Lorain High School - Scimitar Yearbook (Lorain, OH)

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Although familiar with all the methods of education, past and present, everyone of these fiftyfsix teachers looks upon each Lorain High graduate as an individual problem with the mysterious X still unsolved, or as a book with many pages still unread. Why? Because pupils are not puppets, or things, as the mass production critics have so illogically asf sumed. They are human beings. Fourteen HARRY STRYKER His hobby just now seems to be furniture-making and collecting it. And an ardent sport fan is he. HELEN OEHLKE Finds her diversion in art and more art. She occasionally takes time off to attend a basketball game. MARY BRITTAIN Plays contract bridge and golf. Needlepoint also interests her. EMILY BARTENFELD Likes to try new recipes with any kind of food except sweet pota- toes. ESTHER DEMPSEY Dislikes waiting for anyone, physiology, and the bears in Yel- lowstone Park. She majored in science while in college. EARL W. LOWRIE Says his wife is another golf widow. And of course he likes woodwork, too. DONALD DAVIS Finds amateur photography a fasf cinating hobby. E. A, MONEGAN Is a connoisseur in hairfraising serials and sidefsplitting comedies.

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W. EDWIN BONSEY Birds and stars interest him. He also enjoys outdoor sports. CHARLES W. COOK Is a collector in a big way of guns, stamps, antiques, and na- ture specimens. C. C. WATERHOUSE His diversion is athleticsg his hob' by, collecting stamps and an' tiquesg his favorite study, child psychology. S. NORMAN PARK Music in school and church is his vocation and his avocation. MAURICE NEWMAN Preferred biology and psychology in college. Likes to go hunting and fishing. H. C. FRESHWATER Bees, bugs, and-oh, yes-the Chevie take up his spare time. RUTH SPANGLER Travel is her idea of a good time. She majored in biology in college. HELEN EDDY Majored in English and concen' trated on steak roasts in college. Is interested in Flemish and Italf ian painting and architecture. To the casual observer, such a comment might seem justif fied. Any teacher knows, however, that the educational process is not so simple as factory management. Pupils are not run through huge presses to be turned out considerably flattened but neatly folded and ready for distribution throughout the world. Still less is every child assembled with each teacher affixing his special bolt or screw and guarf anteeing that the resultant machine will have so much speed if given proper care. Thirteen

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H, H. OLIVER Played a banjo and went out for boxing while working his way through college. DONALD MORRELL His ambition is to become a teacher in college. Likes to travel and to dance. WILBUR TIPTON Likes goldfish and gardening. Lightweight football, too. A. S. GREGG Hard work is his hobby. Loathes jazz both in music and morals. MURNICE LANGE Of hobbies she has two-golf and reading. EDITH JOBLING Music, especially vocal, is the avo' cation of this trainer of secre' taries-tofbe. VERA LAWRENCE Disliked science and history in college. She is a voracious read- er. First considered being a lif brarian. EMILY GRACE DOANE Tries to await patiently the open' ing of each new basketball season. DORA SIMUKKA Finds her diversion in travel, ath' letics, and reading. HELEN SIMPSON Likes bridge, the Plain Dealer, and the theater. Dislikes cooking and history. AMY HALL Her chief diversions are reading, driving her car, and the theater, She can handle her own boat at her summer camp, too. E. W. BASH Dramatized detective stories via radio get on his nerves. But the New York Philharmonic Orches- tra-that's something else. HELEN VORMAN Finds her biggest outside inter' est in the study of tapestries. ANNA WHEATLEY It's golf and outdoor sports for her. She once wanted to be a doctor. The second fallacy-the traditional one-is that teachers are cold and impersonal taskmasters, or, in somecases, cruel Simon Legreesn who enjoy torturing the young mind either to enhance their own efficiency records, or to satisfy their sense of authority. The assumption at the basis of this conf ception is likewise false. Teachers can not be either auto' matons or monsters, for they, too, are human beings with all the instincts common to man. Fifteen