Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Mr. Guy Lander—Machine Shop, Woodturning and Mechanical Drawing. MASTER MECHANICS And now, you basketball fans, haven't you always wanted to know more about the coaches? Well, here goes about Mitch. Mr. Mitchell's favorite hobby is cows. (Wonder if he supported the back to the farm movement.) His ambition is to live on his farm and raise pedigreed cattle. Mr. Thomai Cunninyhjm - Mechanical Drawing and Architectural Drawing. Mr. Maylon Hopp—Cabinet Shop, Woodturning. and Glider Conduction. At the blackboard below: Mr. Woston Mitchell — Mechanical Drawing. Lower right: Mr. John Dunnewald—Glidor Construction. Because of the pressing need for skilled workers in war plants, Mr. Lander trains machinists. He must be praised for having six full classes a day. Busy as he is, he somehow finds time to fish for muskellunge . . . Another teacher with six classes a day is Mr. Hepp, department chairman. Neither of these teachers has an advisory. The time that Mr. Hepp can spare from construction work he spends in sports ... At the right is Mr. Dunnewald who taught glider construction during the fall semester . . . Also teaching industrial arts is Mr. Cunningham. Because he and his wife love children very much, they care for five orphans. In his classes he is training boys in pre-induction draw-inq for aircraft drafting . . . Our town's cabinet shops this year made folding chairs, folding tables and smoking stands for the Red Cross. 14

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TRUANT OFFICER Mrs. Marion Boyd is the visiting teacher. In our town's jargon she is the feminine truant officer. She calls on an absentee who has no phone; she tries to persuade students who want to quit school to continue; and she has charge of the rental of school books. These in a nutshell are her duties. Mr . Marion Boyd BUSINESS EXECUTIVES Mr. Clifford Hume (not pictured) left Central in January after teaching typing for only one term ... A large percentage of the pupils at Central take a commercial course. These students inevitably have Miss Scott, an A senior adviser, for office practice . . . Another typing teacher is Miss Zanger. Her favorite place is San Francisco, and her hobbies are reading and seeing movies . . . The teacher of beginning typing is Miss Myrtle Turnquist (not pictured), the department chairman. Her hobby is managing a summer resort at Mille Lacs Lake . . . The hobby of Mr. Nordby is remodeling old houses . . . The sympathy of everyone for war victims is confirmed by Miss Agnes Carey (not pictured) who sent holiday gifts to thirteen veterans at the Veterans' Hospital. She teaches stenography and transcription. Mr. Walter Nordby—Typing. Miss Georgia Scott—Typing and Offico Practico. Miss Helen Zanger—Typing, Bookkoop-ing and Stenography.

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HOME BUILDERS To prepare the girls at Central for future duties as the managers of households, Miss Daniels teaches them the culinary arts. Outside of school Dot'' aides the Red Cross in building up the health of the public by teaching nutrition classes . . . Miss Legate adds her vote of praise for the Canadian Rockies as the most beautiful place she had ever seen, but her greatest regret is that she could not visit Europe before the war . . . Go West, young man, go West. That sentence was as appropriate in 1849 as it is in 1943, so far as Miss Wald is concerned. for she would like to go West—just to sightsee, not to live . . . Miss Ruhnke has several hobbies: golf, skating, and swimming. Above: Miss Florence Legato—Sewing. Miss Ina Wald — Lunchoom Manager. Lowor: Miss Dorothy Daniels—Cooking. Miss Kate Ruhnke—Sewing.