Pontiac Senior High School - Quiver Yearbook (Pontiac, MI)

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Cos, Here I sit parching under a dryer after one of my dousings the pool The Quiver staff 1S quite used to seeing me drenched but I strike no note of sympathy in the heart of Steffek who advised me that my section is to be written by the end of the week The assignment gives me a renewed enthusiasm for I know that we are now at the end of a series of rearrangements, disarrangements and final arrangements required to lend a friendly informality to our '39 Quiver. The greatest difficulty in the compiling of the faculty division was the gathering together in one place, at one time, the 86 members Picture pulling a dripping Miss Sundling out of the blue depths or a paint engrossed Miss Davenport from the art room We were relieved of much prodding by Mr. Thors who obligingly assembled the camera-shy instructors in the library where we hastily seated the victims and snapped their photos against a background of sage volumes. Our next problem was that of identifying these numerous faces and except for fear of mixing the two Miss Carpenters, it was easily solved However the pictures having been glued and sent away on their background of white card board and are now returned in their final form so that all may visualize the completed product Now I was to proceed on a ngossip-getting campaignn inquiring of all the students land teachers tool the interest- ing bits they know about the faculty and to incorporate them the most lively comments so he was my first victim. Next one sunny March day I visited 902, Riker Building, where I questioned a cooperative Mr. Blackwood as to the affairs of the school board With that supply of information, in my old hunt and punch method I picked out the necessary number of words QI thoughtj My stooge interviewed Mr Harris and really scraped up a long list of events in his life even without the aid of a Who s Who in Michigan Thus with that last article written, my Quiver work was finished but was I surprised when back came all my compositions ingected with lengthy spots of red. To think I thought I was a Journalist' Well dear Cos I'm about to the end of my resources, and seeing that my wig is about dry I will tear home and concentrate on a rush book report and incidentally a chocolate cake Will mail this on the way-- Love, Qwme tifeakf, x Hi ll il in . ' ' so , ' I Mr. , ' up . . I 9 3 , ' Q , . . 3 . ' . 23 , , iii ' 5 , Q . W, I - - - El into a peppy QI hopej writeup. Mr. Covert seemed to produce f V 9 . 0 iii . . f ' , I 0 n . s n I ' ' ' . n E . . 7 . .' . Q . . Q , Q 55 I I 18

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1 Harold L. Blackwood, president of school board. SCHOOL BQARD yv .sf , Front row-Erwin O. Slater, W. A. Parker, loseph H. Moon, Harold L. Blackwood. Back row-Martin I. Cloonan, Dr. Frank A. Mercer, Louis H. Schimmel. ur fades fhese lzofd -- Twice a month these seven men gather together to discuss and shape a program for the betterment of the Pontiac School System. ln Iune the parents and property owners of Pontiac elect two new members to the group. Soon after, the revised board begins the fiscal year by holding a meeting to organize plans, to set dates for future meetings, and to elect officers. This year Mr. H. L. Blackwood, realtor, is president of the school board. During business hours he may be found in his office in the Biker Building of which Mr. I. H. Moon, another member, is manager. Mr. M. I. Cloonan, a third board member, maintains a pharmaceutical house on Saginaw Street. Dr. F. A. Mercer operates a medical clinic on Auburn Avenue. Attorney Slater practices law in the Pontiac Bank Building while Mr. W. Archie Parker is associated with Brown Brothers Store. Mr. S. H. Schimmel, as manager of a Bond Holders' Advisory Counsel in Detroit, is the seventh member of the board. The financing of the school system is the biggest problem facing the school board. The members are zealously attempting to keep the schools open for the full nine months so as not to penalize students. In order to do so, a strenuous campaign Was launched. As if the problem of providing minimum facilities was not enough for these seven men to tackle, the resignation of Superintendent Iames H. Harris caused an equally difficult problem of a successor. The board members feel that the overcrowded conditions of our schools must be remedied in the near future. The school population has more than doubled in the last lO years. ln addition one desire close to the hearts of these men is to extend the athletic program so as to include all sport enthusiasts. 20 .1 ' . sf-3.119 se. 11?- . ii 5 ' A .','f:'i' ' , 'Q