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

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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-

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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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7mffm? Beam an ZZWMZQW During recess this g r o u p gets plenty of exercise. ..x Ole lacobsen Sf.Eg,jf,+2f7 lg4 and Iimmy Haei- 1 Nfc'fff'Eiff3 -fiili-hz g , ax W . . taker practice ,dvr X' .. ,' . -V: ' '- 4 I. -. . - .: n6': Carpentry, af: - iff'-wuF?',v -I '-.fi,. 'eS. ,fS-. . The Ottawa Elementary is a training school and 'workshop for beginners. A variety of subjects is introduced and the children experiment with many different handcrafts. This year Miss Cryder's kindergarteners have in- creased their knowledge of transportation by air- plane, train, and bus. The first graders have worked on projects of their own. In Miss Gordon's room they made gifts for their parents. A study of Mexico interested Miss Spencer's third grade for a few weeks, while in Miss Walter's room they studied early Grand Rapids. The work of the elementary safety squad is super- vised by Miss Karnps, the sixth grade teacher. Mrs. Sigler is principal of the elementary which has 355 students. Gertrude Aster tMrs.l 5-2 and 6-1 Dorothy Cryder, Lite Certificate Kindergarten Elsie L. Gordon First grade Rose Hansen. I-LB., tMrs.l 4-2 Hilda Iohnson, I-LB. Fifth grade Helen Kamps, A.B. 6-2 Martha Pelto, I-LB. l-2 and 2-l E. Leone Sickels Life Certificate 2-2 Elizabeth Spencer. B.S. Third grade Carol B. Walters. Liie Certificate 3-2 and 4-l -22-