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

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English Basic subject for all fields of education gives both fundamentals and background Of the seven courses offered in English, five are required of every graduate, namely, English 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. The student may make a choice in English 7 as to the college or non-college course. English 8 is required of college course graduates and may be replaced with general mathematics by others. Those with interest and ability in dramatics, speech and journalism are encouraged to take electives in these allied subjects. The English faculty as pictured includes Mrs. Mary Burt Krueger, Mr. Earl Smith, Miss Irma Stockdale, department head, Miss jean Stolz, Miss Jeanne Parmelee, Miss Burnice Gibbs, speech, Miss Ethel A. Peterson, Mr. Herman Ramsey, Mrs. Frances Hamlin, Mr. Stanley Schubert, dramaticsg Miss Margaret Fraser, Miss Mattie G. Crump, journalism, and Miss Amy Gatz. In English 3 written composition with well-rounded para- graphs, as well as grammar, is stressed. Vocabulary building and the use of the dictionary play an important part in the course, as does oral English and vocational reading. English 4 consisted of reading short stories, a novel, plays, essays, biographies and poetry. The juniors enjoy the modern short stories along with a review of grammar and the mechanics of writing. The last semester is devoted to the study of American literature and effective literary devices. In the senior year the student has the choice of college or non-college courses. The college English provides a back- ground by a review of the mechanics of written English, out- lining and the study of English literature through the twentieth century. Oral and written compositions, including a thousand word theme based on research, are required. Class discussion of practical school problems often furnish material for written work. If a non-college course is chosen, the student writes compositions of a more practical nature including many letters, studies modern literature especially magazines, discusses articles in the Reader! Digett and does vocabulary and dictionary work. SPELL DOWN Mrs. Frances Hamlin promoted an all-school spelling bee originating in her senior English classes in which any sopho- more, junior or senior could participate. A round of the bee was held fifteen minutes each day. The five highest students were taken from each round and the nine most prominent during the preliminary rounds were to take part in the spell down broadcast over WSAM April 17. The middle picture show the students who were leading the list in the prelimi- nary contests. They are David Drown, Dorothy Warren, Sue Mason, Shirley Neilson, Dorothy Skeels, Ben Lemmer and Thelma Nachtweih. After two weeks' preparation the contestants who led the spell down broadcast were Dave Drown, Sue Mason, Robert 14 Patterson, Dorothy Skeels, Fred Trinklein, Melvin Wenzel, Wanda Weiss, Marilynn Witting and Betty Ann Young, who was the winner of the first spell down held at Arthur Hill in many years. BROADCAST The life of Ralph Waldo Emerson was dramatized over WSAM under the direction of Mrs. Mary Burt Krueger, May 15. The students who prepared the script were Don Bickel, Verna Rauschert, Harold Stier, Shirley Waddell and Don Zoellner. The cast shown in the lower picture at the broadcasting station are Mrs. Krueger, Shirley Waddell, Don Bickel, Hudson Snow, who played an original piano composition for musical setting, Verna Rauschert and Morris Sykes. 1000 WORD THEMES Although the required 1,000 word themes make English 8 college course students groan in despair, the themes were assigned early so that the students would have plenty of time to turn out good work, unless they put it off until the last minute. The students had their choice of subjects, but a current event topic was preferred. There were several requirements: With the theme, the student must hand in a statement of his objective, and an out- line, a bibliography and the notes he took while writing it. Typing was not required, but if the theme was not typed, it must be written neatly and legibily. V. F. W. ESSAY CONTEST Placing first in the city-wide annual essay contest sponsored by the Women's Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was Randall Robson, 12A, who received the ten dollar award at an assembly. Second prize was won by Dorothy Ann Bernecker, the only entrant from Saginaw High School and third and fourth places by Dorotha Pointer and Dorothy Geyer of Arthur Hill, who received prizes of 35, 82.50 and 31 respectively. The contest on the theme One Nation Indivisible' was entered by 108 Arthur Hill students. Randall's essay had a chance to win national and state honors at the judging in Detroit, according to Mrs. Fred W. Balesky, chairman of the annual contest. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE Miss Irma Stockdale, head of English department, made it possible for English students to obtain the names of English- writing students all over the world. These names were provided by a company specializing in them for a small fee. It was the first time the English department had used this service. The excitement of receiving strange stamps and stranger postmarks encouraged students to correspond.

