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

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Art Principles rule our every decision in arrangement, form and color Through general art, commercial art and craft classes, stu- dents not only develop their abilities and appreciation but offer a vital service, through posters, charts and stage sets for the school. The general art classes stress the study of life around us, the things we think, see and feel, individually. This enables a person to work out a style to make his work different and original. With descriptive poetry and stories, outdoor sketching, personal experiences, still life, life drawing as inspiration, the students develop creative abilities. Each student tries to find something in which he is interested and enjoys doing. I-Ie then puts this into line or color which readily speaks for his interest. Along with the class work, posters were made for the Com- munity Chest Drive, Clean-up Week, plays and the Band Bounce. Scenery was designed for pep assemblies, plays and the Band BouQe. About 75 individual menu cards were cle- signed for the navy for Christmas day and 25 favors and a table centerpiece for Camp Custer were made for July 4. COMMERICAL ART Development and understanding for good design and skill in handling the pen and brush were the objectives of the com- mercial art classes. The special projects were designing adver- tisements. A few students experimented with the air brush this year, which resulted in some very interesting effects. The commercial classes are responsible for the printing on the posters designed by the general art classes. The students in this department do almost all the printing on posters, place cards, etc. for the school. CRAFTS A cupboard filled with projects of the crafts classes is being inspected by Miss Sally Howell, crafts instructor, and Miss Martha Fisher, department head. The crafts classes have made masks, carved plaques, made clay pottery, tooled metal and leather and etched bracelets. The special projects were a large model board, a hooked rug and embroidered pillows. ART CLUB Twenty students with talent and enthusiasm form the Art Club whose officers, as pictured, are: june Turek first semester vice-presidentg jean Gottschalk, second semester vice-president, Betty Lou Remer, president, Angeline Goodwyn, secretary, and Dick Wager, treasurer. The purpose of the club is to spread art throughout the school. This group sponsored a tea and exhibit for their parents and friends in the community room. Mary Lee Grossman and Sally Schindehette were chairmen assisted by all the members. The members visited the art de- partment at Michigan State College at Lansing. The show cases in the main corridor have been looked after by the club. A radio program was presented May 1, in which the value of art to the public was brought out. Mary Lee Grossman, jean Gottschalk, june Turek, Martha Noack, Paul janke and Miss Howell participated. 10 5 This third hour class picture finds Janice Ward, Mary Ellen Ringleberg, R'lene Howell and June Alever making chalk drawings. With two or three pieces of the exhibit in the back- ground, Richard Wager works on a bust of Hitler for the set of Margin for Error, Pit and Balcony play, and Robert Monk is pictured with his conception of Factory Sections. Interest in aft by both faculty and students was shown at the twenty-ninth annual art exhibit given by the Woman's Club, when Miss Sally Howell won an award for the best amateur water color and Miss Martha Fisher won the Woman's Club award for the best painting in any medium. Thelma May received a first place, Shirley Waddell was first with her chalk drawing My Sister and Mary Ellen Ringleberg placed second for a chalk drawing. Vern Woolston and Otis Church were mentioned for awards. Miss Howell also received second place for an oil painting and a third prize for miscellaneous entries.

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Commercial Classes Train office assistants, clerks, bookkeepers, stenograpllers Approximately six hundred and forty students are enrolled in commercial courses and plan their futures in the business world. Typing and shorthand train future secretaries, while advertising, salesmanship and bookkeeping start artists, sales- men and accountants on their prospective road. In the picture Mr. Robert Shorney, Miss F. Alison Spence, Miss Ruth Mc- llvenna, Mr. Hasler Osborne, Mr. B. G. Wfells, department head, Mr. Eric Senn and Mrs. M. Marie Crittenden are discuss- ing future instruction plans. CANDY STORE Gaining experience in selling and meeting the public, stu- dents like Doris Boyd and Ernestine Weiss shown in the picture aiding john Bremer, work in the Student Organization Store supervised by Mr. Hasler Osborne. Eleanor Ahrens, Dorothy Bartel, Amelia Berbylos, Doris Boyd, Edith Chisholm, Alice Fox, Betty Garrett, Pauline johnson, Bernice Kaesmeyer, Jane Kingry, jean Law, Ruth McLean, Caroline Meyer, Gertrude Miller, Martha Noack, Elfriede Schiesswohl, Arda Shook, Theo Snow, Shirley Soderquist, Geraldine Spiekerman, June Trier, Lorna Vollmer, Ernestine Weiss and Virginia White all consider their library periods well-spent in waiting upon the sweet-toothed Hillites. Besides the much demanded bars and gum, the students may purchase pencils, paper, rulers and other articles to aid their studies. Profrts made in the student store are used to support Student Organization activities. ADVERTISING AND SALESMANSHIP Each year students who study the principles of advertising and salesmanship in all its phases under the supervision of Mr. Robert Shorney receive special training by assisting in a sales capacity in business houses in Saginaw. Students who have worked this year are Kenneth Bublitz, Roy Clement, Roy Demongey, Melvin Dietzel, Kathryn Dollhopf, Joanne Dunn, Joyce Dunn, Mary jane Erzen, Virginia Gates, Shirley Guil- bault, Bob Hannon, Max Heise, Charles Hubbard, Loraine Keinath, June Krieger, june Laufer, Max LeClair, Olive Miller, Vean Miller, Elmer Nestell, Marvin Page, Geraldine Peloquin, Art Pincombe, Doris Schmidt, jack Schofield, Mervin Straw, Delores Thomas and William Tubbs. High pressure salesman Marvin Page is showing his tech- nique to Vern Miller, june Laufer, Geraldine Peloquin and Charles Thorsby by using jack Middlebrook as his model customer. TYPING During the four-semester course, limber fingers, touch-key method, accuracy and speed were dwelled upon by the three hundred students, some of whom are pictured in the large typing room, before they began the typing of letters, telegrams, cablegrams, radiograms and common forms of legal and busi- ness documents. Since typing is so essential to the business world, much emphasis is put on the finished product. For those students not planning on continuing their business careers, the typing and formation of personal letters is taught. BOOKKEEPING Bookkeeping gives the student an understanding of the sub- ject and business procedures that he will need as a citizen regardless of how he will make his living as well as personal, social, economic, educational and vocational information. About 170 students enroll each semester for bookkeeping in- 17 structions as in Mr. B. G. Wells' class with Dorothy Hall, jeannette Ewald, Helen Decrock, Ernestine Weiss, june Krieger, Peter Herzberger, Harold Smith, Charles Slade, james Hutchison, Bob Averill, Lydia Geyer and Mildred Franz. Students are taught the uses of business papers, checks and the importance of records as well as how to make and use business statements. General mathematics is planned for students who have not had any high school mathematics and who prefer to take it in place of English 8. Mr. j. Hasler Osborne and Miss Ruth Mcllvenna have taught 95 students the fundamentals for every- day use. SHORTHAND AND TRANSCRIPTION With the aim to better the quality of the stenographer, shorthand and transcription are approached in the familiar book, pencil and pad manner shown by Shirley Kaiser and Doris Boyd at work in class.