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

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PHLISIUHL EllUCH.lIUll DEPHHTIIIEHI VIOLA HANCOCK ELSIE PETERS University of Wisconsin-B.S. University of Wisconsin-BA, Childhood Ambition-to be a gym Childhood Ambition-to be an au- teucher. thoress. G.A.A. G.A.A. ERWIN GERBER WILLIAM S. I-IANSEN University of WisconsinfB.A. Indiana University, Gymnastics Childhood Ambition- Childhood Ambition-to be a good teacher. Basketball team and gym team. The armed forces accept only those boys Who are phys- ically periect. With the quickened pace in industries and consequently our lives, only those who are physically fit can keep up. Realizing the necessity tor strong young men and Women, West has done much to help the country in that respect. Prom the gym classes that everyone attended tor two years came students straight and strong. In biology and health classes students mastered the Whys and hows of health through the complicated study ot the anatomy of the human body. Here, too, they formed habits conducive to good health. In the hours oi their country's need they will be fit, both mentally and physically. I5 fljtflirx ff I IOSEPI-I I-IARTMAN THOMAS NORWICKI

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SUCIHL SCIENCE DEPHHHIIEIIT A RAY MCCRORY Life Advisement. Film Committee. ' University of Wisconsin--B.A. Childhood Ambition-to be a man. BERNICE HORTON University oi Wisconsin-B.A., Uni- versity of lllinoisAM.A. Childhood Ambition-to be a lawyer. DOROTHY GARDNER University ol Wisconsin---A.M. American Academy in Rome and Athens. Childhood Ambition-to be a concert musician. Welfare Committee. MARGARET NELSON University ol Wisconsin-A.B., Columbia University-M.A. Childhood Ambition-to be a teacher. Scholarship Committee, Secretary of city Social Science Curricular Com- mittee, Chairman of Community Fund collections, Collect N.'E.A. dues. When any of us get into a tight spot, we immediately HAROLD ROUNDS WILLARD RUDIGER University ol Wisconsin-Ph.B. Milwaukee State Teachers-B.Ed. Childhood Ambition-to be a rail- Childhood Ambition-to coach. road engineer' Track coach. Films for Social Studies Depart- ' ment. WILLIAM SMITH WILLIAM WARNER Lawrence C011eqe+Ph.B- Carroll College --B.A., University el Childhood Ambition---to be a cow- WlScOnSin'T'B'M' boy. Track coach, cadets. think back to see if we have had any similar experience and how we acted then. This method is especially applicable to World events. By studying the past We get an understand- ing of why things are happening as they are today. We learn what to expect. Since the events that are making history every day happen in such quick succession, a historical background is necessary for the understanding of them. The history department has taught us to Weigh events and analyze situations so that We may act with more intelli- gence in our present situation and in the future. The last verse of our national anthem is extremely per- tinent to the present situation. Consequently everyone ought to know it. Most of the homerooms as Well as classes learned both the first and the last verses which spared many students the embarrassment heretofore encountered when singing the Star Spangled Banner. Our national anthem inspires us to do our share for victory. 14

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' 1 HHTS IJEPHHTHIEHT EARL RAINIER Eastman School ot Music and Grinell, Milwaukee St. Teachers. Childhood Ambition-to be a rail- road engineer. Charge of programs when band appears. EDWARD ANGELBECK Iowa State College-M.E. Childhood Ambition-to be an air- plane pilot. Locker keys. Every Thursday night during the past year, many of West's girls have been knitting for the Red Cross. Many who did not know how to knit learned by knitting squares for afghans and then progressed to caps and children's sweaters. So as to conserve every possible minute, some of the teachers and girls brought their knitting to school and knit dur- ing their lunch hour. Every Wednesday night Home Economics girls met to sew for the Red Cross. They have completed children's dresses, patchwork quilts, and hot water bottle covers. Mrs. Perrigo kept them out of mischief. One of the important demands of the government was that old scrap metal, so valuable to defense, be saved. ln this phase, West's faculty did not take a back seat, for every mem- ber was only too willing to save tooth paste tubes, tin cans and other ordinary containers composed of the valuable, much-needed metal. Realizing the importance of this simple request, our faculty gladly turned all scrap metals over to the United States government, which in turn reclaimed them and used this reclaimed metal in building a strong impregnable defense. l. F. CAMPBELL State TeacherseE.Ed. Childhood Ambition-to be an elece trical engineer. IRWIN MARTIN One of the schools handy men. lowa State Teachers-B.A. Childhood Ambition-to be a doctor. D. HANSEN One of the school's handy men, Stout InSmute4B.S. Childhood Ambitioneto retire. OSCAR NELSON State Teachers-B. Ed., University ot Wisconsin-M.S. Childhood Ambition-to be an en- gineer. STANTON PUEHLER Iowa State College ot Agriculture and Mechanical ArtsAM.S. Childhood Ambition-none. Stage crew. 16