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

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from lows. Wo learned later that Pauline is not quiet ALWAYS. Now, in ull we total 18. in our graduation year. Through tho rnnny yearn, we all have shared memories of various chilaish exploit , the horrors of being caught and punished but we all shared tender memories, too. The memories of May Basket Day. Memorial Day and thousand other times which we rtiured and which will come back in mind as we go on in life. A phase of our lives had bean lived out here at WSD and this is not the ending, only the beginning. Class Will by Janet DeLap We, the olass of 1957, of tho Wisconsin School for the Deaf, in the city of Ddavan, in tho County of Walworth, being sound of body as always, and in doubt as to our soundness of mind, do hereby make, establish, and announce this aa our FIRST will and testament of our lifetime but tho last for the school's lifetime. First, our everlasting gratitude and thanks to Superintksident Milligan and his wife for their putience. discipline, and help in making us what we are now, from the troublesome, headstrong children who enrolled long ago. It is with regrets that many of us will see you Ittnve WSD but we have, will us, many found memories of our school days with you. To the atu f ami houMr.jtarcnta, our humble thanks and final understanding for your constant lectures and spanking. We would bo worse if it had not been lor you. It is because of us that you had ulcers, wept for lost causes, began to become bald from constant hair-tearing demonstrations, but wr do seriously hope and wish to exeel your high standards in life. Well done, kind guides and friends. Teacher . tho objects of our grumbling, outbursts and mean tricks, we never realized now important a part you have played in our lives. We are sure that your lctwons and lectures will come back in time to h 9p us. So we arc remembering you in our will. To the preparatory teach rs, once ours, we wish to will you a fifteen year supply of candy to bribe the children with. Once kids, we all love bribes! To the intermediate teacher , our sorrowful understanding of problems in pupils' puppy-love. So we feel you can make uaa of our present, a supply of aspirin. To the high school teacher, individually, because they have been with us in the last few years almost constantly. To Muu William , a huge bottle of red ink os you nearly hav© none left after correcting our language. Mrs. Croabu—a bottle of “Happiness Pills , wc have caused her to be vory miserable. Mr. Gant—a book on How to Tell Jokes”. We love your techinque of teaching but we think the other classes should work more. Mr. Necaam— an adding machine to ease his homework. Mr. Wilber—a box of erasers with chains attachment for the typing room. It was often that we found our pockets cluttered with erase rs from the room. Mrs. Gant—an automatic blackboard washer and dryer. We sure found a lot to do during the five minutes devoted to cleaning the blackboard. Now, from each of us, we wish to bequeath to the remaining WSD boy ami girl with some of our abilities to hrtp them out nnrt some unfortunate will receive some of our Habits that we’d like to gel rid of. Please accept our gifts with the spirit of friendliness in which they are given. To the Class of 59, we sincerely hope that all of you will work and graduate from here with honors and make WSD proud of you. DEANNA RABIOLA wills her love and understanding of music to SANDRA REED, she hop© to see Sandra a “real cool jitterbug in the near future. DELORES SEIDEL gives SOME of her artistic flair to BEVERLY BREESE in hop© that she could be able to help out with future prom decorations. GEORGE EVANS comes to the conclusion that be wishes to dedicate his skill in hunting to a begin-m-r, KYAH SYGAARD. I.EON BONGEY is determined thnt he will sacrifice his manners nnd courtesy to BILL RED NICK. Make good use of them, Bill. LARRY DOHERTY wills his picture taking hobby and his camera to JUDITH RASMUS nnd his willingness to work to LE ROY ELMER. STANLEY HELGESON wills his extreme height (in hope he may shorten his) to THOMAS BLANCO. Atta boy, you can mow ’am down now at basketball. DEAN WEBB wills his knowledge in love nnd romance and assortment of love books (nnd not his girls.) to LEE FRAXIEli who he feels needs it. VIVIAN HURD gladly wills her memory to a methodical girls, CHARLENE SJOQUIST. BERNICE LA FRATTA gives her slimness to KAREN KALZY to ease