River Rouge High School - Vigilant Yearbook (River Rouge, MI)

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INDUSTRIAL ARTS DEPARTMENT No matter how much the boys who are students in the Print-shop, Wood-shop, Machine-shop, or those who are students of Mechanical Drawing may grumble when it is a nice, warm spring day and they are sweltering in the heat of one of the various shops , they realize that they are very fortunate to receive such valuable training in high school. We regret to say that Mr. Owen Evans, head ot the department that administers this training, was absent for part of the second semester because of serious ill- ness, but he is back with us now, attending to his duties as Co-sponsor of the Senior Class. He also earned his Masters Degree at the University of Minne- sota last summer. Mr. Roger H. Carrington, Printing Instructor, who is Faculty Advisor for the Vigilant Annual, attended the National Scholastic Press Association at Indianapolis in November. Mr. Carrington also sponsors the Ma- roon Printers' Club and acts as Business Advisor for the Rouge Recorder and as R. S. A. Board representa- tive. He also completed his Masters Degree work at Wayne University. Mr. Harold T. Klaiss, one of our newer teachers, con- ducted work in leather and welding in his classes, while Mr. D. Vernon Feasel, Wood-shop Instructor, at- tended the Michigan Educational Society Convention. Mr. Leonard Westerdale continued as sponsor of the Maroon Falcons , and is the Mechanical Drawing In- structor. - ART DIVISION The beautiful paintings and drawings to be seen on the boards in Room 312 are the works of some of our more talented students, and have been created under the efficient supervision of Miss Antoinette Turney, Art Instructor, who reports that she has had some excellent work exhibited. SPEECH DIVISION Mr. Harold A. Dressel, speech teacher and Debate Coach, directed a speech experiment here two years ago which has received nation-wide attention, and an account has been published in the Quarterly Iour- nal of Speech, under the title, An Answer to the Ad- ministrator . This experiment proved the value of speech courses for training in English skills. Even though he was forced to spend much of his time with his fine debating team, Mr. Harold Dressel found time, also, to take graduate work in speech at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin, and to attend the National Speech Convention. Miss Lillian A. Tolhurst, also of the Speech division, during her first year of teaching here, was appointed State Chairman of the National Forensic League and has aided many students to become more efficient speakers through sponsoring the 'Rguers' Club. 1-1 SPECIAL AGENCIES Mr. David Lester, Director of Child Accounting and Placement, is ever busy curing students of spring fever and similar ailments. Mr. Lester is also active in the Community House projects. Miss Dorothy Niemann, School Secretary, besides continuing her secretarial training, attended the Con- vention of the National Association of School Secre- taries held at Cleveland, Ohio in February. Miss Iane Olive Hartsig, Head Librarian, in addition to fulfilling her numerous duties in the library, found time to attend educational conventions. She also helped Miss Iane Biddle, new librarian, to adjust her- self to our routine. Miss Biddle attended the Univer- sity of Michigan. Miss Louise Kitscher, School Nurse, attended quite a few meetings throughout the year, among them, the Convention of the Michigan Society for Crippled Chil- dren and the Annual Meeting of the Michigan State Nurses' Association. With these fine persons com- prising it, the special agency department surely ful- fills its purpose. PAUL RANDALL LILLIAN TOLHURST C. E. HORTON MARY JOHNSON D. VERNON FEASEL Social Science Speech English Mathematics Industrial Arts HAROLD KLAISS EDNA FOX ROGER V. HANNON JANE OLIVE I-IARTSIG JANE BIDDLE Industrial Arts English English Head Librarian Assistant Librarian

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1 GEORGE SHAWLEY CLEO SHELLENBERGER ANNA D. STINSON JOS. M. STOLLMEISTER JOHN H. STRANDBERG Commercial Latin Home Economics Science Science, Head RICHARD THOMPSON ANTOINETTE TURNEY ROSALIE W. ULLMAN DANIEL I. WEBB WARREN H. WEBB Science Fine Arts English, Head Science Social Science MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT The Mathematics Department is always do- ing its best to give our students good heads for figures. The department is headed by Miss Helen Wheater, who is a co-sponsor of the Sophomore Class and is in charge of Mental Testing and the management of the River Rouge Teachers' Credit Union. Miss Edna Youngs, also of the mathematics department, attended a P. E. A. meeting in February and also participated in other facul- ty activities. Another member of our mathe- matics department is Miss Edith Randall, who teaches junior high school students that figures don't lie, and last summer attended Wayne University. The past year also brought to our school another mathematics teacher, Miss Mary johnson, who is a graduate of the Uni- versity of Michigan. Mr. james McDonald, who minds his p's and q's, is also Assistant Athletic Director and ably coaches the track and reserve football teams, as their fine records show. Mr. Benjamin E. Goodell is another mathematics teacher who is interested in athletics. He is coach of both swimming teams, and is Chairman of the ln- terscholastic Swimming Association, as well as being a co-sponsor ot the National Honor So- ciety. Mr. George E. Cooper has been doing tine work with the teams he coaches, but even though he has spent much time instructing basketball and baseball aspirants in the finer points of the game, Mr. Cooper has published a book called The Road to Health , and worked on a group plan ol teaching. With these fine teachers, we feel that the teaching of mathematics is in good hands. 16 Miss Rosalie Ullman, who capably heads our English department is ever busy and experi- menting with new methods ot teaching. Throughout the past year, Miss Ullman has sponsored several peace contests. Among them were How Best to Keep America Out of War . She had some very fine essays. Mr. C. E. Horton of the English department is a versatile man. Besides his English work, he teaches dramatics and directs the school plays. He is sponsor of the Thespian and the Hi-Y Clubs. Miss Eunice M. Brake, like Miss Ullman, di- rects contests on essays, and she also attended the National English Teachers' Convention. Miss Brake is also co-sponsor of the Iunior Class. Mr. Roger Hannon teaches journalism, as well as English. Throughout the past year he has sponsored three contests of the Quill and Scroll Society and a contest for short Christmas stories. Miss Anne Parks, another member of our English department, attended the University of Montana last summer. She is also a co- sponsor of the Freshman Class. Miss Irene Campbell, also of the English de- partment, although engaging in no special ac- tivities, had a very full year, while Miss Edna Fox, besides her English work, sponsored the Young Writers' Club and is extremely proud of her promising young authors. We know that these teachers are able guards of the King's English.

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CLASS PRESIDENTS 1 DOROTHY MQHANEY ROBERT RILEY WILLIAM HONOUR ARTHUR KAMINSKI -s.:4fFxi'eshman V1.3 Sophomore Junior Senior Some are sharp but few are flat , We've CI variety of lcxds cmd losses, Now the Seniors you're going to see- And cdso, the other classes.