Mattawan High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mattawan, MI)

Text from Pages 1 - 40 of the 1938 volume:

THE MIRROR YEARBOOK OF MATTAWAN HIGH SCHOOL, MATTAWAN, MICHIGAN 1938 THE MATTAWAN MIRROR MATTAWAN, MICHIGAN “ - ' 3ALL • !U .‘3ER VOLUME 0 ' ‘UMBER CUE FOREWORD—WELCOME IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CF THE FIRST I33LE OF THE ATTAWAN HIGH SCHOOL MIRROR, WE WISH TO WELCOME ALL CF OUR FORMER STUDENTS. TOGETHER WITH THE LARGE INCREASED ENROLLMENT OF STUDENTS WHO HAVE SEEN FIT TO ENROLL AT MATTAWAN FOR THIS YEAR. WE HOPE YOU WILL FINC IT PROFITABLE FOR YOU. AND WE ARE SURE THAT IT WILL BE A PLEASURE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE OF S3VE LITTLE SERVICE TO YCL AS A STUDENT OF THIS HIGH SCHOOL. WE ARE ANXIOUS THAT YOl DC A GOOD. SATISFACTORY JC6 HERE A3 m STUDENT� AND .!E HOPE THAT YOU WILL ALL FEEL PERFECTLY FREE TO CQMF 0 US WITH YOU SCHOOL PROBLEMS AND LET LS HELP YOU TO SOLVE THEM. WE BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL FINB A r I N’E SPIRIT CF COOPERATION HERE. AMD WE WOULD LI HE TO HAVE CU BECOME ACQUAINT-MORE AND MORE WITH THE UNUSUALLY -INE 3CPT CF STUDENTS WHO ARE ENROLLED HERE THIS VEAR. WHILE VE ARE WELCOMING T-E OLD S7uCEM3 AND A.L OF THESE NEW ONES. WE ML3T MOT CCR 3E TC SEND CUT THE WORD CF EL- CCVE TC THE CLDER MEMBERS Or THE rACUL'Y, A3 WELL AS TC A NUMBER OF NEW ONES WE BE.IEVE T.-At 'CL ARE GOING TO Ll-E MAT-awAN HIGH SCHOOL AND THE EXCEPTIONALLY FINE SET OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE ENRClLEJ HERE. V E DO HOPE THA YOU FACULTY ‘.‘EMBERS WIL- p ND IT JUST a 3 'UC - CF A PLEAS- % URE TC SERVE THESE STUDENTS AS THEY WILL HAVE IN BEING SERVED BY YCL....A SUCCESSFUL VEAR TC ALL Or YOU .. ,A.“E3 COTTER. • • • 3- :E“ '' TENCENT. WHO IS WHO IN SEEING THAT YOU GET TO SCHOOL.. THE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL SSTEM OFFERS ADVANTAGES THAT OTHER SCHOOLS CAN NOT OFFER..IN ONE RESPECT AT LEAST... THAT IS..IN THE MATTER OF TRANSPORTATION OF THE CHILDREN WHO IS WHO IN SEEING TR.,7 YOU GET TO SCHOOL THE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL SYSTEMS OFFER ADVANTAGES THAT OTHER TYPES OF SCHOOLS CAM NOT OFFER...IN ONE RESPECT, AT LEAST____THAT OF A SAFE METHOD OF GETTING THE CHILDREN TO SCHOOL. THROUGHOUT THE STATE. THE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS TRANSPORT THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN MANY MILES EaCH DAY TO AND FROM SCHOOL IN WELL HEATED MODERN BUSSES, DRIVEN BY EXPERIENCED ADULT DRIVERS. THESE BUSSES ARE INSUREJ AGAINST PERSONAL LIABILITY AS WELL AS ORDINARY LOSSES. THESE DRIVERS HAVE THE SAME AUTHORITY AS A TEACHER WOULD HAVE. CARELESS DRIVERS ON THE ROAD HAVE LITTLE REG' . 1 FOR AN ORDINARY CAR WHICH MIGHT CONTAIN SCHOOL CHIL JN DRIVING BACK AND FORTH TO SCHOOL, AMD OFTENTIMES ACCIDENTS ARISE BECAUSE OF SUCH CARELESSNESS. HOWEVER, THE CARELESS DRIVER IS USUALLY VERY CONSIDERATE WHENEVER HE SEES A POLICE CAR ESPECIALLY MARKED, OR A SCHOOL BUS, WITH ITS TYPICAL RED.