Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-05-18
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

The boys of the chemistry depart
ment visited the Marathon Paper Mills
! last Thursday afternoon. Mr.. Min
sart their instructor, accompanied
! them.
George Marth, one of the Wausau
orators, took first place in the dis
trict oratorical contest held at Stew
ems Point last Friday morning. Mr..
Marth made wonderful appeal in
| his rendering of President Harding's
address, "The Unknown Hero. jack
son Taylor was the other Wausau
representative, and wild very well. 1t
Is interesting to note that while two
of the three judges voted George
Marth first place, the other judge yot-
ed Jackson Taylor first, thus the Wau-
sau contestants received all the first
places. Miss Huss, the coach, Mrs.
Taylor and Richard Taylor accompa-
MED the boys. Mr.. Marth now goes
to the state contest which will be
held at Madison, Friday, May 49,
Miss Hope Morisette received sec
ond place in the district declamatory
contest held at Stevens Point last Fri
day evening. Miss Morisette's selec-
ton was His Soul Goes Marching
On. Miss Marie Merkel was the 9TH
er Wausau contestant in this contest.
Miss Morgan, the expression teacher,
accompanied the girls.
Joe Bloomquist, who won the dis
trict typewriting contest held here re-
Gently. won fourth place in the state
contest held last Saturday in the
Whitewater Normal school, Mr.. Bloom
quist wrote the highest gross number
of words, but errors in spacing
brought his average down to seventy
seven words per minute, which broke
the former state record by twelve
words a minute. A Racine student
| took first in this with an average of
eighty-siX words a minute. The 9TH
er two Wausau representatives were
John Witowski and Isabel Petran.
| They were accompanied by VIM. A.
Maxwell head OF the commercial de-
partment.
| The Hi-Y club held its closing meet
ing last Tuesday night. The new Off
GERS We're elected as follows: Dean
Crawford, president; Ralph Patterson,
vice president, Arthur Lohr, secreta-
ry; Gordon Murchie, treasurer; Clay
ton Braatz reporter. After the BUSH
ness meeting the club listened to two
! fine talks by F. A. Hathaway. secre-
! tary of the state Y. NJ G. A. and w.
| II. Wones, state boys work secreta-
ry. Mr., Hathaway spoke of having
the right mental attitude toward life
and of the influence that the club
could have on boys character. Dad
dy" Wones led discussion on the
ideal business man and emphasized
the fact that if the boys wanted to
be such man they should begin
| training while in high school,
| Last Thursday the "Wahiscan", the
annual publication of the Senior class
was put on sale. The staff. headed by
Jackson Taylor, has put out very
creditable paper this year. The book
is bound in double covers and con-
tains pictures of the faculty. the Sem
Tors, class officers, athletes and teams,
debaters and various organizations
and their officers. There are COM
plete write-ups on the school activi-
ties, humor section and section de-
voted to advertisements The book
has been dedicated to S. b. Tobey, SUI
| perintendent of schools.
Wausau made a rather poor show
ing in the triangular track meet at
Merrill last Saturday. taking third
place. The only Wausau athlete to
gain first was Henry Pfiuger. n
Freshman. who won the mile run in
five minutes, three and one-fifth sec
onds after trailing the field for the
| first half mile. The other wausau
athletes who placed were as follows.
Spector, third in go yard dash: Tay-
Tor. third in the 440 yard dash. Krohn,
second in the high jump; Braatz, third
in the high jump; Laabs, second in
the pole vault; Spector and Laabs
tied for second in the broad jump:
Wausau team second in the relay.
Wausau scored twenty-five points.
Amigo took the meet with sixty-nine
points and Merrill scored thirty-one
points. The Wausau team will 80 to
the district meet at Stevens Point next