East High School - Eastonian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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11935 EASTUNTIAN TEACHERS ARE PERSCNSH For years the legend has been extant that pedagogues are a stern, peculiar set, learned, it is true, but utterly helpless in practical affairs. Teachers, according to this legend, are utterly without the sense of humor which makes life pleasant for the rest of us. To some extent even today the belief persists that the teacher is incapable of anything more human than the Pythagorean theorem or Avagadro's hypothesis. At East, however, this unfortunate tradition is belied by the very human and benevolent activities carried on by the faculty. If pedagogues of past centuries could but view with what relish and uproarious delight Mr. Wahlstedt, Mr. Esther, and their cohorts greet the capture of a ten-pound bass or crappie, they would turn in their graves with loud wailings and bemoanings for the extinct good old days of dunce caps and stout rulers. During the school year, there is always a program of dinners and parties which the women of the faculty sponsor, to say nothing of a series of volley ball games between the men of the faculty and the boy students, of fly casting in the gym, of fishing trips, hunting trips, sponsoring of student athletics, etc., ad infinitum. From this account it may seem that the faculty activities consist of nothing but entertainment for themselves. However, the long list of charity and benevolent contributions, so often escaping notice, greatly overbalances the amusements participated in by the faculty. From the employees of East High School this year 5507.25 was pledged to the charity chest. Two hundred seventy was collected for the Y. M. C. A., of which amount 55216.50 came from the faculty and other employees at East. The women of the faculty contributed 51371.75 to the Gold Star Scholarship Fund, which supplies money for incidental expenses to needy high-ranking students in Iunior College, Teachers College, and all the high schools. ln addition there were contributions to the Y. W. C. A., the lunior Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Campfire Girls. All teachers are members of the Parent-Teachers Association which sponsors many other worthy enterprises. Keeping all these facts in mind, it cannot but be realized that East is fortunate in having such a fine group of upstanding, civic-minded and co-operative men and women for her faculty. THE CAMERA DOESNT LIE 'lf Left to right: Mr. McDaniel, Mr. Chas. Frazier, Mr. Wahlstedt, Mr. Thelen, Mr. Tiefel, Mr. Cohlmeyer, Mr. Esther, Mr. Broacllick, Mr. Nowlin. t20l

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IEASTONIIAN 11935 MISS HELEN A. WILKIN MISS IESSIE MARIE WILLITT Clerk History LIBRARY The two years of efficient service by the East Branch Library have proved its use both for educational and recreational purposes to the school and entire surrounding community. The wealth of available knowledge, 15,000 books, covering every department of literature, is invaluable to the students in every field of research. Indeed, the value of so close a store of literature is hardly to be overestimated. In charge of East's library is Miss Rachel Agg, helpful because of her long experience at both Central and Kensington. The children's department is under the able supervision of Mrs. Maude Martin. Assistants in the library work are: Miss Sarah Bower, Miss Idris Smith, and Miss Mary Ross for part time work. Robert Crees and Preston Russell are pages in the library. HEALTH DEPARTMENT Miss Alice Walton, finishing the second year of her important work of keeping the student body physically fit, has brought the entire school to a realization of the true value of East's health department. Though East High School is comparatively free of disease, still there is an ever present need of such inspired work against pestilence as has been done by Miss Walton. i19I

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