Wisconsin High School - Wisconsin Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Donald Smith - I remember most my gratitude for the resourcefulness of W.H.S. students. I faced my first group of one-act plays with no scenery or lights. Two of my students built stage bord- ers, a switch board, and scenery before the plays were ready to go on. Rita Springhorn - The library used to be an amphi- theatre with the wall between it and 210 knocked out. There were seats in the library for observers. The thing I remember is my horror on entering it and thinking I had to teach there. Homer Stahl - I rushed into the iob, arriving in town one day with school beginning the next. It took about the first week to find out just where everything fitted. The faculty and students were very friendly so my adjustment came early. Esther Weightman - I remember the lack of faculty organization. I only knew the principal and one or two other teachers. I was visiting another school and taken to see a man I was obviously expected to know. I didn't, but I found out I should have. He was an art teacher in Wiscon- sin High.

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Karen Falk Johnson - The invasion of the Solomon Islands. Laura Johnson - We were in an assembly one af- ternoon and saw flames shooting upward, we all ran to the window and watched Bascom Hall burn. Ruth Johnson - The song Look for the Silver Lining was the song of the year. Mary Justice - I came during the Centennial Year. John Mayor - The announcement of the Marshall Plan, the 80th Congress, and an unusually early announcement of the presidential candidates for the T949 term struck me as being most important. Harriet Merten - Finding an apartment to live in. Harold Metzen - Living in Lake Mills, I had 30 miles to drive back and forth every day. Once I was stranded in Madison for three days because of a big snowstorm. Margaret Meyer - The actual practice of progres- sive education as I had learned it in my educa- tion classes. Virginia Noyes - The way that my students and I can discuss the problems that arise in the study of a subject and arrive at a mutual conclusion. Chester Olson - I remember thinking that Wiscon- sin High had the mOst understanding between students and faculty that I had come across. Milton Pella - The fact that Wisconsin High is a school in which the true worth of science as a cul- tural as well as a social force is duly recognized. Robert Petzold - It marked the change-over from the military to civilian way of thinking and doing. Burr Phillips - I had taught in schools where pupils learned, the assigned lessons and recited them. Here I found a school where pupils were taking the initiative - glad to grow in self direction. Louise Post - I was amazed that the students took for granted the wonderful opportunities and fa- cilities we have. Jay Purves - The first year I was here there were 6 girls participating in after-school sports. Now there are 75. It shows the changing of interest through the years. Agnes Jones - I was most impressed by the fine senior foods class, I had. Their interests, consid- erateness and individual activities have made this semester one to remember. Marian Reitan - The friendly and democratic at- mosphere that pervades the school. Virginia Rybolt - I remember the informality and friendliness of the graduation exercises. Raymond Schultz - The go get 'em spirit of the stu- dent body and their willingness to accept respon- sibility is what I think I will remember about my first year. Francis Shoemaker - Three years ago, I found that in Wisconsin High School we often take for granted a kind of human relationship that sym- bolizes a great deal to visitors. I think particu- larly of a visiting teacher from China who re- marked: Here is democracy in action. Even the teacher raises his hand to take part in the cIass.

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ECJlIEC'.2CJlIK'C3'r THE COACH Coach Metzen is in his third year at Wiscon- sin High School. Although we haven't won any championships in this time, we have done well, and Coach has proved to be a maker of men which is his main iob. He lives every .K V QL' play ofa game right along with his team. At ' -,i. L ubznu f i xxx ' times you think he's going to run on the field , ,fl 'ili ixwi A to make a tackle or block that some Bone- X Q ti' g I M,,,,,:i'g1t head , as he puts it, missed. We wish him ' XY A ,l luck in future ears, that's somethin that an 1 X ' iiii Lid coach can use? g Y THE ASSISTANT COACHES Very instrumental to the team's effectiveness of their personal time they showed their devotion throughout the season was the attention and advice to football and our team by correcting our faults offered by our capable assistant coaches: Paul and encouraging us when we did something well. Henry, Vern Bieles and Nick Holmes. Taking much THE MANAGERS L W Managers, Gene, Gwen and Dick did ' A A K W an efficient, thorough job of keeping .3 things ship-shape. Managing might not Z 5 V f i 'HQV n S be as glamorous as quarter-backing but as .V. Q it certainly is as important and necessary . ,V H W it for the team's success. Our hats are off V V especially to Gene who was an inspira- 1, K tion to the team. ii ,N 3'