Pause for Party

December 13, 1938, Appleton Post-Crescent

Aside from the usual routine of school activity, this club, as well as the rest of the student body and faculty, had been through a lot the past few years.  This marked the first Christmas since the new Menasha High School was built, after the devastating fire that took the old school on Racine Street in March of 1936.  Since then, students had been farmed all over town to complete their education, until the new campus on Seventh Street opened in 1938.   Also, just a side note about outmoded professions, a "printers club" is rather anachronistic for this day and time, considering our reliance upon computerized this and that.  Setting type has, more than likely, gone the way of buggy whips and hand cranks on automobiles.  And no doubt, some lucky reader may find a relative within these holiday revelers.