Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-05-04
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

Last SATURDAY the WduSdu ttlBn
school took first place in the district
commercial contest that was held in
this school. There were ten other
schools entered, Marshfield taking sec
ond place and Stevens Point, third
| This grading was based on the results
of all events. The indi vidual win
ners in the various contests were
as follows:
Senior Tipping
Marie Meyer, Marshfield, second, av-
erage of 60 words per minute.
Lucille Reiland, Wisconsin Rapids,
third average of So words per minute.
Junior Tipping
Erwin Voigt Merrill, first.
Mildred Croft, Medford, second.
Ethel Turucek, Wittenberg, third.
Ssorthand-
Hedvig Banach, Mosinee, first 600
per cent perfect.
Lucille Reiland, Wisconsin Rapids,
second, (99% per cent perfect.)
Regina Zuhe, Marshfield, third,
(992 per cent perfect.
Penmanship-
Genevieve DeBase, Stevens Point,
first.
Isabel Petran, Wausau, second.
Ramona Grabonski, Stevens Point,
third.
Erna Hutz, Wausau, fourth.
Mental Calculation
John Woit0wski, Wausau. first.
Segrid Rasmussen, Marshheld, Sec
ond.
Bernice Carnahan, Marshfield, third.
lrma Beth, Wausau, rourtn.
Wausau will send Joel Bloomuuist,
John Woitowski and Isabel Petran to
the state contest at Whitewater Nor
NAL on May 20. 1t is hoped that
they will carry off some of the state
honors.
Miss Owen was called to her home
last Friday by the illness of her
grandmother, notice of whose death
has since been received. Mrs. Sweet
is substituting for Miss Owen.
Forty-four OF the students have
sent their names to the National Bu-
reau of Educational Correspon dence.
The students have the privilege of in
dicating the nationality OF the foreign
correspondent with whom they wish
to correspond. The preference was
given to French students and then
Spanish, japanese, Belgian and Chin
ese.
Last Friday, April 2S, a son was
born to Mr. and Mrs. c. S. Snyder. He
has been named John Robert in hon
or of his grandfather.
Miss Ruth Moody, one of our form
er teachers, has enrolled in Leland
Stanford university for the summer
session. She is at present teaching
in Reno, Nevada, and the work that
she will take up will be 10 fit her
self for the ne cessary qualifications
to teach in California.
Tuesday noon the Junior class met
and elected Dean Crawford as editor
in chief of the 1928 Wahiscan, the high
school annual that will be put out by
that class as Seniors next year. John
Coates was elected as business mana
ger at the same time.
The elections for the editor and bus
mess manager for the "Skyrocket"
next year were held Wednesday noon
and resulted in the choosing of Al
theo Weinkauf as editor and Kenneth
Patterson as business manager.
Last Thursday the boys chemistry
classes were taken by their instruct
or Mr.. Minsart, to the gas plant. The
| boys were later required to write an
account of the manufacture of illum-
mating gas
The same Thursday the Freshmen
girls cooking classes visited the
! Dodge-Hooker mills and were given
a lesson in -four making.
The Waugoniau club which conduct
ed song and cheer contest has an
nounCed the winners. For the seri-
Gus songs. the Misses Selma Asch-
brenner and Georgina Laut were tied
for first place. Both wrote a song
to the tune of America the Beauti-
full. and the club expects To combine
them into one official song. Honor
able mention was given 10 Miss Ger
trude Royce and Adelbert Holman.
For the cheering songs. Miss Esther
Steinbach was given first prize Hon
orahle mention was given to Miss
Lanes third period class, Miss Lanes
second period class. the Misses Alice
Rudberg, Arno Voigt and Clair Muir
ply. For the cheers, William Carter
was given first place. Honorable men
ton was given 10 the Misses Flora
Allen, Eva Lee and Mary Blecha.