Denver South High School - Johnny Reb Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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4 f 3 i I Q - 1 C. ,' ,av- iii' is-, .-aus. --gtg Light and Shadow Students visiting South for plays, dances, or other night activities find a wondrous world in South Court where the lights of Senior Hall radiate a soft glow. As people cross the court, the swish ot fallen leaves, the splash of rain droplets, or the crunch of snow, packed hard, breaks the stillness of the magic scene. Deep shadows play their nightly game, creating strange patterns on the lawn and flagstones, while a silver crescent or a harvest moon beams from the heavens. ln the morning the magic of the evening scene will be supplanted by the warmth ot human voices and laughter in the corridors. Senior Hall, bathed in the morning sun, will be alive with students gossiping excitedly or hurry- ing to finish a homework assignment. The first bell, ringing loudly, will announce the start of classes for another day. These students making the rounds from room to room, hall to hall, and rendezvous to rendezvous, compose the living lights and shadows of South High School.

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' H One of the most unusual, interesting and dedi- cated personalities of our faculty is Madame Combs, who has been teaching at South for thirty years. Born and educated in Bordeaux, France, Madame Combs taught in a junior college in France before coming to Colorado as a French war bride in 1919. After teaching at Manual for four and one-halt years, she moved to East in 1924 and then to South in 1930. To her many students at our school she brought a rich and authentic background and a thorough knowledge of French customs and culture. In 1935 Madame Combs instituted a series of biannual trips which enables chosen students to tour France and see the life of the French people. Through these tours the students have the oppor- tunity to visit France more completely than the average tourist, and the French become acquainted with the representative American Teenager. For her work in bringing a closer understanding be- tween France and the United States, Madame Combs was decorated by the French Consul in 1938 with the Purple and Silver Award of the Order of the Academic Palms. Madame Combs, with a twinkle in her eye, is able to draw the best from a student. She teaches him how to study effectively and then enriches each night's lesson through her personal knowledge of the French mind and culture. With her many stories of the French and their way of life, the study of this people's language takes on a vivid color. For the service you are rendering both to your native cmd your adopted lands and for the guid- ance, discipline and stimulus you give to our young minds, we dedicate to you, Madame Combs, the 1961 IOHNNY REB.