Wisconsin High School - Wisconsin Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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CLASS OFFICERS ' DAVE MCGRATH PresidenT ,..,,,YS..,.. , A.,,SS,,......... . ..,,. , ,.,,....w..A......, ...,, . ,. Vice PresidenT ....,A.. ,,S....,..... D AN PETERSON SereTary .,,,Y,,,w..,, ,,,....,,. E LIZABETT-l BECKER Treasurer ..,,., ......... P OLLY HENDRICK Adviser ...,., ,,,.,...A,...,. M R. TRUMP Come on now, Senior! Aren'T all The Ii++Ie Things ThaT we'II never see again making you iusT a liTTle nosTalgic These lasT days oT school? There are The candy and gum wrappers . . .The scrawly noTes under The Tables. . .crumpled caricaTures oT The Teachers lunchbags ThaT didn'T quiTe hiT The baskeT . . . Those discarded TesT papers ThaT didn'T measure up To an A. . . benThairpins . . . a dirTy pair of rolled-up blue jeans . . .a sTub of a pencil . . .old baTTered TexTbooks . . . erasers leTT over Trom a TighT in The corner oT a room . . . benT sTraws ThaT didn'T come ouT 'shefhe loves me' '......... . . . . . Somehow Those Things add up To a long deTailed recollecTion of everyThing ThaT was Tun or noT Tun during our Tour years oT l-Tigh School. lT seems a long way back To The days when we were Freshmen. We were preTTy confused and insecure while we wenT Through The rush of Tinding The righT classrooms, geTTing our books, our physical aT The Clinic, and of geTTing To know each oTher. IT soon began To be Tun Though. Remember our rapid-Tire succession oT Algebra Teachers liT seems none oT Them could sTand us. especially aTTer The Time a cerTain boy wreaked havoc among Those oT The female sex wiTh a Tapeworm Taken on The sly Trom Miss Weber's Biology rooml. There was The big Speech banqueT aT The Wooden Bowl .... And Then There were The CoTillions, where The boys sTood alooT aT one end of The room and The girls aT The oTher unTil The chaperones pressed Them inTo acTion. The boys have changed a loT since Then. Our Sophomore Year Tound us Taking an insider's parT in school liTe. We'd joined many oT The school clubs . . . some OT us were in The all school play Janie' '... all in all, we TelT self-assured enough To complain in a peTiTion abouT Miss Tomek's GeomeTry classes lseems silly now, doesn'T iT?l. Remember Soph ShuTTIe . . . when Dona Knowles and Danny PeTerson won The big prize oT The evening . . .a TaT Thanksgiving Turkey. . . . . We had changed a loT since our Freshman year . . . The boys were abouT Three inches Taller and a loT smooTher . . . and The girls wore Their lipsTick wiTh more assurance and were cuTer all-around . . . They began To be noTiced by some oT The upperclass boys and iT was wonderTul .... As Juniors, we sTruggled Through Miss Johnson's American l-lisTory and Mr. PorTer's

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HONOR PIN The Wisconsin High School Honor Pin is Ihe highesr award +ha+ can be given Io a s+uden+. The winning of +his pin indicales oulslanding scholaslic abilify and exI'ra-curricular parIicipa+ion. Forly Iour scholaslic and four ac- +ivi+y poinls and a+ leasl a 2.5 grade poinl average in lhe Junior and Senior years are 'rhe basic requiremenls for an Honor Pin. The l945 winners were as follows: Seniors ROBERT BALDWIN PATRICIA PORTER LOIS DUTTON ROBERT WOODBURN Juniors ELEANORE DONOVAN SPEECH HONOR PIN ELEANORE DONOVAN REGENTS SCHOLARSHIPS WILLIAM AMLIE ,, I ELIZABETH BECKER . I TOM BENEDICT. I JOANNE CONLINI CAROL COWAN BARBARA DOIG EDITH DONOVAN I ELEANORE DONOVAN TOMMY GROVES JANET HUISKAMP LOIS IRELAND I MALCOLM MILLAR MARGIE MILLER . HENRY SCHUETTE , JEAN SOLVESON . PAUL TRUMP SHERWYN WOODS .c,Ma+h IO , ,,,,,, French 9 , ,... English 7 , .Mafh 9 Phy Ed 9 ., Music ,Lafin IO ,English II ., ,E Science 7 ..,,..A,,,Speech 9 ., ..Eine Ar+s I .. ,Mechanical Drawing Modern Home Problems I, Phy Ed Il ,, ,c,cc ..,., C hemis+ry . .. ,, ,Social Sfudies 8 .. , ,, ,Arls 7

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jokes 'rogefher lhow we made if we'll never knowl. Prom was fhe biggesr evenf of fhe year, and 'rhe whole class worked like mad fo gef ready for il. King Bill Wallmo and Queen Suz Adams were preffy relieved on fhe nigh? of Prom when fhey found fhaf we did have an orchesfra affer all, fhaf 'rhe Upper Gym looked remarkably like fhe beach af Waikiki ldue fo fhe combined decorafive efforfs of Miss Purves' 2:30 Gym classesj. fhaf a lo? of people were fhere, and fhaf everyone was having fun. All of us were happy, righf along wifh Mrs. Z., fha? we hadn'f gone info debf and fhaf we even made a small profif. Remember fhe beginning of fhis year when we looked af each ofher and waifed for fhe greaf mefamorphosis fhaf would change us info fhose awesome fhings called Seniors fo fake place . . . if seemed as fhough if would never come: yef, here we are. wishing we'd worked a liffle harder fhe lasf fhree years so we wouldn'f have fo scrape so close on credifs . . . worrying abouf college and College Board exams . . . doing our besf 'fo ge? fhe annual ouf . . . geffing measured for caps and gowns . . . ordering calling cards and announcemenfs . . . being phorographed . . . working hard all fhe fime . . . enjoying life fo fhe fullesf . . . graduafing . . . graduafing . . . graduafing . . . graduafingl lf's a grand, glorious, super-superlafive, joyous, colossal, never-fo-be-had-again feeling, isn'+ if? Buf don'f gef The idea fha? we won'f miss good old W.l-l.S., because we will. There are all of our swell underclass friends . . . our feachers . . . fhe affer-school crowd af Rennie's . . . fhe games . . . all of The liffle fhings fhaf we'll never be able fo recapfure lafer because we won'f be learning, griping, and having The lime of our lives fogefher. So now, before we go, lef's say fo each ofher and fo fhe whole school: For fhese four years: THANKS A MILLION!! J L34 ,lv 9' , VXQW