-WHITE AND 3LUE COLCR, AND HE IS LESS LIABLE TO TAKE CHAMOIS. AND ACCIDENTS ARE LESS FPECUENT. VATTAWAN IS ESPECIALLY FORTUNATE IN ITS SELECTION OF BUS DRIVERS. THEY ARE MR. HUBBARD, WHO DRIVES THE PINE ISLAND BUS. OLIN RUSSEL. THE TEXAS BUS, CHARLES SIX. THE PRAIRIE RONuE BUS, ALBERT MUELLER, THE OSHTEMO BUS, REV. SHELLEY, THr WEST ROUTES, FRED OLSON, THE NORTH ROUTES, JESSE RGCKHOLTZ. THE SOUTH EAST 3US LINE, AMD VICTOR HALL. THE NORTHWEST ROUTE. THESE BUSSES ARE NOW ALL KEPT AT TNE CENTRAL BUS GAR.GE AT THE SCHOOL BUILDING, ND THEY ARE SERVICED DAILY ?Y MR. VICTOR HALL, WHO PLANS TO KEEP THEM IN THE P|Nk OF CONDITION AT ALL TIMES. THE GARAGE HAS A SHOP IN CONNECTION WHERE ORDINARY REPAIRS CAM BE MADE DURING THE DAY, THUS MAKING IT P03SI3LE TO HAVE THE BUSSES IN RUNNING C'MOITlON WHEN SCHCuL IS DISMISSED AT equR OCLCCK. THE EQUIPMENT CONSISTS OF ONE ALMENA SODY, TWO WAYNE BODIES, TWO UNION CITY BODIES, AND THREE HICKS BOo’lES FORD V 8-S AND CHE VR0LET3 SUPPLY THE MOTIVE POWER FOR THE VARIOUS BUSSES. PARENTS CAN HELP IN THIS TRANSPORTATION BY HAVING CHILDREN BE PROMPT IN LOADING, AND DRIVERS PLAN TO BE JUST S CONSIDERATE AS IS POSSIBLE. SHOULD ROADS GET BAD, P: 'r' Tm HELP BY APPEAulflG Wi'iH US. .Tu THE nUTnCRiTlEo TH-,f HAvt CHARGE OF MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ROADS. FACULTY PR! t 'o THELMA BiLKEY... KDG ..«■GRACUATE MISSOURI STATE COLLEGE IRMA BUCKOUT...� I•2 GRAOES.... TAUGHT AT ALMENA. WESTERN STATE GRADUATE LA VERGE FULLER..3 GRADE......WESTERN STATE GRAOUATE WINNIFREO JILLSCV.... ........WESTERN STATE GRADUATE TAUGHT NEAR S. HAVEN ARLENE HOLLINGER..............WESTERN STATE GRADUATE SEVERAL YEARS HERE. EUNICE KOSTER...ENGLISH.....HOPE COLLEGE GRADUATE ELEANOR SCHMIOT..HOME EC.. MICHIGAN STATE GRADUATE HERBERT FOLL..COMMERCIAL..WESTERN STATE GRADUATE.. COMMERCIAL AT MAHERS GENEVIEVE TAGGETT..MATH.. KALAMAZOO COLLEGE GRADUATE GEORGE PAYNE..SHOP...WESTERN STATE GRADUATE FRANCIS DORSTEWITZ..MUSIC..KALAMAZOO COLLEGE GRADUATE RICHARD EDWARDS ..SCIENCE..COACH..MICHIGAN STATE GRAOU E HARRIET L. PINCH..HI STORY...STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE. EAU CLAIRE..WIS. MANLEY VAN VOORHEES..PR INCI PAL..HILLSDALE COLLEGE GRADUATE JAMES COTTER..SUPT...MICHIGAN STATE GRADUATE -.....—OOOO.......... V1' TH ENROLLMENTS GROWING DAY BY DAY WE WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED i ADDITIONS TO THE FACULTY BEFORE LONG. FACULTY MEMBERS EXHIBITING POWERS OF ENDURANCE CN OVERTIME, MOST ALL PUTTING IN TWO HOURS AFTER SUPPER...MORE POWER TO THEM. ----------0000-....... THE MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY ENJCYED THE WEINIE ROAST HELD AT MRS. ZIELIES COTTAGE AT THE LAKE... THANKS FOR THE COTTAGE, MRS.Z ..MATTAWAN CLASSES ELECT OFFICERS.. SEVENTH GRADE PRESIDENT..ROBERT WILSON V. PRFo....MiLVN DECKER SECRETARY..GENEVI EVt •• JL• - CH TREASURER..DOROTHY WRIGHT DELEGATE. ..-BILLIE HOODEMAKER CLASS SPONSOR Ml S3 TAGGETT NINTH GRADE PRESIDENT...HAROLD BERNER OAN MOYLE V. PRES....STANLEY MICHAEL SECRETARY...DON RYAN TREASURER...DIXIE HEPPINGER DELEGATES...CHAS. RIX AUDREY CGPENHAVER CLASS SPONSOR MR. PAYNE ELEVENTH GRADE PRES I DENT.. .JAMES DAVIS V. PRES....AOELE HIGLEY SECRETARY ..MARVIN DEAT3 TREASURER...JOHN POBUDA DELEGATES. ..KENSIL GI DO I'NGS JOYCE BLAMKSHINE HELEN BECKER CLASS SPONSOR MR. POLL E'GHTH GRADE PRESIDENT. KENNPTH HALL V. Rf'ES.. . .M Jl.'Ic MASON SECRETARY..AVER;L HARRISON TREASURER..TOM SMITH DELEGATE.