Western Hills High School - Annual Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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SIIIIIIMIIIIMIIAIIRCY IDI? IIIQDSZN33 ESTERN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL isa six-year school, composed of a junior High school, grades seven, eight, and nine, enrollment 1,zo7, and a Senior High School, grades ten, eleven, and twelve, enrollment 901. Because of the unusual economic conditions prevailing at present, fifteen of the graduates of last year have returned for special courses. This total enrollment of 1,113 is handled by a force of seventy-two teachers, two librarians, a student adviser, a vocational and educational counselor, two secretaries, eighteen lunch-room workers, twenty- five student helpers, eleven janitors, one engineer, and one fireman. There is, besides, a Safety Patrol, organized, manned, and directed entirely by pupils. Since the organization of the school five years ago, there has been no traffic accident, although the trafiic conditions are difficult. This, I think, is the result of the efficiency of the Student Safety Patrol. There was but one teacher added to the corps this year, although there was an increase of over two hundred in the enrollment. There were no resignations of any kind. The teaching force is divided into the following courses: Academic, Commer- cial, Household Arts, Industrial Arts, Physical Education, and Music. Death, the Grim Reaper, entered the faculty ranks this year, taking Miss Mar- garet Stoup. To mention her name is to recall the gentle, helpful teacher who for all too short a time worked and lived among us. It will be difficult to find again such fine qualities of mind and spirit. During the years 1931 and 1933, the following public performances were given, each two or three times: The Orchestra and Band gave a Minstrel Revue, the Junior Choral Club, Orchestra, and Dancing Clubs gave a Musical Revue, the Senior Choral Club gave Flotow's opera Martha, and the Senior Dramatic Club gave the comedy, The Tailor Made Man. Each year the school publishes the following: The Western Breeze, a school newspaper, The Western Hills Maroon, a literary magazine, THE Yisaanooxg Horizons, a slender volume of poetry and prose com- posed at various times during the year by gifted pupils, and the 'iBook of Achieve- ment, a volume showing the efliciency of the Printing Department. In the athletic world, Western Hills High School is represented by a football, basketball, baseball, swimming, and track teams. The prowess of these teams is attested by a trophy case full of handsome cups. Some mention must be made of the mural decoration of the school, which has been most widely and favorably commented on. These murals were completed this year by the installment of the two in the lunch room, which rounded out the mural decoration there. These were painted by the famous cattle painter, Edward Volkert. Each of the three panels is thirteen by sixteen feet and depicts cattle in a beautiful background of hills, trees, and streams. In the entrance hall are six murals, each seven by ten. These show characteristic scenes in the growth of Cincinnati and the evolution of transportation. They were painted by Mrs. Frances Wiley Faig, a prominent Cincinnati artist, and were donated by friends of the school. The lunch- room murals were financed by student activities. In the five years of its existence, the school has expanded in every way, constantly coming closer to a realization of the hope that it may be so adjusted that every teacher and every pupil may function happily for the general welfare of all. s s ,- II

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17. Si sm. LEWIS Kopp HARRIS DRUCKER GREENFIELD MITTENKQETER iIE5lNlNL?flllQ9lllSilHll JIL91llGTllfllE,lIRfMlIlfllllllRlIE5 HE REAL CONTRIBUTION or LITERARY ENGLAND to the world is moral in its significance. Chaucer introduces the genial humor that gives sanity of mental attitudeg golden-voiced Spenser typifies the aspirations of man for nobility and virtue, Milton, Puritan and artist, expresses the conflict between good and evil. A plea for brotherhood and democracy comes from the Plowman Poet, through intimate communion with nature Wordsworth would bring solace and strength to the soul of man. The romance of Scott, the humani- tarianism of Dickens, and the optimism of Stevenson shed their influence for good. From the two great Victorians, Browning and Tennyson, comes an unassailable faith which teaches men to march straight forward and to meet their pilot face to face. This moral teaching through her literature comes down even to the day of Eng- land's present laureate, Masefield, who, through his reasoning, is giving to the World a broader, more sympathetic understanding of all nIen. BERTA B. HARPER.