Central High School - Zenith Yearbook (Duluth, MN)

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Our chemistry teacher has always been pleasant, and entered into all fun with the spirit of the students. He has a strong affinity for fudge. Mr. Crull, the History teacher, has been with us for the last three years. He is an excellent, but a very exacting teacher. Recitations to Mr. Crull are full of surprises. When a pupil thinks he has made an exceptionally brilliant recitation, he is quite apt to be cast into the depths of despair by the announcement, You're lost on that. l'll have to give you D on that. Mr. Foster! What can one say of Mr. Foster? He is a favor- ite teacher with all who have been so fortunate as to be under his instruction. Who ever heard of his conditioning anyone? Who ever heard him scolding QQ about poor lessons? To use our general expression of approval, What's the matter with Mr. Foster?,' HE's ALL RIGH'l'l He teaches arithmetic, commercial geography, book-keeping and commercial law. Miss Nydia LeTourneau, who teaches French, is a jolly little teacher. Her funny little laugh is often heard in her classes. All her pupils like Miss LeTourneau. Miss Blanche Trufant, the Stenography teacher, is a trans- planted English rose, but unlike most plants on foreign soil, she ffthrives and sheds her sweetness all around. This sweetness is not wasted on the desert air, for all who come under her influence promptly succumb to it. Mr. I. R. Towne is one of the new teachers. He teaches Physics to the High School Zenith Class, the conceited juniors. Mr. Towne is a graduate of the South Dakota Agricultural College with the degree of B. S. He had been a teacher of Science in the Aberdeen, South Dakota, High School for four years before coming here. Mr. Hutchinson, who teaches Manual Training, is one of the favorite teachers. As the girls have never had the pleasure of his instruction, his popularity is coniined to those of the male per- suasion. Mr. Hutchinson has an assistant, Mr. Lyle Robbins, or at least folks say there is a Mr. Robbins, but as we have never seen him in chapel or anywhere else, we cannot be held responsible 12 ,I

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- l Q-----V FACULTY. HARLES ALDEN SMITH has been the principal of the High School for the past four years, having begun may A his duties here when we entered as Freshmen. As a principal, Mr. Smith is untiring in his efforts for our , advancement. He has raised the moral tone of the Q school. He is always. putting before our minds the ' value of truth and honesty in our actions, and of ap- V i plying ourselves to our studies. As a teacher he is patient and kind, never scolding, yet making one feel that no shirk- ing is possible. Mr. Smith has that power of drawing one out so much appreciated by a timid student. As a'man, he is honest, upright and straightforward. He has a genial manner and a pleasing countenance, but under the velvet glove there is a hand of steel, making applicable to him the old adage, Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re. Miss Margaret Taylor and her ruler still preside in the Assem- bly Hall. Miss Taylor is a genial favorite, and a friend to every- one, but especially so to the Seniors. There was great woe in the den of the Tigers, at the beginning of this year, when the new Assembly Hall regulations came into force, but smiling peace was restored when the old system was reestablished in the second semester. Vivat Miss Taylor! long may she reign! Mr. Arthur F. M. Custance, the man with the big heart and little hair, is a good example of perpetual motion. He is here, there and everywhere. The capacity of his heart seems to know no bounds. Each year the Seniors are taken into it as tho' there had never been any predecessor, but it is lucky that the limits of his heart are not as well defined as is the hair line of his head. Mr. Custance is very conscientious, sometimes too much so to suit the Seniors in 300. He is an able instructor in Latin, and his work in music needs no mention. Everyone knows of its ex- cellence. Mr. F. L. Barker has instructed us the past year in the mys- teries of chemistry, with its combinations of H2 S O,, NaCl, etc. 11

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W-nwn- f- - - fe for this statement. We believe of him as Betsy Rig said of the immortal Mrs. Harris: There ain't no sich a person. Miss Eliza Robinson has smitten luckless wights with prob- lems in mathematics for a number of years. She is an excellent teacher, but woe betide the shirker! As to the question, Is she as formidable as is generally supposed? ask the juniors or some of the conditioned Seniors! Miss Mogford, the Freshmen English teacher, has a quiet but irresistible How of words. Her consultation periods are the Freshmen's delight! Miss Mary Salter, who teaches Latin and English, is a graduate of Wellesley College, with B. S. degree. She had a post- graduate course at Yale University, and previous to coming here taught at Lake Erie College and University. Miss Josephine Gorin, who came to us from Synodical College, Fulton, Missouri, is a graduate of the American Institute of Normal Methods, Chicago. She teaches drawing and painting, having taken up the work formerly conducted by Mr. Rudolph. Mrs. Emogene Lectra, the friend of the Freshmen, teaches History this year. Miss Jessie Palmer is another new teacher this year. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has the degree of Ph. B. She taught in Marshall, Mich., in the high school and then took a post-graduate course in English at Wellesley. She teaches English in our high school. Miss Toska M. von Scholten, 'four Fraulein, has been here for the past three years. She is always kind, never scolds, and her only reproof is a gentle Bitte sprechen Sie nicht. Mr. Carl Ulrich, instructor in Bugology, Birdology, Fish- ology, and several other ologies, is always busy attending to his many duties. He is custodian of the Museum, Organizer of the Agassiz Club and Ruler of the Botanical Labratory. Miss Helen Bigelow teaches Algebra to the Freshmen. What mere Senior can do justice to her worth? It would take a vivid 13