� .LEON HUNT Class sponsor MR. EDWARDS TENTH GRADE PRESIDENT.. HAROLD 3ERN V. PRES....JOHN KELLEY SECRETARY..JOYCE GIDDINGS TREASURER..LLYLE PATTON DELEGATES..RUSSEL CONOLLY FRANK DRAKE CLASS SPONSOR MISS KOSTER TWELFTH GRADE PRES I DENT..LAWRENCE RUSSEL V.PRES.---EDWARD ZAGAR SECRETARY..LORRAINE WEISS TREASURER..VIRGINIA BURSON DELEGATES..IRENE C«AWFORD ROY 3UTt' R CAifL hSscock CLASS SPONSOR MISS PINCH SUCCEEDING ISSUES OF THE MIRROR WILL CONTAIN MUCH NEWS RELATING TO THE ACTIVITIES OF THE VARIOUS GRAOES IN THE HIGH SCHOOL. A VERY FINE SPIRIT OF SCHOOL SPIRIT SEEMS TO BE PRESENT..AS SHOWN BY THE ONE FACT THAT THE VARIOUS CLASS OFFICERS IN THE DIFFERENT HIGH SCHOOL GR .DE3 HAVE BEEN SCATTERED OVER A LARGE AREA OF TERR I TORY..SENDING STUDENTS TC THIS HIGH SCHOOL. THE SPIRIT OF SELFISHNESS 13 ABSENT WHEN SO MANY OF OUR NEW STUDENTS HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO IMPORTANT POSITIONS IN THESE CLASSES. A FINE SPIRIT AND MUCH TO BE CO iTENDED IN SUCH AN ATTITUDE- THESE NEW STUDENTS MUST FEEL MIGHTY HAPPY OVER WHAT YOU HAVE DONE. CLASS NOTES THE SENIORS ARE COMPLETING THEIR PLANS FOP THEIR HALLOWEEN PARTY TG BE HELD FRIDAY NIGHT BEFORE HALlCWEEN. ALL STUDENTS ARE CORDIALLY INVITED. COME AND HAVE A 30CD fl 'E. THE EIGHTH GRADE HWE GRCWING PAINS...THAT 13 tmc CLASS IS GROWING IN ATTENDANCE NEARLY EVERY OTHER DAY !wHEN WILL IF '' I' NOW. .ANQ MORE TO COME THEY ELL US... THE MORE THE METIER... WE MAY HAVE TO HANG ANOTHER TIER ON THE WALL. WHO IS WHO IN MATTAWAN HIGH SEVENTH GRADE AMEY MARY AWSTER JOSEPHINE BEATTIE GORDON BAILEY MARION BECKER MELVIN DELACH JULIA DUBCIS '.‘ ALTER DRANK CAMILLE DVCRAK STEVE DRATT LYLE ELLARD HAROLD FRENCH DAVID HuOCEMAKER BILLIE JEFFRIES MARY MAXWELL MARYLIN LABREE NORMA LARSON HOWARD RUSSELL GENEVIEVE RUSSELL JIMMIE ROYAL EMERY THOMPSON OPAL WELSH LORRAINE WILSON ROBERT WRIGHT DOROTHY WRCNA BERNICE EIGHTH GRADE ALEXSICH HELEN BRIGHTSMAN BETTY LOU BEATTIE MARSHALL BLAIR GEORGE BRADFORD DOROTHY BROOKS HOLLIS BURNS LEWIS CONKLIN BARBARA CRAWFORD PAUL CHAMFI ON DOUGLAS DOWELL CONNIE DRAKE MONROE ESTEY MARION EWING SAM EATON MILDRED FRENCH ROSE M GANCER VIRGINIA GAGE 3ETTY HUNT LEON HUBBARD MARLIN HOYT GLEN HOGDEMAKER EVELYN HARRISON AVERIL HALL KENNETH IRWIN IRENE LEGGETT EDWIN MOYLE EDITH MAYSTEaD FERCY MOLNER ERMA NORTHRUP lilah OLSON ARA8ELLE PERKINS DONALD PI PEAR RUDY POWERS MARTHA PRICE EARL QUAN MARGUERITE RUSSELL LOIS ROMANEK CATHERINE SCOTT MARION SMITH TOM SNOW HARL SOUSLEY MARVIN STEELE JUNE STEVENS ROSE STRATTON LAURA THOMAS WILLIAM VELDT ANNE WILSON DORIS WOLFE ANDREW WRONA STELLA NOTE THAT THE EIGHTH CRADE HAS MADE A VERY LARGE INCREASE IN ENROLLMENT SINCE A YEAR AGO. SHOULD ALL OF THESE ENTER THE NINTH GRADE NEXT YEAR WITH THE NORMAL INCREASE FROM OTHER SCHOOLS ...THE FRESHMAN CLASS OF 1338 WILL BE CLOSE TO EIGHTY 9TH GRAOERS. THE TWENTY SEVENTH GRADERS LISTED HERE..IN ADDITION TO THE NORMAL SEVENTH GRADERS JOINING U3 AS EIGHTH GRADERS A YEAR FROM NOW WILL MAKE ANOTHER VERY LARGE 8TH GRADE FOR THE FALL OF 1938. OUR PROBLEM HERE MEANS GRADUATING SENIOR CLASSES SCON...OVER 50 MEMBERS........ WATCH MATTAWAN HIGH GROW WHO IS WHO IN MATTAWAN HIGH NINTH GRAOE NINTH GRAOE ADAMS DONALD AMSTER ANNA MAY BAILEY ELIZABETH BARBER ROBERT BECKER MAE BLAIR MARION BRADFORD BETTY BRANCH DONALD BRANCH LEONA BRYANT RICHARD BUCK JACQUELINE BUSK FLORENCE CALVERT JOYCE CANUTE ROBERT CHAMPION KENNETH CHOPP EDWARD CONKLIN BARBARA COPENHAVER AUDREY DEAN LUCILLE DECKER LYLE DERYKE FREONIA DROBNEY HENRY DUBOIS FRED OVORAK WALTER ELLARD LOLA FARTHING FRANK ELLARD LUELLA FOX WAYLAND FRENCH FRANK GERESY IDA GODISAK ANN GORNICK HELEN GREGURIEH FRANCES GROVER DENA HEPPINGER DIXIE HESS ROSE MARY HILL JEAN HUNT LEO JOHNSON CARL KOWALCZYK EVELYN KOVACH LUCILLE LULL MARION KRANCK ROBERY MANN LEONA MICHAEL STANLEY MOYLE DAN MOYLE HARRY MUNSON PHYLLIS piffer MELNA PILLARS DONALD PRICE HENRY R I X CHARLES RI X MARGARET ANN RUZICH GEORGE RYAN DONALO S0WLE3 PAULINE SOWLES WALTER SAUNDERS VERLADYN STIVER BILLY STIVER LOUISE STRATTON BARBARA TAYLOR DORIS TRUDEAU AUDREY TAFT STIRLING VAN MAAREN ELIZABETH WALTON GRACE WARRICM DOROTHY WELSH JUNE ZAGAR ROBERT WHAT A SIZED SENIOR GRADUATING CLASS THIS WILL MAKE IF ALL STAND PAT WITH THEIR SCHOOL WORK STICK TOGETHER AS A CLASS AND FINISH THEIR HIGH SCHOOL LIFE AS ONE LARGE GROUP.. FROM ALL APPEARANCES SO FAR-----THIS IS A PRETTY HAPPY GROUP OF FRESHMEN. NO ONE GOT LOST IN THE GENERAL SHUFFLE THE FIRST WEEK OR SO...THESE FRESH IE3 WERE NOT SO SLOW TO CATCH ON. IF YOU GROW IN SMILING ATTITUDE ALL THROUGH THE FOUR YEARS.-YOU WILL HAVE ENJOYED HIGH SCHOuL LIFE WHEREVER YOU ATTEND.... WHO IS WHO IN MATTAWAN HIGH SCHOOL....... TENTH GRADE (SOPHS) TENtH GRACE (SCPH3) ABwET DALE AMEY HENRY BAsNEo oETTY BELL JOHN Bt'PNER HAROLD 3UROEN ORA 3URD i CK LAWRENCE BURSON MA X CCNOLlY RUSSELL DELACH ANTHONY DRAKE CHARuES drake frank FEE CHARLES FISK EDGAR FROST OLIVE GEISSEL EMIL GI DO I MGS JOYCE GLIDDEN ALICE GLIODEN NORMA GRAY ARLENE GREGURICH WILLIAM HAGUE JCVCE HANNAR PHILIP HE ID ROBERTA HILL ALLEN HOODEMAKER EARL HUNT CLYDE JOHNSON DONALD KELlEY JOHN KOVACH KATHERINE KUCINICH EDWARO LULLEVA MASON RICHARD MCCALLUM DONALD MCNEIL CHARLES MEYER AUDREY MOORE MARY MUNSBROCROTHY MUNSON DOROTHY MURRAY RAMONA MULLER JEAN MYERS PAULINE PATTON LYLE PHELPS MAXINE PIFFER WILLIAM PI PEAR JOSEPH POBUDA GEORGE POWERS CONSTANCE ' ROOT MARGARET ROWE MARGARET SAUNTERS VERYLIN STPA TTCN DONALD STUART TED TRUDEAU LILLI AN VAN GEMERT MARY WEATHERLY ElLEN WILSON VENA WRIGHT Gil E3 AUST1M NORMAN oie:le elwin ALLMAN ALBERT AMEY JOHN BEATTIE BOBBIE DECKER HELEN BLANKSHI ME JOYCE BRADFORD ROBERT BUCK DELBERT BL STER CATHERINE BUH.tO OPAL BURSCN WINNIFREO 3USK EUGENE DAVIS JAMES DEaTS MARVIN DILNC MILFORD E3TEY WILLIAM EDWARD OARD EWING GERTRUDE FORSYTHE EDITH GI ODINGS KENSIL HIGLEY ADELE HUBBARD GEORGE HUNT MARION JERICOVIC LOUIS MANNING GENE MAXWELL LLOYD MICHAEL LEROY MEYERS DOROTHY NILES HELEN OTTO WAYNE OVERACHER ECNA PHELPS DONALD PIERCE BETTY PI PEAR EMMA PI PEAR MARY POBUDA JOHN REINGEHL ERMA RI X MARY LOU SCOTT MARGUERITE SEI CEL THELMA 3 I MM3NS KENNETH SPIECH WALTER WALTON JEAN WHEELER GENEVIEVE WHEELER WILMA WOOD ERNA SOME SORT CF AN IDEA OF WHAT NAMES WILL APPEAR AS GRADUATES IN CLASS OF 194.0. WAGAR GERALD VERMEULEN EVELYN CANCER RICHARD JEFFRIES HERBERT THIS MAKES A VERY LIKELY LOOKING SELECTION FOR THE CLASS OF • 939- just ABOUT HALF A CENTURY MA R K • • • • • 90 • • . • • A CLASS THIS SIZE WILL MAKE CUITE A STAGE FULL ON GRADUATION MIGHT. I935-----9 GRAD. 1936.. .17 GRaD. 1937.. .28 GRAD. 