Edison Institute High School - Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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G1VHEIH in Greenfield Village Schools, photographed Candlemas Day. They are a happy, healthy group of youngsters for whom ice and snow and biting blasts have no terrors. an; :1 952d

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Page Four HERALD Our Schools iConcluded from page threel balls at them. Some of the boys and girls like to make snow forts and slide down the hills with their sleds. The children all love to go to school, but, oh, the best part of the winter, as Billy Hayden and all the others agreed, is the time when Santa Claus comes! Jimmy Sisson and Anne Thompson like the summer time because it is warm and they can play out of doors. And all are delighted with picnics and tea parties, and find it lots of fun to swing and teeter and play With their wagons. Colleen Davidson likes to pick Ilowersr In the summer all love to go to the lakes and swing. Robert German says the reason he prefers summer to winter is because then he can dig for angleworms and go fishing. . MN Comfort The seventh and eighth grade spelling pupils have completed the sixth and seventh grade words. The sixth and seventh grades had geography tests. Opal Kerr Visited school on Thursday afternoon recently, and Dorothy Kenof came on a Friday afternoon. Leo Bachtal is ill in the Ford Hospital with mastoids on both ears. His fellow pupils have sent him letters. Maureen McLain has been ill with intestinal flu. The seventh grade reading class studied accounts 01 ancient schools. These spoke of syllable spelling. The five upper grades had a syllable spelling contest Friday morning. Lois Anderson stood up the longest. Clarabelle Kerr, Betty Holdridge, Joan Cadmus and Audrey Richard made posters recently. The school pump has now been repaired. The Parent-Teachers, Association for the Waring School, Centennial School, Green Lane Academy, and Comfort School, was held at Comfort schoolhouse the other evening. The business meeting was opened by the new president, Mrs. Elliot McLain. The program corsisted of community singing led by Ray Wil- liams, and selections by the Holloway Church orchestra. Motion pictures of the Worldis Fair, opening of the Ford schools, and some animals of Michigan were shown by Mr. Leon Rosacran of Tecumseh. At the close, refreshments of popcorn, candy and apples were served. MN Mills School When the pupils returned to school last fall all were glad to see that the building had been redecorated and that there was a new well. There were only seven pupils at the beginning of the school year, but in November there were six new ones. The scholars do not believe this is an unlucky number. So far this has been a very busy and pleasant year. This month spelling books have been made for a contest. This muddy weather keeps the house- keeper busy. One of the pupils is house- keeper each week and sees that the room is kept neat and clean. All look forward to Thursday, the day on which dancing lessons are held at Macon. The new school paper will doubtless be much enjoyed as it will tell what the other schools are doing. SPORTS, AND PASTIMES Basketball Foul Shooting Contest eBig Fivee McLeod 4-5-3-4-2 18 Snow 1-5a3v2-7 1 8 Gardner 1-3H7e2a3 1 6 Roth 2-4-6-1-3 1 6 Kresin 3-4-4-1-2 1 4 January 31, 1934 tSacred Heart vs. Greenfieldi Greenfield: Hz OOHOHOOCP total M cLeod F. Snow F. Smith G. Petrak G. Burns G. Roth F. Donaldson G. OOONHHHW H NlOOb-le-ODNN Sacred Heart: f total Muir F. OlBrien . F. Glennan G Hoehn G G G Cotter O'Brien, F. ooor-loom OOHHHHd QiOOHwNi-e MN The Pioneers Hike Saturday, January 2, was a very good day for a twelve-mile hike to Nan- kin Mills, write three of the Pioneers. There was thin ice over the river on which we crossed. We started from Mr. Robertsl house at nine oiclock in the morning, and followed the Rouge River till we found a good eating placwand ate. Then we started on. We ran out of water when we were a mile and a half from the mill, and stopped at a farmhouse where we got a drink and refilled the canteens. Nankin Mills was reached at three dclock. No one would have known that we had walked twelve miles. Some of us played hockey on the mill pond. At four dclock the bus came and took us home. mm Heralds of Spring In the next column is an item about the arrival of the first robin. It is in the form of a nature note of a kind which we wish to encourage. We therefore ask the scholars