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

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fke ,avec-5 To collect, write, edit what students say, accomplish, think, and feel and give it back to them in print is the job of journalism students. ELLEN FEAVYEAR, desk, ARTHUR RAPP, editorial editor, CLARIA ROHLHOEE, typistg MARION FARMER, distribution, and CLINTON STROEBEL, editor, the five graduating seniors of the Newr staff, find plenty of problems in publishing fifteen issues of a six-page paper. ELSIE STOKUS. NANCY HOFFMAN, ROSEMARY RAPP, and DOROTHEA MOUNTZ, seated, MADELINE YORK, BOB LEDDY, ESTHER SCHIEFER, JIM STENGLEIN, DON BURKE, and ZOE MASON, juniors, assist in all departments of the Newt. ALICE FISCHER, Legenda editor, with PHYLLIS WHYTE, writing ads, CAROL CHISHOLM, setting her camera, LOIs STELTZRIEDE, looking over HOWARD FINGER,S shoulder, who works on one of the departments, and GRACE DITTMAR, tabu- lating Hall of Fame, are graduating seniors on the Legenda staff. Not in the picture is Leona Marker. MARY jo SMITH, SALLY TROMBLEY, JOAN VERMURLEN, RUTH LEHR, and ARLOA WOLDERZAK, seated, BETTY WINTER- STEIN, JESSIE FERGUSON, KATHLEEN SANFORD, MARGARET BIGGS. JEANNE THURLOW. and RAY BORCHARD, juniors, train for the 1943 staff. Not in the picture are Harriet Sarow, busi- ness manager, and Virginia Stipe. Twenty journalism students took time out from their various assignments on the Legenda and News to attend the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association meet at Ann Arbor May 1 and 2. Ar the convention, the Legenda walked off with the award for the best 1941 school annual in the state. In the Scbolaxtic National Award contest, Don Burke, Newt sports editor, and jim Stenglein, editorial editor, won certifi- cates for their sports and feature writing. The staff entertained and participated in four meetings of the council of city high school editors on Defense, and enter- tained for luncheon the staff of the Cass City High School on May 20. Among social meetings were a potluck held on Friday the, thirteenth preceding the Arthur Hill-Owosso basketball game, to which each person brought his favorite dish, a Christmas party at the home of Richard Griffin, a party at the home of Dorothea Mountz, and one at the home of Miss Mattie G. Crump honoring the graduating seniors, Eight senior journalists were honored and recognized by the Treanor Chapter of Quill and Scroll. The students pre- sented with pins, symbolizing their high journalistic achieve- ment at the awards assembly in May were ALICE FISCHER, LEONA MARKER, and ROGER JACOBI of the Legendary MARION FARMER. ELLEN FEAVYEAR, CLARIA KOHLHOFF, ARTHUR RAPP, and CLINTON STROEBEL of the Newr. JUNE, 1942

