East High School - Angelus Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY 1. A VIEW down a work table in a chemistry laboratory. Sylvester Garcia is amazed at results obtained, Maryellen Merrifield looks for the answer book. Chemistry in the school has been changed to the type which teaches the relation of the individual to chemistry rather than the individual’s relation to the research worker in chemistry. 2. SIX STUDIOUS SCIENTISTS study slides side by side. Standing, Eleanor Cohan, Charlotte Linstedt. Seated. Lynette Faytinger, Louise Cox, Josephine Nau, and Mary Rice watch effects through the micro- scopes. Bug-collecting, tree, flower, animal, and insect studying take up the time of biology students. 3. ANGELS AND ANATOMY. George Ise and Betty Lou Young examine model diaphragms in biology. 4. EXPERIMENTER Richardson demonstrates correct lab procedure by boiling sulphuric acid. Chemistry 1 is taught as a background for ex- perimentation so that students coming into the second half of the course may see the relation of the subject to themselves, their bodies, and the part things taken into the body play; the things about them in the home, as cooking, sanitation, and refrigeration. 5. GIRL CHEMIST, Inez Montgomery is intrigued by the mysteries of Chemistry. Note the rubber apron which is worn by Inez to protect herself and her clothes against the ravages of acids and other harmful chemicals. For protection also is the hood in the background where experiments giving off poisonous gases are performed. {28]

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1. MRS. EDWARDS' OFFICE finds a concentration of the administrative depart- ments. Miss Frances is out from behind the counter with Miss Bloom. These two clerks write an average of twenty thousand slips for tardies and absentees every year. Miss Putnam of the financial department handles all school business. Mrs. Schroeder and Mrs. Edwards take care of registrations for the three thousand East pupils. 2. BACK TO NATURE go art students for inspiration. Harold Rothchild works with pastels supplied by the art department along with other art implements, for the nominal fee of fifty cents a semester. 3. SHADING IN SHADOWS. During sunny days Miss Perry’s art students draw the school and other objects. Marjorie Hall and her companion seem busy. 4. SEWING CIRCLE. Costume designing and gossip occupy Jeanne Charpiot, Leanna Allen, and Susie Brown in Miss Henry’s art class. 6. NEWLY INSTITUTED ART CRAFT CLASSES areamus- 5. SECOND ONLY TO THE SPOTLIGHT Miss Perry’s art ing and valuable. Janet Willard makes dress accessories classes' posters are the strongest propaganda for school cheaply; Dick Newman cuts sheet metal designs. affairs, and they win prizes. [27]

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LONG-TIME ASSIGNMENTS come in in Mr. Reid’s contemporary literature class. In the English department Shakespeare is given a going over; the literature of a fresh new country is compared with the polish of the old; Hemingway and Lewis, Galsworthy and Chesterton, the moderns, the contemporaries come in for close study. A PLOT ON CAESAR’S LIFE! Sophomores study Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar’’ intense- ly, even going so far as to dress the parts. Hamlet and Macbeth” are studied in English literature. GRAMMAR is learned thoroughly, never to be forgotten. Mary Aileen Murphy diagrams a difficult sentence. Here, are taught side by side, creative writing and newspaper style. VANTAGE POINT OF THE MEDITERRAN- EAN is pointed out by Mary Elise Clark, world traveler. Political science, economics, world relations, world and American history, cover the history studies field. THE GHOST WALKS in Mr. Pitts’ psy- chology class; first six weeks grades are handed out. ONE AMERICAN OBSERVER TO ANOTHER. Albert Anderson keeps up with current his- tory, international relations by reading this weekly paper. Governments of the world and their relation to the United States in politics and economics are studied after ground work, in world and American history. [29]