Ann Arbor High School - Omega Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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In the field of athletucs Ann Arbor Hugh School has made a name for utself un state scholastuc curcles As early as 1898 the football team won uts first undisputed state champuonshup and sunce that tume uts teams un football basketball baseball tennus golf track and swummung have made envuable records throughout the years The name Puoneers whuch desugnates all teams sponsored by the Athletuc Assocuatuon was not adopted untul 1936 as the result of a contest conducted by the Ann Arbor News The name was accepted because Ann Arbor Hugh School us a pioneer un the true sense of the word beung one of the first schools In the state c have an organized athletuc program But asude from the war record and the athletic record umportant as they are they yueld un sugnuficance to the hugh level of scholarshup whuch the school has zealously and persustently mamtamed The tanguble proof of thus may be found un the many graduates who have gone from uts doors to make notable successes un such fields as art luterature auud scuence Nor must we forget the thousands of graduates who have found unspuratuon and guudance wuthun uts walls and have made for themselves happy and contented luves ln March of thus year the old school closed uts doors forever and the buuldung has become a part of the Unuverslty From the Carnegue Library has been taken the oul portrait of Pruncupal Emerutus Lewus L Forsythe paunted by a graduate of thus school and from the l'1CIll G bronze bust of Mr Forsythe whuch was presented to the school as a class memorual Wuth these tangible thungs go memorues memorues of work well done mem orues of student dances and homeroom partues mem orues of plays concerts and assemblues memorues of strong lastung fruendshups The new buuldung us the cumulatuve result of many many hours of thought and labor on the part of the pruncupal the superuntendent of schools the Board of Educatuon the Cutuzens Commuttee and the hugh school faculty It has entailed frequent trups to Inspect other schools much connung of books many conferences wuth archutects Because of thus plannung the buuldung has structuon but ut also antucupates the future un uts plane taruum weather station raduo and televusuon studuos and other unuque features It us a notable achievement to round out a cen tury of progress but un thus dynamuc age one cannot dwell nostalgucally un the past By a councudence we end our first one hundred years un one buuldung and begun the next un another What part wull the new Ann Arbor Hugh School play? What great strudes wull the world make un the humanutues technology scuence'P Such a world wull place everuncreasung responsubulutues upon uts cutuzens We look to the new school to play uts part un preparung uts students to assume a meanung ful and progressive role un thus world . .I . . . . Z I , . I I I ' I I I In - ru - 11 f - ' ' ' . ' ' , Q I . I ' ,, . . . . ' I ' ' I ' I ' , . . .,, I ' I ' - ' - ' incorporated within it the best in existing school con- , . . 1 ' 1 ' V , , , , - 2' 13

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-aww..-'- v Obviously tribute cannot be paid to each one of these teachers by name, but even a brief history of this sort would not be complete without the mention of a few of them who gave their toil, their inspiration, and the best of their lives in the service of the school. There were Horatio N. Chute, physics teacher, Levi D. Wines, mathematics teacher, Sara O'Brien, history teacher, and Alice Porter, Latin teacher, all were great instructors who left the impress of their personalities on the pupils who were fortunate to study under them. The memory of at least two of these is preserved in the medals which are presented each June to the out- standing boy and the outstanding girl in the graduat- ing class: the Horatio N. Chute medal to the boy and the Alice Porter medal to the girl. As the curriculum grew and broadened through- out the years, so too did the program of extra-curri- cular activities which the school oftered its students. In the Pioneer Guide, a student handbook, is a state- ment of the philosophy of the Ann Arbor High School as formulated by its faculty. lt says in part: We be- lieve that each student should be recognized as a personality entitled to all possible encouragement and help in order to enable him to adjust himself in this school and in society, Outside the classroom this be- lief has seen its embodiment in extra-curricular activi- ties almost too numerous to mention, For the develop- ment of the physical body there is an extensive pro- gram of sports, both intramural and interscholastic, for 1 .Aus 1 Q the development of leadership there is the Student Council, for experience in living with others in an en- vironment not restricted by the walls of the classroom there is an outdoor education program. Students who are interested in writing and iourna- Iism find an outlet in working on the staffs of the Omega, a yearbook, or the Optimist, the school news- paper, would-be orators can participate in many foren- sic activities, and budding actors find stimulation in the drama workshops and the stagecraft laboratories. Many of these activities have so proved their value that they have been incorporated into the curriculum, and credit towards graduation is now given for them. Recently some of the student clubs which formerly operated fo rthe most port after school hours were put into the regular daily program as courses meeting every other day. Ann Arbor High School has contributed its share of combatants in the six military conflicts in which our country engaged during the past one hundred years: the Civil War, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, the First World War, the Second World War, and the Korean War. In the main corridor of this building the names of those loyal students who died in the First and Second orld Wars in the defense of their country are inscribed on bronze tablets which will keep their memory green and serve as an inspira- tion to coming generations of students.

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MR. HOLLWAY MR. BUELL MISS RIEGER Physics German, lafin Foofball and Basketball Coach Afhlelic Direclor MISS McLOUTH Mafhemahcs MR GRANVILLE English Head ol English Deparfme I MR DAHLBERG C O T MR RYAN Track Coach Dnver Educahon MISS EBERBACH Home Economics 14 ... ,