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

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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

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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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PEARL SILIAN WILLIAM H. SMITH GERTRUDE STOESSEL HAZEL THOMAS English Social Science French English PHYLISS TRIMBERGER G. WILLIAM WARNER EDNA WEBER ELMER WILLAND Home Economics History Science Commercial . . .they are but memories. . . VERYONE here at West was shoc ed nd deeply hurt when two ot the best-love ers passed away within a years ti The death ot Mr. Maurice Moe in Iune, 1940, a sad perience for all: so also was the nt that qua Mr. Howard Kingsbury in I 41. 1 Mr. Moe not o Qiother teacher, but a true friend who enjoyed 11 g English as Worth While and delighttul as he could. This he truly accom- plished, for did we not praise his Word hunts and dis- tinctive literature study? I-Iis sponsorship ot the Norris I-Ii-Y Club gained tor him the admiration and respect ot many boys. We can still see Mr. Kin sb ndering over a checker board, a group oi Matching over his shoulder, tor he, too, a gi i terest infxxtra-curricular activities. We tak a re in s at there could be no finer e hea ot,ou athematics depart- ment. Haba y I'IIG understand math, for he helped u with it ur4i e did. No, we shall never forget either oi these rnen. May this be a tribute to Mr. Moe and Mr. Kingsbury, whose memories will live Within the walls oi West Division. 6