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

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Statement of Theme Advisories replaced the first hour home room three years ago through the efforts of Principal I. M. Brock. The change was made necessary by an increased enrollment which made difficult the formation of any close teacher-student relations. Its purpose was to furnish adequate guidance for the students in the selection of courses and general problems. This system gave to each teacher for a definite period each day a group of about thirty students of one class throughout their three-year course. The students in the advisory thus had ample chance to become well- acquainted with at least thirty of their classmates as well as a member of the faculty. Individual difficulties could better be adjusted through the advisory teacher who would know the student better because of con- tinuous association. The advisory group has become the heart of school life. All matters of importance are carried to the student daily in his advisory through the bulletin issued each second hour from the school office. This form of organization greatly facilitates school elections, the distribution of pub- lications, and the carrying on of campaign, ticket sales, and projects. Without the advisory as a unit, it is doubtful whether the intramural schedule would have attained its present commanding place. Social functions are not neglected in these groups. One or another of them put on many of the tea dances, potlucks, and picnics which were prominent among this year's activities. Many advisories took up the study of parliamentary procedure, game rules, vocational opportunties, etiquette, dress and self-analysis tests. Greater opportunities for the development of leadership in the student are offered by the smaller group organization furnishing a larger corps of officers. We, the Legenda board and staff, realizing the functioning power of this unit in school life, considered it a suitable basis for the yearbook. The advisory group — its Work, its Play, its Service — is the theme of the 1932 Legenda.

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To accommodate the increas- ing enrollment of Arthur Hill High School, the Pioneer Club building, then the larg- est hall in Saginaw, was pur- chased on September 10, 1919. At that time it was converted into class rooms and a school gymnasium, and assumed the name the Annex.

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We wish to express our sincere regret for the loss of our Legenda co-worker, Erwin Lauckner. After capably heading the editorial staff until late in May, he was stricken with an attack of acute appendicitis and passed away a week later. Erwin, just three weeks short of grad- uation, could look back on over three years of conscientious study and extra-curricular activity. He had so interwoven his life with the school life that his loss was a severe blow to all who knew him, teachers and students. His teachers lost a student who never shirked hard work. Erwin knew he was capable of being among the first in his class and would have con- sidered it a betrayal if he had allowed himself to fail to take that position. His fellow classmates and club members lost a friend who was always ready to help in any way possible.