her diet. PAULINE OLSON wills her quietness to a very lively girl. INEZ SANDVICK. BETTY LVEBKE wills her ability to keep things in order to MELINDA ELDRED in hope she will make the best use of it. ROSS SMITH very kindly give his football ability to a beginner already showing promise, EDDIE SZENJA. ALLEN BLACK MORE gives, with no remorse, his habit at talking to SUE HANNA. JERRY NOBLE, in a thunderous tone, wills his booming voice to a quiet type, JIM REINECK. Jerry likes to keep Bray Hall very lively and noisy, remember Jim? TOM HONER buries his hatchet and wills his favorite study of sport to ARTHUR NADLER. MARVIN ANDERSON present his job to SHARON SMITH, an avid listener. . .IXJNALD DU BOIS wills his wonderful cheerful personality to HOWARD CHALLONER. Lucky Boy! And I, JANET DELAP, after much consideration. have come to a conclusion that 1 will give my love of reading hooks to KAREN BANOV EX in hope she will make use of it. This will, being read and approved by nil of us, is declared to be effective no later than June 10 and upon this day, this will shall be afflxid and scaled. Witness: MISS MARY WILLIAMS [19]

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Address of Welcome Mr. Mdcher, Superintendent MiUigan. toucher, classmates, pn routs und friends: We, the class of 1957, wish to welcome you to the 8 th commencement exorcise at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. This is a hlippy and memorable hour for us, who nix in the graduating class. It is hard to believe that this is our Inst day at school and that tomorrow we shall start a now life. We hope we shall be able to measure up to the new responsibilities that will fnco us. We will never forget what the school hua done for us and we all appreciate it and will retain pleasant memories of the happy times w« had here. This school has given us the opportunity of securing a good education to make us bettor citizens of our wonderful country. We are very grateful to all who have helped us Our class motto, “Hands that work, minds that think and hearts that love tolls what we believe should bo the aim of everyone and wo shall endeavor to live up to it. In behalf of my class, let me say again that you are most welcome here this aftrmoon. Deanna Rubiola, president Class History by Dean Webb Being the first one to enroll at WSD, the task of writing out our class history nntu rally falls upon me, and I delight in this as I’d like to tell you many of my classmates, reactions to school when they came here. A very skinny and hlnnde boy came here in the fall of 1941, (that’s me). Friends brought my mother and me here ns that friend had n deaf son who attends this school. My reactions were non-commitn! as I did not yet realize what school meant. I was a alow learner but thanks to WSD, I improved inter. In 1941, Man-in Anderson enrolled. He came from Waldwick, and was so lorvwome that he cried hia eyes out and later developed a habit of playing with a toy car all by himself and did not associate much. I'm glad to say he outgrew that habit and associates well now. Two girja came that year, they were Vivian Hurd and Bernice La Fratto. Vivian made other girls here very envious of her long curls but Bernice was not liked very much as she stuck out her tongue whenever she had the chance. But she- soon learned not to do that. Three more joined our class the fall of 1942. Jerry Noble, like most of us, was scared when he came here. He told himself that he would newr, never be bad again so that his parents would not bring him to this jail. He thought that WSD was a jail, imagine that !! Jerry had colds and had to remain at the hospital and while there he met Don Du Bois. Don Du Bois was a newcomer that year, too. He hailed from New Richmond. Upon his arrival, he promptly hid in the bam we have on our campus and when his parents were going to depart, Don ran to the car and locked all the doors. His parents were shocked hut a supervisor got Don out by bribery of a candy bar. then Don got used to WSD ami liked to play. Allen Black more nl o came In 1942, a very chubby cute bid. He felt a small among tin large building that he cried when his parents departed for Beloit. One advantage of being young, a child soon forgrt and presently Allen found a lot to do on the playground. More wore even added to our fast growing class ns in the full of 1913, Ixxm Bongey, Stanley Hclcgson and Deanna Rabiola wore the newcomers. Leon took the puzzlement in his stride as he already wtos