Fenger Academy High School - Courier Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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F Q4 I V A EDMUND IARIS Principal Mount Vernon MUUNT VEHN Early Morning Scene Mount Vernon Branch Incoming students who reside in the northwestern part of the Fenger district spend their first year of high school at the Mount Vernon Branch Approximately 300 students go to the branch located at 10540 Morgan Street The building which also houses Mount Vernon hlementary School has a large auditorium and gymnasuim several laboratories and a library The students are affiliated with the main building yet remain separate They have many of the activities enioyed by the mam such as band orchestra reelmen G A A hall ma shalls student council and student librarians There are ten divisions and each division elects representatives for the News Courier PTA and also two student council members. The student council promotes a social program for the school, sponsoring such things as socials, movies, and parties. Girls with a good scholarship record are chosen to work in the office, doing filing, answering the phone, and acting as general secretaries. Since the bell system of the high school differs from that of the grammar school, boys must be chosen to ring the bell for the high school students. Thru these many activities the freshmen are pref pared to be active students when they come to Fenger in their sophomore year 25

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fc lflgif L UQI' fw Graduatron nrght wrth a mrllton memorres IS now a realrty Funny to thmlc ol myself as a Freshman How strange Fenger Hrgh School seemed at trrst very large cmd awesome to the eyes of a begrnnrng Fresh1e so many students rushrng about lt took me a long whtle to remember rooms teachers and my complicated program but gradually l made irrends and easzly found my way around the b1g school I was rn the process ot growmg up lts wonderful to be young and just ahve Senrors seemed so remote to me then I was just a Freshre and hardly seemed to be a part of the school All of us went through the lrrendly ktddzng about steam heated lockers and the new elevators to the tourth floor twhtch we could never trndl lt seems funny to me now as I look back a form of zmttatron we must all go through to become a real part of Fenger Trme passed so qurclcly lt was nearly Iune and l confess that often durmg those warm days wrth open wrndows and budimg leaves my mmd would wander from my studres All I could thrnk ot was vacatzon Alter a long wonderful summer school began agam I could hardly wart to see my trrends lt was so good to be baclc I was now a Sophomore S, Cont nued on page 42 24 7 A. . I1 ' , ' ' . . . so . . ,, . In Y A I I I U . . . , 1' SDJ . ' . , ' , ' 3 D I U - , 'lg Q 1 A

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FACULTY MUUNT VEHNUN FLORENCE BERGSTRAND Latin LOIS BUTTLES Home Arts MARY DURKIN Algebra FRANCES FLYNN Science CORINNE HOLCOMB RUTH OLIVER Science Business MILDRED RAY Spanish LAURA VERHOEVEN English HOWARD WESTERVELT Shop Not Pictured NELLE GREEN Art Not Pictured ETHEL MILLER Algebra MR. TRIMBLE and MR. IARIS meet in the hall belween periods