West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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WII.BUR PALM . . . Chenmtn . . . Biology . . . Botjm . . . Sophomore Football . . . Wrestling . . . Boxing: DONALD A I lOl'C K ... Biology . . . Baseball; JOHN E. MORRIS . . . Biology Botany . . . Athletic Manager Natural I’lioiiomona One of the first wonders ever incurred by man was that of natural phenomena. What was the sun? Why did things fall toward the ground? What made plants grow? These questions were handed down through the ages, and explained one by one; but the wonder still remained. Some of the explanation theories were scoffed at and their originators punished severely before they could prove that they were right. As time went on. a great many astronomical, biological, and physical truths were revealed, until today a large part has been diagnosed and recorded for one to learn. Here at West many students have become familiar with such weird and foreign sounding phrases as metabolism, protozoa, and oxidation. The sciences of chemistry, physics, biology, and many others arc plumbed to their depths; their carefully hidden secrets are drawn from dark recesses into the light for all to see, understand; and through this understanding, perhaps some day they may add to the knowledge already compiled.

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ARTHUR l . NORTON . . . Chemistry . . . Physics . . . Camera Club . . . National Honor Society; HENRY W. DUEL . . . Physics . . . Tests am! Measurements; HUGO W. WICKSTTIOM . . . Biology . . . Swimming . . . Baseball Driving info Science The chemists and physicists of tomorrow will look hack upon their first explorations into the realm of the scientific unknown. They will recall their early laborious efforts to understand the process of photosynthesis, the satisfaction of mastering the names and elements of hundreds of compounds, the jubilation of having completed their first successful chemical experiment. Nor will the patient efforts on the part of the instructors to unravel the profound mysteries to painfully obtuse students ever Ik forgotten. The men and women of the future whose lives will be spent in the quest of securing health and happiness for others will realize that it was in the classrooms and in the lalxiratorics such as these that their careers began. It was here that the thoughts and ideas, which would later find fruition in successful realities, had their inception. Two Parts Nitrogen, Three Parts Glycerine ... H m, It Doesn't Look Dangerous... Scientists at Work

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Artists and Cartoonists Play Their Part in National Defense... An Influence Upon the Public Artistic Expressions “If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. —Ralph W. Emerson. Creation of beauty and expression of one's innermost feelings and emotions are two of the purposes of the art classes. We can remember times when lines, the product of hours of labor, were not beauty, nor the expression of that which lay hidden within our minds; but merely dead, lifeless, hieroglyphics scrawled in stiff, unyielding trails. We recall days of real agony when mere clay, or paint, or pen, or pencil point was insufficient to record the indescribable joys and sorrows we felt. But we also fondly recollect a day of sunshine— when a new light of art and beauty flooded through our awakening consciousness. Then the clay became vibrant, the pen leaped across the paper almost of its own accord, or the paint became light and shadow, and someone could say, 1 did that. HAZEL MOORE . . . Art . . . Hesperian . . . Daubers