St Louis High School - Cavalcade Yearbook (St Louis, MI)

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'96 LOUIAN-1923 D99 OUR TEACHERS 1Continue el A great educator said to Supt. Wood the other day, How did you ever collect such a congregation of wonder- ful teachcrs? For one he had referred to Miss Schaus who has taught here for 30 years-enough said-she has more interest and push than some entire schools have. She is supervisor of the Commercial Dep't and Treasurer of' the school funds. Miss Fllis is our mathematics teacher She is a de- gree graduate of our Michigan State Agricultural College the college acknowledged to be the best of rts krnd rn the Unrted States Mrss Ellis came here from Moorhead, Iowa, where she had been teaching, and rs doing excep tronally fine work here For months we looked for a science teacher, the summer passed and part of the school year yet we failed to find what we wanted Mr Grant who last :year had from page 151 here for three years and needs no other recommendation for her work has been of an exceptionally high quality. Mrs. Kennedy is another U. of M. degree graduate and has taught in St. Louis for several years. She is now teaching Miss Por'ter's English classes. Mrs. Kennedy, whose father, J. K. YVr'ight, served on the Board of Edu- cation for' many years, graduated from the St. Louis schools in 1005 In 1006 she entered the U of M obtain ing the Bachelors degree rn three rnd one half yerrs, spending the remarnrng semester on her Master s degree Her splendid qualifications and natural abrlrty as a teach er make her valuable rn anv nosrtron she may wish to fill lVIrss Nloutrre and Nlrss Getman are ercperrenced teach ers who have proven their worth not only rn our schools but in other schools Miss Nloutrre has charge of the Domestic Science department, one of the strongest depart MISS PIIIABFFH BOYLF MRQ J I SAUNDFRS' chxrgc of all athlctrcs, all heaxp, gym work all science and prrt of thc eighth grade, could not be expected to do rustlce to rll of this so Supt XX ood took part of the work At lrst we found 1 mrn down rn Nlrssouri Mr W'eller College, VK arrensburg, Mo He has a B S degree and has fulfilled our highest expectations It rs the oprnron of Supt VK ood that science rn rtself rs not of great value to r high school student unless rt dewelops rn the pupil an rpprecr rtron of the world we lrxe rn and a practical applr ation rs made of rt to lrfe Prof VS eller rs carrying out this rde 1 Miss Dee gradurted from the Bav City Fastern High school and rttended thc Unrwersrtv of Nlrchrgan for four vears where she graduated with an A B degree er subjects ue Iatrn rnd History She his een ments rrr our school Both these teachers came here from Holly Miss Cetman rs rt the hc rd of the musre dcprrt ment a department th rt rs mrkrng wonder-ful str rcles In r school of this srlc rt rs odd to find the superrn cause he has the right kind of assi tants and he uses hrs classes to demonstrate hrs methods to be right Supt Wood started out the year teaching science, hrstorv and economics but srnce Mr Weller s rrrrv rl has been teleh ing only hrstory and economics like the science deprrtment the finding of the rr ht kind of a man for the Industrrrl Arts rs drtfrcult This deprrtment should not be 1 dumping ground for those who cannot learn the three Rs This school rs not 1 bov factory or a strnd factory but 1 char rcter fr tory We 1 mud ruse PG SFVENTI' ILN 1' l ' ' A D A . v 7 ' T 1 Y. I' ll V 'l 2 1- K 12 'L' 5 fic- ,- L ' ' ' I ' . K' ' ,. A. ,. . .l .vs ,.. . ' he xl s . . ' x . ' . L I .1 4 . . . ' ' ' ' . ' ' ' - ' ' ' l' . - - . l . x c A. . . Y V X . , Q. N . . - . . . . kg L ' . wel i .1.,-A . . r'.f . .yv ,W v -', --' -1 I .' .., l ,. ,.. A.... , ,., . ' z ' - -' f f 1 ' x -' ' ' '. '- . 2 - -2 1 s z -- t. ' . . 1 -5 , ' ' ' . . . . l , 1 C . , 2 Z ' ,. , K. -' rs' carrie to us from the Central Missouri State Teachers' tenclent teaching, but Supt. Wood claims he can do so be- 7 r ' Y . . . ' - 1. Y ...'sf . 1 .'. I A . Io 'V - ' I ' . . . ., ' I. r ' 'I . . L' . V . -.' . ' 's ' '- v 1 Ac. , .. ,c.' .,.' .A 'L .1 L 1 'f' . 1 . ' ' ' 1 f, .f' -- '. - 1-'sen' z .s - ra'- 2 - Hz V' . ' y ' C - ' '- ' . 'K . V ' L. ' H L. . 1 A . . . 1 . . ' . w . J. ,X . ' Z x . r I ,Ig 'L.A. , , ,. . 2 A . K t ' J. . ' ?- 2 . , L. , Z ' 1. ,. . . L. z - 1 ' r' ' r. au r 'H '. 2 . .I .T 1 ,., - ,-. C 7' . D J. .. . . ek K. . 2 ...2.,. 2: .. 'x If 1 ' K ' ' .' 2 ' ' 1' 2 L' ' '. ' 2 ' b A ' tg' mt' ,- Un , Af. lg,

