South High School - Spectra Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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si 'FT Mary Hammond: Florvnet- Sealey MISS SEDELBAUER who is the all around ad' viser and helperfouter for the whole student body is found in room 106 when she isn't busy helping some student. ln an advisory capacity she helps students decide what course to take, whether to continue school, and many other personal prob' lems. She also tries to help out those students who get into tight scrapes. Miss Hunziker is the special speech teacher who helps students to im' prove their speech and also to adjust themselves to their environment. By reading these brief notes about the faculty department, it can be seen that they are both a motivating and guiding force in our school lite, SCIENCE: Approximately twelve hundred of our students are availing themselves of an opportunity to gain knowledge of the world about them through the study of the various sciences, Next year there will be a change made in the grades in which certain sciences will be offered. Geogf raphy will be an eighth grade subject as well as a seventh grade one. General science will become ninth grade work and biology, tenth grade. In january the biology department surfered a loss with the death of Miss Rachel Shaw, who had been a science teacher in South High over Doris Sedelbauer, A.B.g Minna Hunziker, A.lS. .af -. 3 --wt.. K. -A W t , ' A E t , wp Row l: Ruth Stnlwt-, JMB.: Claire Vlfalpt-i'. lVl.A.: Olivia Dt-mmon, X B lioulse Sehweilzcm. 1-MB.: Nlarliin Knoll, lVl,.X. Row Z: Henry Goss, li.S., D.V.lNl.: Henry Nlulilvr, IES. twenty years. Miss Uenimon fell heir to Miss Shaws rooni and, in settling, has found many evif dences of her line interest and ability as a science teacher. Mr. Carmody was appointed to take Miss Sliaws work and has been conducting his classes in room 21 l. At various times during the year, junior Colf lege has extended invitations to our outstanding chemistry students to attend lectures given by noted scientists. LIBRARY: Quiet pleasel' ---- You guessed itl It's the library. This is the ideal spot in school to study. I-Iere, amid approximately 19,215 books in South High library, you can iind out anything you need to know from how to pluck chickens to putting a motor together. If you can't find what you want, Miss I'Iammond or Mrs. Sealey will find it for you. It is through the courteous help of the librarians that the students are able to look up their assignments and are thus able to gain a more complete knowledge of the subject they are taking. 1 ww ir, MQ

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eatul: Virginia Wyatt, B.S.: Fliarlolie Kzunlall, A.B., ILS. anding: Frt-cl Zinfser: Roy l.eVu,llr-y, A.l4., li.C.S.g Ethel Andrews XB.: Lee Newton, AJS.: Jar-ob Brady, 15.5. COMMERCIAL: Bookkeeping, typing and short' hand are old stuff to this group of the faculty, They are the ones who teach our future book' keepers and secretaries. The bookkeeping teacher turns out just about all of the treasurers for school organizations. The typing course, taught by Miss Wyzitt and Miss Andrews, helps all of the school and especially the Spectra and Tattler staffs. This can easily be seen when you notice how a typist can change a scribbled page to a neatly typewritf ten piece of copy. Mr. LeValley and Mr. Newton attended the fourth annual convention of the Michigan Commercial Education Association, held in Detroit, April 12. Mr. LeValley was chairman of a section on general business training. HOME ECONOMICS: i'Umfmfm but that smells good. It must be one of the cooking classes of the home economics department. In this departf ment the girls are taught to be good housewives. Miss Dunlap and Miss Vsfassenaar teach the girls cooking and dietetics. Miss Gross and Miss Moore teach the girls sewing, so that they can keep the Joan Wassenaar. B.S.g Clare Dunlap, ILS.: Sue Gross, ILS.: Laura Moore, M,A.: Bertha Field, ILS. buttons onqshirts and make a new outfit when they feel that they just haven't got a thing to wear. In personal regimen the girls are taught to choose their clothes wisely and to shop eco' nomically. Many of the girls who major in home economics plan to go in and be professional dietitf ians, but if they don't take up a career, it is a safe bet that they will make some man a capable wife. MUSIC: Mr. Litton and Miss Lindley direct the musical organizations which help make our school known. Our band is the best in Grand Rapids, and plays for almost all important occasions. The band plays for all of our assemblies and helps to furnish the pep at football and basketball games. We also pick from the band a small dance or' chestra which plays for noon dances. The Glee Club and Mixed Chorus under the direction of Miss Lindley always put on a Christmas concert. They also do the singing whenever it is needed for assemblies. This spring they took part in the spring concert given by the city musical organizaf tion. Through able leadership of these two dif rectors the musical organization of South has become well known and respected throughout Westerii Michigan. Glenn Litton, B.S.1 Bessie Lindley, A.B.

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Voice of the People Stephan, Shaver, Brand, Swann. lf l'm elected, I'll . . . was a familiar and oft' repeated phrase around the senior session room about the first of November. VoxfPop and Hunley Dory, the two political parties of 1940, were waging a major political campaign, and their slogans, Vox Pop, the Voice of the People, and Hunley Dory for Fame and Glory bedecked every inch of availf able space in the senior session room. It was a color' ful spectacle, and excitement mounted high as the candidates of the rival parties, very evenly matched, showered the class with a deluge of political propaf ganda in their race for oflice. Political rallies, band 14 playing, soapbox speeches, colorful posters, cards, stickers, and trick publicity stunts - all played an important part in the campaign. Whcii election day finally arrived, those who emerged victorious were Louis Brand, Vox Pop, president, Merl Swann, Hunky Dory, vicefpresidentg Anita Shaver, Vox Pop, secretary, Florence Stephan, Hunky Dory, treasurerg Theo Oxford and Don Howick, Vox Pop, and Louise Eikenhout, Hunky Dory, student advisers. As faculty advisers, Miss Evangeline Morrissey and Mr. Alvin Vandcrbush were chosen. 14 0