Brooklyn High School - Eaglet Yearbook (Brooklyn, OH)

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i P i F 1 5 ' Y 5 1 K S r 9 ' E S ' Q Q Q f f ' i i 4 ' I 2 : 1 5 i 2 i fl Five minutes is just long enough for everyone to catch his breath i before beginning the bustling and bustling activities of the day. Thus i Mr. Griffith insists that complete silence prevail throughout the , building at exactly five minutes to nine. With the bell comes a dis- tinct change. Students hurry to various departmentsg some go to i the chemistry lab to make some gas whose odor drives lingering students from the corridorg others hasten to typing class where the 5 click, click of pounding typewriters comes through closed doors. boys troop downstairs to run the noisy machinery in the basement. Academic students pore over their math or Latin, while the shop Q The future farmers learn about potatoes and the orchestra tunes up 5 for daily rehearsal. Everybody is busy and everybody is happy. 3 ,, l TU NT LIFE V ii J? if J 2 L ? s 5 I KT T1 ff 4'

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Sipe Smathers Snyder Stern Stoker Truxal Wagner Walker Weber Williams Another department where mixtures are concocted is the cooking lab dominated by Miss Dorothy Shoemaker who instructs the future housewives in the culinary art. lust next door to this department is the sewing lab supervised by Miss Hay who aids Miss Shoemaker in moulding the future homemakers. Model husbands for these would-be cooks and seamstresses are the lads who learn to be farmers under the tutelage of Mr. Cleeves and Mr. Royer. Lamps, tables, book ends, anything out of wood the boys produce under the able supervision of Mr. Agnew. The business of shaping more and better stenographers by instructing them in typing, shorthand, book- keeping and other commercial subjects is divided among three members of the fair sex, Miss Romanoski, Miss Clara Shoemaker, and Miss Stern. Without assistance Miss Zoner has established in our school an art department worthy of the praise it receives. Another instructor in the finer arts is Mr. Smathers who has charge of the band, orchestra, dance orchestra and various vocal organizations. A pleasant diversion from all this mental strain is the gym activities offered by Miss Weber and Mr. Kerin. ln addition to the regular, required classes, games between home rooms are played every noon in the gym. A little work, a little play- And herds, indeed, a perfect day. l-4 Whenever we want anything from a postage stamp to the whereabouts of a fellow pupil, we just ask Tekla. l-lers is a seemingly inexhaustible store of knowl- edge and her patienceis equally boundless. What would our school be without Tekla in the oflice? Tekla Trent, Secretary f T x

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