East High School - Angelus Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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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

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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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Ciusi' Ensrkorti Di .ix Enwaiuis Di NN lilRt:1'soN Efxsri Y Fi..-xNN1-.RY Lnxnsiox liimxizis FACULTY Commercial KWMMERCIAL classes have a definite place in the high school routine as pupils are coming more and more to realize their need. ln this age, everyone is expected to have an understanding of husiness principles. XVhen hooklceeping was first taught it was presented purely from a mechanical standpoint. Pupils were taught only to make entries, hut now the theory is to analyze transactions, to learn their effect and how to interpret them. Bookkeeping today is taught to create an understanding of husiness principles and husiness policies. It is taught from a social point of view to help pupils realize the social and economic value of husiness organi:ation. Typing has made great strides in its development. A scientific point of' View has replaced the normethod system of teaching. No longer is a typewriter considered as a mere mechanical ohject. It is considerahly more than that, for its study requires concentration, skill, and repetition. Formerly, there was no particular lingering system, hut now every finger has its own particular work. By the use of drills, an accurate touch and cyen rhythm is produced. ln accordance with the newer theory. the realilation has come that typing is closely correlated with English hecause typing inf yolyes grammar. To learn to spell and punctuate properly is essential. There is a definite t1'end toward a comhined typing and commercial English course. Pupils who have followed a required course in husiness suli- -iects are awarded commercial certificates. A certificate may he received in one of three commercial lines: hookkeeping, stenf ography, or clerical and selling work. The commercial certificate may he earned while one is taking a regular college entrance course and often proves very valuahle, Such a certificate has won many husiness positions for students who have entered the eommercial field, The toucli system from tlie bottom up.