Riverside High School - Mercury Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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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

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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 Science Department Riverside students who take science may rightly be proud. We are told that no school has better equipment, and the students concede that neither has any school a better corps of science teachers. In the first year, while the student ab- sorbs general science, he has no extra lab- oratory periods. He learns a little about all the sciences, which knowledge will help him understand the life about him. If not discouraged, he will next year stu- dy objects such as frogs and flowers, in short, all life. After accumulating this knowledge, he tackles chemistry, which is the science treat- ing of changes, disintegration, and combina- tions of different kinds of matter. Later the senior must push this informa- tion further back in his brain to enable him to find room for the vast scope of physics. This field is so wide that it is hard to define further than to say that it explains the forces and forms of energy. It is through the perception and under- standing of its principles that the marvelous inventions of our present day are possible. Although science is as old as the human race, its scope has been enormously extended within very recent years. i.. ! n ,u i -eight