Patrick Henry High School - Orator Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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U v (o Lt‘sirn To II« ««! To H’rHo To S H‘nk To IJ. ilikii Tin Library Patrick Henry's library, serving both unior and Senior High Schools, oilers ten thousand volumes for student and teacher use. The library subscribes to sixty-five magazines. It counts its annual circulation at approximately four thousand. Mis Cora Belisle Librarian Mi » Marguerite Gripne Assistant Librarian Believing with Mark Twain that “the difference between the right word anti the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, Ronnie Larson find the king-size dictionary in Henry's library of infinite saluc in searching for “lightning” words. Student library assistant give valuable service in checking out book ami in trailing borrower delinquent in returning books charged to them. Pictured at the left, standing: Patsy Miller, Mary Barstow, Helen Weber, Rolcne Reitz, Meredyth McMahon: seated: Adell Egnell, Nancy Christo pher, Yvonne Rummers, Mary Ann Sandstrom. Not pictured: Marvel Manning. 18

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Shop Skill Patrick Henry’s woodworking shop, under the direction of Vern Wobig, i% the only one among Minneapolis high school woodworking shops in which a hoy receives the technical instruction enabling him to build a boat. Here Kenny Peterson, second from left, proudly displays his partly completed craft to Wayne Modeen, Tom Johnston, and Vernon Stewart. Henry’s print shop trains boys in the trade of their choice. They put their training to test in the printing of dodgers and posters, advertising contracts and forms, of banquet and play programs, of Cumulative Reading Record Cards and other items necessary to the functioning of a smoothly operating school. Pictured arc Harry McDaniel, William Modeen, James McKcvitt, Kenneth S abla, and Robert Iverson. Lower left: Many boys enroll in the Machine Shop and Metals classes to learn the operation of precision machinery ami prepare themselves for jobs in private industry. Pictured arc Jack Sandberg and Tom Lipinski engaged in precision-grinding .1 lathe center with a tool post grinder. Lower right: More than two hundred students arc registered in Senior Drawing classes where they learn the techniques of drafting ami mechanical drawing. Pictured are Betty Johnson, Neal Nelson, and John Kurvers inspecting Jim Roop’s drawing of a breech block. Vern Wobig Woodwork Paul Smith Mechanical Drawing. Woodwork Joe Mullcry Metals, Machine Shop Gilbert Hardy Printing, Drafting James Erickson Mechanical Drawing, Electricity

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Fnglisli mill Foreign Language Mn. F.maly Anderson English Miss Minnie Hanson English and German Mn. Marion Boquist English .uni Latin Mn. Ellen Britziu English Miss Gladys Hobbs Miss Jane Slyer English English and Spanish Other English Teachers: Prank EngdahI pictured with Drama: Carl Huerschgen, with Debate:. Clara Selson with the Orator. Ich lirbe dich! Yo le atno. Qui me amat, amat cl canem meam. To students of German. Spanish, or l itin, these phrases voice dif-ferent thoughts on the world's most (sopular topic: the tenth word in a telegram: the word thjt rhymes with dove”; the feeling that makes all the world go round with such a funny expression; the feeling which finds voice in that one little worth L-o-v-e. Pictured at the right arc Harlene Hawkins as a German Midchrn: Dean Carlson ami Barbara Swenson as a Spanish Scnor and Seno-rita. and Marjorie Knapp as a Roman matron. •I love you. I love you. If you love anyone, you will like all that belongs to him. Knowing that words wisely chosen can touch the hearts and sway the actions of men, students of English, work to understand the meaning ami to feel the power of words. . . To clarify thru style of expression, they study grammar, ami discover that, in the words of the | opular novelist Somerset Maugham, English is a very difficult language to write. Its grammar is so complicated that even the best writers often make gross mistakes. . . Students look beyond the goal of mere correctness. They try to make thru writing both concise ami precise, both vigorous and charming. Since there can be no good writing without good reading, they read not only the classics, but magazines publisher! just for them, such as Literary Cavalcade ami Senior Scholastic in which the class pictured at the left is absorbed.