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LOUIAN 1923 ur Teachers 4C ntmued from page 1 1 want to knou what krnd of boys we are turning out and not wh t krnd of tables the boys are turning out We found Mr Dooley whose home rs rn Kalamazoo and who has specralrved rn the kind of manual trarnrng and mechan rcal draurng that turns out boys trained rn the essentials that make for success rn lrfe Mrss Boyles rs principal of the Junior hrgh She has the assrstance of mfmv of the special teachers and Mrs Dahlm who has been teaching rn our schools since the second semester of lrst year Mrss Boyles has been teaching, for eleven yc rrs and came here from VVheeler where she was an instructor Her work here has been of the hrghcst character for she IS filled with dynamic en thusrasm Mrs Saunders was promoted this year to the prrncr palshrp of the Umon Grade school and Primary school She rs fr born drscrplrnarran and has established rules and This rs the third year rn our schools for Mrs Grant and Mr Newton Mrs Grant has part of the fifth grade and Mrs Newton part of the srrcth grade Both have been very successful Mrss Swem came here from Parrs, Mrchrgan where she had been teaching Shc rs 1 graduate of the Central State Normal and rs teaching part of the fourth grade The Misses Doyle and 'Whipple are new teachers rn our system but from an observation of the work they are doing one can see that they re making good Both are Central State Normal teachers Mrss Benkleman who torches part of the second grade rs a graduate of C ss Crty High and of the Central State Normal After teaching rn Vassar she came to St Lours This rs her second year with us She rs excep tronally fine MRS LhfFIE DAHLIN MRS HARRILT 'XIEWION courscs of studv th rt will graduate students to the High School of the highest order Mrs Saunders has been teaching for nine years It seems odd to find so many schools whrch do not have a kindergarten or rf they have one rt rs but a new addrtron St Lours established rts Kindergarten back rn the 90s and rt has long been recognized as an rntegral part of our school system The transition from the home lrfe with rts great freedom to the lrfe of the school wrth rts restraint rs without a krndergarten too abrupt and fre quently arouses rn the child an antagonism towards school that rs hard to overcome With toys games and storres we are 'able to bridge over thrs period and arouse rn the chrld a desue for the realrtres and possrbrlrtres of the fu ture Mrs Wood the wife of Supt Wood rs the Kinder garten Supervisor She attended Valparaiso University, Marian Ind Normal and had work under Prof Hall of Columbia Unrversrtv Mrs Wood has taught for years rs a member of the Columbra Dames, and rs a degree teacher Mrs Rebecca Dole graduated from St Lours High and from the Central State Normal She taught two years before going to Berwyn where she spent five very suc cessful years After seven years experience she began her work here having a part of the thrrd gr rde She rs especially adapted to thrs krnd of work Mrs Mary O DePeel rs a graduate of Ithaca High She recerved her normal trarnrng at Mt Pleasant, after which she taught for five years rn the crty schools at Duluth Mrnnesota For the past two years she has been very successful rn her work here Mrss Knause who has a part of the first grade rs well known to the people of St Lours having taught here for the past nrneteen years She came here from Green Vrlle Mrss Knause has taught continuously since 1883 and about a year previous to that, makrng a record of forty years The last twenty four years she has devoted to primary work rn whrch lrne she rs considered partrcu larly successful PQ EIGHTEEN Iro ' T 21 ' c . 1 '31 . . ., . , . . . . 1 . u 11 ' I ' L I I , . U . I II 1 1 . . 4 K I C nn 4 y 1 Y , . ' . . . .., I 1 1 1 . ' , . z. 1 . . I I I . I . . c cl l c . . ,- - ,Z v r - I ' r 1: . vt x - . II ' ' ' A I I ' rc - - I I I . . . . . 1 , x1 be x L I - ' ' ' I I I I ' 1 w s, C u 1 U x 1 V r . H -V V I I - m . ' - ' ' ' - f ' i ' . . . I 4 1 . ' 'f' 1 ' . S. 4 . ' ' I 1 . , , A. i S ' ' 1 1 l J I ru: I ' . . . .. 1 . I I Y ' I ' s 1 C n . . . III I . . 1 I I . I . . . . - I I 1 y . ' ? 1 1 - 1 K ,T u C V . .. , , , - I 1 , 1 - ' IK Y, v I . '.. . c , ' ' 1 ' 1 -