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' a ll f e mot' ev ton 'ue First re uirvmvnt to an old 0 stud , is so scheduled it q 3' Y the program of every Hill student that he has every op portunity to master it. EUGENE FERNETTE puts his thoughts together and write them in essay form to win third place, an award of 38.50, ii the city contest of the Unity for Victory essay contest. Thi nation-wide contest was sponsored by the Women's Auxiliarj of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. ERICK GUSTAFSON is only too glad to stay after school ti work on his thousand-word theme in order to get it in oi time. These are the days when seniors spend every spar moment in their library periods on research. ELSIE sroicus shows her Lit-O-Graph to MR. nAv1 GAINEY, explaining how the project reviews the works sh has studied during the year. English, a basic subject for all fields, often gives Hillite headaches, but all for the best. The sophomore-gramma book reports, original compositions, and Adventures in Pros and Poetry . . . grammar again haunts the junior, but brightc days are ahead with A. Conan Doyle, O. Henry, and a das of poetry, including Bryant's Thanatopsis and Whittier Snowbound. The mighty senior has his choice of college c non-college courses. The college students take their last pee at the seven parts of speech in Higher Levels and journey o to a study of literature through the twentieth century, fror Beowulf to Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. In the not college course, students write practical compositions such 2 business letters, study modern literature as magazines, an discuss articles in the Readers Digest. Last but not least com the days when seniors work overtime on those thousand-wor masterpieces which require a statement of the objective, a outline, a bibliography, and notes used to write the them Underclassmen scurry to get that ever-present book review i on time. Pictures plus a short review plus a little originality equa Mrs. Francis M. Hamlin's English class book reviews. Howar Vasold cleverly advertised Quentin Durward by painting a ad on cardboard. Other entries included Arlone Spatz, Ba bados, The Enchanting Isleug Dorothy Amsden, Soarin Wings g Kay Hayden, Wuthering Heights , Henry Beat gard, The Tale of a Shipwreck. One English 8 and or English 4 class made the ads by printing the publishing con pany and price of the book plus the main idea. Miss Irma Stockdale, head of the department, is constant. on the lookout for new ideas to brighten up the course an to make it more interesting. The English faculty includi Miss Margaret O. Fraser, Mr. David Gainey, Miss Amy Gat Mrs. Frances Hamlin, Mrs. Mary Burt Kreuger, Mr. Herma Ramzey, and Mr. Earl Smith, English, Mr. Stanley Schubei English and dramatics, Miss Burnice Gibbs, speechg and Mi Mattie G. Crump, English and Journalism. LEGEND

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53,-.f ofja J Debate, oratory, declamation, both intramural and va sity, bring honors to speech students through compel tion. programs, and recordings. JIM MUEHLENBECK, oratorg ONEITA CHISHOLM. declaimc and JIM STENGLEIN, extemporaneous speaker, represent A thur Hill in the state contests. BETTY CAFFEE, LORRAINE SCHULTZ, and EDWIN BOEH of the advanced speech class, specializing in radio work, t their hand at recordings. They record their sound effects 1 the new recording machine and also make records of thc speeches to discover voice and speech defects. The radio cla also produced radio adaptations of Oliver Goldsmith's Sl Stoops to Conquer and The Vicar of Wakeheld along wi many other historical novels for English and history class: BILL THOMPSON, BOB RICHARDSON, ONEITA CHISHOLJ DICK RIFENBURG, and DIRK WEST were selected to represe the school at the valley declamation meet after prelimina eliminations in advisories. Oneita won the valley champio ship at Flint Northern High School and went on to pla second in the state contest at Ann Arbor. All four declaimc placed in the afternoon eliminations at Flint. EUGENE FERNETTE, extemporaneous speaker, FRED TRIN LEIN, oratorg and CATHERINE MCDONALD, oratorg represe Arthur Hill in valley competition. Arthur Hill had to be sz isfied with second places in the preliminary contests. RUTH HAUFFE and ARLENE FISH of Miss Amy Gatz's a visory, and JOAN HAWK and MARY JO SMITH of Mrs. Franc Hamlin's advisory survived five rounds to become co-chai pions of intramural debate. The question for the first thr rounds was Resolved, That each state should adopt a poli of socialized medicine, changing in the fourth round Resolved, That India should gain her independence now. JEAN WILLIAMSON, DON NUECHTERLEIN, MARY MICHI BOB RICHARDSON, JIM STENGLEIN, and GEORGE MICHEL, 1 firmarive, and JIM MUEHLENBECK, PAT BROCK, FRED TRIN LEIN, HARLON MARK, DIRK WEST, and PHYLLIS WHYT negative, argued the question, Resolved, That every ab bodied male citizen of the United States should be required have one full year of military training before attaining t present draft age, in six rounds held at Pontiac, Bay City, a: Flint to take fourth place in the valley standings. The vars team also was host to Midland and Elkton in practice debat All of these debaters were presented with Michigan Forc sic Society Keys at the honors assembly. Second year keys we awarded to George Michel, jim Muehlenbeck, Don Nuecht: lein, and jim Stenglein. ' 3 ' LEGEN