Mechanic Arts High School - M Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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F f if -T vi T 1 Giving his best wishes to Mr. Leslie Tripp, principal, and Mr. Sam Hamilton, assistant principal, is Mr. James NN. Smith, former principal of Mechanic Arts. Mr. Tripp took over the duties of head of Mechanic Arts alter the resignation ot Mr. Smith last June. Mr. Tripp had been assistant principal for two years. Mr. Hamilton graduated from Mechanic Arts in l92l. After that he went to the University ot Minne- sota and received a degree in electrical engineering and then went to Chicago as editor of a technical magazine. In T936 he started his teaching career at Stillwater. In T937 he taught physics at Johnson High. During the war he had a cvilian position in the War Training Service, training army pilots. Last year he taught physics at Harding. Mechanic Arts welcomes back two former teachers. Mrs. Gretchen Schampel, English teacher, returned after almost a year and a halt's absence. She taught at Monroe last year. Mrs. Geralidne Raymond, art and handicraft teacher and director of the stage force, returned to Mechanics after teaching at Hum- boldt tor several years. Mechanic Arts also welcomes three new people to the faculty, Miss Jeanne Kenmore, choir teacher, Miss Edith Olson, librarian, and Mrs. Catherine Kirk- wood, vocational teacher. Teachers at Homecoming, These Are Working.

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The halls of Mechanic ArTs have echoed The names of famous men and women Tor over HfTy years. lTs sTudenTs have come To learn and maTure under The guiding hands of Their Teachers. To us, Mechanic ArTs is a school vve can be proud of, iusf as Minne- sofa, now one hundred years old, is a sTaTe we are happy To live in and call our own. Today, Mechanic ArTs is The second largesT school in The ciTy. AlmosT Tvvo hundred and TiTTy sTudenTs , , ,,x,M.Ts,A,,,,,bM, M -N we will leave This June To establish Their careers, com- pared To sixTeen who were in The firsi graduaiing class aT Mechanics. BUT Then and now The sTudenTs are assured They will receive The same high sTandard of Teaching. .IusT as we sTudenTs have helped To mold Mechanics inTo a hne and ouTsTanding school, so has Mechanics given us beTTer undersTanding and confidence in The fuTure. T P fr fx -me .,,.N. ,... ,mm -, h., Hr T Jaw.-

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r F' ff- ., Science, Mathematics, Commercial Row i-Miss Esther Blase, Miss May Kellerhals, Miss Margaret Smith, Mr. John Grittin, Miss Nellie Kelly, Mr. Harold Wol- cott. Row 2-Miss Gladys Smith, Miss Vera Strickler, Mr. John Nobis, Miss Frances Ek, Miss Lucretia Schroer. Administration and Class Advisors Row 'l-Mr. William Souther, Junior Advisor, Mr. Sam Hamilton, Asst. Principal, Miss Katherine Tschida, Dean of Girls, Mr. Leslie Tripp, Principal, Miss Jean Kenmore, Sophomore Advisor, Mrs. Lavinia Gilson, Senior Advisor. Row 2-Miss Marcella Vievering, Ottice Cleric, Miss Edna Gould, Guidance, Miss Grace McGuire, Registrar, Miss Edith Olson, Librarian.