of the Village and District schools to keep their eyes and ears open for the arrival of these heralds of spring, the little birds. Tell us when and where they saw them, and mention if possible, to what species they belong. If they can- not be identified, then a description of the bird will be the next best thing. Be- sides our feathered friends, the arrival of other creatures of the woods and by- ways may be noted. Edison Junior Pioneers SOME OF THEIR ACTIVITIES tContributedl The Edison Junior Pioneers were organlzed June 23, 1933, With Albert 0. Roberts in charge and Howard Simp- son as assistant. The main purpose of the Pioneers is character-building, train- ing in useful arts, providing supervised outdoor activities of interest, and re- celvmg instruction in the proper use of leisure time. The Pioneers include boys under twelve, and avoid all semblance of militarism. One distinctive feature of the Edison Pioneers is that instead of awarding badges the boy receives various articles of woodmenis equipment. Last summer many of the boys were given pocket knives for regular attendance, for learn- ing to tie certain knots, and repeating a little pledge of law. Several earned a little hatchet by mastering the Morse code used in signal- ing, or a pocket compass by learning the sixteen directional points and for memor- izing Kiplingis 31f? This poem tells the boy just what he has to do tiifii he is to become a real man. During the warmer weather the Pioneers have regular weekly meetings at which they play games, take hikes, study knots, first aid, signaling, the use of the compass, and other accomplish- ments. One of the most memorable hikes of the Pioneers was on the Ford estate where they had a wiener roast at the Santa Claus Cabin and then visited the old Ford homestead. Once the Pioneers went in automobiles to Macon where they had a picnic lunch and afterwards went to see a wheat threshing. There is a camp site in the village, and tents and blankets sufficient for forty boys, so that there were several enjoyable overnight camping events last summer, the highlights of which were the songs and stories around the campfire after supper. During the winter activities are restricted to occasional hikes. Next spring it is planned to have a field-day program at which the parents and friends of the boys will be entertained with interesting contests in starting fires by friction or by flint and steel, as well as competitive games of various kinds. Here and There Nature Notes in Winter Isabelle Gassett writes: On going to the buses Friday, January 19, I was greatly surprised to see a robin sitting on a high branch of a tree on the corner of South Military and Monroe Blvd. I did not know whether it was a robin that had stayed with us all winter, or whether he had just arrived, but I had never noticed the bird before. mm Corduroy, now used as cloth by workers engaged in rough labor, was once worn by kings, whence it derived its name, corde du rm.

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Page Six HERALD SCOTCH SETTLEMENT SCHOOL on its opening day. THE TOWN HALL with its stately Ionic portico. 1 Where the Field of 1 Au nu... unnuuuunnuruuuuum GREETINGS! Thank you, girls and boys, for givirig me space for a few words 1' in this, your first school journal. You all know that my hobby is gardening, and it is a happy worth-while hobby. Gardening, you know, was one of the first steps in civilization. In the beginning people just roamed about with their flocks of sheep and herds of cattle. Then garden- ing and vineyards came, and people stayed at home to tend the growing things and reap the crops. .nuunnuuuuuuuu nu RAWSONVILLE, the little school in the valley. u.uuuuuuuuuu CLINTON INN now the hostelry of youth. GREEN LANE ACADEMY and its wealth of trees. But I am interested in many more things than gardeninge girls and boys, for instance- their games; food, health, and J clothes, and everything that goes to build up their character. That is what the School of Life is doing for uSehelping us to build character. 1 MRS. HENRY FORD COMFORT SCHOOL with its quaint architecture. Another L Thank you, girls and boys, for this opportunity u. .uuuuuuuuuuu.u-uuuuuuuuu of sending you a message. If you were to ask me what the most important thiug in school life is, I would saye I uLearn how to study intelligently. Don,t let your unnuuiuuuu...........u.u.u.uuu CENTENNIAL SCHOOL on its opening day, September, 1932. 1.... nun... nun... nu........nn....