Union High School - Aurora Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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' f Seelcers, 5 .- ' 1 gl , il' Flash! Ancient tradition debunkedl 'Teach- ers no longer stilted pedagogues, with their chief business struggling to maintain a scholar- ly atmosphere and to impress their dull or mis- chievous underlings with a super-severe dignity and the imrhinence of the old hickory switch. Faculty and students have turned co- workers striving for the -ideal of the good life. What more opportune place might be pro-' vided for our co-searchings than a high school such as ours where students and faculty work side by side, developing projects like our school newspaper and our student govem- nient, l 1 4 p e With the superior knowledge and deeper understanding ' which life experience has brought them, our teachers while they are striving to present to us a concept of what they believe to be the good life endeavor to approach for themselves the ideal they set up for us of a life rich in appreciation of all that is fine. By pointing the way, our faculty inspire us to enjoy the best in all the arts, to cultivate satisfying hobbies, to'enter into civic enter- prise, to feel em tenderness for good home life, and to-appreciate the beauty of a radiant per- sonality and a stalwart character. Together we strive daily for a realization of the good life. . it in 4 . r - V 4 5 , ' im- f -In 14 lsakanliaiv '11 si

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Mr. Charles A. Everest, busy principal of Union, has a systematic method of keeping the faculty informed of school activities and regulations. l-le dictates bulletins to Miss Helen Olsen, office clerk, who sees that they are mimeographed and distributed to the teachers. Miss Olsen does a great deal of the routine work in the office and answers countless questions asked by students and teachers. As the adviser of the Student Council, Mr. Everest has helped that body to effect many improvements in its parliamentary procedure. Two of his brain children of l937 are: a plan which has brought a decided improvement in the assemblies both in student conduct and in programs, and a plan which assigns each student to a definite place Where he must be during the entire fifth hour. Besides being principal of Union, Mr. Everest is a member of the govern- ing board of the Kent County Humane Society and an ex-officio member of the Michigan Educational Association. Administration Miss Blanche Mann, assistant principal, is a sympathetic listener. She straightens out the troubles of over-burdened students and helps others to discover their mistakes and correct them. Miss Mann is doing a constructive piece of work by supervising the N.Y.A. workers at Union. Members of the faculty notify Miss Mann about any work they would like done and she assigns N.Y.A. students to do it. The Service Squad, the traffic officers of the school, are also under her advisership, Because she is the principal of Turner Elementary School, Miss Mann is here only half-days, but those half-days are crowded with the tasks of helping students as Well as faculty members to solve distressing problems. l7l