Hellgate High School - Halberd Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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MISS ELSIE WADELL J ancjiiacjd The Dean of the foreign language department is Miss Elsie Wadell, teach- er of second year Latin and commercial geography. Miss Wadell has seen the most service in the foreign language department of M. H. S. and is therefore the guardian of this department. Her keen sense of humor and her wide- spread general knowledge add interest to her Latin classes as they study the campaigns of Caesar in Gaul. The foreign language department is perhaps one of the most interesting de- partments in school and surely it covers the greatest amount of territory of the world because it is a foreign language department. In M. H. S. French, Latin, and Spanish are taught and for each of these there is a special club. The pur- pose of these clubs is to give the stu- dent a better understanding of the language and the people who use that language as a native tongue. Small papers written in French and Spanish help in this work. The student may obtain them through the foreign lan- guage department for a small fee. One of the many opportunities available to the student of other languages is the foreign service field, where one may be employed either by the government or private business. Thus the foreign language department opens new hori- zons and points out the way for better understanding between the people of this country and the people of France, Spain, and South America. PASSPORTS TO FOREIGN PORTALS 1 s nv mu s

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BEHIND THE ADDING MACHINE doninid. ’ic'uiL Missoula high trackmen take orders from Mr. Guy T. Stegner, track coach for the last four years. Before coaching track exclusively, Mr. Stegner was foot- ball, basketball, and track coach for eight years. Teaching typing and bookkeeping fills his teaching schedule during the day. For outdoor relaxation he golfs and fishes. Mr. Stegner has given much time to teachers' retire- ment laws and is considered an au- thority on that subject. Typing and junior business teacher, Mrs. Carrie Gilham, is one M. H. S. faculty member without a hobby. Mrs. Gilham is outstanding in one respect for she is the only teacher with a class after school. Scraping feet annoy this usually even tempered teacher. Her -utside activities include card playing, cooking when she has to, and tennis, which she has played more or less all her life. One thing I do dislike is be- ing quoted, says Mrs. Gilham. Energetic Mrs. Florence Keeton trains future stenographers and keeps the Junior class on its feet. The climax of this latter job is a successful Junior Prom in the spring. She collects stamps md cares for numerous plants around her room after school hours. An ap- j reciative traveler, she plans to go to Berkeley, California, this summer to at- tend school. Able advisor of the Konah for the r t semester was Miss lone Lake. . larting with greenhorns at the first of I he year she turned out polished jour- nalists. Teaching typing rounded out her full day. A ski enthusiast, she larted and sponsored the Ski Club which took trips every Saturday under ■i leadership. At Christmas she left 1 become a happy bride. MRS. CARRIE GILHAM MISS IONE LAKE MRS. FLORENCE KEETON MR. GUY STEGNER 21

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 Jors.Lcjn X, cmcjuacj, A newcomer this year to the teaching staff of M. H. S. is Miss Margaret Dur- kin, a teacher of French who replaced Miss Mildred Ammer. Miss Durkin studied at Montana State University for three years before going to the Uni- versity of Wisconsin where she re- ceived her masters degree in French. Before coming to M. H. S. she taught at Briar Cliff College, Sioux City, Iowa. Sports such as swimming and badmin- ton interest her outside of school. Teacher of first and second year Eng- lish and Latin is Miss Sylvia Johnson who is a fairly recent newcomer to M. H. S. having joined the faculty only last year. The hobbies of Miss Johnson in- clude reading and sports but she is not able to find much time for them as she attends school during the summer. When asked about her pet peeve she replied that she deplores students who do not work. It is better to forget one's verb con- structions than to forget that all people are really alike, feeling the same way and wanting the same things even if they do speak another language. These are the sentiments of lively, dark Miss Violet Boileau, M. H. S. Spanish instructor. When teaching the ways and hows of the Spanish language proves too wearing for Miss Boileau she turns with pleasure to her cooking. Next to cooking as a hobby she loves to study people. MISS MARGARET DURKIN MISS SYLVIA JOHNSON SENORITA MISS VIOLET BOILEAU