Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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Sd’ Aone Pm NY pommee aa ‘ 4 ¥ ie 48 ly aS United by interests as well as by a flag: Sheila Dibley, England; Wolfgang Edl, Germany: Elloween Melkus, EHS; Paul Stemm, EHS; Claude Picard, France: Irene Larsson, Sweden: Gunther Freischutz, Germany; Dave Farley, EHS. HOWEVER, IN SOME CLASSES THERE.WERE NEW: FACES AND NEW VOICES . . . those of our friends from other countries, students from Europe who are attending EHS this year. First, there are the two students who came on our Foreign Scholarships, on the funds we raised through the Student Council. Last year we had students from other lands, and we felt that we gained so much by this plan, that we asked the American Field Service to help us get two more. They came in September, Irene Larsson from Degerfois, Sweden and Gunther Freischutz from Munich, Germany. Another boy from Germany, Wolfgang Edl, is here on a special scholarship from the United Brethern Church. Claude Picard, a French boy, and Sheila Dibley, from England, are here because their fathers are connected with business firms, and Jose Acosta, from Venezuela, lives here with his sister, the war bride of an Elkhartan. In the discussion on United Nations day, these s tudents gave us a glimpse of ourselves as others see us. 25

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24 An artist must know his A B C’s. PRINTING ART CLASSES make clever posters and signs for various events. These classes are instructed in linoleum block printing and silk screen printing. This experience will be useful to each student in future life, in carrying on with creative hobbies. Our attractive bulletin board displays are among the many projects this year’s art classes have done. Supervised by Mr. James, art instructor, the classes designed and made displays for post game dances, Pennant Weekly and Pen- nant Annual sales, concerts and school activities in general. The class, elective for one year only, is open to all students in high school. The object of the course is to develop and understand some problems of art and to develop and maintain artistic skills rather than just to learn plain facts and figures. Mr. James has an electric kiln, for use in adult school classes as well as those in high school. Designing, molding, painting and baking pottery in the kiln for personal or commercial use is a practical trend in this department.

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cb Headline hunters: Irene and Gunther. IRENE AND GUNTHER LEARN about our country by studying newspapers from all parts of the United States. This course, called American Problems, is the study of our economic and social problems. With the help of textbooks, papers, and films, these two foreign students soon became acquainted with the ways and means of our government. Every student is required to sub- scribe to the American Observer, a miniature weekly newspaper, which gives us the pros and cons of current governmental issues and news of interest to all. Films play a very important part in understanding family problems and the nation’s crime. In the study of courts and their procedures, field trips to the city courtrooms are made. Irene and Gunther told us many interesting facts about. the: governments of their home- lands. This gave us interesting comparisons and new ideas for everyone to think about; so we completed a study that should help us to be better citizens.