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Ilramatics Offers outlet for timid souls as well as talent Dramatics classes provide opportunity for voice training, the background of drama and the production of plays. In addition to play reading, notebook and class exercises, the drama classes presented three one-act plays for their friends in the Little Theatre, November 27. The plays were: Their Husbands, played by Betty Spatz, Annarose Guida, Virginia jozwiak and Donna Remington, The Brink of Silence, play- ed by Dick Burke, Bob Biggs and Ray Guerin, and Teeth of the Gift Horse, by Doris Muehlenbeck, Carolyn Michel, Dick Burke, Dick Wager, Virginia Eppert and Esther Nagel. ARTS-DRAMATICS CLUB Any student finding himself adapted to dramatics may enter the Arts-Dramatics Club by handing in a written application and maintaining a C average in all classes. In the picture Randall Robson, president, talks with Nancy Stine, vice-presi- dent, Phyllis Graebner, secretary, and Harold Sandow, trea- surer. The club was organized in 1927 to stimulate an appre- ciation for drama and the development of talent. SENIOR PLAY Almost every night for weeks, the cast of the senior play, Young Barry, spent an hour or two in the auditorium rehearsing to assure the student body of a flawless performance. The seniors presented the Barry family in Young Barry on March 7. The cast as in the second picture is from left to right: seated, jean Ann Granville, Randall Robson and Nancy Stine. Standing are Mildred Franz, Phyllis Graebner, Leonard Anaman, Betty Spatz, Mary Lee Grossman, Marjorie Rice and Marvin Page. Those not in the picture are Harold Sandow, Robert Fox, Robert Fellows and Rosemary Bartlett. The backstage crew came in for a lot of approval on this show. Wesley Peterson on lights, Linn Campbell, stage man- ager, john Goppelt on book and Harry Haft on the curtain. The boys had plenty of problems to solve in making a glowing Hre in the fireplace, bringing in the radio announcement, setting special spots of light for the action and learning to use the remote control switch. The stage set was unusually attractive on the new rug pur- chased for permanent property. And didn't those actors handle themselves with a great deal more finesse and naturalness on a covered floor! JUNIOR PLAY With the setting in the patio of the McIntyre's home in a University town in California, Mr. and Mrs. Mclntyre por- trayed by George Michel and jean Williamson casually discuss the problems of their children George and Terry, Phyllis Don- haiser and Howard Finger, as they pass through the trying years of later adolescence into the Young April of their lives. Young April was the junior presentation, May l and 2. The cast shown in the first picture, is from left to right: seated, Pat Bates, Phyllis Whyte, Ruth Hauffe, Pegge McNamara, Phyllis Donhaiser, George Michel and Howard Finger. Stand- ing are Helen Novack, Don Zoellner, Frances Fassezke, Don MacMillan, Wilmer Pierson, Bob Reetz, Herbert Saul, Ella Dee Ford and Jean Williamson. CHRISTMAS PAGEANT The first Christmas spent in the new school was celebrated by the production of Dickens' Christmas Carol, December 18. Among the twenty-six students chosen for the principle parts 16 in the cast as shown in the Nativity scene are Mary, jean Wil- liamson, Joseph, Wilmer Pierson, the three wise men, Don Zoellner, john Donhaiser and Bill McFarland and the four angels, Sally Schindehette, Doris Muehlenbeck, Marjorie Rice and june Willemin. Other players were: Scrooge, Bob Biggs, two gentlemen, Herbert Saul and Bill McFarland, Spirit of Christmas Past, Carolyn Michel, Spirit of Christmas Present, Rosemary Bartlett, Spirit of Christmas Future, Betty Spatz, Marley's Ghost, james Muehlenbeck, Bob Cratchit, Marvin Page, Mrs. Cratchit, Phyllis Graebner, Peter, Ray Guerin, Martha, jean Ann Granville, small boy, Ben Damberg, small girl, Janice Ward, Fred Scrooge, Dick Burke, Mrs. Fred Scrooge, Doris Muehlenbeck, Mrs. Scrooge's sister, Adeline Thom, Topper, Clinton Stroebel, Mr. Fezziwig, Randall Rob- son, Mrs. Fezziwig, Harriet Sarow, three Misses Fezziwig, Nancy Stine, Zoe-Lois Mason and Doris Hall, guests, Dick Miller and Bob Fellows, and apprentices, Kenneth Praay and Kenneth Katter. COMMENCEMENT Narrators George Michel and james Muehlenbeck provided the background for the scene of the pageant Our American Way june 13, at the city auditorium. An introductory tableau was offered by Ann Gilbert, Geraldine Esmer, Marjorie Rice, Sally Schindehette, Mary Surgeson and jean Williamson. This scene remained on the stage as a background for the entire pageant. The first pillar, Allegiance, was presented by Don Abbey, Marjorie Edwards, Bob Fellows, Mildred Franz, Mary Lee Grossman, Carol Heineman, jane Kingry, Bob Krause, Mary McQuistin, Wilmer Pierson, Randall Robson, Harold Sandow, Herbert Saul, Donna Scheidler, Bonnie Slabaugh, Harold Schick and Clinton Stroebel. Religious Liberty was portrayed by Lois Archangeli, Shirley Blacktopp, john Donhaiser, Betty Ernsberger, john Goppelt, Betty Haenlein, Ted Heineman, Coral Oberlin, Phyllis Sanford, Dorothy Vondette, june Willemin and Marilyn Witting who appeared in the scene depicting religious liberty. Civic liberty, the third pillar, was enacted by Linn Campbell, Louis Conzelman, Shirley Guilbault, Irene johnson, Irene King, Virginia Mclntyre, Marie Myers, Elmer Nestell, Marvin Page, Wesley Peterson, Geraldine Price and Betty Walton. Therese Beckett, Arlene Fish, Phyllis Graebner, Richard Griffin, Rita Stork, Betty Ann Young, Gerald Young and Jack Young depicted the fourth pillar, Social Welfare. Education was enacted by Jean Ann Granville, Norman Klemm, Ray McDonald, Don McMall, Verla Tietz and Dale Young.