East High School - Angelus Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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CONTENTS S ET TINC GUIDE S if PATHWAY S ALBU M EXTRA CURRIC ULA UNPREMEDITAT ED

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FOREWORD AGE, we are told, is comparative. If we hold this to be true, and make mere time the basis of comparison, the Denver Public School System is young. Seventy-five years of existence, when placed beside the two hundred years or more during which many American educational organizations have evolved, seems small indeed. But if the age of such an organization is to be judged by the progress that has been made during its life, the Denver School System is an ancient and venerable institution. With this progress in mind, the theme of the i935 Angelus was conceived. We have endeavored to portray the new as contrasted with the old in the many aspects of school life. In this way can the great advances be made evident. We present this record, commemorating the seventy-fifth anni- versary of the foundation of the Denver Public School System. PETE HOLME, Editor. :E Q 'D 'DOYBN

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l 2 c v l 5 I i Miss H.-XSKIELL Miss WILSON Mary E. Haskell ISS HASKELL has helped in making the very foundation of our Denver School System. She was educated in Denver schools and then she taught in them for fortyfsix years. Miss Haskell began as a secretary, a librarian and instructor in history and English in the Denver High School, which now is East High School. When the enrollment of the school grew to five hundred, Miss Haskell became executive secretary whose duties were similar to those of the present assistant principal. It was during this time that great changes in the course of study and school administration were taking place in the entire American school system. Later, Miss Haskell became a librarian, in which capacity she has worked cver since. In this position she was afforded an opportunity to double the size of the library of Old East in preparation for a continual enlargement in the new building. The retirement of Miss Haskell will be a great loss to the Denver Public School system. Natalie Wilson ' PON being retired, I will miss my pleasant work and associations, but I am looking forward to a time when I will have an opportunity to do the things I have had to omit before, said Miss Natalie Wilson as the school term drew to a close. After Miss Wilson was graduated from Old East she went to Germany for a year's study. When she returned she started her teaching career at West High School. There she found her task difficult for she was only a few years older than her pupils. Miss Wilson was then transferred to South High and there she taught English in addition to Germang later she came to East where she has been since. Miss Wilson has made friends through her contacts with pupils and their parents, and considers herself fortunate to have had Dr. Smiley and Dr. Barrett, former principals of East, numbered among her acquaintances. Miss Wilson feels that she has carried out a family tradition, for her mother also taught in Old East.