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

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IllHlH IlEPHItllllEIll The country needs strong men and women, electrical engineers, radio operators, mechanics, tool makers, draftsmen, machin- ists, chemists, physicists, nurses, doctors, Red Cross workers, ambulance drivers, diet- icians, statisticians, bookkeepers, stenogra- phers, inventors, artists, musicians, and above all an intelligent citizenry. Where is our country going to get these trained people? The schools are training students in skills every day. In this way students attending school are serving their country. When anyone mentioned math to you, you probably groaned, for you immediately thought of those dear old problems Where A rowed four miles an hour and B rowed three miles an hour. The clever author then asked how long they would take rowing together to get up a stream nine miles in length. But you didn't realize that by ac- quiring skill in that type Camong othersl of preparing yourself to That is just the kind engineers, so essential problem you were serve your country. of problem that the to the armed forces, need to solve. In this department you learned to reason out prob- lems and to use your imagination. The training received in math enabled you to qualify for one of the many positions of responsibility that the defense industries offer. THEO DONNELLY University of Wisconsin-B.A. Childhood Ambition--to be an au- thoress. Social Director, Iunior Class Ad- viser. ESTHER BATTAU Milwaukee-Downer-ERA., University ot Wisconsin-M.A. Childhood Ambition-to be a doctor. Detention and tarcliness. HOWARD AKER Carroll College-A.B., University of Wisconsin-Ph .M . Childhood Ambition-to be an en gineer. Coach of freshman-sophomore foot ball team. REBECCA BUCKBEE University of WisconsinhB.S. Childhood Ambition-to teach. Charge of Main in the morning. Charge of seating in school. LUCIE CASE University of Wisconsin-A.B. Childhood Ambition-to be an au- thoress. Treasurer of bookstore, Chairman Honor Committee, Secretary-Treas urer of Charles McLenegan Memo- rial Fund. ' IRENE ELDRIDGE Beloit College-B.S., M.A. Exercised the woman's privilege of changing her mind too many times to set one thing. Charge of eligibility of Athletes. 10 CARL ECKENROD State Teachers-B.S. Childhood Ambition-to coach in athletics. Varsity football coach and fresh- man-sophomore basketball coach. HERMAN KRUSCHKE Beloit College-B.A. Childhood Ambition-to motive engineer. be a loco- Comet Annual.

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t ARLIE A. SCHABDT At this time there have been nearly six months of war. The strange and rapid upheavals and restric- tions of the past half year have been like fantastic disturbances in our sleep. We do not know how long the war will last, but it will have an end. Then life for perhaps a quarter century-the period in which you students will be establishing your way of life-will not be easy. It will be a period that will make great demands upon the initiative, re- sourcefulness, adaptability, and productivity you developed while you were participating in the life at West Division. ' Based upon the philosophy that books are not the sole source of knowledge, West Division for years has encouraged pupil participation' in extra-curricular activities to the fullest extent. The faculty has long been imbued with the belief that the educational growth of an individual begins with himself and where he is, and that it spreads outward in ever-widening circles of participation-participation that educates for competence, bringing to full development the qualities of leadership. In the chaotic years after the war, strenuous efforts must be made to bring our way of living back to an even keel. That will not be an easy task, but in doing your part in those coming times you will do well to remember the lessons of living learned at school. As West's graduates are now prominent in leadership in settling the problem of war, so I trust that you graduates-to-be will take a conspicuous part in leadership in settling the problems of peace. 'Major Arlie Schatdt is now on duty with the infantry in New England.

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ERNST KURATI-I University ot Idaho-B.S. Childhood Ambition-to be a mail- man. W, P. A, Film program. lOSEPH RH-lA University ot Wisconsin-B.A. Childhood Ambition-to study medi- SCIEIIUE DEPHHTHIEHT ERWIN GERBOTI-l State Teachers---B.E. Childhood Ambition--? Football coach. EARL RAISEN Beloit College-B.A. Childhood Ambition-to qrow older. Director athletics, Publicity of ticket sales and all school activities. NOAH SHAPIRO University of Wisconsin-B.A., M.A. Childhood Ambition-wished that cine. his capacity tor food would increase. C a m e r a club, photography for Vaudeville. school. CLARENCE Sl-IUTES University ot Michigan--AB., North- western University---A.M. Childhood Ambition-to go into tor- estry. EDNA WEBER University ot Wisconsin-A.B. Childhood Ambition-to be an in- terior decorator. Science club. Red Cross Campaign, Ushers' club, newsboys' sponsor. 11 In the realization of the importance of training the youth of today tor war precau- tions, the science department recently de- voted time to teaching the care and handling ot various war weapons. Most of the atten- tion has, however, been focused on incen- diary bombs. The various classes of the department have spent time in analyzing these bombs and learning the correct meth- od of disposing of them. These classes not only proved to be interesting, but were also instructive, for the information learned will be unusually valuable in our only too un- certain future. The hope of victory lies in its trained Work- ers. We at West are proud of the fact that every day in every department students were trained in skills, both mental and manual. The manual art boys made metal vices and other tools. The department tilled a govern- ment order for one hundred model air- planes. E