East High School - Angelus Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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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]

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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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INDUSTRIAL ARTS WOMEN’S INDUSTRIAL ARTS, cooking and sewing occupy most of a woman’s time. Students are taught the newest in technique in dress designing and cook- ing. Designing is applied to sewing of patterns into clothes. Billie Beryl Sherman and classmate sew dresses. The boys (and girls) who are interested in working with their hands in the industrial arts department make useful and beautiful things out of leather, metal, and wood. From them are recruited the stage hands for the auditor- ium who design and build scenery for school performances. Auto mechanics work over their jalopies in the school workshops; while students familiarize themselves with machin- ery and tools in general. Cooking and sewing come under the category of industrial arts for the feminine gender. In one sewing class all of the girls made for themselves one or more dresses during the semester. ASSORTED PANS FOR FRYING. Notice the egg in the bowl. An omelet is just ready to be scrambled and put on the stove. Luscious odors come from room 1 56. Students have to eat what they cook so no wonder everything is so de- licious. STEM for a table lamp is being turned out by Chuck Rose on the lathe. Woodworking and metal working are both popular industrial classes with leather work next in popu- larity. BELTS AND SHAFTS turn on the metal lathe; working for Bob Landing in the industrial arts room. Here bars are turned into poles as they spin around on the high-powered lathe. SPARKING ONESOME. Richard Nau in the metal work- ing class at the grindstone. He is putting finishing touches on a hunting knife before using the whetstone and put- ting on the handle. [JO]