miller, lohn Benson, Iohn Holzschuh, George Thuering, Georgia Strauss. Student Council This year, unlike past years, Student Council was made up, not ot organization presidents, but oi members ot organizations expressly elected tor this purpose. Otto Schultz, as the Senior Class representative, enioyed a busy and successful year as president. Sol Wexler Was vice-presidentg Ianet Knoblauch, secretaryg Eugene Smaler, sergeant-at-arms. The activities ot the organization were varied. its a yearly feature of the Council program, Miss Dorothy Enderis was presented a placque tor having contributed the most service to the city. Perhaps the biggest contribution to school Wide lenetit by the Council was vocational Week. This year a week was set aside for talks on careers and professions by persons well qualified 51143 to speak on vocations suitable tor high school graduates. The entire Weelds program Was ar- ranged under the capable direction ot Sol Wexler. A series of homeroom discussions on pertinent problems was arranged by the president ot the Council and the decisions ot these discussions promptly were acted upon. The presentation ot the gavel by the senior class to the junior class will be remembered as one of the year's most excellent programs. This program, according to custom, was also under the supervision ot the Student Council. With the election ot Council members tor next year, the l936 Council closed a highly successful term of ottice under the able direction ot Mr. Raymond McCrory, director of lite advisement.

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West Side Day by Day Sept. 4 Back to the old grind . . . reading, writing, and detentions . . . oh well, only nine months of it. Sept. 5 STOOP, the pride of the freshman class, dis- covers atter waiting in a line for two hours that it leads into the book store and not into the cafeteria. Sept. 7 Band gets new uniforms . . . about time the other ones were old enough to vote for Woodrow Wilson . . . Sept. ll After a hectic week of program changing, book buying, book borrowing, getting locker keys, losing locker keys, etc., the school is now func- tioning in its usual inimitable style . . . Sept. l2 STOOP, the freshie, searches three hours for escalator . . . score-Seniors lp Freshmen U. Sept. l7 Constitution Day . . . lengthy speeches . . . we like speeches . . . speeches and cream . . . what a country . . . even the Constitution was framed . . . Sept. 18 Comet states football team looks great . . but then, looks are only skin deep . . . Sept. 20 STOOP buys two season passes to the main assembly . . . from senior Phelps . . . score- Seniors 25 Freshmen 0. Sept. 28 Bay View holds lighting Redmen to tie . . or was it vice versa? . . . Sept. 30 Freshman STOOP learns he is in the wrong Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct. English class . . . he kinda thought that English 7 was a little hard to be English l. l Nobody got a dentention to-day. ln fact nobody even got as much as a bawling out to-day. tlncidently, to-day is Saturday.l ll Gala opening of the '36 season for the Iolly Rogers Club. Huge opening day crowd. lvlr. Weihe predicts great season. 16 Many petty thefts reported to office. Some guys are so crooked even the wool they pull over your eyes is half cotton. 22 Beaver and Iacques elected president February and lune classes respectively tAt least we hope respectively.l 25 West football team continues sensational winning streak, beating Wauwautosa. tThis brings their total wins up to one game.l 51163 Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. Bill Little 31 Halloween. We spent the night with a couple of haunts. thaunt Agatha, haunt Nell, and cousin loe.l l Freshman Beelzebub makes startling discovery, with aid of Mr. Shong. lt appears he has 2 too many lunch hours. tWhat an appetitelt ll Armistice Day. When Beelzebub is informed of this fact, he exclaims Hurray, then the war's over! 22 West succumbs to strong Washington team Cas the Comet reports itl, but common gossip has it, West couldn't even have beaten Washington's B. team. Nov. 27 Thanksgiving. Some have turkey: some have Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Ian. Ian. Ian. lan. duck. Heibler's family opens a can of pork and beans. 2 Schneider elected A.A. president, defeating Iimmy Reavely. tYou can't beat a football player on his home field, Iimmy.l 7 Press convention. Reporters learn technicalities of newspaper business, mainly a lot of stuff and nonsense. 18 Comet headline: Mr. Shong Wends Way to Twin Cities. Imagine Mr. Sheng Wending his way. 25 Christmas. Mr. Shutes receives Shirley Tem- ple doll. l New Year's. All orchestras playing a crazy number entitled The Music Goes 'Round and Round. It looks like a hit. tBoy, can We pick 'em.l 4 28 below zero. What are we going to do when winter comes? 5 W.P.A. workers busily engaged in tearing up our campus. Busy? Last week they built a snow man and on pay day the foreman came around and gave everybody a check-including the snow- man. 8 Annual starts taking pictures. lack Caryl looks very cynical in the various pictures he manages to chisel his way into. This is probably due to the tact that for 5 or 6 years annually the photo- grapher has been telling him to watch the birdie, and not once has he seen a birdie . . . except the birdie he got when he played Diana on his trum- pet for the athletic rally. Ianuary something or other. West is in the midst of a very unlucky basketball season, losing games left and right by one and two points. The student body, however, are wont to say, Close only counts in horse shoes.