1938.. .27 GRAD. IQ39..WHAT...... 1940.. WHAT.... I 941..WHAT..... DC YOU KNOW THE MATTAWAN HIGH 5CHC0L SONG.. BOOST YOUR PAPER BOOST YOUR SCHOOL BOOST YOUR TOWN BOOST YOUR CLASS ELEVENTH GRAOE(J'JNIORS) VV..0 IS WHO IN MATTmWAN HIGH SENIORS I9?6 CO WEMTS ABNET JOHN AMEY WINNi FRED BAILEY FLORENCE BARBER DOROTHY BARBER RAYMOND BEATTIE KARRI 'LT B'JRSON VIRGINIA BUTLER ROY CRAWFORD IRENE DECKER GARNET DVORAK MARIE 0 I L NO HARVEY HISCOCK CARL JOHNSON ALICE KELLEYKdTHERINE KUCINICH WILLIAM LYNN WAYNE MCCALLUM KENNETH MOYLE RICHARD MOYLE NORMAN RLSSELL CLARI33E RUSSELL LAWRENCE STRATTON DONNA WEISS LORRAINE WASCO ALBENA WCOOHAMo IVAN ZAGAR EDWARD THE JUNIOR CL SS CF LaST YEAR .. HAS BEEN AUGMENTED BY SEVERAL NEW ST •'! 0K3 THIS F .LI_COMING FkCM CliTERRI TCr: . THESE NEW STUDENTS VE WELCOME � ’03T HEARTEj-L . WE HOPE YOU LIKE U3 AND OUR M NEW FINE SCHOOL SET UP. WE WANT YOU TO BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH US ..MORE AND MORE. ALL SENIORS ARE URGED TO GET RIGHT INTO THE HARNESS AND MAKE A SUCCESS OF THIS FIRST PARTY. !- . YOUR FRIENDS COME.. THEY WILL hAVC A GOOD TIME. SENIORS DID YOU NOTICE HOW MUCH WORK THE FACULTY MEMBERS HAVE DONE ON THE LIBRARY...MAKING IT MORE USABLE... WEATHER WHEEZE---ON WITH I 938. DO YQU KNOW THATTHE FOLLOWING DISTRICT SCHGOLS SEND STUDENTS.. BUCKOLT SLACK HURD OSHTEMO VILLAGE GARRISON CCL COLEMAN PALMER ALMENA MOURE SOLOMON RICHMOND TEXAS I ALFORD 01 ST. TEXAS CORNERS DUNHAM MUNSON mattawan. A PROGRESS IVE SCHOOL RI X CLARK KINNEY STUART DA VI 3 BROWN JUG BURSON PLEASANT VALLEY O iK GROVE FINE ISLAND MILLERS STATION TWENTY SEVEN DISTRICTS IN ALL SEND STUDENTS HERE-BE3IDES THOSE IN OUR OWN CONSOLIDATION. SOME OF THESE SCHOOLS HAVE CLOSED A GRADE CR MORE GRADES..SOME HAVE CLOSED THE ENTIRE SCHOOL. Ai_L ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR WELL EQUIPPED transportation SYSTEM. WE ARE NOW RUNNING 8 BUSSES INTO THE MATTAWAN CONSOLIDATION. CUR SCHOOL DISTRICT EXTENDS INTO ANTWERP TP, PRAIRIE RCNCE TP. AND TEXmS TP, AMD ’‘AN'' OF OLR STUDENTS CO E FROM C5HTE- 0 TP., A L MENA TP,. N D A L r MO TP, HIGH SCHOOL 0LLMENT REACH£S- ' ___— IT W o GENERAL' AScUi'L'U th ,T ' HON T-C MC'Mbc Rf Hi F IN THE HIGH SCHOOL I KCRSAjEQ 67 PER CEN'r CUi� � NG THE FIRST YEAR AFTER THE EREC'CN OF THE MEW BUILDING. THAT THE END CEr. « Ni.x H-’.D CJ.viE. . • BUT i N THIS. THE SECOND YEAR OF THE USE OF THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING. THE INCREASE HAS BEEN AS GREAT AGAIN. THERE H S ALSO BEEN A CONSIDERABLE INCREASE IN THE GRADES AS WELL. MAKING A GRAND TCTAl FAR EXCEEDING ANY FAST ENROLL- MENT AT MATTAWAN. THE FOLLOWING DATA WAS SECURED FROM PAST RECORDS.... YEAR OF TOTAL ENROLLMENT OF SCHOOL 1930 1933 1934 1939 1936 19-7 THE FOLLOW.MG FIGURES SHOW 2b4 2 72 2 75 2 77 282 299 358 NEW SCHOOL OFEM3(INCR.59 430 ADDED INCREASE OF 92 THE GROWTH IN HIGH SCHOOL. SEPT JUNE SEPT .1923... 1924.. • 1925.. • 1926.. . I927. , . 1928.. . I92Q... 1930'•• !93 • 1932-.. • j 3 • , • 934 • I 9' R ° . I93U..