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Supplemental file to Chapter on Watertown High School
1911
07 20 School Superintendent’s Annual Report
High School crowding; public school enrollment; Webster School
The enrollment this year [school year ending June 23, 1911] shows an increase of 1 pupil over that of 1910. The total enrollment this year is 1231, and last year it was 1230. This shows that the school population in our city is not increasing very rapidly. Our records show that a greater number of school children left the city during the past year than entered.
The enrollment in the high school reached 311 this year, which is 91 more than the seating capacity of the assembly room. This congested condition was handled by having those who lived within three blocks of the building report for recitation only, and by assigning the balance of the overflow seats in the library, laboratory, and two recitation rooms on the first floor . . .
In my opinion, the heating and ventilating scheme to be installed in Webster School is one of the very best, and I have every reason to believe that it will work perfectly.
The boys’ closet and urinal in Webster School ought to be placed against the west wall and fitted up in a sanitary manner. In order to make this room sanitary the sewerage system will have to be readjusted and while doing this the additional cost to move the closets and modernize them would not be great . . .
The high school work progressed quite satisfactorily, regardless of the crowded condition. During the first part of the year a little annoyance occurred on account of one of the lady assistants being a little weak in discipline. The teacher was a conscientious hard worker, but she was not a match for events as they developed in the growing minds of the children. In addition she found the work very heavy and at Christmas time asked for a leave of absence . . . On account of the crowded conditions the best results cannot be expected. Many of the pupils were compelled to sit at home and report only for classes . . . It is difficult to regulate the home time with that of the school clock and pupils come in at different times, and having no vacant room in which to assemble, are compelled to stand around the halls until the classes pass. To obviate this condition more room ought to be provided . . . WG
1915
A graduating class of 37, will be given diplomas at the high school graduating exercises to be held at Turner Opera house Wednesday evening, June 16. The commencement address will be delivered by Paul F. Voelkert, secretary of the department of instruction of the state university. Following is the list of graduates: Paul H. Conway, Mabel King, Lucile S. Liebermann, Doris A. Meyer, Margaret Mueller, Daniel L. Brooks, Hannah E. Cowen, Ruth B. Johnson, Florence Lenz, Arnold Nickels, Herbert A. F. Rodeck, Marcella A. Sette, Viola I. Volkmann, Myra Wieting, Marguerite E. Goodnetter, Elsa E. Schwendke, Ruth Ellen Tyson, Ruth Marie Archie, Anna I. Biefeld, Selma Spohn, Edna Ullrich, Mary Wieman, Helen Cecilia Belrose, Robert A. Brumm, Henrietta M. Buege, Edna C. Hertel, Ewas G. Hub, Ben R. Krueger, Joseph Lange, Hannah C. Lewis, Arthur R. Linnes, Helen A. Maede, Gertrude S. Nickels, John F. Moriarty, Herbert Radtke, Elsie H. Schur, Anna Maass.
Class Honors by Rank - Roedeck, Lucille Liebermann, Daniel Brooks, Arnold Nickels, Helen Belrose. Class Honors by Election - Daniel L. Brooks, president; Joseph T. Lange, vice-president; Margaret Mueller, secretary; Ruth M. Archie, treasurer.
Class Colors - Purple and white. Class Flower - Blue aster. Class Motto - “Nothing Too Much”
1955 1955 State Champion / Watertown High School
Baseball Team
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The 1955 State Champion Watertown High School Baseball Team
A reunion party was held in 2004 at the Elks Club and about half of the team was in attendance.
[L-R] Ken Rose, Mike Mullen, Rich Block, Myron Jahnke, Jack Bast,
Chuck Brumm, Jerry Sell and Dave Veldhuizen.
1955 The 1955 State Champion
Watertown High School Baseball Team
The
Watertown Goslings won the state baseball championship. It was the first time for such an
achievement. A planned article will
document the occasion by commemorating the team and team players. The author, Dave Stalker, researched the
newspaper clippings and box score's associated with each game and contacted
most of the championship team members so to add updating information and
perspective.
1961
Watertown Daily Times, 04 25 & 28 1961
The Watertown High School gymnasium was transformed into an underwater paradise for the 1961 junior prom held Friday night. The junior class chose the theme “Ebb Tide” for the gala party. The theme decorations will be carried out with an underwater scene in the gymnasium and a beach scene in the cafeteria. Music for dancing was played by Jimmy Hartwig and his orchestra. Spectators filled the balcony to watch the coronation ceremony, the grand march and the dancing. Reigning as king and queen were Dennis Turke and Carolyn Gnewuch. In their court of honor were Arthur Kehl and Kate Nelson, Peter Uttech and Linda Quirk, Robert Langer and Wanda Pas, Ed Buckland and Rita Peirick, Ed Meyers and Janet Koshelnick and John Schuch and Ruth Neitzel.
1962
02 28 The city of Watertown, named in the last will and testament of the late Dr. Ella Ruebhausen, at one time a teacher in Watertown High School and later for many years a teacher in Chicago, will be represented at a hearing scheduled for March 7 in the Superior Court of Cook County, Ill., seeking a clarification of the will and an order to settle the estate and make a sum of money, under terms of the will, available for Watertown High School scholarships at the University of Wisconsin. Attending the hearing will be City Attorney James A. Fitzpatrick and Superintendent of Schools Eugene W. Tornow. Under terms of the will, a Self Help Junior College was to be established in Watertown by the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin, but the regents and the city contend this is not feasible. WDT
1986
The ceiling was filled with streamers and balloons were floating in the air, as Jason Jones and Patty Shumaker were announced king and queen of the 1986 Watertown Senior High School prom Saturday night. The court members included Jones and Shumaker; Rob Adler and Julie Larson; Daryl Peirick and Ellen Zgonc; David Andrews and Kim Sevenz; Mike Frommgen and Shana Kaddatz; Rod Bachler and Sue Chapman; and Tim Radloff and Trish Da Walt. Presenting the king and queen with flowers and crowns were the miniature couple of Trevor Peirick, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Peirick, and Stephanie Buchholtz, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William Buchholtz.
