Manual High School - Mirror Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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administration i 1 V1 Q F Just as there is a wheel which guides the ship at sea, so we have our faculty, , th 'd' ha d of our lives at Manual e gui mg n . Through this leadership we see the pattern of the PILOT WHEEL as it steers its ship safely into the harbor. .1 gi ... 4rv 7 ' fx? ap .E

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school days l932-I933 THE attern of Manual's histor was be un twent'-three ears a o in 1909. With the P Y 8 Y Y 8 , , passage of each year, a small pattern has been completed and fitted as a unit into the master pattern that will be completed only when Manual ceases to exist. A new unit, the pattern of 1933, is finished, and we see it placed, shining and new, among the patterns of the preceding years, the earlier ones of which even now seem dim and faded. Before 1933 is left in its final position, however, let us pause for a brief survey. September 6 and the opening of school marked the beginning of our pattern. At this time, we recall, a bright and new-looking interior greets us as we first enter our school building. The corridors, offices, and auditorium have been completely redecorated during the summer vacation. We also see in the design Manual for the first time in its history opening the year without any beginning freshmen. With the completion of the new Theodore Roosevelt junior High School, the students who would have come to Manual as freshmen entered the junior High as ninth graders. The new school also 'took several of Manual's teachers, namely, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Hall, Miss Hession, Miss Higgins, Miss Kroepel, Miss Stein, Mr. Schwartz, Miss Thalberg, Miss Welsh, Mr. Waugh, and Miss Ziegler, while Miss Aitchison went to Kingman and Mrs. Margaret Rothwell Baer to Gardiner School. Despite the fact that there are no freshmen, about 1,260 students are part of Manual's pattern for 1933. Of these, approximately two hundred and sixty expect to be graduated in June, and more than fifty are graduates of former years returning to Manual for further study. Another design fitting into our pattern at this time is the introduction of a seven-period day instead of eight, with the class hours being lengthened to forty-five minutes and a fifteen-minute advisory group period every morning before first hour. The former fifth hour study period is discarded, and that hour now becomes a regular class period. Quickly the school gets under way, and as we see classroom work going on in earnest, organizations beginning to function, football games, mass meetings, assemblies, banking, social hours, and all the activities of the school springing into life, we see the pattern for 1933 beginning to assume a definite form. After a few weeks, Armistice Day is fitted into the design, and a short time later the Thanksgiving Day recess is woven in. A vic- tory over Central in the annual Thanksgiving Day classic becomes a part of our design. Returning after the holidays, we find events piling up rapidly, and we have only a few weeks to finish out our pattern for the first semester. Soon, however, we have worked in the final examinations, arranged our programs for the next semester, and are ready to continue our design into the last half of 1933. A new faculty member comes in at this time in the person of Miss Marilla MicClanathan, who only a few short years ago helped to make an earlier pattern as a student at Manual. As the basketball season progresses, the games are arranged one after the other, and the city championship is won. Events are coming rapidly now, and quickly we piece them into our growing pattern. The Senior Boys' Minstrel, the Big Twelve Meet, and the Senior Class Play all become part of the design. We are working around the border, and after placing a few pieces, our handiwork will be complete. The junior-Senior Hop, final examinations, the junior Prom, Class Night, and last of all, Commencement are being put into their places, and with the awarding of the diplomas the pattern is finished. As we leave, our pattern for 1933 becomes indelibly a part of the master pattern that Manual is weaving, and we are proud to place it by the side of those that have been made before. WESTON HARDING. eleven