Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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 Returning last fall, students found that during the summer history room 18 had been remodeled into offices for Miss Leona Soehren and Mr. Paul A. Young, who fill positions correspond- ing to a college’s deans of women and men. The advisers help solve all sorts of problems, and straighten out any social or scholastic maladjustments that may occur. One of their chief duties is giving guidance in the selec- tion of subjects and the arrangement of a student’s course in view of fu- ture occupations. Both Miss Soehren, who supervises all club work, and Mr. Young, sponsor of the Service Club and President of the Iowa Guidance Association, have worked in assembling a library of nearly two hundred books and more than five hundred pamphlets on vocational, social, moral and ethical guidance. I’il Above: Miss I,eona L. Soehr Kiris’ adviser. Center: Mr. A. Young, boy ' adviser. Below: Barbara Horton and Marjorie Griggs consulting books in the guidance library. 9

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Business and Health Leaving the administration offices of the entire school system, the little guide leads the way across the campus and up the main building’s wide stone steps. From the busy office on the first floor all the activities of the high school are directed. Taking care of the routine office work are Miss Hertha Hauptmann and Miss Viola Volkens, who in her extra duties as attendance clerk, often makes that perplexing and sometimes embarrass- ing inquiry, “Where were you yesterday?” Prin- cipal A. I. Naumann’s secretary, Mrs. Norma Post, is also registrar. Fully accredited, and maintaining a Class A rat- ing, Davenport High School has a student enroll- ment of more than 2100, 326 of whom pay tuition. In one semester Dr. Carl H. Mat- they, the city schools doctor, gave 2060 high school students physical examinations, and Miss Wilna Nash, D.H.S.’s first full time nurse, treated 978 patients for accident or illness, transferred 709 into the first aid rooms, and dismissed 943 from school. The numbers for the second semester were much higher, due to the flu epidemic in the spring. f ll t Above: Mr». Principal A. I Hertha ken in Naxh. school Secretary to Circle: Mi»» Viola Vol- : Mi»» Wilna Matthcy, city 8

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JANUARY - - Study Room A was home room for 147 seniors who graduated in January, eighty-eight boys and fifty-nine girls. They elected Robert Stoltenberg as president of their class, and Hob Ben- der served as vice president. Lucille Hobart was the secretary. Mildred Gamber and Ralph Lagoni shared honore as girls’ and boys’ treasurers. On January 27, Dr. Harry G. Barnes, of the speech department of Iowa University, spoke at graduation on “A Commencement Inventory.” These exercises were the ninety-fifth held for Davenport High School graduates. First honors at graduation went to Mary Hendele, Bill Henigbaum, and Eleanor Witt. Mildred Gamber, Vera Petersen, Tommy Quinn, Bob Stolten- berg, and Marjorie Ward received second honors. The social committee planning the Senior Prom was headed by Charles “Bud” Baker. A1 Sodey, Donald Zinger, Gordon Schafer, Eleanor Witt, Ruby Jebens, and Jean Iloepner were the members. Officer of the January cl» „wcrc. left to right, Mildred Gamber, girl ’ secretary ; Bob Bender, vice president; Lu- cille Hobart, treasurer: Bob Stoltenberg. president; Ralph I.agoni, boy»' secretary. Bill Asbury was chairman of the invitation committee. Jeanette Herman, Bill Henigbaum, Vincent Martens, Dale Sauer, Marjorie Ward, and Rosalie Shugar assisted him. Don Lynch, Dick Corsiglia, Stanley Kroeger, Evelyn J. Goettsch, Vera Petersen, and Ruth Buck formed the publicity committee presided over by Don Gould. In directing the senior class play, “Crab Apple,” Miss Mae Elma Wicks received assistance from Ida Ander, Ruby Jebens, and Mildred Gamber, while the business committee composed of Bill Asbury and Donald Gould had Mr. Leslie Goss as its faculty head. With the help of Robert Horst and Wally Grampp, the stage was managed by Howard Johnson. Dorothy Hummel, Helen Cohn, Frances Fellner, and George Carson collected proper- ties. Eleanor Witt, Jean Copley, Evelyn Goettsch, and Bob Felderman, an underclassman, had charge of the scenery, while Mr. Don Tornquist acted as faculty adviser on the committee. Donald Lynch and Warren Nelson attended to the electrical wiring and the lights. Make-up artists Genevieve Schebler, Violet Van Sant, and Eleanor Brasch made the actore look “purty,” and Evelyn Goettsch and Jean Copley took care of the costuming. 10