DeVilbiss High School - Pot O Gold Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Mathilde Burns The musical versitility i if Mrs. Mathilde Burns includes playing and teaching practi- cally any instrument in the orchestra. Her most enjoy- able work is teaching grade school children so that some- day they may play in her high school orchestra. Even though she is a teacher her- self, she still continues her music studies. She also plays first viola with the Friends ni Toledo Musi . Charlotte Burwick Quoting Miss Bur wick: 1 have a tremendous respect and admiration for our young people of today in their abil- ity to adapt themselves to an ever- increasing complex life. They have poise and confidence— know their way about. I admire the way they hold discussions on the is- sues of the day, the w-ay they subscribe to c urrent events magazines. I like their keen sense of humor and their sense of fairness Clarence Coontz When asked what his hob- by is, Mr. Coontz, with a twinkle in his eye, will reply, ' ' The drum major, the ma- jorettes and the cheerleaders of our band. An insurance agent and a floor- walker in the toy department of a To- ledo department store leaves little leisure time for this De- Vilhiss teacher. Questioned as to his opinion of the youth of today, Mr. Coontz stated that they arc identical with his i lassmates of his own high school days in Findlay. Wayne Cruey Mr. Cruey ' s outside work is more interesting than some might be, for when he makes the contacts that an insur- ance agent must, he meets so many different kinds of people. Despite the time his work demands, he likes to relax by reading some new book or playing golf. Born in Rantoul, Illinois, Mr. Cruey has been a DeVilbiss teacher for three years. Fern Dickey Miss Dickey, a member of the Toledo Naturalists ' Asso- ciation, finds time to enjoy nature even though employed in an office during the sum- mer months and busy with her teaching during the win- ter. She delights in taking walks to observe the flowers and the birds, and when the weather is not favorable for this she catches up on her reading. Miss Dickey is a comparative newcomer to the school for she has been on the staff for only five year-;. Jane Ehlenfeldt Mis. Ehlenfeldt, a native To- ledoan, with DeVilbiss four years as a student and or.e yeai .is ,i teacher, finds that from all her hosts of hob- ,, interior decorating and dancing share the honors for first plate. Herbert Emery Mr. Emery, no doubt help- ing the food shortage by his enjoyment of gardening, is also a devotee of music — all kinds apparently. Mr. Emery, ,i 1 si a charter member of the faculty, was originally an lowan. S. B. Emery Our teacher of DeVilbiss ' most ancient tongue expects greater accomplishments to be made by the youth of our generation as compared to the youth of his generation. He has also been pinned down to say that they seem to be eclipsing his generation in every way. Est bonus homo ! Lois Entemann Miss Enteman is one facul- ty member who has found her favorite hobby to be in DeVilbiss, since during a stay of six years she has de- cided that the best of all is the G. A. S. Last year she was awarded her Master ' s Degree and now is taking ad- ditional courses just for fun. Mary Fischer Outside of school, Miss Fis- cher has fun training her frisky Boston-terrior puppy. She also enjoys experiment- ing with oil paints and as- sembling early American fur- nishings and family heir- looms. She has given many hours of volunteer service as a Red Cross Gray Lady in Mercy Hospital. 17

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Nelle Anderson lening, the growing of roses, cooking, housekeeping, traveling — all are the favorite recreations of Mrs. Anderson. Having come to DeVilbiss the year the doors first opened, she has been with the schoi »1 for thirteen years. Frank Archambo Three years ago Mr. Archam- bo left Libbey High School where he had taught tor ten yeai s as a General Science instructor to enter DeVilbiss. Previous to his teaching in Libbey he had been a grad- uate assistant in Physics at the University of Pittsburgh. Pauline Backus 1 :: ■. reading, and eling are the favorite pastimes ol Mrs. Backus. On comple- te »n of her day of teaching and acting as one of our Jeans, she leaves for our rival school, Scott High, to teach adult Spanish classes in night school Mrs. Backus is a member of the original teaching staff of DeVilbiss. C. Y. Balsam of the teachers who has been a member of the DeVil- biss faculty for thirteen years is Mr Balsam. Farming and gardening takes Mr. Bal- sam s leisure time and in- terest. Mary Bargmann The hands that fashion fash- ions also swing a golf club. Miss Mary Bargmann is as much at home on the links as she is on the range. She has been teaching Home Economics in DeVilbiss Foi eleven of the thirteen years the school has existed. Dur- ing the 6th War Loan Drive no one was sate from the super-salesman tactics of this agent ol Uncle Sam. Carl A. Benson In 193? Mr. Benson cl imbed the steps of DeVilbiss with the first Benson burner tucked neatly under his arm. Mr. Benson had just finished his travels in Mexico. Cuba, Jamaica, British Honduras, and through all of Europe, and had now been made a member of the De V 1 1 h i ss teaching staff. In addition to performing his many teaching duties, Mr. Benson is also en- I as a very active union official. Forest Blanchard Mr. Blanchard, another collector at heart, always has an interested eye tor unusual guns, knives and antiques. He finds time, too, to manage a fruit farm in southern Ohio. Active in many groups, Mr. Blanchard is a member of the following organization: of the American Revolu- tion, Society of Colonial Wars, Northwestern Ohio 1 1 ist i i .i I So k ty, and the M.im inic Lodge. Rose Bloom Miss Bloom, a very active member of the DeVilbiss fa- culty, is interested in War Bond and Charit) Drives, and organizational activities — and one discovers that they arc- her hobby. Miss Bloom, a charter member of the DeVil- biss staff, is the guiding light of the aspiring DeVilbiss journalists and in this ca- pacity is more than adviser to the literary staff of the Pnsm Knowing and work- ing with so many young pci i- plc has given her the confidence that she has in the youth of today. Jeannette Brand r member of the orig- inal teaching staff is Mrs Brand, who like so many modern Americans has en- joyed tiaveling in such de- lightful spots as California, Florida, and Europe, to men- tion only a few. She too. has lound bridge playing to be a favorite pastime and hobby, and spends manv hours pur- suing it. Ward Bricker When Mr. Brickei w as ques- tioned as to what he thought oi the young people when lie was of high school aye, he stated that people have been merely repeating the phil- osophy of Peter the Hermit, who wrote about young peo- ple during the twelve cen- tury. Mr. Brieker believes just .is tins philosopher believed eight hundred years ago, that today as then, there are both good and bad youngsters. 16

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Grammar and composition are but two items in the important curriculum of our English classes. Extra interest and learn- ing by participation in community cultural resources is presented to the students in special correlation courses given bi-week- ly at the Toledo Museum of Art. Journalism, too, comes under the heading of the English Department, with practical ex- perience at hand through work on either the school annual or the newspaper.