Bill Miller who attended Whitefish Bay High School from 1943-47 was looking at the scrapbook of the school when he told me that when he went to school here it had only a long, narrow gym with no seating. Basketball games had to be played at what was then Henry Clay School, he said. It is now the Middle School.
The scrapbook done by United States history students is a good half-foot thick and stuffed with photos and information about each decade, from current events to fashion as well as with school news.
In it is a Milwaukee Journal story about the school costing $391,000. It also lists 1932 to 1943 prices as $595 for a Dodge and $2,150 for a Packard, sirloin steak being 29 cents a pound, a gas stove, $23.95, and a 60-day tour of 11 European countries as $495.
But those prices are against a backdrop of annual ernings in 1932-34 the students list as $1,040 for a secretary, $1,227 for a teacher, $2,520 for an engineer, $3,382 for a doctor, $4,218 for a lawyer, and $8,000 for an airline pilot.
