Astoria High School - Zephyrus Yearbook (Astoria, OR)

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ZOE ALLEN, Sophomore English, Adviser, Sopho- more Class, Deba Drams, Senior Play Coach. ANNE BERGMAN, Spanish, Latin, Social Prob- lems, Adviser, Senior Class. WILLIAM BOWERS, Gym, Arithmetic, Coach, Football, Basketball, Adviser, UA Club. GERTRUDE BRANTHOVER, Junior English, Gym, Adviser, Junior Class, G. A. A., Temporary Adviser, Pep Club. WILLIAM COX, Shop, Industrial Relations, Draw- ing, Vocational, Adviser, Vocational Club. MAUDE CROUTER, History, Coach, Junior Play, Adviser, Junior Class. FERN CURRY, Senior English, Journalism, Head of English Department, Adviser, Astor Post, Zeph- yrus, Quill and Scroll. CHARLOTTE DICKERSON, Home Ec, Adviser, Home Ec Club. MILDRED DOTY, Biology, Physiology, Adviser, Sophomore Class. ANNA MARIE FRIEDRICH, Bookkeeping, Junior English, Adviser, Junior Class, Tri-Y, Astor Post Business. MARJORIE HALDERMAN, Library, Geography, Adviser, Sophomore Class, Library Club. VESTA LAMB, Typing, Stenography, Head of Commercial Department, Adviser, Senior Class, Zephyrus Business, Book Exchange. MARY MCCANN, Typing, Adviser, Senior Class, Torch Honor. ELIZABETH R. OGDEN, Algebra, Director, Chor- uses, Head of Music Department. WALTER PHIPPENY, Civics, Adviser, Senior Class, Hi-Knights. LESLIE THOMPSON, Physics, Chemistry, Avia- tion, Dean of Boys, Adviser, Hi-Y. BETSY WOOTTON, Basic Math, Geometry, Ad- vanced Algebra, Trigonometry, Adviser, Junior Class, Pep Club. RATICDNING

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STRATEGISTS PP PP High schools are a vital spoke in the nation's war effort. The Astoria High faculty has had a big job providing fundamental training to future service men and women, preparing girls to step into men's positions, and keeping the lamp of democracy burning. The teachers have helped the students to realize that the high school is a place to accomplish a job and that a task well done on the school front is very much a part of the war effort. Among the war-provoked courses was compulsory physical fitness train- ing for boys and girls, under the instruction of Coach Bowers and Miss Bran- thover, physical education instructors. Miss Branthover, a graduate of As- toria High School, attended the University of Oregon and taught two years in Pendleton. Mr. Bowers, a graduate of Dakota State College, taught in Helix, Oregon and Arlington, Oregon, before coming to Astoria. The commercial teachers, Miss Lamb, department head, Miss McCann, and Miss Friedrich, train girls for meeting the calls of the civil services and armed forces for trained women in place of men. The teachers of science have had a tremendous job before them in pro- viding for students the knowledge that will later be of such importance to them in civilian life and in the armed forces. Teaching physics, chemistry, and aeronautics, Mr. Thompson had a full schedule. Miss Doty, a new addi- tion to the faculty, taught biology and physiology. Miss Doty is a graduate of Oregon State College. lnto the lives of all boys and girls has come the realization of the im- portance of mathematics. Miss Wootton's and Miss Ogden's classes were fil- led to their capacity, and they redoubled their efforts to prepare their stu- dents for advanced training, future services, and for the mathematical prob- lems of today. Education by practical application has been the keynote for home eco- nomics. Sewing, cooking and home management are only a few examples of this type of course taught by the home economics teacher, Mrs. Dickerson. During the year, many Astoria students enrolled in one of the four de- fense classes at the Old Faithful cannery. The four classes given were elec- tricity, welding, diesel and radio. A full year's credit was given toward grad- uation for one half year's work. Drawing, shop, industrial relations and vocation were taught by Mr. Cox. The Vocational Club, advised by Mr. Cox, permitted students to hold jobs dur- ing school time and receive credits by making two reports a week on their jobs. To all boys and girls has come an intensified appreciation of the use- fulness of English. Effective communication, oral and written, has been the basic concern in all English classes. One of the- three parts of the navy V-l2 Test given to senior boys during the year tested their knowledge of words. The English teachers, Miss Curry, department head, Miss Branthover, Miss Friedrich, Miss Allen and Mrs. Dickerson, strove to prepare their students for the situations that meet one today. The Good Neighbor policy was the keynote in Miss Bergman's Span- ish and Latin classes. ln the social science department the questions of the day and prob- lems pertinent to the United States were given a thorough going-over. Heated debates arose in Miss Crouter's history classes. ln any one of the social prob- lems classes, taught by Mr. Phippeny, Miss Willsie, and Miss Bergman, one could listen to reports on the problems of today, or view the students' pro- jects. Delving into the mysteries of genes and inherited characteristics went Miss Willsie's sociology class. A plan was worked out by the teachers and principal which permitted lim- ited social functions to continue as moral builders. The teachers and principal of Astoria High School have held high the burning lamp of democracy.

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Officers: top to bottom, Harold Oja, president, Wesley Auderszm, first vice president, Phyllis Atwood, secretary, Grace Elaine Gulliaugen, treasurer. GUARDIANS OF DEMCDCRACY The motivating power behind the Astoria l-ligh School student body is the Student Council, which plans the avtivities and outlines the policies for the school year. Mr. Towler is the high council, with the students headed by the student body prexy, l-larold Oja. Completing the council were the other student body officers: First vice president, Wesley Anderson, second vice president, Earl Fedje, third vice president, Dick Bumala, secretary, Grace Elaine Gulhaugen, treasurer, Phyllis At- wood, and athletic manager, John Verschueren. These Student Body officers have successfully carried out their duties and have been privileged to be the ruling council over a student body housed in a new building. Since the reconstruction of the school building, the student council has had an excellent meeting place in Mr. Towler's inner office. There, in an atmosphere made businesslike by appropriate furniture, many important matters were discus- sed, from amendments to the Constitution to the advisability of breaking worn-out traditions. Besides controlling student activities, the Student Council has the responsibil- ity of overseeing the financial status of the entire student body, including the bills macle by individual clubs. Through exercise of their power-to provide assemblies, to guard the consti- tution, to encourage student activities-the council is getting a taste of the func- tions of a representative body in a democracy.