Riverside Brookfield High School - Rouser Yearbook (Riverside, IL)

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, HUWV ; 7 .gr ; . x . 4-:V5felefghti. 1.? ;j3:3qunge;?;?; $333 , lng?:.M-:A!t.:t--.';:' fg...A-m.,','T!'A;.AJ-'-.,14H M; 55; 3?in ?.,...y!.'., 3;: 1,5. , ii Commerce Department and 0mm: Staff As the head of the Commerce department, Ruth M. Cleary supervises the course in Office Practice and handles placement work for the graduating class. This year more graduates have been placed than during any other year. The I; work includes contacting business firms and handling calls f for workers. Miss Cleary received her BA. and her MA. 1 degrees at the University of Michigan and has done further work at New York and Northwestern Universities. 4qal-ww A .i Clarabel Barrick teaches shorthand and typing and is the E' LENKSAS sponsor of the Scribblers Club of the Commerce department. She received her B.E. degree at the Illinois State Normal University. H. W. Hoffman, teacher of Bookkeeping and Commercial Arithmetic, received his BA. degree at the University of Kan- i 505 and has done graduate work at the University of Chicago, is , Campbell College, and Springfield, Missouri, Normal School. 9' in He is sponsor of the Philatelist Club. Wilma Buchholz received her B.E. degree at Illinois State Normal University. She teaches classes in Business Train- ing, Vocational Typing, Personal Typing and Stenography. She is co-sponsor of the Riding Club and Sc'ribblers Club. Under the supervision of the Commerce department and Miss Cleary also fall the school bookstore and the keeping ll- of the Student Activity and cafeteria funds. Miss Elizabeth Lenksas, a graduate of Riverside-Brookfield High School, is bookkeeper and at the head of the clerical force of the book- 5 store. J. THOMPSON Tn -ve In the main office where school records are kept and filed, where school visitors are received, and a central switchboard is operated, arevtound Miss Ethel Curtis, Mrs. Jessie Thomp- son, and Mrs. Minette Mueller. Members of Miss Cleary's office practice classes receive practical experience from work in the office under the supervision of these women. Miss Curtis also servesvas secretary to the Board of Edu- cation and has charge of the keeping of the school's books. 5 She is also a member of the faculty, teaching in the Social ll: Science department. M. MUELLER Page Twenty-three'

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zVM 7 e. -- ,zv R. M. CLEARY H. W. HOFFMAN C. BARRICK W. BUCHHOLZ TOPeLEFT: Miss Cleory's office prac- tice class runs off 0 re- port on the ditto machine. TOPeRIGHT: The shorthand c I a s s , . , . , - works diligently under 5 , , ' h . e A Miss Barrick's supervision. y Rhgn' u Miss Buchholz admini- sters time tests to her vocational typing class. Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Mueller smile over an amusing bulletin. Miss Lenksas operates the adding machine In 1 the bookstore. Miss Curtis completes a report for the files. che TWEhfy-two The 1941 Rouser

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enior lass The senior class officers in a relaxed mood. ln picture left to right: Ge- nevieve Skilondz, vice-president; Irene Crowe, treasurer; David Aguilar, class president; Pauline Marsh, secretary. As seniors, we can now stand aside and survey the process by which we attained that status through four very eventful years that have been filled with many changes, a . s l both around us and within ourselves. There have been changes in attitudes, opin- q; i jl a .178 7 ho ions, views, and feelings; changes essential to eventual maturity; changes that every l l class that enters high school must experience. l l , , Drawing aside the curtain, we see ourselves as high school :freshmen, new and l A re Young green, learning how to study, possessed with a foolish social inferiority complex, and l pitifully young. So settled and positive about our views, too! Girls thought boys l were queer creatures ; boys thought girls were foolish little chatter-boxes minus 1 brains. No artificiality or affectation marred the horizon of a freshman for he was l wholeheartedly himself with'no attempt at compromise. Tolerance was unheard of! ; And then our sophomore year! A little less shyness, a little more sureness l ' l 3, i came with it. We felt ourselves one of the functioning cogs in a huge mechanism. :3? We went to some of our early dances and parties and began to give more attention to our personal appearance. This was the year when the girls attempted to glam- B! h ourize themselves according to the code of Hollywood. Outrageous hair dresses and notorious make-up characterized the feminine haltc of the class and uncombed hair plus a much too casual air, the masculine. Tolerance was still kept off in the- distance. And then the pride of being an upper-classmanl With a seat in the auditorium from which the stage could actually be seen and the speaker sometimes heard, we faced a different world! Our importance in the mechanism had increased and we now not only belonged to the school, but were the school. Our mental horizons be- gan to broaden, and our sudden discovery that we had minds and could use them astounded us as much as it amused others. e A friendly attitude, a neat appropriate appearance, a new enthusiasm for study, an eagerness to please Personlfled the junior! e Looming up from the darkness of obscurity came the desire to stabilize ' our personalities and to know ourselves and others. t And now we are seniors, ambitious, waiting impatiently to be tried, and hungry I' for life's happiness! Gradually we have slipped into a wider vision of life. We have radical tendencies and our OWn ideas on how the world's most ancient Orld approved institutions should be changed, but fortunately we still see that we do Cl know all though our actions often give the impression we think we do- We have done with the necessary preliminaries and the Gate of gaily in the blossoms of Future, stands open before us with promising W and hope above its door! in Life, decked ords of cheer Page Twenty-four The 1941 Rouser