Muskegon Heights High School - Oaks Yearbook (Muskegon Heights, MI)

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Can't You Read Between The Lines ? ENGLISH DEPARTMENT A clear understanding of English is necessary in all learning. Three years is compulsory tor all students: tour years is highly recommended. English is the study of grammar, spelling, lang- uage, rhetoric, and literature. Literature has broad aims and purposes for inspiration. cultivation of the senses, and accumulation of facts on liie itself, It is a record ot humanity's thoughts and feelings. It sets an ideal. Fourth year students have cr choice of English literature. advanced grammar, and journalism. Iournalism is the study oi news and its place in society and government. MISS IULIA A. SPRAGUE. A.B.. M.A, Chairman, English Language and Literature Department ' Michigan State Normal College University of Michigan IAMES V. COBB, A.B.. M.A. English and Photography Camera Club Advisor Westem Michigan College of Education University ot Michigan MISS CHARLOTTE WETTEROTH. A.B. English Play Production MacMurray College tlllinoisl W S . W. E. MURRAY. A.B.. M.A. English and Journalism Advisor of Publications University oi Michigan MISS IULIA A. ROYSE. I-LB. Chairman, Speech Department Co-coach Debate, Dramatics Morningside College Northwestern University DePauw University University oi Wisconsin University oi Minnesota MRS. WILLIAM WILSON, A.B. English University of Michigan Page Th irleen

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Concertmaster C. F. BOLT We of the Graduating Class of 1949 wish to express our gratitude to Mr. C. F. Bolt, our principal, for his understanding and considerate efforts during our entire school days in senior high. Mr. Bolt this Iune has completed his twenty-eighth year as head of this high school. He was here when it Was built in 1921. Mr. Bolt is not a native son of Muskegon Heights, however. Born in Grand Haven, he was graduated by Grand Haven High school and the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin. He was principal of the high school in Bismarck, N. D., before coming to Muskegon Heights. Mr. Bo1t's office is not elaborate, but it has served a good purpose. Those who have sat across from him have generally left the office with a lighter heart and a brighter outlook than they had when they entered. He discusses with the students everything from credits in class to family problems . All graduates from 1922 until 1949 declare him to be a swel1 guy.

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Stars and Stripes Forever IAMES W. VERDUIN, A.B.. M.A. Social Sciences Student Council Advisor Westem Michigan College of Education University of Wisconsin E. W. GILLASPY. B.B. Speech and History Assistant Faculty Athletic Manager Co-coach of Debate and Dramatics Westem Michigan College of Education DELMAR FIRME. A.B. History Football Coach Junior Class Advisor Western Michigan College oi Education Page Fourteen HISTORY DEPARTMENT Our school offers courses in general history and in American history. Each is a study of the records of man's achievements, past and present. The purposes are manifold, but uppermost is the aim of teaching students how to avoid the pitfalls and mistakes of the past, in the future. American history gives all students a back- ground ior good citizenship. It is therefore one of the required subjects in high school. Coupled with Senior Civics, American history is intended to make good Americans. World history helps us to become good citizens of the world-an im- portant idea in these days of speed and atomic energy. DAVID R. MC KENZIE. LB History Football and Track Coach Central Michigan College of Education H. A. KRUIZENGA. A.B.. M.A. Latin and History Faculty Athletic Manager Hope College University of Michigan MISS RUTH L. ERIKSON. B.S. History and English Michigan State Normal College