The Dalles Wahtonka High School - Steelhead Yearbook (The Dalles, OR)

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1934 SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS First Semester Second President .......,..... ,....,A............. J ohn Bonn President ....,Y...,,,... Vice-president ..... ................. B ill Capps Vice-president ...., Secretary ......... Allen 'Swanscr Secretary Trfasurer ...... ...,.. ..,....... L i nden Poole Treasurer ....l,.,... Yell Leader ,..........,...,... ..Marjorie Nish Yell Leader ..........l . Board of Control ..........Earnest Mosier Board of Control Semester .,.,,.,Wilbur Wittliff ........Bob Campbell Lauretta Lowe .,,,.,.,Helen Fielitz ..,....Bob Woolsey .....,..B1ll Capps The class play, Captain Applejackf' was the first highlight of the year for the Seniors. This, was presented two nights with a double cast. The Seniors joined the rest of the classes in presenting an Assembly for the Student Body on February 8. The Commencement announcements, embossed with the American Eagle and the class numerals, were chosen by the class. A novel feature of the announcement was the personal card of the graduate inserted in the fly-leaf. The class rings and pins were ordered in the traditional design of a view of the narrows in the Columbia river above The Dalles with Les Dalles engraved below the scene. The students were allowed their choice of silver or gold in either the pin or the ring. The Baccalaureate, Class Night, and Commencement exercises were held on May 13, 14, and 16, respectively. All the activities that are included in the joys and sorrows of graduates were enjoyed during the year by the Class of '34, Class Class Class Class Motto: He conquers who conquers himself. Colors: Blue and Silver. Flower: The Rose. Advisor: Miss Caroline Kunkel. 12 .l-2-1

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l934s COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT This year Typing, Bookkeeping, Geog- raphy and Shorthand were offered. The bus- iness Practice subject that took the place of Spelling and Writing was dropped. Alto- gether there were about 400 stud-ents who took some form of commercial training last year. The Typing, Shorthand and Bookkeeping books were changed, affording little change in the general practice of th-e subjects, however. Twenty new typewriters were added to the Typing department. Miss Alice' Morris had five classes of Bookkeep- ing. Mrs. Grace Hathaway taught Short- hand and Typing, while Miss Caroline Kunkel also taught Typing. Miss Edna Lois Maxon taught Geography. MECHANICAL DRAWING The first three semesters in Drawing is a general course dealing with fundamen- tals of drawing and leads up to where students are able to make a choice of types of drawing. The first term draw- ing is divided into orthographic repre- sentation including type solids, sh-op and machine problems and geometric construc- tions. The second and third semesters take up pictorial representation, revolu- tion development, intersection, standard threads and bolts and application of sec- tions. The fourth term is a choice of the numerous types of drawing, For the past two years the Mechanical Drawing department has been under the supervision of Glen H. Ely. PHYSICAL EDUCATION An outstanding feature in the depart- ment this year was girls' gym. More girls turned out for physical education than ever in the history of the school. The games offered were: basketball, speed ball, volleyball, tennis and baseball. In addition some time was given over tc certain self-testing activities such as tap dancing and tumbling. On April 21 The Dalles high girls were hostesses for the annual Play Day feature, at which 17 schools from the Mid-Colum- bia district were represented. A total of approximately 400 girls had a part in the stunts that each school put on in the afternoon. Girls' athletics is under the supervision of Miss Marie Keeler. Ileryl Hodgen, in adldition to his duties as athletic coach, had charge of physical education for boys. Games and various kinds oi' sports comprised the woirk which was carrieid -on in the school gymnasium during the winter months and on Amotan i'ield in the early fall and late spring. HOME ECONOMICS The course offered by the Home Econ- omics drpartment can be either a major or a minor as the student prefers. Last year a Foods III class was added to the course and is taught one semester each yczir, the Work being based upon the meal plan. The 1'inal test for all classes is the preparation of some type of a meal and the student is graded accordingly. Crafts is a semester subject and last yefir there was a marked increase in en- rollment. The total number of students enrolled in the department this year was about 165. There are also three semesters of Sew- ing, one semester of Crafts, one semester of Home Nursing and one of Home Man- agement. The Home Economics department is instructed by Miss Vashti Johnson and Miss Frances Spike. LIBRARY The high school library now contains more than 2600 books. Of this number 350 are on the book report lists. Recent ad- ditions t-o the library have included up-to- date material on science, vocational edu- cation, home management, sociology? ec- onomics, international relations and recent history and biography. The library is now more adequate to meet the demandsof students and teach- ers than at any time in the past. Instruc- tion in the use of the library for Fresh- men and Sophomores is now being given in the new English course. The present attendance made it neces- sary to keep the library open every period of the day. The attendance and circula- tion show a constantly growing use of the library. Circulation for the month of February, 1934 was 1213, while that for the same month last year was 899. The library is now under the supervision of a full-time librarian-Mrs. Helen Shipe, who has filled this position since 1928,

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