East High School - Angelus Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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, S 1 MR. CL.-xxx 5l'ITI.11ii A.x.v1.stuv1! PTl7IL'lf'dl Mr. Clark l-l. Spitler NE of the most important and influential persons in East is Clark H. Spitler, assistant principal and advisor of the senior ho fs. He interviews them arranefes their wrograms, and is their advisor in , l 5 , .. 1 . preparation for college. The son ot an attorne f, he was horn at Sullivan Illinois. He was head ot the United States De wart- , 2' , 1 , . , ment ot Commerce in Alaska and has heen head of the Commercial department at Montrose County, Trinidad, and Hutchison, Kansas, Hivh S'hools. 5 L Mrs. Ruth Anderson RS. RUTH ANDERSON, girls advisor, was horn in Hamilton, Ontario, hegan her education at a small school in Montreal, Quehec, and as the daughter of a minister, traveled ahout the country all during her childhood. She taught first in Sturgeon Bay, Vv'isconsin, and started in the Denver Schools as an English teacher in 1919. In Fehruary, 1933, she was made Girls Advisor at East, where her competent guidance and helpfulness, and her kind and friendly efforts have made her one of the most helovetl persons in the school. Mas. Rlhlll ANo11RsoN ' t X J l 59 Demi of Girls ,.,: ,t:,,. Ni' if? B, 5 ,

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Roscoii C. HILL, Principal To the Class of 1935- Au revoirn T WOULD be impossible for us to use our harsh English goodbye in bidding you, the members of the class of 1935, Godspeed upon your journey. The word connotes a final ending to all of the friend' ships we have formed, the happy hours we have spent together. It carries with it the cold implication that the bond which three years of working together at a common task has woven tight, can be severed by the mere wave of a hand. Our friendship has been made of sterner stuff. NVe who will remain at East have known you but a few fleeting moments of your life's day. It has been our privilege to offer you. as you passed our way, some of the things which we believe will make the hours which lie ahead more meaningful. If you have accepted our offering, we ask no personal thanks. Rather we ask that you use your gift in making the road which lies ahead a little better, because you passed that way. The past three years have not been all sunshine and happiness. For many of you economic difficulties have clouded the skies, and for others there have been problems of equally great concern. As we go our separate ways, however, let us not permit the deep and abiding pleasure which comes from happy memories, to be effaced by the few clouds which may have floated by. Let us count only the sunny hours in our memories of East. The French have a word for such an occasion as this-fa word which in some way ameliorates the coldness of goodbye That word is au revoir, or until we meet again. And so we say to the Class of 1935-- au revoirf' THE F.'xCuLTY. 19

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FACULTY The Arts USIC has met with great advances in the Deliver Schools in recent years. Our A Cappella Choir, which has won national recognition, and our glee cluhs are all comparatively new develope ments. Recognition of the value of training in all the arts has hecome more pronounced with advancing experience in education. Sweeping changes have hcen definitely shown in the field of art during the last seventyffive years. As the changing pattern of art follows the changing pattern of living, it is found that the models for this age are entirely different from those of the past era, No longer does the artist find for his sketchings the little meeting house or the covered wagon, hut magnificent skyscrapers and streamflined airplanes. Wrwrk in the classroom is always hased on what a pupil can do. Often a pupil doesnit know or come near to realizing his own capacity, and he is helped hy the instructor to see new fields. Flowers are often used as suhiccts of inspiration, and field trips are frequently taken to ohserve natural settings. After a while, all work hecomes entirely creative, and pupils lose the desire to copy. The heauty that the pupil sees appeals first to his heart: this tends to educate his emotions. It is through these that the pupil ohtains the power to create, or in some cases only the power to appreciate. Witli the emotions to provide the impetus, the imagination may he enlisted,and the intelligence will he cooperative in guiding and constructing. Art has hecome a symhol of contemporary thought. The art students this year have entered their work in many contests. They suhmitted eighteen posters for the Milsic Vvleek poster contest: twenty posters for the Cleanfup, Paintfup Week poster contestg forty drawings for the Veterans Insignia Conf test , ten drawings for the Sclzolastic art contest, and sixty draw' ings for the Carter Memorial Contest. In all these contests East students won prizes, with the exception of the Veterans Insignia Contest , in which we received an honorahle mention. The art department also makes the posters necessary for the cluh dances, the proms, the plays, and the operetta. A great deal of the advertising for school affairs and activities can he credited to the regular students in the art classes. They were posters for tlie D Club Dance. Anxissorv Briss Banwsuav Brumaa BALTICS Cii.xRl.r,sxx'oa'l'il BEYNON Ciwrfoun Buuuz Corrs T311