Roosevelt High School - Strenuous Life Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Principol's Foreword For a long time education was thought of as a preparation for life . More recently a great American philosopher has told us that education is life . Accepting this newer conception, our schools are now placing more stress on practical social perform- ances of students as an important agency in education. The most effective way of learning to do certain things is to do them in their proper environment. For example, no one can learn to swim by going through the motions on dry land, because under such conditions the essential element is left out of account. Like- wise, to really learn the meaning of responsibility one must be instrusted with a task and carry it through to completion under normal circumstances. The modern school literally teems with life. Projects and other socialized efforts within the curriculum and various student activities without the curriculum furnish motivation for school life. The relatively passive business of perusing the printed page has no such appeal to young people as the opportunities offered them through the life of the school for the interplay of initiative and team-work. Such first-hand experiences in meeting prob- lems arising out of the corporate life of the school have a positive educational value. Therefore, the schools of today are learning to reproduce within themselves life situations approximating, as nearly as pos- sible, those existing outside. This evolution of school life through social organization and self-governing efforts has become a dis- tinguishing feature of American schools, in recognition of the needs of a great and varied democracy. In other words, the schools have become extensive social laboratories, offering an apprenticeship, as it were, in the duties of cooperative citizenship. .AX Kaleidoscope,' of this colorful school life, therefore, fur- nishes a fascinating theme for our Annual. cYYif3'x,aM.c..,

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Miss Glass, Mr. Clark, Mr. Berthiaume Administration Mr. Clark g a counselor, a judge, and a confident. A person who understands the students with whom he associates, and assists them with their problems, and also, with the aid of an able office force, regulates their school life. Among the vice-principal's many tasks are publishing the daily bulletins, checking attendance, contacting with grammar schools and maintaining the necessary discipline. These obvious duties, however, are not the sole reasons for the origination of his ohice, for he also has less apparent tasks. Each day he observes student activities, pas- times and outlooks, and advises those who are experiencing difficulties. Genial and understanding, he endeavors to make high school life for each student the success it should be. Miss Rose Glass finds it very difficult to list her day's work because of the many details to which she attends throughout her day. There are interviews with girls, teachers, parents, school officials, social workers, and visitorsg also, con- ferences with student committees, representatives of higher institutions of learn- ing, women's clubs and secret service investigators. The two telephones in her office are kept busy by her many consultations with public school officials, social service agencies, educational institutions, newspaper editors, civic leaders, and the like. Being Girls' Advisor, it is necessary also that she supervise the activities of the Girls' Club office staff, rest room, attendants of nurse's staff. Girls' Em- ployment Bureau, Honor Guards, Freshman Girls' Discussion Clubs, Charm Club, Girls' Club Parties and all Girls' Club activities in general. Sherry Berthiaume, Gym Instructor, Advisor, Welfare W'orker. Promoter of athletics, and Actor, has, as one can easily imagine, a well-filled school day. The title, Boys' Advisor, in itself suggests enough work to keep any one man going all day-but not Sherry. From his seven-thirty tumbling class in the morning to his dinner in the evening, he attends to a hundred and one details, ranging from first aid treatment to conferences with boys. The receiving and distributing of athletic equipment is no little job and it of course helps, with the hundred other things, in keeping Sherry out of mischief. Ttveufy