• • 937 I 10 lOI 81 8 84 S3 ■ 10 .07 I 23 143 II I 937 — 278 ENROLLMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL (7 TO 12!) THESE FIGURES ARE INDICATIVE OF THE RAPiD STRIDES THE MATT A ,7 N HIGH SCHOOL IS TAKING, AN ENTIRELY NEW F REPROOF BUILDING .MODERN IN EVERY RESPECT, TOGETHER WITH THE 1,‘AMV ADDED FACILITIES OFFERS' TC THE STUDENTS...iS THE REAL CAUSE OF SUCI A RAPID GROWTH IN O'JR enrollment, 27 CirFER£v'' DISTRICT SCHOOLS NOV SEND STUDENTS HERE TC MATTA AN. CGM'E Clr L fPARTMENT THf TYPING DEPa T NT Or ' aTTAWAN high ?C- lOL H 5 ADDED Fl E ME-; T REWRITE S TilS F LL. DUS T. THE INTEREST ANIFE-'TED in This F Y PRACTIC L SUE 'EOT. THE iFGINf.INO iIbD',;TS HAVE JUST COVE ED ALL Ti-r LrjTE. ON THE s'EYBCXr, j AND ARE NOW_____ ' CAKING TOWARD UJ'SNCY AND THE PERFECTION OF TECH’ ! • -TYPEWRiTERS 'ILL BE. AVAILABLE Tu STUDENTS FOR j3E DURING THEIR STUDY HOURS FOR MAKE-UP WORK AND ALSO OcTJIQE ‘CRK. THE AC V NCcO TYPING CLASS RECC NTLY COMPLETED TYPING A NUMBER OF LETTERS FOR THE CU1” ERCIAL CLUB OF 1 ATT A 1 HICK I 5 SPONSORING MINSTREL SHOW FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20. thESc LETTERS Gave the advanced typing clas: their first real tast of office PRACTICE AND GAVE THE STUDENTS A CHANCE TO DEMONSTRATE THE I P EFFICIENCY. ON A TEN MINUTE TrST GiV N RECENTLY ONE AOVANCFO STUDENT -'EACHED A SPEED OF E? 0RD3 A f I MUTE WITH O LY E CR ORS. THE SHORTHAND DEPA-.T 'EV7 TH.'S YEAR H-o TAKrN AN0THER STEP FORWARD IN GIVING ITS STUDENTS THE LATEST AND OET MODERN METHOD OF TEACHING SHORTHAND, a METHOD '“HICH IS NU’V USED IN ALL THE Larger HIGH SChOOLS THROUGHOUT THE ST TE INCLUDING DETROIT. THE NEW TEXT ,,,HICH I w BEING USED FOR THE FIRST THE THIS YEAR IS CALLED GREGG SHORTHAND 3Y THE FUNCTIONAL 'ETHOD , BY LCLIS a « LESLIE. jY THIS .'ETHOD „ STUDENT F| ST SECURES A THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF READING THE SHORTHAND CHARACTERS AND THEN APPLIES THIS READING KNOWLED DIRECTLY TO THE ' PI TING OF 5HO THANO. 3Y THIS METHOD A PERSON CAN WRITE FASTER IN A SHORTER TIME. THE JUNIOR BUSINESS CLASSES ARE FILLED TO CAPACITY. ; ANY STUDENTS ARE USING THIS COURSE AS A FOUNDATION FCn A COMi'cRClAL COURSE, 3EC;u5E THE COMMERCIAL FIELD OF-ERS Nl ER0U3 OPPORTUNITIES. •athematics department IMF MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT CFPESS 31 YE A' 3 OF R1' GULAR HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL VATHE,jA7 IC S AS WELL AS SEVENTH AND EIGHT GRADC STUDY OF THE BASIC OPERATIONS OF Ah|THEmETIC. IN THE HIGH SCHOuL DEPARTMENT A STUDENT MAY TAKE I YEARS CF ALGEBRA AND ONE YEAR OF PLANE GEOMETRY AS WELL AS TRIGONOMETRY aNS S-LID GEOMETRY IN THE AOVANC-Q MATHEMATICS CLASS THIRD SEMESTf ALGEBRA IS TAUGHT EACH FALL. THIS YEAR THE EMPHASIS IS ON LEART ! fJG TO USE EFFECTIVELY THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF ALGF3RA AS PREPARATION -FOR THE STUDY OF TRIGONOMETRY IN THE SPRING SEMESTER. NEXT YEAR THE SECOND SEMESTER WILL Be DEVOTED TO A STUDY OF St LICT GEOMETRY. AFTER THAT ADVANCED ALGEBRA WILL 8E OFFERED EVERY FALL AND'TRIGONOMETRY AND SOLID GEOMETRY WILL BE ALTERNATED IN THE SPRING. THE PLANE GEv ’ETRY CLASS HAS SPENT THE FIF.3T FEW WEEKS OF SCHOOL IN BECOMING FAMILIAR WITH THE LANGUAGE AND FORMS OF GEOMETRY. THIS WEEK THE CLASS IS BEGINNING TO PROVE FUNDAMENTAL GEOMETRIC PRINCIPALS. EACH STUDENT IS THUS DISCOVERING FOR HU-SELF THE SAME CONCEPTS THAT THE FIRST GEOMETERS DID THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. THE FRESHMAN ALGEBRA CLASSES ARE LEARNING HOW TO SET UP AND SOLVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF EQUATIONS WITH ONE UNKNOWN. THE EIGHT GRADE HAS JUST COMPLETED A UNIT DEALING WITH PROBLEMS OF LOCAL. STATE AND NATIONAL TAXATION FRCGRA '5. THE SEVENTH GRACE IS WORKING ON PER CENT PROBLEMS. 