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

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Patriotifm Leads to Good English PATRIOTISM tends to lead to good English and to help stu- dents, through literature, to become acquainted with people of other times. Miss Baloyan, who helped to organize dramatics clubs in three local high schools this year, has her classes partici- pate in creative writing and visiting civic institutions. Miss Termeer in the junior High organized English clubs, and one of Miss Kortering's students built a replica Bertha B. Lewis, M.A. English Florence . Kortering, A.B. English Elizabeth D. Nash CMrs.j, B.S. English Mary Baloyan, M.A. English, Dramatics Frances E. Dawes, A.B. English Madeline A. Holmes, A.B., M.A. English Barbara M. Paterson, B.A., M.A. English of an Elizabethan theatre in the study of As You Like Itf' Miss Holmes is giving to her classes remedied reading which has proved very successful. Elizabeth Termeer, A.B. English Shirley Metcalf is asking some advice from Miss Ter- meer, concerning grammar work which she is doing. Jeannette N. Vander Velde, A.B. English Mable C. Tenhaaf, B.S., M.A. English Kathryn Zimmer, B.A. Civics, History, English E141

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,.,.-.....,...,..., Nwwi. v,kk 5, WW -fm ------ if Here is Miss Rorabeck with Charles Little, one of her Braille students. She is helping him read a braille book. Zora I. Barnaby, B.S. David Stenography, Typing Clatworthy, A.B. Arithmetic, Typing, Shorthand Leon I. Miller, A.B., B.C.S. Arithmetic, Bookkeeping Doris Robinson, B.A. Shorthand, Typing, Business English Sidney Ryckman, Life Certificate Commercial Law, Bookkeeping V - :ii '-1, f ii VX kewl .VV4 -r.L Helen V. Mount, B.A. Lovisa A. Braille Rorabeck, B.S. Braille Braille Students Are Part of Omzwdr Army' LOVISA A. RORABECK AND HELEN V. MOUNT have charge of Ottawa's Braille department. They have supervision of the student from the time he enters the kindergarten until his senior year. The three systems of Braille-the literary, the mathemati- cal, and the musical -- are taught. They take all the subjects taught to regular students and beginning in Junior High they take their work in their respective gr.ades with the seeing pupils, their work being prepared in the braille room. C ommewml Students Enjoy Demormcy OTTAWAJS commercial department is one of the most vital of the school for it deals with students from the junior High grades on through their senior year. Miss Barnaby gives her students office procedure projects and also has them enter national and international contests. Students in Miss Robinson's cl.asses work for typing awards and take Gregg transcription speed tests. Miss Barnaby and Barbara Huber ex- amine the record book. 5133

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Foreign Language Makes Staeiemfr Patriotic IN A DEMOCRACY where all nationalities live and all languages are spoken, teaching foreign languages is important. Ottawa teaches Latin and French and has a Latin club called S.P.Q.R.', and a French club Les Amateurs Francais. In the Latin classes taught by Miss Katherine Smith, a wall panel was made illustrating the costumes of Roman men and women. A model Roman home was redecorated and refinished and two recordings of class work were made. In Miss Horn's French class culture points are given when a student visits art and furniture exhibits, French movies, opera and ballet, lectures about France and French Canada, or reads magazine articles, and biographies. Mary Horn, A.B. French Katherine M. Smith, A.B., M.A. Latin, French Kathleen C. Above: Mary Schopps, Mary M. Woodhouse, and Miss Smith examine the model Roman home. Home Economies' Better! Democracy HOME ECONOMICS makes better Smith, A.B. French, English Below: Phyllis Sharp, Betty Matteson, and Miss jackson boil milk in one of the food classes. , , Lela Mary Davis, A.B. Beulah S. jackson, B.S Elizabeth homes which In Furn makes 3' belief Personal Regimen, Foods, Clothing, Matheson B S democracy. M155 MathC50f1, M155 ciothihg Arithmetic Foods ClOfl11I'1g Davis, and Miss Jackson are Ottawa's three teachers that give in- struction in this work. In 7-1 Foods the girls learn to prepare breakfast and in 7-2 they learn to make lunches and dinners. Occasionally the girls have a party on special days such as Valentine Day. Miss Davis gave out question- naires to her senior students on Pupil Interests and Needs, which proved very interesting. lf15I