East High School - Crucible Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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we lorincilaa ji 255098 At East High School our chief aim has al- ways been, through guidance and in manage- ment, instruction and inspiration, to help each boy or girl to choose his subjects wisely and to plan his program so that it meets his needs and gives him his best chance for success: to help him develop right attitudes, self-direction, and self-discipline: to help him become a well trained, self-supporting citizen, a clear-thinking. well-informed, intelligent voter: to help him understand, in appreciation of his free education, his responsibility in avoiding all waste of time and money through failure and for doing his utmost to grow into the highest type of indi- vidual and citizen, honest, eflicient, law abiding, and saneathinking. However, this year, in order to help the pupils prepare for and adjust themselves to new condi- tions demanded by the war, several changes have been made in our program of studies and in our guidance procedures. At East, as requested by military authorities, we have encouraged capable pupils to take more mathematics, chemistry, physics, and the new course of prefiight aeronautics. We have urged girls to take shop and mechanical drawing. Our 12A social problems has been changed to global geography. All twelfth grade English courses in literature and creative writing, in dramatics, in journalism, and in business English have been reduced from five to two periods a week and made elective. Instead, three periods of War English are re- quired of seniors. Almost half of army and navy screen tests consists of the study of words as given in War English. The rest of this test is MISS MARIE GUGLE Principal MR. H L. MCMILLAN Vice Principal material taught in physics, aeronautics, and war mathematics. All l2A's are required to take War Math I, five periods, or War Math II, three periods. The first is for pupils with little of no mathematics in senior high school. The other is for pupils who are studying physics and probably aero- nautics and have elected advanced courses in high school mathematics. In the physics classes, special attention is given to radio and telegraphy. In our Little Theatre, a new broadcasting booth is being erected as a result of the interest aroused in our new two-period-a-week course in radio and broadcasting. Besides these academic course changes, all 12A boys have been given five hours in special physical fitness work. This should make the transition into the armed services much easier. But the war is calling girls, too, to war work and more strenuous living. So the 12A girls take three periods of special gym work. The 12B girls may take first aid. Eleventh grade boys take first aid in their regular gym classes. To help meet the guidance needs, part time of one man and one woman teacher has been assigned to guidance. Reading tests have been given to all in lOB, l2B, and 12A grades. Each pupil's score in speed and comprehension is re- corded with his I. Q. The 10A's were given Kuder's Preference Test to aid in vocational guidance. This is to be fol- lowed by individual interviews concerning special abilities and by individualized tests in the special fields, as for mechanical or clerical aptitudes. All 10B pupils in small groups have been given instruction and guidance in How to Study, to be followed by individual conferences. Recently screen tests Army A-12 and Navy V-12 were given senior boys. Three East boys, fContinued on page 661 Page Nine

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refienfing Qui' Woof ofogafjrien if ana! tilegafufudcluiaerd The faculty, under the excellent leadership of Miss Marie Gugle, principal, and Mr. H. L. McMillan, vice principal, have guided and ad- vised the pupils of East High School well. They have assisted the graduates in choosing their vo- cations and have offered helpful advice. The library, under the supervision of Miss Alice Morris, has been an aid to every student in preparing his lessons, finding current events of interest, and providing good fiction books. The attendance department, directed by Miss Harriette Brown and Mr. E. A. Shoemaker, is for the purpose of seeing that the students attend school and their classes regularly. Mr. Shoe- maker accepts applications from the boys for work, and Miss Brown helps the girls similarly. Among the other members of the faculty are Mr. W. C. Bailey, Mrs. Doris Gallagher, Mr. C. T. Hathaway, and Mrs. Edith West in the mathematics department. Mr. Hathaway also teaches physics and the aeronautics class, which was just formed this past year. In the English department we have Miss Lil- lian Colgan, Miss Bertha France, Mrs. Marye Keslar, Miss Dorothy Marmet, who also is head of the journalism department, Mrs. Frances Mc- Alister, who advises the student council, Miss Deborah MacNeilan, and Mrs. Edistina Ruth- erford, who is also director of the dramatics class. Our history department is ably handled by Mr. Anthony Dolezal, Mr. C. S. Fullerton, Miss Helen Gallen, Mr. Martin Horn, who directs the debate team, Mr. G. E. Parkinson, Mr. Joseph Stevens, Miss Columbia Thompson, and Mr. Robert Youmans. These teachers also con- duct the social problems classes and a new war- time feature-war geography. Foreign languages are taught by Mrs. Ann Ward, Latin: Mrs. Wilhelmina Kinsey, Spanish: and Mr. Russell Grimm, French. Mrs. Kinsey is also head of the National Honor Society. The commercial department consists of Miss Brown, Miss Juanita Bullock, Miss Helen Geesling, Mrs. Elizabeth Gingher, Mrs. Lenore Taylor, and Miss Alice Welker. Mrs. Taylor teaches only bookkeeping, while the others teach shorthand, typing, and bookkeeping. Home economics is taught by Miss Dorothy Bowers, Mrs. Martha Coe, Miss Ruth Palmer. and Mrs. Florence Phillips. This course con- sists of foods-dietetics, cooking, etc.-and clothing-costume designing, tailoring, and sewing. The zoology, botany, and physiology classes are taught by Miss Dorothea Culbertson, Mr. Jack Landrum, and Mr. William Steinhauer, who also directs instrumental music. Chemis- try is taught by Mr. Robert Karch and Mr. Parkinson. A newcomer to East, Mr. Michael M. Kvocka, is associated with Mr. Lawrence Borst in the manual arts course. Mr. Kvocka replaced Mr. Leslie Evans, who left to enter the navy, in the metal shop: Mr. Borst teaches wood. This course is in connection with the mechanical drawing classes supervised by Mr. Don That- cher and Mr. Shoemaker. The art classes are directed by Miss Roberta Barlow, and the vocal music courses by Miss Miriam Holycross. To round out this staff, we have the physical education classes taught by Miss Tallmadge Rickey, who is the girls' director, and Mr. Ralph Webster and Mr. Clyde Clodfelter, who super- vise baseball, football, and basketball. Mr. Landrum has charge of the swimming and the track teams. Mrs. Taylor has assisted Miss Rickey since the addition of the senior girls' classes. Mr. Hathaway and Mrs. Rutherford deserve an extra vote of thanks from all the pupils for the speed and efficiency with which books are distributed and the excellent way they run the book exchange. Mrs. Gallagher and Mr. Shoemaker serve also as guidance teachers. In the office, Mrs. Ruth Metcalf, clerk, di- rects the work of student assistants who learn to take messages, type reports and stencils, and do general ollice work. Our cheers and best wishes go also to those teachers now serving in the armed services. The first to enlist from East High School was Mr. Galen Stutsman, who joined the coast guard and is now stationed here in Columbus. Other faculty members serving are Mr. Chester Stine and Mr. Leslie Evans, who are both in the navy. Mr. Stine is, at present, stationed at Dartmouth University and Mr. Evans at Cornell University. Page Eleven