3EVERAL CAYS A'.o SOME VFRY ATTRACTIVE AMD ACCURATE WG'K WAG DONE BY THE 3 STUDENTS IN COLORING CERTAIN PREDETER’'I ME 0 PERCENTAGES Oe SQUARES AND CIRCLES. THIS KIND CF PRG3LFM3 HELPS MAKE THE IDEAS Oc DIFFERENT PERCENT VALUES CONCRETE FOR THE PUP IL. AGRICULTURE IN MATTAWAN HIGH SCHOOL THE MATTAW..N HIGH SCHOOL IS ORGANIZED UNDER THE SMITH HUGHES ' FEDERAL LAW A3 REGARDS .'.GRI CULTURE AND HCME ECONOMICS- IN AGRICULTURE BIOLOGY, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY mND POULTRY CLASSES ARE $:� BEING T'.UGHT THIS SCHOOL YEAR. IN THE 31 uLOGY THE CLASSES HAVE BEEN DEVOTING THEIR TIME TO THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS. MOSTLY... HOW LIVING THINGS OBTAIN THEIR FOOD. THE VARIOUS METHODS 3Y WHICH AN I HALS SECURE THEIR FOOD. | 'PORTENT CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STRUCTURE OF VAN ANO OF THE LOWER FORT'S OF ANIMALS. HO” VARIOUS ORGANS ARE ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO THE GETTING OF FOOD. HOW PLANTS 03TAIM THEIR FOOD REQUIREMENTS. the manufacture of f.oos from raw materials by the plant. THE ELEMENTS WHICH ‘'AKE UP PROTEINS. FATS. CAR30HYDRATES. HOW LIVING THINGS USE THEIR FOOD. THE CHARACTERISTICS POSSESSED 3Y ANIMALS AND PLANTS BUT NOT HELD BY NON LIVING TH|”GS. SOME OF THE FACTORS THAT DETER”I ME THE KINDS OF FOOD NEEDED. A CONSIDERABLE STUDY OF THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF FOODS. THE CLASS IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY HAVE SPENT MC3T OF THEIR TIME FOR THE FIRST MONTH ON THE VARIOUS TYPES AND BREEDS OF CATTLE, EMPHASIZING ThE DAIRY TYPE. A RATHER COMPLETE STUDY OF THE.VARIOUS BREEDS OF DAIRY CATTLE HAS 3EEN MhDE. TOGETHER WITH COMPARISONS OF THE RELATIVE 'FRITS OF THE BREEDS. THE CLASS HAS «LSO SPENT CONSIDERABLE TIME 3C FAR IN LEARNING TO BALANCE RATIONS FOR A DAIRY COW, TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE EIGHT OF THE COW, AS WELL AS THE AMOUNT AMD THE BUTTER FmT TEST OF THE MILK,--------TO DETERMINE JUST WHAT AMOUNT OF FEEL SHOULD BE GIVEN TO MAINTAIN THE ANIMAL BODILY. AS WELL AS TO PROVIDE THE EXPECTED MILK SUPPLY OF THE RECUIREO TEST. THE CLASS IN POULTRY HUSBANDRY HAVE TAKEN UP THE VARIOUS TYPES CF POULTRY, TOGETHER WITH THE VARIOUS BRCFJS OF EACH TYPE. WITH CONSIDERABLE STUDY ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 3IRDS OF THE THREE MAIM TYPES. CONSIDERABLE TI'E HAS ALSO BEEN PUT ON THE ORIGIN ANO DEVELOPMENT OF THE-F BREEDS FROM THE ORIGINAL JUNGLE FOWL OF ASIA AND MALAY PENINSULA. THE CLASS aT THE PRESENT WRITING ARE MAKING A STOGY OF THE CULLING PROCESS, AND THE RELATIVE MERITS CF T'-F HOGAN TEST AMD THE POTTER TEST TO DETERMINE WHICH 31 RuS' I GHT BE PRCFITABLE LAYERS,----HAVE RECEIVED SOME ATTENTION, SUPERVISED PROJECTS BY 30Y3. DURING THE PAST SU,,: ER A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER CF BOYS TOOK UP SUMMER PROJECTS UNDER THE SUPERVISION CF MR. COTTER. AGRICULTURE INSTRUCTOR. THESE WILL BE LISTED NOW AMD