Wisconsin School for the Deaf - Tattler Yearbook (Delavan, WI)

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I )oor vays Printing At ten-twenty the doors of Cochrane Hal) open. Out of them boys hurrv eagerly to the printing shop. There they put on their aprons and roll up their sleeves and work begins. Huddling around Mr. Rood, our instructor, we are given assignments for work. One goes to the composing room to make up some forms for commercial jobs, and anot her goes to a stone to lock forms for the presses. Two operators in turn clean up and prepare the Linotypes. Bight minutes are sufficient for this. Then they have “sit at the machines and hands start to fly over keys while eyes are glued on copy so that not a word or line will be missed. If a word is out an entire paragraph has to be reset and this means a loss of valuable time. When they finish setting their “takes”, proofs are pulled. Other boys, as proofreaders, carefully read and mark errors. At the northeast corner of the shop sometimes we can see a boy high on a seat practice feeding the cylinder press. At other times a boy hangs new draw-sheets on the cylinder and makes-ready for a run. After everything is ready, the press starts to growl. The speed is regulated according to the ability of the feeder to keep up with it. When the run is off the press, a group of busy workers gathers around tables folding, stitiching. trimming and wrapping. A few beginners stand at the news cases learning to set type in composing sticks and sometimes they stand in different places in the shop where they can watch the work of experienced boys to get ideas of how to do certain jobs. Everyday the printing shop is alive and may be compared with a bee hive in which every worker has his job and does it. Inside the “hive you can see printers bustle around until the bell gives the signal to stop and put things away. —R. R. Cur Easter Vacation Two days before we had our Easter vacation the students just couldn't sit still. They rushed to their rooms during every leisure moment and started packing. Sometimes they rushed to the laundry for some forgotten garment, bumping into someone on the way down. Thursday morning being the last day of school, those who were going home suddenly lost their appetites at the breakfast table and in school the hands of the clock seemed to drag around. Would noon never come? After dinner the pupils rushed hither and thither getting bags, leaving cards, or waiting in the hall for Miss Glenore to call them and to take them to the bus or train. In some rooms you could hear echoes of Good Bye . Have a nice Easter , or a cry from a little one who might have lost something the last minute. Other patient little bodies stood waiting with their little noses pressed against the window looking for their parents to come for them, coat and hat in hand and baggage standing nearby. Many girls that lived too far had to remain here for their Easter vacation. They made the best of it by doing some of the work in the laundry and helping Miss Pearl. At other times they washed their own clothes or fixed their hair. The evenings were spent either playing in the gym or reading books. On Saturday afternoon Mr. Bray let us go to the movies and we saw Mae West. We thought it was a pretty good picture, although

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dared. I nhould have cut every physical education class. Through the splendid training given here. I grew interested; and before long I found myself looking forward to these classes, which were always held following the academic school work. The swimming I loved: in fact, there wasn't one thing in the whole course which I disliked. It took away that unpleasant nervous feeling. While some may still call me fidgety, which I am at times, I know that my work in physical education has been a great help. If. in choosing his life work, one should take into consideration what interests him most; I should certainly choose to be a teacher of Physical Education. So this guide post has led me to a positive choice of work for my livelihood. —Ruth Cataract The school has provided so many guide posts that lead to better ways that it is difficult. yes, quite impossible to choose just one. There wasn’t a Loy here in school with whom I could get along when 1 first landed. It was usually my fault, of course, but then I thought it was the other fellow's. The cooperation that a boy learns here certainly leads him out of this “trouble making business. And. too. etiquette and 1 never had much to do with each other until I came here. There is still room for improvement along this line, in my case; but we are much better friends. The studies offered in the curriculum here aroused my interest in many fields. They have instilled in me a love for reading. 1 even like to study. So. certainly, they have pointed out a way worthwhile. The printing department has been an inspiration to me and stimulated ambition, which 1 seemed to lack. Where once on the only sign post I saw was: “You can’t ever earn your living. I now see on another: “Be a good printer and you can earn a living. Our instructor in printing points this out to us daily. If we take some shorl cut and fail, it will not be his fault. —Hubert Seidel In the ironin;: room I soon found out that 1 couldn’t get by with careless work. Every wrinkle must be pressed out of the white uni-fern's. They must look just right. If took patience both on my part and on the part of my instructor. This training led me to be more accurate in all my work. This has brought my ti.arks up in home economics, in art. and in academic studies. “A thing that is worth doing is worth doing well. —Ruth Schmidt ■ ” • —.... The activities of the Boy Scouts here have, I believe, had the greatest influence over me of all these that are provided for our benefit. When my cousin, Frederick Foker. was attending school, he was very active in Scouting here, as well as at his home. 1 his aroused my interest in that movement at an early age. As a mere youngster my greatest desire was to be a leader of that organization, and I determined to work for this end. From the Boy Scouts I have not only learned to do many things that have been of benefit to me. but also how to respect and help others, how to keep healthy and how to be always prepared to meet any emergency. When I have faithfully followed the Scout rules. I have been shown the difference between right and wrong. Last year when I received the American Legion School Award. I realized more fully Ilian over before what my training had done for me. The Boy Scout movement. I am confident, is one of the best societies in the world for it develops manliness and willingness to serve, it enuoles boys to overcome traits that would in time harm their character. May W. S. I), niways have Boy Scouts! And may the members follow its rulesi —Raymond A. Rasmus I have learned to like sewing, and I have learned it in the Home Economics department here. Sewing was always a bore to me when 1 took it before coming here. The patience that was shown by my instructor. when I was taking the first steps, encouraged rr.e and has led me to be fond of sewing. Most of my leisure time 1 spend sewing and it makes me more contented. —Gladys Davies

