Sault Ste Marie High School - Northern Light Yearbook (Sault Ste Marie, MI)

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Future Defenders Earning mtrney for its annual trip to Mackinac Island and learning the early history of the Sault were chief among the projects of the Hiawatha His- tory Club this year. Outstanding among the programs of the organ- ilation was a talk and a movie, given by Miss Thelma Collins, and a visit to the Carnegie Library. Miss Collins told of her trip to Mexico and showed movies portraying the life of the Mexicans. Miss Alice clapp, city librarian, showed the group letters and documents written by and to early Sault settlers concern- ing early Sault Ste. Marie. A project for making money was the bookstore, which supplied students with paper, pencils, and other necessities and which sold second-hand books to English pupils. Proceeds from the bookstore paid for Christmas and Easter seals and made possible a contribution to the Shoe Fund, in addition to helping pay for the Mackinac trip. Officers for 1940-'41 were: president, Raymond Young, vice president, Charles Pearce, treasurer, Cecelia Haley, secretary, Stella Benson, sergeant-at-arms, Raymond Wickltind, adviser, Miss Hulda Stroebel. sixth hour, the Atom Crackers have welded togeth- er a club that has flourished throughout the year. The purpose of the club was to provide a means of developing the various hobbies of the students, the chief hobby being photography. Often during the sixth hour, on other than regular meeting days, small groups could be found in the chemistry labor- atory deeply engrossed in their favorite pastime. The club holds initiation ceremonies in the Pall and also a picnic in the Spring. This year's picnic was held in April. They also planned several trips to local factories. Two of these were the Sault Woolen Mills and the Sault Creamery. The Atom Crackers are charter members of the American Institute, an association of clubs such as this club in Sault High. Officers are Minamarie jewell, President, Frances Cushman, Vice-President, Vivian lfrechette, Treasurer, La Donna WLlll11CC, Secretary, and Pat Laing, Sergeant-at-Arms. The officers for the first semester in Math Club were: President, Keith Sullivan, Vice President, David Knox, Secretary, ,lane Steele, Treasurer. Norma Curnow, and Sergeant-at-Arms, Leo Laasko. During this semester a constitution was adopted. Howard Caffey was constitution chairman. The slide rule was studied both semesters. ln the second semester astronomy and analytic geometry were taken up. The officers for the second semester were: President, David Knox, Vice President, Norma Curnow, Secretary, Audrey Christie, Treasurer, Leo Laasko, and Sergeant-at-Arms, Elmer Maki. Page fourteen Meeting every week on Thursday during the

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Serving Sault High By sponsoring noon hour movies as well as a full length evening picture which was on the activity ticket, the Audio-Visual Club worked this year to pay for the Bell-Howell motion picture projector, an aim which it did not quite accomplish. Another service which the boys of the organization performed was that of showing the many classrooms movies. When Mr. Elwyn was promoted to the superintendency, the club lost its adviser, who, to quote the members, was its founder and ardent booster and through whose untiring effort made the organization operate smoothly and efficiently. The club had five important committees this year: the equipment cleaning group, noon hour films group, the teaching committee, Saturday morning films committee, and the publicity committee. Heads of these groups, named in respective order, were john Widenhoefer, John Traige, Dick Murphy, Dave Knox, and Marsh Miller. Scampermg Slcetchers What have Sault Highs artists been doing this ye1r5 This question is problblx in the minds of many people although their vsork has been mueh in evidence sinee September Under the instruction of Robert E Bishop, the art elass began school year work studying lettering On the warm days the class took sketching trips to the puk and seenic nooks of the Sault where students portrayed the sights in water color Designing, always a major proyeet wls given expression in eonventionahzed form from actual photogrtphs and abstraction Even the class dwaddled in clay to produce little animals and faces Sketching was one of the big items of study Different members of the class posed in varied aetion resulting in a large sketch from each pupil Highlighting the aetixities of the art department was the art show where the artists accomplishments were on dem onstration The purpose of the annual exhibit is to ereate in the eommunity an interest in art Robert Bishop firmly be lieves that an appreciation of art ranks with music and literature in the development of social culture in young people Page thirteen .7 , . . Y . V . . . r . . - 1, - 1 , 1 1 1 1 . 1 K 1 . , t 1 , , 1 , 1 - 1 1 11 -1 1 1 . - K -U- 11a 5 1 1 1 1 I 1 e ' r 1 .. , 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 . . . 11 , 1 1 11 1 1 , . t . , .. .. . 1 1 . . 1 1 . t '. ' ' ' ' . 1 - 1 1 ' . 1 , 1 , Q V i . , . t 4 - g x i 5 . . 1 . ' ' ',

