Girls Vocational School - Sun Dial Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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THE TRADE TACKLER -T ..i.l-1-11 WILL-W ISHES-ETC . Q Continued J we solemly recommend that you procure an alarm clock to announce that it is time to put your work away. The Junior Business Training Department needs to be reminded that it is useless to ask for less homework or to try to escape making up work that you have missed, also that during music class one can almost never tell when the period is over unless one watches the clock. We advise the Business classes to send scouts out into the wide, wide world in search of loads and loads of typing paper, ink that does not spill, blot, nor spot, and a mechanical operator that will serve ice cream faster. May the girls in this department maintain their insatiable appetite for ice cream at lunch hour. We leave, in the Corner Cupboard Tea Room, our white uniforms, which are hound to get dirty no matter how careful you areg and our green uniforms of which there are never enough, no matter how small the class may be. Across the hall, we leave our tiny locker room with the hope that you will be given a larger room and larger lockers. We are sorry to tell you that dishes will always have to be washed after being used, that they will surely break if they are handled carelessly, and that you will probably never be able to find bread and. butter plates when you need them. Our parting message to the girls who are learning Beauty Culture is this: always keep the Twin Shops spotless and in perfect order. More people see these rooms than any other room in the building. Remember that all the girls in the school are your customers and that you, therefore, have the power to make your influence felt throughout the student body. When some unwitting Junior sees you put a hairpin in your mouth, she may copy your example-and alas! a safety rule is broken and the result may de disastrous. We firmly believe that, if you whom we have counselled will earnestly heed our warnings and follow our instructions, the Girls Vocational School in Baltimore will continue to grow and prosper. We shall think of it always as a beacon light sending out rays of assurance and encouragement to those who have left its protecting walls and rays of guidance and welcome to those who are yet to seek its shelter. Faithfully yours, THE SENIOR CLASS RIDING ON A CLOUD By Josephine' Lewis SPRING! I was sitting by the window on that beautiful spring morning. As 1 sat gazing out of the window, how I longed to be outside of school. My eyes were fixed upon a fluffy cloud which sailed serenely across the azure sky. It came nearer. I was facinated as it approached the window sill as though guided by a fairy hand. I stepped out of the window and sat in the center of the fleecy white cloud. I felt as if I were reclining upon a heap of soft feathers. I floated away over the school roof and through the park. Suddenly, I heard a commanding voice. Josephine, I heard it say, save your dreams for the night timef, I awoke with a start. Instead of sitting on a cloud, I found myself on a hard bench. I was very much disappointed because the teacher had shattered my lovely reverie. Perhaps some day my downy cloud will come again, and I shall continue my strange sky voyage. 19

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THE TRADE TACKLER -1T. i - -.. WILL-WISHES- WARNINGS-WHAT-NOT DEAR Junior Sisters: Realizing that our 'days with you are numberedg that soon the hour will come when we shall pass from your midst into that great adventure that awaits every school girl when her undergraduate days are overg that the time is fast approaching when you can no longer hear even the echo of our voicese-when our presence here will be nothing more than a memoryg realizing all this, we are conscious of a solemn iluty, an obligation, a Hnal task to be performed. We have pondered the wisdom of preparing a last will and testament, that well- worn means of making bequests to those we leave behind. We have weighed carefully the value of that which we can bestow upon you. We have looked deeply into our own thoughts and feelings, and we have 'decided that our parting gift to you shall be not a legal document, but a message of wisdom and counsel. Through toil and experience we have learned many lessons. We have come to cherish many of the things that strangers would scorn. When you were new students in our classrooms, perhaps you laughed at some of the very things that we now hold most dear. The old steam kettle in the Millinery Shop, for example, is one of your rarest treasures. It has been in use for nine years and will serve nine more, with careful treatment. Then there is the mirror, equally as old. Never once has it failed to give a true picture of the one who stands before it. The old enameled dishpan and the faithful brim block, much the worse for wear, but still doing their bit-treat them tenderly and prolong their useful lives. In the Power Machine Department our memory lingers on those twelve new machines that are still in perfect condition. How proud of them we are! Keep the lockers neat and clean, do not break or lose any of the scissorsg handle the dress and smock patterns most carefully. It would grieve us sadly if you should fail to follow our good example. Above all, continue saving every scrap of material. Some day the junior class can use these scraps to make a quilt for the annual bazaar. We hope the Junior Salesmanship girls will be able to sell some of our dreams to those who have the power to turn dreams into more substantial things. We have never ceased to long for a room partitioned off so that, when a class is divided into groups, one group will not disturb another. Then there is our dream of a rapid transit system that would enable the students to make the long ourney from room to room in the three-minute period allotted for passing. And when you are carrying stacks of retailing books from the first Hoor to the third, do not yearn for eleva- tors-be grateful for the good stone stairs and do not complain of the heavy load- remember that there are not even enough of the books to supply each girl with one. VVe think of the Dressmaking room with a pang of regret. How we wish we could have provided Miss Kruse with a pair of really sharp scissors, some tape measures with the marks visible, a barrel of straight pins, a special tracing table, and two more cutting tables. VVe warn you that no one dressmaking Hgure can possi- bly be adjusted to suit every girl in the classg also that Miss Kruse can always find fault with the way you put sleeves in a garment. And fC'ontin.ued on next pagej 18

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THE TRADE KLER TAC 1- 1 ROSTER OF UN DERGRADUATES Evelyn Adle Helen Aident M. Andrzejewska Maryanna Bahicki Elsie Badoniec May Baker Doris Benda Helen Benski Marie Biebel Julia Blama Helen Bortner Lucy Byczynska Marie Chapman Nellie Corsalini Jeannette Cypull Lena Di Blasi Anna Doerfler Elva Fink Catherine Flanagan Regina Fraley Fa11nie Fusco 20 DRESSMAKING Catherine Gasior Dorothy Getz Anna Guldan Evelyn Heckathorn Dorothy Hicks Doris House Elaine Humburg Emma lachini Eliz. Jakubowska Sophie Jaskulska Gertrude Knapik Helen Kordecki Frances Kosiba Anna Kroll Frances Krolczyk Frances Kropkowska Mildred Kuhn Anne Lashno Gertrude Linder Dolores Link Catherine Machovec Dorothy MacLeary Marie Manly Grace Mann Marianne Marciniak Dorothy Markiewicz Catherine McSorley Norma Meise Jane Meyer .lane llflitchell Virginia Moores Elizabeth Morris Bertha Motyka Dorothy Muller Anna Nemec Erma Neutze Catherine Novotny Dorothy Petr Mary Petti Doris Pirie Helen Polites Margaret Ponicka - Mary Portera Anna Ruzek Edna Schools Dorothy Sebeck Helen Seniuk Genevieve Smith Naomi Smith Lillian Stack Bernice Stull Stefeny Szymanik Genevieve Taltys Lillian Teramani Edna Thomey Dolores Tromer Florence Updegraff Agnes Weber Doris Wheeler Gertrude Wielebski Jennie Wilkowski Helen Zakoscielna Madeline Zientak fContinued on next pagej