Cass Technical High School - Triangle Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Reijrements Mr. Black, Head of Drafting, recently submitted his resignation as an instructor of education. Being eligible for retirement but perhaps not desiring to do so at the present time, discovered that due to an optical condition his retirement would be hastened. He felt that the students would be better off with someone who didn't possess any type of condition that would hinder the best teaching. Mr. Black, a graduate of Michigan State, received his Masters from U. of D. He came to Cass in 1922 and became head of department in 1947 well prepared for the position. The students and teachers who came in contact with him agreed that he was one to be highly respected. A tradition for all art students at Cass has been having Miss Nina Fleming for art composition. After thirty-two years of service, Miss Fleming is retiring but with the best wishes and regret of the faculty and the students. Nina Fleming holds a master's degree from Columbia University where she majored in art education. She will not, however, put down her pallette and brush. Her activities in the Detroit Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, of which she was president for two years, and in the Annual Michigan Artists Show, where she has eidiibited for ten years, will keep her busy. A home, recently built on Lake Fenton near Fenton, Michigan, will be the future habitat of Nina Fleming. Mr. Frank Granger is a descendent of one of the original families in the Lake Orion Region of Michigan. He is now living at the original homestead which he has been arduously rehabilitating. He is a veteran of World War I, in which he served as an Army Engineer Sergeant in France in 1920. Mr. Granger is a graduate Electrical Engineer from Michigan State College. He has worked as a Civil Engineer and has a Michigan Surveyor's License. He started his teaching career in vocational education at Highland Park High School in 1925. He began his Detroit Public School teaching career at Cass Technical High School in the Automotive Department in 1926. In 1929 he studied at New York University, and after receiving his degree in Aeronautical Engineering, taught aeronautical subjects at New York University for one year. Wayne University has employed our former co-worker where, we hope, he enjoys many more years of service. Richard M. Johnson, Head of the English Department of nical High School since 1943, is retiring, after 38 years Cass Tech- of continual service in the public schools, to become District Representative in Southeastern Michigan, for Scholastic Magazines and Teen-Age Books. An interest in people, a kindly sense of humor, and exceptional memory for facts as well as a gift for prompt and decisive action are qualities which not only have made him a good boss but also are sure to lead to success in his new venture. Prior to his coming to Cass, Mr. Johnson headed the English De- partment at Detroit's Barbour Intermediate School. To accept this position he left the city of Saginaw, Michigan, where he had served as principal of the John Moore Grammar School, for five years, and of South Intermediate School, for one. Mr. Johnson was educated at Central Michigan College of Education, where he received his A.B. degree in 1922, and at the University of Michi an where he earned an M.A. in 1931 E , - He has taught English and Speech in both of these institutions, during summer sessions, and has also instructed evening and summer school classes at Wayne University, in the English Department. Interested in community activities, Mr. Johnson was formerly presi- dent of the Saginaw County Extension Association that brought a series of lectures and professional credit courses to in-service teachers in that city. He was also affiliated with the Saginaw Little Theatre. In Detroit he directed the Avon Players, a community group Little Theatre. For two years he served the Detroit English Club well as president of that organization. His hobbies, otherwise, include cribbage and gardening. It should be said that he is not only an enthusiastic and highly successful gardener but a generous one as well. In season, the English office 201, has rarely been without an attractive bouquet from the Johnson back forty , As actor, cribbage partner, gardener, or Boss--UMr. missed at Cass. Mr. Joseph Takken, a chemistry teacher, plans to spend much of his time in Hollywood, Florida, where he has a home on the ocean, after retirement. A chemistry teacher since 1920, Mr. Tacken, agraduate of Michigan State and the Detroit College of Law, has also been a member of the State Bar of Michigan since 1923. Dividing his time between Detroit and Hollywood until Mr. Takken retires will keep him busy. If and when he loses interest in fishing and swimming, Mr. Takken will practice law. Mr. Takken revealed, I play to do more surf casting than deep sea fishing - I get sea sick! 8 .T. wi11 be

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P.,-ass IS ' 'U . Administration l EDWARD NAVICKAS RACHEL JACOBS Attendanc e 4- w. s 'Qu' DAVID SP LON Technic ian M hx k ROWENA SHOWMAN Attendance Clerk Visiting Teacher 4 'l f 5 49 ig.- RODNEY BLOOD Instrumental Music Room LEONA ROEHRS Sect'y--Main Office wff '! SGT. STANLEY KUNDZICZ R.O.T.C. ax-ff K GLADYS MAYER Speech Teacher A H. Q 0 ff. , . CA J J Q - - ,J Q if . 1 ,Qi ,. . '. - ., -M. 1 '-.wg ,Q , l P! 3 iffy, '71 q.,v ' A-'-,'if:.: rf, ' - I ,, ,fffgfaf -:ff A ' :u '.Jl?: 'BL' -' 3,31 'tae ,.1:,9g If-oem-fr if af' :z'.u as-A-. :MSX A 'fu LEOLA OSBORN Secretary to Principal FLORENCE RUSH Record Clerk Picture Not Available! Hazel Fuller Librarian EDWIN KIE LHOLZ Bookstore Manager Qhwh LOIS HEHJISH Sect'y to Assistant Principal E H- ai? SGT. JOHN O'BUCKLEY R.O.T.C.

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