East High School - Trojan Yearbook (Waterloo, IA)

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F. Black, V. Knoche, M. Camp- bell, V. Older, L. Strope. ily, Sli Ula lam 52, One of the factors the junior and senior classes need is competent faculty advisors. East High has always had this type of advisors, and tra- dition is carried on this year with the Misses Marie Campbell and Grata Thorne as junior advisors, and the Misses Leola Strope and Velma Older as senior class advisors. As Miss Viola Knoche and Miss Florence Black are faculty members who have often acted as class advisors, they are pictured here as councillors for this year's advisors. Uppermost in the mind of junior sponsors are the plans for the prom, while for senior sponsors, measurements for caps and gowns, choice of announcements, and senior breakfast arrangements loom important. This group are not jig-saw enthusiasts, they are merely tearing apart the calendar and matching it with a list of scheduled events to plan the activities of the school year. Here you will find Cecil Kersten and jack Taylor, drama and speech teachers, Donald Baum, Herbert Goodwin, and Miss Elizabeth Green of the Music Department trying their very best to avoid schedule conflicts so that the junior play wouldn't be given the same evening as the orchestra's spring concert. East High has en- joyed one of the finest school programs it has ever had due to this group's efforts. Q ll, I. Taylor, D. Baum, E. Green, C. Kersten, H. Goodwin. Page 1 1

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A. Peterson, C. Hansen, G. Thorne, L. Raffensperger, M. Blough, M. Barnes. 5j.,5zl...,. ..,..,..3Z..STLJDElXIT GUIDANCE An infantile paralysis epidemic locked the doors of school for three additional Weeks. Reluct- antly, vacation-Weary students settled down to the task of scanning the papers daily for the first Word of the date the ban would be lifted. East High's faculty was getting anxious, too, for many had attended summer schools and were ready to give East High students outlooks with which to face the World of today. So they came to school a Week early, laboring those hot September days to outline programs of study and policies of administration that would make the year's work more practical than any that had preceded it. ' The faculty members met and discussed problems pertinent to a democratic and creative school. Forming committees, they considered plausible solutions, unhampered by time lim- itations. At the end of the Week of conferences, they all decided that each had a better under- standing of his role in relation to his colleagues, more enthusiasm for adjusting his Work to the needs of the students, and a more adequately organized procedure for the first days of school. Page 10 The camera caught some of these groups in discussion. Although many of the teachers Worked on several committees, they are pictured here with the unit of major importance. Formed last year is a group of faculty mem- bers known as the Guidance Committee. As its name implies, it is primarily a committee to shape the school program so that the individual student can adjust himself to his school environ- ment and to the work-a-day World of which he soon becomes a part. Each student receives individual attention in planning his high school schedule. Coach Leonard Raffensperger heads the group as chairman. Miss Margaret Barnes and Miss Grata Thorne interview the lOB girls and direct them in making the necessary adjust- ments. Miss Carrie M. Hansen acts as one of the employment counselors for students Want- ing part time work or a full time job at gradua- tion. Arthur Peterson, vocational co-ordinator, and Miss Marguerite Blough, head of the English Department, complete the committee personnel.

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C MAJ, ,fA2ca1fi0n5lQceiue.fgf1fen1fi0n Of lvl Hugh Logan, Gordon Bute, and Russell Starr, as they are pictured here might be discussing the co-relation of the various shop and craft classes. Their domain is the first floor of the annex Where they try to equip each East High boy who enrolls in their courses with a knowl- edge of the industrial crafts. Training mentally and physically is also a part of the course offered. Shop instructors are instrumental in securing positions for the fellows who come through the course in satisfactory style. Last year a part time course was offered for the first time. Going out to Work in business firms of the city half of the day, the boys gain ex- perience which may result in their securing a job. ' Without advisors, clubs of the school would find themselves lacking guidance. So that clubs would be able to meet on non-conflicting dates, these club advisors organized the club programs, and discussed club advisorship. Some of the clubs of East High have been di- rected this year by Miss Lillian Enlow, librarian, Miss Edna Mae Rittenhouse, English instructor, Lyla Sill, girls' physical education instructor, and William Waters, mathematics mentor. If a club is outstanding in achievement, the club advisor is usually the guiding force back of the club's prominence. G. Bute, H. Logan, R. Starr. E. Prizler, L. Enlow, E. Rit- 1 tenhouse, L. Sill, W. Waters. W Page 12