West High School - Warrior Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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 1 IS NOT ALL WORK When th© leader of an activity has an announcement to make, he may, by using the public address system, speak to all the home rooms. In this picture Coach Beyer is shown announcing an athletic ovent while Mr. Wolfe, school enginoer, operates the intricate control panel and Miss Pearson prepares to stir up interost in the junior play. Programs can bo sent from several othor points in the building as well as from the control room. Bofore the Central high school closed last summer, th© faculty gave a farewell dinner honoring Mr. Blue. Ninety members of the high school faculty attended the function. In the picture Miss Slade, who was chosen to represent the teachers, is shown as she pro sented Mr. Blue with a Gladstone traveling bag in appreciation of his cooperative spirit as principal. Another feature of the program was the showing of early snapshots of several teachers. On June 21, 1940, the Rockford high school alumni association held a farewell banquot at the Hotel Faust. The mombers who playod an active part in the planning of the rounion were (seated) Miss Scandroli, secretary-treasurer of the association; Francis Hickey, alumni president; Miss Hollem, chairman of music. Heads of other committees were (standing, left to right) Agard Bartlett, Dr. Fred Tindall, Wilbur Johnson, Paul Hogland. Karl Williams! and Ashton Johnson. At the beginning of the first semester, Mr. and Mrs. Blue gave a tea in the home economics apartment, to which were invited teachers, offico workers, and mombors of the Board of Education. Seated at the table in the picture are Mrs. Marie Sheehe (left) and Mrs. Frank Johnson (right), both Board members. Standing around the tablo are (loft to right) Miss Bar-lass, Miss Dentler. M'ss Hollem. Miss Johnson, Mrs. Blue, and Miss Holmin.

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A TEACHER'S LIFE The office girls from tho Board of Education, the three Junior high schools, and the East and West high schools entered into the spirit of Christmas by celebrating at a dinner held in the school cafeteria on December 16. After dinner, the tradition of loading the tree with gifts and exchanging them was followed by a game of bunco. Among the group in the picture are Dorothy Morgan. Cleo Matthews, and Norma Ang. The rows of boxes in the office facilitate the office girls' work of giving out reports, messages, and mail to tho teachers. The teachors appreciate the new closed boxes as a great improvement over the old open mailboxes, which were less private and from which small notes woro easily lost. In the picture. Miss Davis has just como in for hor noticos, while Mr. Tracy is examining the matorial ho has taken from his box. One of last year's important social events was the Senior Prom, held at the Armory. As at all other school parties, several faculty membors acted as chaperones. Shown chatting during an intermission are Marion Arbo gast, senior treasurer; Don Christopherson, Miss Vincent, and Miss Knill. Othor chap-eronos at tho prom wore Mr. and Mrs. Blue. Mr. and Mrs. Lundahl, Miss Putnam, Mr. and Mrs. Bornor, Miss Scandroli, Mr. and Mrs. Horrall, and Mr. Shumato. ifS Tire gaily decorated table in this scene was the center of a Christmas tea party, held in the library, at which the first floor teachers were hosts to teachers on the second and third floors. Among the group gathered around Miss Oilman, who is pouring, are Colonel and Mrs. Pell, Mr. and Mrs. Blue, Mr. Lundahl, Miss Knill, Miss Kirby, Miss Alberstett, and Mr. Shumate. Miss Vincent was general chairman for the event. [28]

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LIVING WITH THE Miss Slade's solid geomotry class cheerfully extended to everyone a very Merry and Mathematical Christmas. Students worked busily making gay tinsel and paper decorations in the form of solid figures for their Christmas tree. The figures wore from diagrams with which they are accustomed to work in connection with their solid geometry. Marshall Wiley (loft). Wendell Brooks. Joe Martellaro and Janet Westerman wore a fow of the students who made the decorative figures. Making use of magazines, newspapers, and maps. Miss Brown's history classes have frequently dovotod thoir period to the study of current events. In this study individual students give reports, which are followed by a class discussion. In the picture. Bob Hendricks (loft) is shown pointing out United States defense bases in the Atlantic Ocean, while Phillip Alongi, Florence Shaver, and Mary Jane Mackie (right) are prepared to report on the war situation in Europe. The orchestra's recording machine is used by Mr. Bornor both to play records and to make recordings of the playing of orchestra members. These recordings enable students to analyze their own work and to improve it in every way possiblo. They also hear the music of great musicians and learn it through the recordings. At left Barbara Caldwell and Henry Nometz are shown operating the machine in accompaniment for Bob Nelson and Betty Joan Kelley. At tho beginning of the baskotball season boys in Mr. Beyer's physical education classes ongagod in a series of contests which wore designed to show in what phase of basketball they were especially adept. In one of these contests pictured here, tho boys were timed on the number of baskets they could make in ono minute. Frank Rumore is seen shooting, while Joe Davis keops count of his record. r AO i