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it was the first time some of us had seen Mae West on the screen. On Easter Sunday it was very cold. Noru of the girls dresed for the Easter parade, but they all went looking very nice and happy n. warm winter clothes. Monday morning we anxiously waited for the girls to come back to see what the Easter “bunny” had brought them and to hear all the news from home. This ended our Easter vacation for we had to go back to school that afternoon. —Gladys Davies 1 • ■ Poster Contest On April seventh during chapel exercises Mr. Becker awarded the prizes for the winners of the poster contest. The first prize went to Geneva Broege. the second to Raymond Rasmus. Betty Jahn and Edward Meyers tied for third place. The best poster was used for the front cover of Spring Program. Mabel Kubiak. Betty Solterman and Marlene Stittleberg were given honorable mention. —Florence Mojick - • — ' - -The Spring Program My. what a lot of excitement one event can cause! The continual snipping of scissors, the mad search for more pins, needles and thread, and then the rapid whirr of the sewing machines as they skim down the edges of each garment and. last but not least, the fitting and finishing. Vet what fun to see each garment take form, to see the beautiful folds of cloth, made into a creation worth having. Then the trip to Mrs. Llewellyn whose kind admiration gives courage to even the meekest little seam tress. However the finishing of garments is not the last of our work. My, no! For there is the rehearsing of the models for the performance itself. Then and there the confusion starts. Changes are rapidly being made, girls are hurriedly walking back ami forth each doing her part in the performance gracefully and unafraid. Finally there comes the last rehearsal, all is in readiness, even the orchestra begins its mellow music. Each and every individual, well prepared, gracefully and with hope in her heart does her part. Then the performance itself, the many eager faces of those who wonder if their parts were acceptably carried out. By the applause and praise which is later received it is quite apparent that the Spring Program has made a hit with everyone. —Marcene Schmit Leisure Hours Recreation time is here! The upper study girls are darting to the reading nook in the hall by the stairs. There lie the newspapers on the table and each girl tries to grab the latest edition. Lucky is the girl who gets it first! The rest must wait their turn after exacting a promise of being “next”. As they stand and wait for their turn, they talk with others about what they did during the school periods and things that interest them most. Usually the others bury their heads in library books which they have obtained from the Aram or State School libraries. They have many interesting hooks and the girls are loathe to stop reading. The girls don't spend as much time outdoors as the boys do because they haven't so nice or large a playground. The giant strides, a small tennis court, three small swings and the slide afford much pleasure for the lower study girls. —Helen Hockert -------• ■ Posture Have you noticed how erect the girls and boys are sitting and standing? In the latter part of March several posters, explaining how to improve posture were put up on the bulletin boards. After that there was quite a little improvement in everyone’s posture. Not long after that Miss Stock, our gymnasium teacher, popped into one schoolroom after another to see whether the pupils were sitting and standing erect or not. Teachers were told to put down the names of those who had good posture. A number of students were chosen to enter the posture contest. The judges were Mr. Magro, Dr. Carroll, and Miss Steck. The winners were Carola Davis; Alice Beidermunn; iS