Riverside High School - Mercury Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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MODERN FOREIGN LAN' GUAGES Mrs. Steiner Miss Walker Miss Juneau Miss Kleist Mr. Siegmeyer Miss Keller 1,-,ir LATIN, MUSIC, PHYSICAL TRAINING Mr. Ball Miss Pail CLibrarianj Mr. Heselton Miss Baxter Miss Royt Miss Vallier the work gives them valuable training. The Music Department has long had the reputation of he' ing one of the iinest in the city. The Science Department also offers good equipment, well trained teachers, and a course consisting of general science, biology, chemistry, and physics. The Manu' al Arts Department has three departments in which students are taught how to use their hands, the woodworking and metal shop, the cooking laboratory, and the sewing room. Tfhe Physical Training Department, especially in the boy's division, has become famous throughout the city. A comparison of this curriculum with the one followed by the Latin Grammar Schools and col' onial grammar schools should make us glad that the good old days , three hundred years ago, are over and that modern schools have replaced them. Fifteen

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HISTORY Mr. Hafey Mr. Ashford Mr. Procknow Miss Dresden Mr. Hathaway Miss De Marsh Mrs. McDonough SCIENCE Mr. Pray Mr. Rassmussen Mr. Lewis Mr. Wadleigh Mr. Schneck Miss Cordsen Miss Reynolds l f s ' v nr f rl ' of the citizen, social and political. Th 'gn Language Department enables the student to be' come better acquainted with his own language, grammar, and derivation of words and gives him also a knowledge about the geography, history, literature, and customs of the lands he is study' ing. French, German, and Spanish have been offered, and, now as an answer to many requests, Polish is -being added. The Latin course includes grammar in the first year and continues with Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil in the order mentioned. Mathematics Department offers courses in al' gebra, geometry, advanced algebra, and trigonometry giving thorough training to those students who are to take up this line of work. In the Art Course the students take care of the art work and cartoons for the Mercury monthly and Mercury Annual. Scenery forthe JuniorfSenior Play, decorations for th-e prom, posters for clubs are also contributed by members of this department and Fourlcfn

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Sixteen THE SHELTERING WALLS Behind the Sheltering Walls Four years have we been resting here Protected, Beyond the raging waters that are life. But now they thunder loud and strike the walls They eddy through and boil about our feet. Four years have been preparing us for life, We know not in what way- One never knows till after all is done, And now we leave, to plunge into the world, To fight the waters, ind what lies behind, Discover men and tear their masks aside. We shall not find a pretty world- Its men are sometimes hard and rough, And they are sometimes greedy- And often they will rend and lay us low. But if we wish to iight with them, we may -M While it may be our task To make the world anew, One mind alone in several hundred Has the wish- And fewer still, the will: For we, ourselves, shall be full occupied In shaping and in carving our own lives . . . And so we leave, Our places taken by a huddled crowd That shall grow tall and follow us, The waves of life have beckoned us, We go: And as we turn, we see the Sheltering Walls, Stout standing as sheer granite cliffs- Protectors of the new and latest life. Paul E. Glaxsberg.