East High School - Crucible Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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- M1'5l'C?Nl YE CRUCIBLE EAST HIGH illilusic Bepartment For fourteen years Miss Harriet Batterson has directed and supervised the musical activities of East High School. She is Well equipped for the position, having studied voice, piano, pipe organ, harmony, appreciation and public school music under famous teachers. Her pet hobby is vocal teaching. Some of her teachers of voice were Madame Orhstrom, Renard, Maurice La Farge, Florence Hinkle Witherspoon of New York and Milli- cent Brennan and Samuel Richards Gaines of Columbus. Miss Batterson has studied piano with Albino Gorno of Cincinnati and with Professor Herman Ebeling, Mrs. Frances Mooney and Mrs. Marie Hertenstein Waller of Columbus, and pipe organ under Mr. Arthur Dunham of Chicago. During her service at East, Miss Batterson has trained many accom- panists and has instructed many vocalists who have become successful. Among her former pupils are Ruth Welch, now a New York musical comedy star, Helen Minor, Charlotte Hunter Edwards, Geraldine Riegger, Jeanette Trone Simpson and Raymond Humphreys. All but Miss Welch sing in Columbus churches, and Mrs. Simpson is a member of the Women's Music Club. 1 f!East's Qrt Eepartment Owing to the growing demands for art at East High and the new equipments offered in the present building, two departments in Art are now offered-the fine arts and mechanical arts. In the fine arts department three lines of art work are carried on in classes-costume designing, free hand drawing and sketches from nature, said Miss Lillian Behren, well-known head of East's art department. In addition to class room drill, students are given the opportunity of sketching in the open when good weather permits, some specializing in flower studies in water color. .Publicity posters for Senior play were provided by Cecilia Chevallard, Judith Chapman, Mildred Freidenberg, Margaret Fulton, Blanche Mont- gomery, and Claudia Sherlock, as art students. There have been three exhibits during the year, December 5, which consisted of conventionalized flower designs in black and white 3 the second one a color exhibit of still life and landscape compositions and a display of Health Posters designed by art students held in room 202 early in May. A course in mechanical and architecture drawing has been instituted at the new East High School, of which Edwin A. Shoemacker is an instruc- tor. The popularity of this course has made it necessary to organize one more class the second semester in addition to the six classes which were scheduled for the beginning semester of this school year. Fred, Schuler, an advanced pupil in Architectural drawing, has demon- strated the practical side of this work by designing and drawing a complete set of plans for a little six-room Dutch Colonial house now located at 911 Oakwood Avenue. I7

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. -Iwntcwl-. ., YE CRUCIBLE EAST HIGH East iiaigifs library East's splendid library which since 1919 has been in the care of Miss Alice L. Morris, has been expanded in its new location and now contains between forty-eight hundred and five thousand books with more coming in frequently. The library is an excellent combination of beauty, utility and pleasure, and ranks with the best high school libraries of the country in its housing and equipment, together with its complete sets of reference books, the best grades of fiction, magazines, and newspapers. Two girls from the Senior class, Miss Hester English and Miss Eliza- beth Kinsell, have served as assistant librarians during the past year. iBhp5ins Bepartment The Physics Department is under the tuition of Walter R. Bailey, who graduated from Otterbein College and later took a post-graduate course at Ohio State University. Mr. Bailey has taught at East High for two years. The number of students taking Physics has so increased that George E. Parkinson was added to the Physics Department. Mr. Parkinson is a graduate of Ohio State University and has been teaching at East for the last five years. New equipment has been supplied to the laboratory during the current year and this splendid research room has enabled the students to do en- larged practical work. Bahia filuh The new East High Radio Club, which was organized shortly after school was opened, has been very 'active during the term. William R. Bailey, head of the Physics department, is the advisor of the organization, Loren Windom, is the presidentg John Hopkins, the vice-president, Robert Conner, the secretary and treasurer, and John Hackenberg, their publicity manager. ' The students have installed a radio set in the Physics class room, where they have had their meetings every other Wednesday. During these meetings Mr. Bailey has given lectures on the subject of Radio, and the different members have delved into the mysteries of this most fascinating invention. I l 9