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The school year of 1940-'41 was a year of un- usual activity for the Sault Ste. Marie Chapter of the Future Farmers of America: Thirty-nine members of the chapter went to the Black Hills and Yellowstone National Parkg Vfilliam Dickison and Robert Smith at- tended the National li.F.A. Convention at Kansas City: sixteen members attended the third annual F.F.A. Herring liishing trip at Round lslandg Robert Bur- chill participated in the District Speaking Contest, NVayne Smith and Max Hembroff attended the Upper Peninsula l .F.A.g Leaders Training School at Marquette in Decemberg nine members attended junior lfarmers' Day at lfast Lansing and took part in the lf.If.A. State Convention. The liuture Farmers are looking ahead to many new activities for next term, but their main goal is to attend the National li.P.A. Convention at Kansas Citv. The Final Step Seniors will march down the aisles of Sault High's Ritchie Auditorium, Thursday, june 19 to complete the final step in their High School career. Commencement this year will be marked by hav- ing Charles XV. Gilkey, Dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago as the speaker. Mr. Gilkey has, for nearly forty years, delivered lectures running into the thousands. Many of them have been published as gems of religious exposition. Dean Gilkey received his A. B. and A. M. degrees from Harvard University and his B. D. degree from Union Theological Seminary, New York. The seminary awarded him a two-year fellowship for further study at the Universities of Berlin and Marbury in Germany and the theological colleges at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Oxford. Among his accomplishments, he was pastor of the Hyde Park Baptist Church in Chicago, member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago, member of the University faculty, and Dean of Rocke- feller Memorial Chapel. Not all in his career is on the serious side. The Dean plays golf and tennis and he has a great interest in the sketch Geraldine. Page fifteen A fine school library is one of the features of the Sault's educational system. The Anna Helen Morse Library has approximately 5,200 books, an increase of 500 from last year. Nine bookcases were added thi. year to shelve the additional books. According to Miss Margaret Moles, librarian, 250 students each day do reference work in the library. Many gifts and books have been donated to the library by Miss Morse and townspeople. As a result, the library receives regularly 65 magavines and six newspapers. llelping to serve in the library were the 32 mem- bers of the student library staff headed by Viola Kemp, president: Gloria Wfillis, vice-president: Betty Reinlinr, secretary and lililLll7L'Ill Gibson, treasurer. Drama Among the many memories of a senior are tho e of class plays, and '41 will be remembered for You can't Take It with You, Pulitzer prize drama in which '41 participated last year, and this year's rollicking comt-.ly of high school days, XVhat a Life. The class of '41 netted approximately S150 as its share in these junior- senior productions. You Can't Take It with Youn brings a memory of the slightly balmyy' Vanderhof family, who diel exactly as they pleased and whose guiding spirit was Grandpa. Among the family members' projects were such ones as making firecrackers, writing plays, play- ing a Xylophone, hunting snakes, and ballet dancing. The dignity and honor of the family come to a crucial test when Alice falls in love with her boss's son, Tony Kirby and invites the formidable and conventional Mr. and Mrs. Kirby to a dinner party. Vive members of the class of ,41 who played roles in last year's comedy were: Mary Jane Collyer, lfileen Perow, Ralph McCormick, -lack Rellis, Cora O'Connor. VC'hat a Life concerns problems of Henry Al- drich, a high school lad who, through three acts of uproarious comedy, barges in and out of trouble. His woes reach .1 climax in an embarrassing encounter with a history exam and in the disappearance of the best band instruments. QContinued on Page 295