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

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Dear Kaye, Upon entering dear old P. H. S. in my sophomore year, I was herded into the auditorium along with three hundred other sophomores. Well, I was lost for a day or two, but finally we were divided into homerooms. In our respective homerooms we had time to get settled and organized before starting out on our high school career. In the first year our schedules were changed so that homeroom period was every day for half an hour. The second year our schedules were changed so that homeroom period was on Wednesday and Friday. It was from fifteen to thirty minutes long. The programs in the homerooms vary. Some have study periods while others plan programs and have business meetings. Outside of the school days, the homerooms plan picnics, hayrides, skating parties and at Christmas fill baskets for the poor. So you see, home room is a very enjoyable part of our school day. It also gives the teachers a chance to catch their breath, but they have to do this fast in order to read bulletin after bulletin. During homeroom period on Friday, ' the Student Union collections are taken, Quiver campaign speakers do their bit, tickets to assemblies are sold, and Tomahawks given out. On a day at the beginning of the semester, we select our homeroom officers - president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer. Those officers assist the teacher in checking roll, reading notices, and taking charge of the room when the teacher leaves. The president goes to the Student Council meetings and represents the homeroom on different issues concerning the betterment of the school. Some of these officers do so well in their duties that they hold office more than one semester. Another thing that holds the interest of the homerooms is the selling of tickets for the Varsity Hop, 10B Mixer, and other school dances. The homeroom selling the most tickets wins a box of candy. A big part of the high school year is taken up with the meeting of old friends and the making of new ones. Homeroom offers an opportunity to meet new friends more easily and to remember them longer. So in our yearbook this year, we, the staff, decided to put in all the homerooms. When you look back over this book years from now, you'll be able to say to your family that you were in a certain homeroom and show them the people whom you knew. Who knows, maybe some day one of those friends now in your present homeroom will become famous and then you can say, NI knew him when.n May you forge ahead, Kaye, with the rest of the expectants. Goodbye for now, a 26

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S e's keylzofed fha imc ers, my faddie ing of homes, Miss Allchin has a lovely old home in Weberville where she spends the summer with her sister. ln the way of pets Miss Lighterness has two vivacious spaniels. When not busy with them, she turns poet. Vfhat student on that civics excursion could forget Mr. Wargelin's appearance in court on his twins' birthday with a toy lawnmower under each arm? Who would suspect that Mr. Hetherington was a butcher on Saturday or mixed cement for foundations during the summer? Another gentleman, Mr. Keuthe, writes the histories of words. He must be a human dictionary. Miss Hubert-the 1938 Quiver was presented to her. Mr. Steffek's favorite recreation consists oi taking Mr. Dearing at ping pong. Miss VanArsdale is said to have flunked in geometry the present State Superintendent of Schools, Eugene Elliot. Mr. Line taught at Orchard Lake Seminary. He now checks accounts for the Pontiac Teachers Credit Union. Mr. Trimpe is a jack of all trades, but many people remember him as a mechanical drawing teacher at Eastern lunior High. Miss O'Hara and Miss Heitsch certainly get around the country. Miss O'Hara lived in 'VJashington, D. C., a year, has been out West, up the St. Lawrence, and in Florida. Miss Heitsch's biggest thrill came from a trip to Boston because it was the first one she herself financed. Since then she has visited the Vfest coast several times and made a tour of Europe. Mr. Harboldt spends vacation soiourns at the Hia' watha Club in the upper peninsula. l hear tell they turn indian and actually use bows and arrows. That true son of the soil tthat of Kalamazool, Mr, Russell, also acts as guide to the night scholars. As a fitting climax may l present to you our bayonet instructor Cduring the war, of coursel, Mr. Smith, who became so skilled in such combat that he never went over seas? Mr. Bacon is a good friend to have when your car breaks down. Since he is an ace mechanic and since he has a workshop in his home, you can easily under- stand why. Not to let the men have the last word, heres an in- jection about Miss Wyman, our new camera shy physical education teacher. She attends plays and concerts while the snow flies and is usually a camp counselor in the summer. ,if Q, , Office girls i Marguerite Houghton, Louise Savedge, Margaret Harrington. Front roweGeorge Clark, -apprentice coordin- ator, Theodore Wrersema, brologyg Raymond Graff, Smith-Hughes-machine shop. Second row-Harvey Norris, gym: Gustave Bartels, gym, Herman Otto, Smith-Hughes metal shop. Front row-Harold Harboldt, Smith-Hughes, pattern shop, drafting, Edward Eva, Snixth- Hughes - draftrngp Rodney Bacon, Smith - Hughes-automotive shcp. Second row-Everett Bussell, head of vocation- al depcrrtment, Arnold Kolden, Srrrrtli-Hughes drafting-shop drawrngfpattern shop, Adrian Trimpe, CIlT131'GIlllC'? subiectsg Larnion Smith, Snr1th-Hughes-printing.

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