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

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The braille students. C. Burton. P. Reed. R. Beukema. C. Little, L. Berry. and S. Green are hav- ing a musical program. Zora Barnaby. B.S. Advanced Shorthand, Typing David Clcxtworthy, A.B. Business Arithmetic, Typing, Shorthand Bookkeeping, Business Arithmetic Doris Robinson. A.B. Sidney Ryckman, Life Typing' Sfenogmphy Certificate Bookkeeping, Commercial Law Leon I. Miller. ILB., B.C.S. x . t . , MS., .. ,I K my L SN. l Q. A , K - . . ,:',:. D V b V 3, . ' V 5 I3'.' Helen Mount. A.B. Loviscr A. Rorabeck. B.S. Braille Braille gfmiffe Sfncfeffbh Jaw Wailea! Pwfymm In the braille room Miss Borabeck and Miss Mount teach literary, mathematical, and musical braille systems to the students. Besides this, they teach them English, science, social sciences, geography, music, rhythms and games, and sense training. Some of the nine braille pupils, who range in grade from kindergarten to senior high school, are musicians and they often play together. fam 23 Wm 04ZCf1fMCVM The Ottawa Hills commercial department gives instruction in subjects which furnish the students with training in business administration, and every- day business contacts of life. Miss Barnaby's advanced shorthand class won a pennant in an international penmanship contest. lt will be on display in the trophy case. Many ot the girls also received gold pins. Miss Barnaby is showing Shirley Keegstra how to operate the ediphone. -20-

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WM' A at Cornie Koets. B.S. Katharine Sheehan. B.S. Physical Education Girls' Physical Education I As soon as Mr. Koets blows his whistle. E. Ravencroit 7 Qcde The girls' athletic activities, directed by Miss Sheehan, play an important part in the student life at Ottawa Hills. The ninth and tenth grades meet twice a week and one credit is given for each semesters work. ln the eleventh and twelfth grades, classes meet just once a week and only one-half credit is received. G. Fitzpatrick. I. Cable. and D. Hill will start to play a game oi indoor soccer. Some of the work that is characteristic of a girls' gym class is softball, ping- pong, tennis, dancing, pyramids, speed- ball, soccer, volleyball, and bowling. Mr. Koets, the boys' instructor, has the task of teaching the boys the details of baseball, soccer, basketball, highjump- ing, broadjumping, and football. t 1 .Q '- TD M 3 Harry P. Buboltz, B.S. Sidney Eleveld Lloyd F. Hutt. A.B. Bernard I. Kennedy, I-LB Printing, Ioumalism Machine Shop Woodwork, Mechanical Mechanical Drawing Drawing ' Nm 75066 like Jem! Printing, the preservative of Arts, is taught by Mr. Buboltz. ln woodworking, under the supervision of Mr. Hutt, each student chooses his own project. Mechanical Drawing, under Mr. Ken- nedy, gives the student an understanding of the universal language of industry, the blueprint. Mr. Eleveld manages the machine shop, which teaches the boys method of pro- duction and its influence in everyday life. Mr. S. Eleveld. our instructor in machine shop. is busily en gaged in turning out a fine tool on one of the smaller lathes m the department. -18.- J

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Grace I. Beeby Nella May Eikenhout. ILB. Clara Mast, A.B. Miss Mast is straightening up Library Library Library the book shelves. 76a MW 44.4.4 Me SMW To help us use the library so that we can get from it a maximum amount of usefulness, pleasure, and enjoyment is the aim of our library staff here at Ottawa Hills. This staff with Miss Clara Mast at the head is at hand to help us every school QQQMGZL and .fain Y Our language department presents day from eight o'c1ock until four-thirty. On Mondays and on Thursdays the library is open in the evening, Our librarians give lessons in the use of reference material, as Well as in- struction in the use of the catalog file to locate any book. Sinbad club, S.P.Q.R. Mary Horn. ILB. French a varied and interesting program. ln Miss Katherine Smiths Latin Miss Kathleen Smiths French classes put on a skit for an assembly spon- classes, records have been made of Latin plays, songs, and declensions. Miss Elsie Davis's classes have been sored by the French department. Miss Horns classes have shown the correlation between French and other writing Latin stories and dialogues. Miss Katherine Smith and Miss Elsie Davis are the sponsors of the Latin subjects by a series of charts. Miss Horn and Miss Kathleen Smith are the sponsors of the French club. n FIU' Katherine M. Smith. ILB., I-LM Latin Miss Hom shows I. Christensen, P. Coryell, B. DeKoning, L. Dell, M. I. Kirchgessner, D. Darling, D. Deeker, L. Kaufman, I. Kett. P. Lawrence. H. Knape. Kathleen C. Smith. A.B. I. McCarthy. B. Sailors. I. Shields. H. Tiddens. the stage set. French, English -21-