Arthur Hill High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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QNIi day. last semester, a smell of earth pervaded the air. The scent led to the old work shop room. A busy group was working there. The floor was being tom up and because of the avalanche of boards being thrown from the window, students were moved to feeling a great pain in the regions of their chests. It couldn’t really be possible that the school was being torn down from the bottom up! This year, after its redecorating, the hall was ready for occupancy. As the other rooms of Arthur Hill, this is a room of many duties. While it serves daily as a study, lunch, and waiting room, debaters and auctioneers have made use of it. A sight-seeing tour will reveal many things. As a student enters, he sees a large room, well-lighted by fifteen lights and thirteen windows of which only twelve arc doing duty. There are scats for approximately one hundred and thirty students. Fourteen of these seats are formed from old fashioned double desks and might be very convenient for a two-some, but a teacher's desk stands in front of the room. The chair is occupied by the following teachers during the following hours: Mr. Robert Thornton, first; Miss Florence Wells, second; Coach Stanley An- derson, advisory; Mr. Ivan McCormack, third; Coach Anderson, noon; Miss Coila Start, fourth; and Mr. William Lee. fifth. These teachers arc stationed in the study hall to sec that quiet is maintained and that all students assigned there, show up every day and spend an hour diligently studying. Of course, any one can use the hall as a study room during vacant hour, but those assigned there must do so until they are informed that their presence is no longer required. There is a conglomeration of furniture and j ossessions spread around the hall. At the front of the room stands a lxx kcase with a new set of thirty volumes of the encyclopedia Americana. There arc two large and two small dictionaries to enable a student to read these huge volumes. An account of the rest of the contents of the room is as follows-, three pigeon-hole arrange- ments to hold books, one pair of gym shoes, four black boards, two entrances, three tables, three pencil sharpeners, one mirror, one container for used paper cups, three waste paper baskets of which one is an old paste board box. one paper cup container made by the Paper Utilities Co., Inc. of New York City, forty-five coat hooks, and an uncountable number of books explaining why some students don’t have their lessons next day. So, with this large and varied assortment of furnishings, Arthur Hill’s study hall was put into operation this year and now offers the student, desirous of knowledge, a quiet place to study in except when the band, or orchestra, or glee clubs are practicing. By Eleanor Pollard. Eleven

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Mary E. Thompson. B. S. Shorthand, Typewriting Bookkeeping South West Missouri [ State Teachers’ College R. E. Trippensce. B. S. Biology Michigan State College Robert Thornton. B. A. Mechanical Drawing. Gen eral i hop. Geography Bradley Polytechnic Institute Gertrude Vandcrhoof, B. A.. A. M.. Mathematics University of Michigan B. G. Wells. B. A Commercial Grinncll College Florence E. Wells, B. S, Home Economics Columbia University Ella W. Woodman. B. A. English University of Michigan

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 ASSEMBLIES '“PHIS semester has brought to Arthur Hill a course of interesting assemblies. They have been entertaining as well as informative, and it was because of the spirit which the students showed that the assembly committee, headed by Mr. (). L. Poulson, was inspired to work hard in preparing more and better programs. The athletic association made possible these assem- blies, as well as the accommodation of the large crowds during the basketball season, by the purchase of bleachers placed on both sides of the room, beneath the balconies. On November nineteenth, the Reverend John C. Schroeder of the First Congregational church spoke to the students. In contrast to the dignity of it as a meeting came the pep assembly of November twenty-seventh, when everyone, including the most reserved, sent up his voice to the sky with enthusiasm for the loyalty of the football team. February, with its many world famous birthdays, brought forth some excellent student speakers. Carl Eggert presided over the program. Probably the most unusual assemblies of the year were the ones put on by groups of students from Mr. Poulson’s physics classes on March thirteenth, and by members of the art department on May twenty-ninth. Arthur Hill honored on March twenty-seventh the athletic and literary achievements of many of its students. Superintendent Miller presented to the school, a plaque of bronze and walnut inscribed with the following words—“High School Champions, 1930, Region VIII, Class A.” Letters were presented to the members of the team who had earned them so well. Announce- ment was made of those who had won membership in the National Scholarship Society of Second- ary Schools. The final presentation came when the new members of the Quill and Scroll society were given their pins. Unrivalled as a speaker, came “Dad” Elliott to Arthur Hill on Thursday, April the thirty- first. The appearance of the school musical organizations, under Mr. McCormack, came on May seventh when a program was presented in honor of national music week. The only dedicatory assembly of the year took place on May twenty-second when the new school flag was presented to the student body by Dorothy Schroeder. The Rev. Mr. A. H. Hamly was speaker of the morning. The last assembly was an honor assembly on June sixth. For this very enjoyable season, Mr. Poulson and his assembly committee: Mrs. Dorothy Giesel, Miss Bernice Gibbs, Mr. I. R. McCormack, Mr. T. W. DeHaven, Dan Bixby, Isabelle McKellar, and Alice Cross arc largely responsible, and they deserve a great deal of credit. Twelve