Mentor High School - Cardinal Notes Yearbook (Mentor, OH)

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9 fulmmj Because the war news us of such great umportance to all of us Mr Twerell s hustory classes emphasuzed current events Panel duscussuons and debates engaged the attentuon of the class and outsude reports were brought un to add to class unterest The students took charge of the news bulletun board un the back of the maun study hall The newspaper cluppungs were changed each day so that the enture school could be kept posted on new happenungs The junuor hugh pupuls were also kept up to date on current affaurs un theur hustory classes Partucular attentuon was guven to current events and the latest war news The students worked on several projects maps boats and scrapbooks to maun taun class unterest Mr Stsgall was another of the year s new faculty members He came to us from the dustant state of Mussouru Travelung us hus favorute hobby Our lubraruan not only has charge of keepung the scores of advuse students un search of specufuc unformatuon or books Muss Danuels has kept a close check on the new books pub lushed that are suutable for hugh school pupuls and she has added many new ones to the lubrary thus year At the request of the varuous teachers there have been reserve shelves opened where one can fund all the data avaulable un the lubrary on any specual subject Muss Stevens seems to have dusproved the age old adage con cernung beauty and brauns for she acts as Muss Danuels s rught hand woman un the lubrary and that posutuon certaunly calls for braans plus patuence and wull power when ut comes to managung the fact funders that unvade the lubrary each day She also does consuderable work un the elementary book room We were afraud to ask her whuch job she found the more unter estung I9 DUDLEY TWERELL A B Hurum College Hustory MILFERD D STIGALL BS MA Mussourl State Teachers College Umversuty of Wyomlng Jumor Hugh Hlstory and World I-lustory ESTRILLA DANIELS m Bowlmg Green Umvers fy Umverslfy of lllmous Llbroruan EUNICE STEVENS Ohm State University Asslsfant Lubrarlan U ' I4 books in the library in order, but she also must be able to 9.s., s.s. ' u..s.f . J A . ,l4..f.

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HERBERT STEINGASS BS Caprtal Umversuty Mathemahcs Physucs Track Coach LESTER DRABENSTOTT AB Wooster College General Scnence Chemistry Basketball Coach CURTIS GARRY ANDREWS AB Ohro Northern University Mathemahcs Algebra FLORENCE DAVIS BS MS lndrana State Teachers College Physical Educahon Science ffflu After elementary classes of algebra and plane geometry stu dents settled down to the more serious work of solid geometry and advanced algebra The bachelor class of physucusts with test tubes alorumeters and generators experimented with the laws controlling liquids and gasses levers and pul Ieys heat sound light and electricity The science of speed and motion was also expounded by Mr Steungass as he direct ed the actuvutues of his track squad un the sprung ln keeping with the times Mr Drabenstott s Chemistry stu dents are studyung incendiary bombs and the various chemu cals used to extinguish them as well as the composition of poison gases and the method of treating people unuured from contact with them General science an introduction to the most technical points of the sciences us being taught thus year with more laboratory periods than un previous years un order to bring the pupils unto closer relationship with t facts that they learn Andrews our latest addition to the faculty us being taught un such a manner as to bring out the practical aspects of the subject Bank checks budgets and interest rates are presented as actual uses of arithmetic The mysteries of the x s y s and z s of algebra are also left for Mr Andrews s pupils to explore Up one down two up three down four Come on gurl loosen up Miss Davis do you do these exercises every morning? Do you thunk I m crazy Up one two down three four And here we leave Miss Davuss fifth preuod class The gurls also learn the fundamentals of basketball volleyball tennus bowling and badmunton un the wunter archery soccer speedball un the fall baseball horse shoes horseback rudung un the sprung l8 . . I T l ll II ' ' . ' 3 , ' 1 A . I C . . I. I v I I f I ' . I . . . , u . I A . I ' I I Junior high mathematics classes under the direction of Mr. I I . . I I . . . . , , I -1 - l ll , 1 I l I l I in ' - C 11 11 - - - I 1 ' I -- - ll 11 - I 5 1- . ,Q . . . , , ll ' ' I 'T' I - . . l I I ' I Q I I D A ' 1 , , , J , ,Q . A 1 '

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fm LILLIAN OTTO AB BCS Morningside College Tnffm Business College Typmg Advanced Shorthand Offrce Prachce CLARENCE W PHILLIPS BS MS Ohno Unlverslty Ohlo State Unrverslty Commerclal Low Shorthand Salesmanshup Bookkeepmg JAMES R HORWELL BS Ohno Unlverslty Musnc HELEN CRAIG BA Loke Erue College Forengn Languages Q G GSSZS ln order to be well prepared to take theur places In a busy offrce the business educatuon students recelved trannung nn Mass Otto s typnng and shorthand classes and rn the recently added office practuce course Useful experuence was gauned by acting as secretarres to the faculty and by learnung to operate the new drctaphones calculators ccmptometers edu phones mnmeoscope and mlmeograph which the well equip ped commercial department uses A busnness IS no better than the man behind nt Mr Phrlllps says and at the some tame promises to be the man nndlrectly behund a good many corporations rn the future These stu dents of has not only know salesmanshup backward and for ward but wnll have complete mastery of contracts partner mnghty bug order but Mr Phullups us just the man for It Straight from the army Mr Harwell s mllltary dlsclpllne drd a great deal toward producing a flne band orchestra and mlxed chorus Formung V s for Vlctory and M s for Mentor the band helped the football team through a strenuous sea son then proceeded to escort the basketball team to the champronshnp of the Western Reserve League The latest addltlon to the music department was the Mentor Hugh Swing Band We sometrmes wonder about the amount of knowledge some of Mass Craig s forergn language students acqunre when such gems as All Gaul was quartered Into three halves are derrved from Caesar s much studled Latln But when they return wlth the message Venn vedu vucn from State Tests at Kent we know that foreign language students have gained factual knowledge as well as that broad cultural background whrch rs an essential part of any genuine education 20 49 V l S I.-rv' ' SL j f ' I I I ' . . ' ' ' ' ' 1 1 1 ' ,, . . . . ,, . . , . I' ' ' I - ships, stocks and bonds, and bookkeeping. lt sounds like a , . . b . , .. . . . . , . f ' I I . , . , . , I K I II ' ll ' H - - - -11 I I I