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

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lan, 25 Exams. Now, if 1 write a 98 in the exam . . Ian. 30 Graduation. Students come and students go, but Bob Coleman stays here forever. Feb. 8 Elaine Foster's birthday. Says she only had sixteen candles on her cake. She must have burned a few of them at both ends. Feb. 10 lack Heibler is displaying with great pride a 3' months' crop of hair. Hair, hair, lack, a Jokes a Joke but isn't that carrying it a little too far . . . or should we say long? 13 Ramaker is seen at the Tower Theater, sitting in the front row with his feet in the or- chestra pit. The feet look surprisingly like cellos from Where we sit in the tenth row. Feb. Feb. 18 Paul Hassett is waltzing around school with a new black suit. Probably in mourning for his sports sheet. Feb. 26 A warm day for a change . . . only 12 below ZGIO. Feb. 29 The extra day in four years which turns out to be a very ordinary day in every respect . . . and disrespect, what with there being an over- flow crowd in the detention room. Mar. 1 March comes in like a lion . . . and so does Mr. Kruschke, who has an especially good day giving out somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 detentions. Mar. l2 Holzchuch elected prom king, making him the man of the hour. The trouble with being the rnan oi the hour, Iohnnie, is that that's about as long as it lasts. Mar. 31 Vocational Week starts, depicting such dramas as the following: Lecturer lspeaking on value of educationl: Yes, what can take the place of a college education? Nothing! Look at the fellow who only finished grammar school. Where is he now? He is motorman on a street car. But Where is the college grad? Voice in rear fsounding suspiciously like Bruinsl: l-le's the conductor. April 1 This day is quite naturally chuck full of the old April foolishness. April 2 Not much school during this vocational week when you can duck out of your class and go to a talk. Personally, we'd rather go to class. April 3 Athletic Rally in Girls' Gym with Alvin Wutti and a few of the boys doing nymph dances that even had Mr. Shong giggling. f117J April 4 Spring is here. Balmy breezes, budding flowers. lOf course the balmy breezes are buzzing along at about 50 miles an hour and it's snowing lightly, and the budding flowers are in flower pots, but according to the Weather man, Spring is here. l April 5 Off a week for Easter. We plan to catch up on our sleeping, but folks have different ideas . . . ideas about Spring house cleaning. April 12 Easter. Ielly beans-Easter eggs-hard boiled eggs-and stuff. April 13 Baseball season opens. Milwaukee papers predict Brews can't miss winning pennant. Baloney. Much baloney. ln lune we shall no doubt see the Brews in fifth place. May 1 May Day. Ah see the frisky freshmen frolicking merrily round the freshmen steps. Whoops! My dear. May 3 Mr. Little regrets he's unable to pen today. May 5 The disease that made Milwaukee famous- the stomach flu-is still ravaging around. May 6 Wednesday. Slight drizzle of rain. Full moon to-night. Humidity high. Tomorrow fair and warmer probably followed by Friday, Saturday and Sunday. May ll 168 hours of actual school left . . . or 10,080 minutes . . . to be even more specific twe're a stickler for detailsl six hundred and four thousand eight hundred seconds. lf any one wishes to figure it out further, however, he will have to consult Einstein. May 16 Iunior Prom. Music, Laughter, Gayety, Ex- citement. But underlying it all is the cold hard question in the minds of the Prom sponsors, Are we making the usual 100 bucks? lune l Coming down the home stretch with every- body cramming to make his credits. Iune 5 Bob Phelps is doing quite a bit of worrying over the fact that he will probably have to write 21 exams! I-le is taking 7 credits and due to the fact that he is a graduating the hopesl senior he can take his exams three times. Iune 8 Annual promises distribution to-morrow. Don't hand us that stuff. lune pretty near the deadline. Spelling tests. Reviews! Whew, why must we work so hard, so long, so often for an exam that only takes an hour and a half? lune 11-17 Pst, Ice, ja get the fifth? Zowie, such an exam-1 couldn't pass it with my book open! Grunt, groan, moan. A hectic week indeed. lune 19 Put the cork back in the ink bottle, Willie, 'cause this is the end.

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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.

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