an expert signer l»ecauH of hiB two «kaf waters, and father. Stan was less fortunate, however, ns he was shy. He wept when his parents left but soon wag inquisitive about the sign language. Supervisors fell under Deanna’s spell as she was a model child nnd always tried to bo good all the time. She hud long braids at that time, Then in 1943 a tired mother dragged a towhead tomboy into the campus, nnd when a crowd of curious girl» gathered, she surprised them by signing, where’s Betty”, who was her cousin in this school that time. The mother was also deaf. She enjoyed WSD tmmcndounly as she thought it was n piny ground hut when it was time to go to bed, she raised Cain until allowed to have a bed next to Betty’s. That girl was Janet Delap. Following Thanksgiving vacation in 1947, a hard-of-hearing boy whose name was Lorry Doherty enrolled. His aunt came with him all the way from Iowa. He attended a public school there nnd he considered coming here an exciting experience. The first word in the sign language he learned was “Iowa”. In the following years, he has endeared himself to many who know him by his kindmsw nnd willingness. Delores Seidel came here from La Crosse with her parents in 1948. She used to attend a ‘lay school there and knew Ann Forsberg so when Delores saw Ann, she was not too scared nt WSD. That same year, Betty Lucbke enrolled here. Her father ami she came from up north, Weyauwega, Wls. Her first impression of WSD was that she thought it was a hospital and of course she was scared. But soon she was engaged in playing with other . Two enme in 1950 and joined the doss. Bill Kvans came from Middleton. Ho was a friendly lad and associated well almost from the start. He even showed an ability to play football that time and now is one of our strong workhorses in football. Ho also was a ladies’ man from the start and all through the years he continually had a girl n his arm. Tom Honor wag the other. His hometown was at Richland Center and he uacd to attend Day School nt Milwaukee and picked up the sign language there so when he came here, he got by pretty well despite his shyness. The fall of 1952 was the year when Ross Smith, a handsome sturdy hoy, came with his sister from Chippewa Falls. He, like many of u? used to attend a day school before coming here. He showed much interest in sports and contributed much to WSD’s records. Our “Johnny-come-lately” was Pauline Olson, n quiet typo, who enrolled late in December of 1953. For business reasons her family moved to Janesvile

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Class Prophecy by Larry Doherty After nineteen years as a photographer at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. 1 decided to take a cross-country tour to visit my classmutes. I was married and had two lovely daughters. School w as out for the summer so I started making plans. Janet, my sister, was coming along with me. She isn't really my sister, but during our school days we called each other brother and sister. The habit just stuck with us. Wt)|( Janet was a teacher here for fourteen yuan and had twelve sets of twins and the author of popular selling book- Cheaper By Two Dozen . Now Janet doesn’t have twelve sets of twins all her own. Half of them were adopted. Janet and I both started the following week. My •Idost daughter and Janet’s oldest sets of twins were coming along. The others all were sent to a summer camp. All of us, who were going, piled into my new 7«» Dodge station wagon and head-on! for Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As all women have been down through the ages. Jnnet wanted to stop off at a filling station to clean up before we visited the Bongey—Helgeson Baseball School. Both boys wore also pro busebaH players for the Bravos. Leon was married to a girl from Illinois and hud a son in with the B'aves. Stan was not so lucky. He had two daughters and was niarried to a girl from Oklahoma. We all went over to Stan’s ranch-stylo house and stayed there overnight. The next day was the final day of the World Series. Milwaukee was playing Japan, (at the lust word, world , fits in the World Scries) at any rutc, Milwaukee won for the thirteenth straight time. That night we stayed at l.con’8. The World Series nrc now played in the summer. The following day we were on our way. Wo crossed lake Michigan by a great bridge. On our way to Detroit, Mich., it was raining cats and dogs. But, with the wonders of glass, all highways and main cities were