Sentinel High School - Bitterroot Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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MISS ELSIE WADELL dian J-anqiuxqz The Dean of the foreign language department is Miss Elsie Wadell, teacher of second year Latin and commercial geography. Miss Wadell has seen the most service in the foreign language department of M. H. S. and is therefore the guardian of this department. Her keen sense of humor and her widespread general knowledge add interest to her Latin classes as they study the campaigns of Caesar in Gaul. The foreign language department is perhaps one of the most interesting departments in school and surely it covers the greatest amount of territory of the world because it is a foreign language department. In M. H. S. French, Latin, and Spanish are taught and for each of these there is a special club. The purpose of these clubs is to give the student a better understanding of the language and the people who use that language as a native tongue. Small papers written in French and Spanish help in this work. The student may obtain them through the foreign language department for a small fee. One of the many opportunities available to the student of other languages is the foreign service field, where one may be employed either by the government or private business. Thus the foreign language department opens new horizons and points out the way for better understanding between the people of this country and the people of France, Spain, and South America. PASSPORTS TO FOREIGN PORTALS p. XV I HO 22

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BEHIND THE ADDING MACHINE Clommuxciai Missoula high trackmen take orders from Mr. Guy T. Stegner, track coach for the last four years. Before coaching track exclusively, Mr. Stegner was football, basketball, and track coach for eight years. Teaching typing and bookkeeping fills his teaching schedule during the day. For outdoor relaxation he golfs and fishes. Mr. Stegner has given much time to teachers' retirement laws and is considered an authority on that subject. Typing and junior business teacher, Mrs. Carrie Gilham, is one M. H. S. faculty member without a hobby. Mrs. Gilham is outstanding in one respect for she is the only teacher with a class after school. Scraping feet annoy this usually even tempered teacher. Her outside activities include card playing, cooking when she has to, and tennis, which she has played more or less all her life. One thing I do dislike is being quoted, says Mrs. Gilham. Energetic Mrs. Florence Keeton trains future stenographers and keeps the lunior class on its feet. The climax of this latter job is a successful Junior Prom in the spring. She collects stamps md cares for numerous plants around her room after school hours. An appreciative traveler, she plans to go tc Berkeley, California, this summer to attend school. Able advisor of the Konah for the i t semester was Miss lone Lake. .'lading with greenhorns at the first of (lie year she turned out polished jour- ilists. Teaching typing rounded out hor full day. A ski enthusiast, she Mrted and sponsored the Ski Club vhich took trips every Saturday under i leadership. At Christmas she left t i become a happy bride. MRS. CARRIE GILHAM MRS. FLORENCE KEETON MISS IONE LAKE MR. GUY STEGNER 21

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zicjn J anquaq£ A newcomer this year to the teaching staff of M. H. S. is Miss Margaret Durkin, a teacher of French who replaced Miss Mildred Ammer. Miss Durkin studied at Montana State University for three years before going to the University of Wisconsin where she received her masters degree in French. Before coming to M. H. S. she taught at Briar Cliff College, Sioux City, Iowa. Sports such as swimming and badminton interest her outside of school. Teacher of first and second year English and Latin is Miss Sylvia Johnson who is a fairly recent newcomer to M. H. S. having joined the faculty only last year. The hobbies of Miss Johnson include reading and sports but she is not able to find much time for them as she attends school during the summer. When asked about her pet peeve she replied that she deplores students who do not work. It is better to forget one's verb constructions than to forget that all people are really alike, feeling the same way and wanting the same things even if they do speak another language. These are the sentiments of lively, dark Miss Violet Boileau, M. H. S. Spanish instructor. When teaching the ways and hows of the Spanish language proves too wearing for Miss Boileau she turns with pleasure to her cooking. Next to cooking as a hobby she loves to study people. MISS MARGARET DURKIN MISS SYLVIA JOHNSON SENORITA MISS VIOLET BOILEAU 23