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In regard to the Warrior cover...it came about in January or February of 1962, after school in a conversation with the yearbook printer, Sells Printing, Mrs Duecker and myself. In previous years the cover featured an Indian in a full dress war bonnet (with all the feathers). We talked about the fact that the school is named for General Custer...perhaps we should have been named the cavalry troops instead. All in all we thought it was "time" to retire the Indian and take a contemporary approach. We were the generation moving our culture in new directions. As we later learned, some of those directions were "good" and some were not! As you may recall the first page in the yearbook is a painting I did of an Indian. He is depicted as somewhat sad or reflective. Is he looking ahead to a battle or contemplating "life"? In his right hand is peace pipe. In regard to the blue color on the cover, it is merely an accent, I thought just the white on the red might be to "plain". I later learned that John Marshall HS opened that year with its colors being red and blue. I got several negative feed back comments about the blue. To all who helped me with the yearbook, thanks again. Before the digital age and computers it was a lot of work pasting photos and indicating copy. Ron Overdahl our photographer later became an award winning photographer for the Milwaukee Journal. 
Here is a photo from 1962 of the June 14th listing of the Custer graduates (Milwaukee Journal). Notice the ads to side...great art!!?? Well the prices were great, 59 cents for a pen, pencil, cuff links, tie bar and a knife!! What more can a guy ask for!!
