East High School - Angelus Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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1 THE 'IANGELUS . 1936 SUCH ENTHUSIASM! well as grammar points. This is decidedly an advancement, for it will bring all the people of the world closer together be- cause of a better understanding. The great loss of the language department this year was the death of Mrs. Whitaker, whom everyone liked so well and who was such an excellent French teacher. Health is the road to all happiness, but from gymnasium attendance records we would judge that the physical education HARD ON BREAKFASTS Twentyffouf courses aren,t considered the only way to health. Gym courses are offered for boys and girls, and consist of posture ex- ercises and seasonal sports. The newest gymnasium course is a mixed folk danc- ing class, which learns the dances of dif- ferent races. This year, in cooperation with the music classes, the class presented a folk festival. At the end of our flying visit to the music department, we can only say Hats Off to Miss Moorhead for the fine work she has done with local music, and to Mr. Gorsline, who has done so well with the bands and orchestra. East is certainly turning out her quota of secretaries, judging by the number of commercial certihcates handed out each year, and many of the girls would make very pretty secretaries for some of you potential big business men. Outside of the students who clutter up the classes for just a half a year in order to learn enough to type their term papers, the people in these classes should make right smart business men and women. Now we think that it is about time to give three cheers and a hip-hip- hooray for the boys who take c o o k i n g. We haven't heard of any sewing as yet, but then, you never know what to expect of these Angels, and it may come to that. On . the other hand, we have some girls in the mechanic

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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

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CURRICULUM FUTURE SECRETARIES-TAILOR MADE shop, learning trafic rules, parts of the car, all of which will lead to bigger and better back seat drivers, never fear. In the woodcraft classes, the boys do lovely work, of which no one seems to take much notice. As we walked down the hall, some- thing that seemed to be only a mild tre- mor grew into a steady buzz, and then into a wild commotion. As we neared the evident cause of the noise, we could see people stream- ing in and out of the vom, evident- l ' flistezirdful of the teacher and what she was say- ing. Miss Perry seemed to be hav- ing rather a hard time of it, for what could it be except the aft room. Oft- en we stop to wonder how she manages to get her students to put out the fine work they do, with all of that clamor. A great deal more credit should go to her for her in- valuable support to all ofthe dances, for the publicity of other school undertakings, and T for the city-wide work such as the Clean-up Paint-up Week, Music Week, the Safety Cam- paign, and the Carter Memorial poster contests. We wandered up to the third floor hall in the southwest corner of the build- ing, nearly vacant in spite of the rushing crowds in the other parts of the school, wondering what heavenly power it could be that kept out the rush and the noise. But the farther we delved into the re- cesses of the hall the more apparent be- SOURCE OF SPOTLIGHT DIRT COLUMN Twcntyfjive