Dearborn High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW The 1934-35 school year started off in a highly auspicious manner, with a dinner, during the first week, at which faculty and members of the Board of Education made merry at the Country Club. The uncertainty of the previous vear was replaced with confidence, and a busy year followed. A number of old faces were missing, and several new teachers appeared at meetings and in the halls, among them Miss Ea Marca and Miss Poll,akowski, Dearborn graduates who returned to their alma mater as teachers. Miss Porter, Miss Gatchell, and Miss Ilicks. The year was half advanced when the faculty body sustained a severe loss in the death of Dorothy Smith, which occurred after some months of illness. She had served the school for 14 years in the physical education department. Miss Knight was engaged to assume her duties. During the first term a major project was the Hobby Fair, held in the auditorium and gymnasium. Although it was participated in by the entire system, teachers of the high school had a prominent part in the arrange- ments and exhibits. Residents of the city exhibited in considerable numbers, and the display was viewed by more than 5.000 people in the two days of its existence. The school year was lengthened by two weeks, giving a nine and a half month year. Financial conditions improved as business and manufacturing developed speed after their long slump, and people began to speak of “the recent depression.” An outstanding development of the year was the establishment of the Vocational Group, members of which are being trained entirely in terms of non-professional activities. Under the direction of Mr. Vanek this group has visited a large number of industrial plants in addition to carrying on regular classroom and laboratory work in a room fitted up for their use on the first floor. Henry Ford generously contributed valuable machinery for the opera- tion of the project. Another departure from the established curriculum was the introduction of individual gymnastics, in which each student was carefully examined for physical defects and rec|uired to take at stated intervals such corrective ex- ercises as were necessary. 'I'he senior class again contributed toward the publishing of the Pioneer, the O B was resumed as a curricular subject, and all school activities took an upward swing. While the faculty has not been restored to its pre-depres- sion strength and there have been a few discouraging factors, the year has been, for the most part, a good one. The return of confidence is perhaps the most important development of the entire year, for without it and the optimism so necessary in the educational field, teaching becomes a difficult and often an unprofitable task.

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Esther Porter French Marga et Warrick Commercial Maurice Rider English Clyde Roberts Manual Arts Ha ry Salisbury Mathematics Stephen Vanek Vocational Leith Wetzel M athematics Helene Wilson Latin Veva Wood I Iome Economics Mur'el Wolkins English

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 SENIORS Estimated tonnage of ships passing through the immense locks at Saulte Ste. Marie is more than the combined tonnage of all the other canals in the world. Great ore boats, pleasure craft, and other boats of all descriptions traverse the lakes and are lifted to higher or lower levels at the Soo. A passenger steamer is here shown emerging from one of the locks.