TFE RESULTS CF THEIR PROJECTS GIVEN LATER CN IN THr YEAR. EARL HOCDEMAKER...CRCHaRO......JACK BELL----CLOBBERS JOSEPH PI PEAR----BEANS .......SIDNEY BRYANT CUCUMBERS HENRY A ME Y -----CUCUMBERS. .. W?,1. GREGURI CH— -ON IONS TONY DELACH ------CUCL”BERS...CHARLES DRAKE CORN HERBERT JEFFRI ES—BEES ...GILES WRIGHT— DRAPES PHILLIP HANNA R---TURKEYS ...DONALD PHELPS,-.. POTATOES KENSIL Cl DO I NGS---CUCU‘‘3ERS.. .JOHN P03UDA__CUCUMBERS girls sports ERMA REINOEHL HELEN BECKER JUNE WELCH ERMA WOOD MARIAN LULL FRANCES GRGURICH LABERTA HE ID JACQUELINE BUCK HELEN GCAfcil.£K_ JEAN -ULLER OENA GROVER PAUL I NE MYE IS CONSTANCE POWERS LEONA MANN OORCTHY BAR3ER EVELYN KGWALCZYK VIRGINIA BU1SCN EL IZABETH VAN MAAREN VEr:A WILSON MAXINE PHILLIPS NORMA JEAN GLIQDEN RAMONA MURRAY JOYCE GJDJJNGS DIXft'HEPPINGER BETTY BARNES VERLADYN SAUNDERS BARBARA STRATTON EDITH MAE FORSYTHE BOBBY BEATTIE HARRIET BEATTIE KATHRYN KELLY NO TEAM HAS BEEN SELECTED YET, BUT THE GIRLS ARE PRACTISING EVERY FREE MOMENT SO THAT THEY WILL BE AMONG THOSE PRESENT AFTER ELIMINATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE. THE SEVENTH AND EIGHT GRADE GIRLS ARE EXPERIMENTING WITH SOCCER BALL. THEY ARE DEVELOPING SKILL IN THE VARIOUS METHODS OF KICKING. BUT ARE MAINTAINING AM INTEREST IN BASKETBALL ALSO. THE OLDER GIRLS WHO ARE MOT COMPETING FOR A PLACE IN THE BASKETBALL TEA . ARE NOW SPENDING THEIR TIME LEARNING THE VARIOUS TECHNIO ES OF SOCCER. LATER IN THE YEAR THEY ILL TAKE UP SEVERAL CONSTRUCTIVE FORMS OF ACROBATICS AND DANCING. FCCTB A!.l, - TH£ CLDES'l AfCRICAM SPCRT. HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN TriL v.ii’AwAN HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM Ofl OCTOBER 13 THE FIRST OFFICIAL PRACTICE WAS HELD. WITH THIRTY SIX BOYS TURNING OUT FOR PRACTICE THE WILDCATS PLAYED THEIR FIRST GAME OCTOBER 8 WITH GALESBURG. GALESBURG HAD NOT BEEN BEATEN IN T'VC YE RS BECAUSE OF A BAD CASE OF STAGE FRIGHT THE FIR-7 -’IF Ez . 1 LAME, GAI.ESB'JRGH SCORED THREE TOLCHOOV NS. V.-.' 5 - FIRST GAME THAT MANY OF THE MATTAWAN BOYS HAD EVER PLAYED IN JK SEEN. THE LAST HALF OF THE GAME THEY PLAYED GOOD ANO GALE38URG DID NOT SCORE. THE FOLLOWING BOSS ARE OUT FOR FOOTBALL. JOHN KELLY JOHN AMEY HARVEY DILNC HERBERT JEFFERIES STAN Ml CHI EL OON MC CALLUM CHARLES MC NEAL FRANK FRENCH LLOYD MAXWELL JOHN PCBUDA DONALD RYAN LYLE FATTEN DICK MOYLE MAX 3URS0N GEORGS RUZICH JOHN ABNET KENNETH CHAMPION------T-—,, EDWARD ZAGAR r ALBERT ALLMAN EMI EL GEISSEL LEROY Ml CHI EL CHARLES DRAKE WALTER DVORAK EARL FG'OMAKER i HE RIVALRY CF I [ATHLETICS THE GRIT OF YOUTHj :SEEKS AN EXPRESSION CF ITS i 'VIGOR. THE PAGENTRY CF THEj CONTEST 13 HIS STIMULANT. THROUGH THE REOLISITICN3 OF ;SPCRT IS BUILT A MAN. I GEORGE “‘UB’JDA CHARLES RI X I VAN WOODHAM LAW.-.ENCE BURDICK JAMES DAVIS PHIL HANNAS KENNETH MC CALL'JM CARL HISCOCK WILDCATS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE CCTOBEF 8, OCTOBER 15, 0CT03ER 20. OCTOBER NOVEMBER 6, NOVEMBER 12, N0VEM3ER IS. GALE5BUR3H AT IAATTAWAN DECATUR AT OECAT'JR MARCELLU3 AT MARCEuLUS MENOON AT MENOON STATE HIGH RESERVES AT KALAMAZOO MARCELLU3 AT MATTAWAN STATE HIGH RESERVES AT MATTAWAN IF YCU WO LD LIKE tO SEE SOME REAL SPORT COME TO THE G.'.'ES ON NOVEMBER 12 AND NOVEMBER |Q AT MATTAV AM.