gloss-domed. At Detroit we looked up Ross, who was one of the world’s most famous pro-football players of all time. He was married to a Michigan girl and three sons who played football. We spent the extra day at Detroit and stayed overnight at Ross’ place. Since Ross was off from foot-1 all he cornu oolng with us. That dfcy we were well on our way. Ross and his ddest boy went with us. I was wotting quite a load, but my soft - heart was like butter. Late that afternoon we were in New York City. I turned the car over to Ross ns he was often in N. Y. C. In New York City wo looked up Deanna, a married teacher, who modeled Italian clothes for Life. Her husband was an interpreter on the Ed Sullivan Show and her son and daughter were at Summer Camp. There was a full house that night. We all stayed at Deanna’s and two days afterwards we started for Miami., Fla. At Miami, Fla.. Delores, world famous artist, was very glad to sec Ross. Ross decided to stay then return to Detroit, so we stayed for a day, and then after a day’s visit we started on our way. With carefull timing we got in Dallas, Texas July 3rd. It was now 1970, two hundred years after the Declaration of Independence and a great celebration was going on. So we quickly looked up Allen. Allen spent the next several days there. And to our sur- prised we found Bill who flew in from Denver, Colorado. So Bill then returned to his home with us. July 4th was a big day! Allen was a DeSoto auto dealer and had four kids. Bill was a bachelor and a game warden in Colorado. We all stayed in Dallas for a few more days and then were on our way to Phoenix, Arizona, with a new passenger. Bill. The following day wte were at Phoenix and looked up the Noble School of Dancing. Jerry was very glad to see us and showed us how to dunce some fancy steps. Jerry was married to a Mexican girl. After a night's stay, wc started for Los Angeles, California. We have traveled nearly clear around the country and hadn't stayed at any motel so we decided after our visit in lx» Angeles that We would stay at n motel. It wtas noon when we were nt IAngeles and had dinner with Pauline. With a television - phone in my car. it was a movie producer for the 20th Century Fox. Pauline took up some art us a hobby and whs a housewife with two boys. That afternoon we visited Disneyland. Half way to San Francisco I got a motel for the night to please everyone. It was now late in July and our tour was half over. Time was running short. The next morning we paid a short visit to Betty. She was n housewife also with four children. Betty wanted us to stay, but we couldn’t. Wc drove right an through Oregon to Seattle. Washington, to see Marvin and his famous fish Hatchery, also. He was a famous fisherman and was married. At lost some woman accepted the job of cleaning his fish. That's how his famous hatchery came about. After having dinner nt Seattle we started eastward to Denver, Colorado, Bill’s home. He showed us around his place in the woods. He »tut a great sportsman also. The next morning, the second week in August, wc hooded for St. Paul, Minn., to look up Bernice, u famous artist, and Vivian, a fast typist in a large firm. Bernice was over at Vivian's place so we stayed there the entire afternoon. The next morning we went into northern Wisconsin, Uvc? most welcome sight of all our tour. Wc then headed for the largest dairy farm in the world run by Don. We spend the entire day there also and enjoyed it very much. Well, here at last, we were in Wisconsin after two months’ traveling and still had more to sox and visit. Driving on to Madison the following day we stop pod at a large printing shop run by Dean. Wc stayed there till late in the afternoon, ami then went to got a motel. It was a hard choice as there were so many beautiful motels in Madison. The next day we visited the Wisconsin Dells and ran into Tom. Tom was not, as wo all thought, a minister, but became n farmer and raised all sorts of fruit and vegetables. After our little, tour of the Wisconsin Dells, we went out to his place. He had a lovely wife who graduated from the school in later years and had four lovely kids. At last! Delavan! The most wonderful littlo town in the whole U. S. A. From n small of 4,000 when we graduated in ’67 to 100,000 now. We tumid toward WSD, which was now in the heart of iKdavan. The next day Janet and I started to settle k»wn for a couple of weeks. Then of all questions, Janet asked, Brother dear, where wBJ we go in ’81? [20]