Ottawa Hills High School - Legend Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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First row: Mary Baloyan. A.B.. MA. English, Dramatics Frances Dawes, A.B. English Nina Gissibl, QMrs.D, A.B. English, History Madeline A. Holmes. I-LB.. MJ-X. English Second row: fngffdh Www Zfwlaqe Much that is original and unusual has been ac- complished in the English classes this year based on Work ranging from medieval literature to pres- ent-day problems. lt is in the English department that the great English dramas and drarnatists are read and studied. Some of the older novels have been read and at- tention tocused upon Interesting Words. Scenes have been written to be added to As You Like lt. Both Class and individual newspapers have been compiled and edited. Scrapbooks have been made with literary material of historical and present-day interest. One of the classes studied expense ac- counts and investments. Another class had an ex- hibit ot hobbies at the spring open house. ln addition to student play production, the dra- matics classes have spent much time in constructe ing model stages and making sketches of costumes and stage sets, Third row: Ieannette VanderVelde. A.B. Dan Shook, Ie an Daily. and Ann Ven- nell are listening to Miss Tenhaai read. Florence Kortering, A.B. English Bertha Barbara Lewis. A.B., IVLA. English Elizabeth D. Nash, uvrfsg, B.s. English English Kathryn Zimmer. A.B. Mable c. 're-sheer. B.s. 1311911511 History English No Picture: Belowi Iennie van Dyke, uvife. D. DJ. Elizabeth Termeer, P..B. A.B. English English 6 16-

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Ida A. Crego, B.S. Vernise Pruitt, Ph.B. Hazel Zellner, B.S. Fine Arts Fine Arts Fine Arts ,405 Zemin Wake Me SAM Designing costumes, planning stage sets, and decorating thea- ters show different ways in which art and drama are allied in inter- est. Types of work which have been undertaken are the modeling of clay, oil paintings, charcoal sketches, watercolor and crayon drawings, and posters. Miss Zellner's stu d e nts have done carvings, oil paintings, car- toons, character pictures, and panels. ln Miss Pruitt's classes, they have done embroidery on purses and rnade doll heads for collec- tions. Miss Crego's classes have drawn the posters for advertising the first Ottawa Hills Pow Wow. Jawa fccmcamfw 72mm fm 14 The h ome economics depart- ment helps each girl to present a pleasing and a poised personality when she steps out onto the stage of the future. Miss Davis's personal regimen classes have kept notebooks on good grooming, posture, person- ality, and manners. Under the supervision of Miss Iackson, a food budget for a W.P.A. family has been worked out to give the girls practice in planning menus on a limited in- come. The girls look forward every year to going to East Lansing in the spring for the open house which is sponsored by the home economics department at Michi- gan State College. Miss Pruitt is looking at a figure which she modeled. .. ,, .. A fig u-f'..,w ' ,,. . ,MM 4 W. A .:i '4 ' 1u'kb7fn,: iwsil, 1 t , bi, N- 'X9' - l l it ' v in N' 'L ' V? X, ' .usa A' ,W 1 : 1 tp 1 ..-'.?'fF f K 'Hi Lela M. Davis, B.S. Beulah S. Iackson, B.S. Elizabeth Matheson, B.S. Miss Davis helps Frances Clothing, Personal Regimen Foods, Clothing Foods, Clothing, Cafeteria Bolt to qdjust her pattern, -15-

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No Picture: Alice Caldwell, Ph.B.. M.A. History A. E. Cook. I-LB. History Saad Science 7aew Zire Que Shalcespeares historical plays and Iohn Gals- worthy's dramas dealing with social problems re- flect the interest of the great thinkers of all times in the study of the social sciences. With Mr. A. E. Cook as chairman, the social science department tries to give each pupil as com- prehensive an understanding, as possible, of pres- ent-day problems and the solutions which have been suggested for these problems. Drawing maps and posters, Writing outlines, and building models of pioneer homes have been the projects ot Miss Watrous's American history and geography classes. Debates of interest to young Americans who wish to take an intelligent part in the affairs of their com- munity have taken place in Mr. Fuehrer's eco- nomics classes. ln Mr. Giddings' history classes several posters have been made which show the trend of the times in political cartoons. .5 B Miss Watrous seems to be interested in the pioneer homes which were made in her his- tory classes this year. I E i I 1 I s I n William L. Fuehrer, B.E.. LLB., Ph.B. Government, Economics Katherine Lalley. A.B. History Henry Ludwick. A.B. Government lean Paxton. ILB. History, Civics I7- Emest Giddings, A.B. History Flossie Loew, A.B. Geography, Penmanship History Katherine McCarty. ILE. History Nellie A. Watrous. A.B. History, Geography