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

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A www W Y A They're with you four years RAYMOND McCRORY Social Science VlVlAN MOWRY English hops, games. And this faculty you ache to know. You realize that the faculty has seen many students pass those four years. You're no different. But four years! Thats a chapter in your life! lust as fall, winter and spring are ignored by the faculty, so is your exit. Their hair gets grayer, eyes more lined, steps less sure. But four years, there's been little change. Their station seems permanent. Whenever death, like a bolt of love's, strikes one down, we are shocked, almost believing. They seem higher things who weren't subject to such a mortal thing as death. Maybe this brings out one of the miss- MILDRED NEWMAN English ing pieces in your picture! You have never thought of them as men and women who could laugh and cry, brag and wishg dream, strive, expe- rience heartbreak and finally, as all others, die. Suddenly you put aside their cloak of mystery and break down that wall you feel you've built. You see them no longer as bloodless emotionless instructors, but as per- ssiisfii' MARGARET NELSON OSCAR C. NELSON MILDRED PERRIGO ELSIE PETERS So 'A' Science ris Household Arts Physical Education Y - ix ZR a-i-5+-f-G-iL?-- ---- ------7:-: I' W. PULVER EARL D. RAISEN KATHERYN REICH F 14 nglish Science Librarian

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The faculty ignores the season It seemed your first years went swiftly. Your senior ear is a literal whirl. There seems to be no time. Only twirl of events mending together: then graduation. And 1 end to four years. Towards the end you feel strange. 'tis was your school. Pour years you spent in it. Now BERNICE HORTON History NORMAN l-IUNDT Science seems different, foreign to you and the other students egmented from you. These are the new students who ill take over this school. Somehow you resent this. You re jealous of their heritage and right to more years of this :hooling that went so fast for you. nere were only four, only four? Thats chapter in your lifef four years. GEORGINA HOSKIN During your great crisis, though, .e faculty seems unperturbed. They 3 on and on. Plugging at their work. Commercial ere you are closing a chapter of your fe, and the world turns not one bit on s axis. The faculty gives you barely glance. Now you realize your small- ess: your former thoughts of grandeur :Jw cling to you and weigh you down ren deeper. You are closing a chapter ' your lifef four years of books, bells, KATE-IRYN IOHNSON HOWARD IORDAN HERMAN KRUSCHKE ERNEST KURATH English Commercial Mathem lics 1 I e English Commercial History glis Z T QE? .t ' 7 2 , f f W Y 'Zu X .Q yl 1 I n M' ft. ',.f- ' -v j., .wf,.-f 'Sli- ' izf '97, G ft yt wma' :Vw 44 ,,, f 4422 ff f 7 C 65 6 ' I4 1 .t aiiiir 7 ,ff 2:57 ' sf j ADELE LANGE BEATRICE LEISK ELLEN . . , 9 ,.s .3-

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The faculty seems eternal until- Jnsp flesh, like yourself. You're so happy at this discovery EARL D. RAINIFR ' WAY li fl I' if I' . '49 xiii I . ' rat you want to run to them and say I know you. I Music fought you were cold and aloof. But I was wrong. You HELEN REILLY re like me, you felt the spring and knew the fall, but LGH11 ou were strong and fought it, now I know you. Suddenly you run hot and cold and tremble all over, Jr you realize you will remember! The fragments start n fall in place. You remember their personal sacrifices, rill, in ignoring spring. Their patience and understanding. heir devotion to their work. Their fillingness to help. You realize that though the glit- er was in the hops and games, the old was in the faculty. You will Jrry that with you forever, and you IOSEPH Rll-IA Science now you will remember this, your arents remembered, you think you 'ere a fool not to see it before. All those fragments were chaotic: lances, words, smiles. Yet piecing iese together you will see one of fe's most beautiful pictures, and then ou'll know the faculty. is- G X31 ,f I fl I S NIORBERT RODEMAN IRMGARD ROEMHELD OPAL ROGNLIEN HAROLD B. ROUNDS English German X In-do -C l NOAH A. Sl-IAPIRO WILLIAM Sl-IEAFFER CLAREN S - 5 il L Science Commercial Scie ce 'qc' , -..-'-- Ali. 3 T..- -.-.. .--............--... .i il- 15