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

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PRINCIPAL WILLIAM C. KNOELK Your Comet Announcer will now read an open letter from Mr. Knoell: To the Seniors. ' It is your high privilege to graduate in a global period. Our period is called global because the idea of a huge earth, too big for close contacts, with poles too remote to discover, has gone. People speak of great circles, of map projections and extended horizons in as casual and intimate a way as they spoke of the corner grocery and street signs formerly. Oceans have ceased to be barriers, continents have become neighborhoods, strange manners and customs have become commonplace, communication is instantaneous. The ingenuity of man has in effect caused our globe to shrink: the cupidity of human beings has pitted one part of the globe against the other. Our mechanical reaches are enormous: our social understandings have not kept pace. To produce the abilities and the will to advance in civic and social life as we have in the mechanical world is the supreme challenge of our day. It will require so high a degree oi cooperation that past efforts in working together will seem puny. To create dissension, foster hatred, or build suspicion in our democratic structure or among our citizens is to help the nation's foe. Freedom now depends far more upon our ability to cooperate than upon aggres- sive individualisrn. When we have won the war by compulsory cooperation, will we have the courage and unseliishness to voluntarily cooperate in peace? Only thus can the fruits of victory be won. To help in this way is to advance our cause. That is a high privilege even though it means denial and suffering: it also means that you must make decisions of such wisdom and nobility, with so little of suspi- cion and animosity, that this period-your era- shall become memorable. Thank you, Mr. Knoelk!

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Introducing one who is new among us. Have you seen a tall, dignified gentleman striding through the halls of West, head and shoulders above most of us? Oh, you've seen him hurrying about radiating energy. But have you been lucky enough to be the recipient of his easy smile? They tell me that the halls are cleaner when he is around, that boys and girls can go to him for advice at any time, and that he is a great support and help to West's Student Council. Perhaps you have guessed who this distinguished person is, but your Comet Announcer is pleased to have the honor of introducing Arthur H. Ziemann, West's new Vice-Principal. A hearty welcome to him! And now Mr. Ziemann, You, the Seniors of 1943, are going forth to meet and solve your problems of life, at perhaps the most interesting and most important time in history. At the beginning of your careers you find yourselves in a world of turmoil, confusion, emotional instability, lawlessness, insecurity, and a disregard for the rights of the individual. Yours is the job of bringing order out of chaos, by eradicating some of the petrified stupidity, evils, and corruption which have crept into our way of life. You will have the task to mend instead of defend the Status Quo of the past generation. r You should develop a philosophy of life. You have had opportunities to develop your character, personality, and acquire knowledge, such as young people in no other land have had. With such privilege goes the responsibility to carry high the torch of freedom so as to pass on to posterity the rights, privileges, and opportunities that have been yours. Since you have had opportunities superior to those of many young people of your age, it is incumbent upon you to do your tasks well, no matter what they may be, so as to achieve happiness in life. If you will develop tolerance, kindness, patience, generosity, truthfulness, and understanding and in the words of the poet, Give to the world the best you have, then the best will come back to you . Arthur H. Ziemcmn 8