West Allis Central Class of 1962    |   home                      Joseph M. Stefanko  Mr. Stefanko and his wife, Eleanor will be attending the brunch on Sunday, July 20. Mr. Stefanko offered up a story from the past. I guess we didn't realize back then that our teachers pulled pranks on each other, while trying to keep us on the “straight and narrow”. Good Lord, they were human after-all. The Mystery of the Hard-Boiled Eggs Having an electrical background I was asked to wire an old refrigerator to serve as an incubator for our biology department. The refrigerator served only as an insulated case and a heater, controlled by a thermostat, was wired inside the refrigerator. Mr. Wulz (one of our biology teachers) secured three dozen fertilized eggs, and placed them in this home-made incubator. It takes 21 days of incubation to hatch the eggs. The plan was to open an egg after five days, nine days, twelve days and sixteen days to show how far the incubation had progressed to that point. After five days Mr. Wulz opened the first egg in front of his class. To his surprise the egg was hardboiled. Thinking the placement of the egg in the incubator caused this, he opened a second egg. It also was hardboiled At this point he charged up to my chemistry room accusing me of doing a poor wiring job. I showed him the thermometer inside the refrigerator was showing the proper temperature. On further investigation Mr. Wulz learned that some of his teacher friends had secretly taken his eggs, hard-boiled them prior to the start of the incubation, and then returned them to his room. The moral of this story is to never trust your teacher-friends. (This story is from the archives of the Joseph Stefanko Foundation)