Northern Arizona State Teachers College - La Cuesta Yearbook (Flagstaff, AZ)

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LA CUESTA 1930 119011 er Teams of t e Past A glimpse of those wonder teams of the past. May these pictures bring back a fond recol- lection of those good old days, memories of , dear associations and team comradeship that will live always with you, Alumni. Personnel of Team 119153 Grantham, Cararra, Bea- ton, Shumway, Pulliam, Jensen, Rickel, Santil- lanes, Williams, White, Brimhall, Mascot Dizz Hanley. George Gran- tham fsecond from topb now playing' second base with Pittsburgh Pirates. Personnel of Team 119163: Yost, Bongberg, Prather, Brinkerhoff Wyrick, White, Beaton, Brandt, George, Francis, Williams, Treat, Sykes Smith, Marshall, Santillanes, Moore, Lowry, Aubineau. One Huimrcd Sixty-one

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LA CUESTA 1930 THE GHOST OF DEATH'S HEAD CROSSING It was just a year ago to the hour that the tragedy had occurred, the same train, the same crew, and Death's Head Crossing just ahead, Where the old farmer, tied to the tracks met his fate in the form of the monster locomotive. We were approaching Death's Head at the rate of fifty miles an hour. Big Jim was firing again and as I looked at him his face grew pale. Not understanding why, I questioned him. He replied, Hank, this train can't make the crossing tonight. The old farmer will be waiting to wreck it. I paid no attention to him, but turned to blow the whistle for the crossing. When I turned again, Big Jim, wild-eyed and white with fear, was tugging at the throttle. One heave and the train shot ahead, roaring with the sudden pressure in her cylinders. Death's Head curve was not more than five hundred yards distant and to make the curve at this speed meant sudden death. I sprang to the throttle and applied the air brakes. Big Jim did not interfere, but stared out the Window. After setting the brakes, I turned around just in time to see Big Jim fall to the floor of the cab, crying as he fell, Hank, he's waiting for me. With wonder I looked out the cab window but saw nothing more than an old, snow-covered, property-line post. Big Jim lay upon the floor dead. -L. B. INTRAMURALS Intramural sports played an important part in the school athletics this year. Prominent among the competing teams were the Sigma Alpha, the physical education fraternity squad, who won the honors during the first quarter by winning the volley ball tournament. During the winter quarter, the A Men took the basketball honors and took possession of the intramural trophy for the winter quarter. Sev- eral teams competed in the cage tourney and more than twenty games were played. . Thomas, graduating senior, was chosen captain of the mythical all- intramural basketball squad. Several of the faculty team, runners-up, were placed on the first team. - Baseball, golf, volley ball and tennis were listed as the intramural sports for the spring quarter. Women's intramurals have played a large and interesting part of the campus activities throughout the school year. Major sports including hockey, tennis, and in-door baseball, and minor sports such as archery, schlag ball, volley ball, horseshoe throwing and soccer were offered. Practically every girl in school participated in one or more of the sports. The efficient leadership and management of all women's athletics is due to their director, Miss Lora Maxwell. Onc Hundred Sixty

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LA CUESTA 1930 THE COLLEGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL The College Elementary School feeling the responsibility of being, as Dr. Gammage says, the heart of A. S. T. C., has taken on new energy in 1929-30 under the practical leadership of Dr. Repp. There has been a unification in the physical management of the schoolg all records have been brought up to date and made available for daily use and study. Dr. Repp has been approachable on every matter of procedure and policy as to pupil enrollment and student faculty assign- ment. The children, students, and college supervisors have been enlisted in the campaign to permit in the classroom only children of normal minds and bodies, keenly alert and growing. Intelligence tests have been given to all children and their results have been carefully studied. With such objects for their laboratory work, concentration on the child's growth becomes the test of a student's power to teach. To secure objective data as to the educational status of pupils in the school, Stan- ford Achievement Tests have been given to all grades above the first at midyear. Standardized tests are used as teaching devices and Work sheets have been evolved by student teachers and supervisors to assist the learn- ing process and to aid the child in a growing independence in his studies. Classes have been reorganized to fit anticipated state situations. Subject matter supervision in the upper grades has taken the place of former single grade supervision so that the student may recognize the changing methods of approach from grade to grade. The problem of managing a study class at the same time a class is in recitation has been presented to the student by the new adjustment. The students have taken over the social responsibility of calling at the homes of their pupils. The Parent-Teacher organization has been reorganized and strengthened. Much care has been taken to give the pupils of the College Elementary School the best of possible training teachers. The laboratory students of the teaching profession in College Elementary this year have been the senior or junior students of the college. This has given to the children of our Elementary School the stimulation of our best student teachers as they strive to demonstrate their fitness for the best teaching positions the state of Arizona offers. One Hundred Sixty-two