Manual High School - Thunderbolt Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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,di-Eb. T TH NDERBOLT . Nj Manual Training High School GOUD SCHOOLS IN BAD TIMES The 1933'34 year found the Denver Public Schools facing the most serious Hnancial prob' lems in their history. At Manual diiliculties were found because of a rapidly growing student body with shrinking funds with which to employ additional teachers. So great was the growth that in October, 1933, there were 984 pupils and 33.9 teachers, as compared to 1926 when there were 516 pupils and 29.6 teachers. In 1926 there were 17.4 pupils per teacher, by 1933 the number was 29.9. In 1933 the average class size reached 35, as compared to 21 in 1928. School administrators found expenses in 1933 had to be reduced to 15022 less than 1926, despite huge increases in enrollment. Accordingly, various economies were practiced at Manual. The library and study hall, each with a capacity in excess of one hundred pupils, were placed under the supervision of one teacher for each room. Study periods were made optional during first, seventh and noon hours. Home room periods were abolished. Total periods for the day were reduced from eight to seven and class periods lengthened from 4216 to 52 minutes. The depression years found schools temporarily performing social work due to lack of capacity of charitable agencies to meet needs. In December, 1933, one hundred twelve pupils daily received lunchesifree through the school cafeteria at Manual. During the same semester one hundred pupils received optical, dental and medical attention. Proceeds of the school play, Little Miss Tatters, staged November 24, 1933, were given to charity. The nationally recognized Denver policy of continuous W -iiHWT, T t curriculumlrevision, though greatly curtailed, was- not disconf :mm N km . ' Q iii' limi tinued during the years of financial stress. Even in 1933 and W 'BQ 'f' L 1934 new courses were introduced and old courses revised. ggi , 1 Such progress during unprecedented Hnancial difficulties was ' ' ' 1- a tribute to those who directed the educational progress of the ' I A ' fiftyftwo thousand pupils in the Denver Public Schools. Nl

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T A f' THE THUNDERBOLT A9 515. .-Q lx THE THUNDERBOLT STAFF First Row: Axrcll, Bieri, Brown, Croplcy, Fink, Kirimura. Second Row: Lorenz, Nleycr, Mosley, Munro, Oslcr, Parrahm. 7 Third Row: Ross, Sarasola, Shinncman, Steinberg, Stinson, Swanbcrg, THE THUNDERBOLT Editor .................. ......................................................,...................... Associate Editor ....... ......A. Assistant Editor ....... ....... Business Manager .......... .r.................... .......... Chief Statistician fFirst Sernesterl ....... ........ Chief Statistician fSecond Semesterj ...,.. ......... Assistant Statistician ......... Photographer ......,........... Boys' Athletic Editor ..,.... Girls' Athletic Editor ...... Make-up Editor ,,.,,,,..,,,,,,,,,, ,..,i.,. E velyn Kirimura Music and Literary Editor ....... ...... W illiam Munro ..,......,.....Milto11 Fink , Organizations Editor ...... ' Maryethel Meyer, Artists ............,........,....,................. Josephine Ross, Mary Parrahm, Esther Brown Faculty Sponsor .............................. George I. Cropley Art Sponsor ......, ........ S arah Stinson f 3 I .Maryethel Meyer .Willis Axtell .Betty Shinneman .Elias Sarasola Charles Steinberg .Erma Lorenz Beatrice Osler ......James Mosley Alfred Bieri Harriet Swanherg

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'W THE THU DERBOLT Q' M - A9545 f fSelected by Student Committee of Fifteen! DISTINGUISHED ERVIC M Aurucs R. AHRENS Mr. Ahrens was the founder of the M. A. P. organization, a most success- ful sales group in overcom- ing the financial problems of he school PRUDENCE Bosrwiciq One who showed her faith in progressive education by bold experimentation in rad- ically new types of class- work. GEORGE I. Choi-1.13Y Under Mr. Cropley's ex- pert supervision and innum- erable hours of careful teach- ing the annual stall was cn- abled to create a superior annual for the pupils. BERNADETTA M. DALY One who unsellishly gave endless hours that Manual pupils might develop their capacities for self-expression in both forensics and dra- matics. DONALD R. Drzs COMBES An athletic coach. and director of physical educa- tion, who from the smallest student body in the public high schools of the city de- veloped superior teams. I5 L LE J, FRANCIS A teacher of vision, who realized the value of ex- perimentation in classroom methods. that education might continue to progress in a time of difliculty. DAVID C. GORHAM In 193-l a new and suc- cessful newspaper was pub- lished at Nlanual sponsored by Mr. Gorham. ln addi- tion, he was of service as an assistant coach. EVA MCKELVEY l Well deserved credit for the high level of accomplish- ment attained by the musi- cal groups during the past year goes to Miss NlcKelvey who so admirably directed them. CARI. I. PHASE Ev Services in many un- sung directions, particu- larly in planning the details tif stage management and scenery, well merited recog- nition for Mr, Pease. WIELPTON Miss XVelpton for years sponsored Nlanual's social service work. During th: past year, however. her en- deavors in this field were especially notable.