East High School - Angelus Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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THE TANGELUS . 1936 With a wide yawn and a despairing look at the clock we await the clanging of the bell that will send us on our way to some other class. The restless students all around have closed their books, and although they may not yet have Hnished their next hour's lesson in this study, they are no longer working and are all waiting as patiently as we for that clang which will free us from the toiQs of the day for 7 GFFICE FORCE . . . AND WHAT FORCE! at least five min- utes. When at last that signal does sound through the halls, all noisily file out and the once quiet halls are filled w i t h a frenzied bedlam. After much pushing and general jamming, we make our way to the elevator E which, will carry Twentyftwo THE DEAN AND HER PROTEGEES us to the third floor and the history class of the next hour. With some of these handsome young history teachers around, the Angels are inclined to be a bit fluttery at first, but after their first moments- of 'adoration they settle down to a steady- routine of uninteresti-ng his- tory b kfs -ahd the inevitable American Observerf' 351116 'IOB class of this year seems to havei taken up a different system of teaching, on the Progressive Education line, but no one knows exactly how suc- cessful itfwill be. The English class, where we struggled HIGH FINANCE

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CURRICULUM ' LAURA P. IRWIN Two other-well-known names are miss- ing from the faculty roll call this year. Miss Laura P. Irwin, that cheerful, kindly woman who taught history in East for so many years, retired last year because of ill health, and she is now living a quiet life in her lovely home in Edgewater, Colorado, where she often writes letters Qto the faculty and to students. Miss Cath- erine St. Clair, witty, smart, full of en- ergy, and so popular with her public speaking and English classes, left school this fall to be married, and, as Mrs. Charles McGregor, she is now living in Marshalltown, Iowa. We join together in wishing these four the very happiest of futures, and we hope that they will remember us as well as we shall keep thoughts of them in the mem- ories of our happiest hours of East. An orchid to our Hrst-rate office force! To Miss Genevieve Francis, the attend- ance clerk, who must check tardies, worry about forged excuses, and listen to a million good, bad and indifferent alibis for this, that, and the other misdemeanor of the individuals who are constantly at her desk, to Mrs. Edwards, who has charge of the daily bulletin and all of the varied and wild pleas put in it by the many school societies, to Miss Shelton, the general Statistician Qhave you ever seen her take dictation in shorthand?- an interview, perhaps?-watch her some- timejg and, last but not least, to Mrs. Shroeder, who has the tremendous job of keeping track of all the money circulat- ing throughout the school, and who pre- sides in that cute little office which is so full of adding machines and charts and steady streams of people who run in and out, paying gym or chemistry fees, turn- ing in coupon books, adding lists for other teachers, or doing any other thing which happens to strike the fancy. Did we say one orchid to the force? Well, let's make it a basket. WILLIAM PARKER Twenty-one

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CURRICULUM I for so long with rules of grammar and unending compositions, has been some- what livened by the appearance of the journalism and creative writing and also by the various contests offered. Some of the stories in the contests seem a little odd, but maybe some of us just aren't modern enough and must stick to our good old-fashioned meller-dramerf' But often some exquisite works that all of us can appreciate are handed into the Edith Hill Memorial Contest and the Script Book Contest. Although the journalism students get only a half a credit for all of their work, they seem to get enough fun out of it to justify it. We think that it would be a capital idea to install a minia- ture lunchroom in the journalism room, as it must be rather hard to survive .on stale left-over candy and popcorn. What- ever they eat, however, seems to. do-well by them, as they put out a darn good paper, in spite of. some of the objections that there is too much gossip and such. On to the language rooms, where each little group is prattling away its own idea of how the language should' be spoken, the result, our modern high- school pronuncia- tion. The German students do get the most out of their classes, assembling quite often to try out their German in so n g s a n d dances. Itis a pity that these side- lines can't be util- ized by the other l COUNSELING . . .Poss1BLY language classes where occasional movies, are the only outlets. Potential Spaniards and Romans have medals i for which to work. Until' this year, when? medal was established in memory of Whitaker, French students worked only for the love of the language. Students in languages were formerly taught only to read and to speak the language. Now the literature and culture of the countries are taught as THE INEVITABLE AMERICAN OBSERVER 'Twenty-three