Riverside High School - Mercury Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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THE MERCURY Art Department The activities of the art department are many. The art students, under the direc- tion of Miss Skinner take care of the art work and cartoon work for the Mercury magazine and the Merc Annual. The scenery for the Junior-Senior play and the decorations for the prom are designed and painted by the art students. Posters for the various clubs and activities and slides advertising movies and matinee dances orig- inate in 313. The art faculty teaches everything from drawing to craft work, which includes leather tooling, batiks, and metal work. Drawing I and II are devoted to learn- ing the principles underlying drawing. Some of the problems are studies of color, principles of design, free hand drawing which includes nature study, object draw- ing, and art appreciation. The second year ' s study includes color, more advanced design (city planning), interior decoration, costume design, and free hand drawing. The third and fourth years are much the same except that the work is more special- ized and advanced. It is these advanced pupils who do most of the Mercury work. p,gi ;«■• . ,-

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THE MERCURY Mathematics Department The first year student meets a course in mathematics designed to appeal to him as worth while. He makes graphs, interprets them, and develops an understanding of this method of representing statistics. The essential principles of Algebra are involved and learned in connection with this ma- terial. Beside formal demonstrative Geometry, work in construction and measurement is given. Numerous direct applications have been found in many fields, such as survey- ing, carpentry design, architecture, and phy- sics. Out of doors, heights and distances are found by the direct application of nu- merous geometric principles, and the knowl- edge acquired in the class room is put to immediate use. In the more advanced Algebra and Trig- onometry, the use of the slide rule is learned, and the student going into engi- neering has this tool for rapid calculation at his command. The surveyor ' s transit is put in the hands of the Trigonometry stu- dent. Thus, the former purely theoretical course is made a practical one. V MIX HCWE HI IESF f A ■St MM WW - I § , i -f .... — Iv flEil i ' ■iHfc ' 1 5P5 wCmmmm «- A ' M If lit X.M fl U. MB 4jmmm 1 m- mm%tm Page I it atty-fii

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THE MERCURY Music Department Riverside is noted for its success in musi- cal activities. A great measure of the suc- cess is due to our musical directors, Miss Ellen Sargent and Mr. Schenk. The Riverside orchestra is state cham- pion. It will be interesting to note that Riverside will always remain sate cham- pions inasmuch as there will never be an- other state contset to determine our succes- ■pmww 1 Several members of the orchestra were chosen as members of the all-city high school orchestra. This organization was picked from the various orchestras of the city. The music appreciation classes of the school during the past semester have become familiar with the various instruments of a symphony orchestra and have studied the history and development of orchestral mu- sic. This study of the music masters is an interesting course to all music-lovers. The chorus studied Coleridge-Taylor ' s cantata, Hiawatha ' s Wedding-Feast. Riverside ' s orchestra was honored by being chosen to accompany this chorus of eight hundred voices which formed such a de- lightful part of the music festival. The band was especially prominent dur- ing the football season, when it played at the games. HI ACCENT Page Twenty-seven