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

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. f- -fwfr ft ftrf'-?f33,QgQgsf,,5ii3i?' Nil, , , V -if M . Our Ever Active Faculty Two book reviews, The Flowering of New England by Brooks and The Theatre of Life by Howard, in the Grand Rapids Sunday Herald, were written by Miss Mabel Allen. Miss Nelle Atwood is treasurer of the Grand Rapids branch of the Amer- ican Association of University Women. Students in Miss Edith Barker's art classes made panels for the P.T.A. Founders Day Banquet. The Michigan Education Iournal for March, 1937, published a story and pictures of their designs. A picture by Richard Yonk- ers, Boy With a Rabbit, was repro- duced in Art Education for l936. Back to nature Mr. Clayton Bazuin went to gather material for articles on The Food of Trout and' A Bird Cen- sus oi Grand Rapids for the daily Press. Mr. Bazuin, past president of the Grand Rapids Audubon Society, spends much of his spare time in col- lecting biological material for schools and colleges. Miss Florence Best gave the Mich- igan School Masters Club at Ann Ar- bor pointers on junior high music in her speech on April 30. Mr. Floyd Early is the recently elected president of the Wyoming Park- Beverly Garden Club. The Union High band, under the baton of Mr. Theodore Fryfogle, was the only one in the city invited to play at the Shrine Circus, the Red Cross benefit football game, and the Lions Club Kettle Parade. The Vegetable Garden, a repro- duction of a painting by the famous Dutch artist, Vincent Van Gogh, has been given to the school by Miss Char- lotte Gierst. A first-class rating for this year's Reflector and the coveted All-Ameri- can rating for the 1936 Aurora were the two recent staff honors obtained under Miss Myrtle Heseltine's direction. During this year Miss Heseltine has led yearbook roundtables at both the national and state scholastic press con- ventions. A bored teacher may turn to boards for relaxation. Miss Geraldine Masters is president of the Vandenberg Division ot the Board of the Michigan Alumnae Association and scholarship chairman of the board of the Women's University Club. To be a friend in need is the duty of Mr. Leonard Meyering, chairman of the Iunior Red Cross of the high schools of Kent County. Mrs. B. Bradford Murphy, teacher of junior high school music, is organist and choir director at the People's Church. Associated with American royal- ty is Miss Elizabeth Perrin, who is a member of the Governor's safety com- mittee. The Michigan Poetry Society bulle- tin has recently published a paper by Miss Olga Pershbacher on the teaching of poetry to high school students. Miss Clara Srnallidge, president of our P.T.A., helped the organization to stage an unusual open house at which mothers took their children's places in classes. Busy Mr. Orin D. Stiehl is general superintendent of the First Methodist Sunday School. Because of Miss Grace Thomasma's work as adviser and director of the groups of Union students who wrote and presented a peace pageant, The Pact of Paris, a historical pageant, George Washington, and a Michigan centennial pageant, Builders: Epic of the Lady of the Lakes, she presided at a roundtable on Vitalized Commence- ment during the MEA. Convention last October.

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Ruby Poiterf Retail Selling Central State Teachers College, B. S. Valora Quinlan English University of Michigan. B. A, Dee A. Reyndersflviechanical Drawing University of Michigan, B. C. E. Clarissa Richardson- Shorthand, Typing Western State Teachers College, B. A. Laura L. Howson-Clothing Columbia University, B. S. Ethel Scholes'--French, English, History University of Chicago, Ph. B.: University of Paris Harriet Schroder V- Sight Conservation Michigan State Normal College, B. Lura V. Sipefl-lome Economics Albion College, B. A. Clara B. Smallidge f English, Session Room University of Michigan, B. A.. M. A. Reuben S. SmithfCommercial Law, Gov- ernment, Bible Narrative University of Michigan, B. A. Oren D. StiehlfScience, Session Room River Falls Normal, Ph, B. Lillian Thomas-English, Session Room Michigan State Normal Grace Thomasma - English, Session Room, Senior Adviser University of Michigan. B. A.: Columbia Uni- versity, M. A. Maude A. Traut--Clothing Western State Teachers College. B. S, Edith I. Vandenbergflvlathematics University of Chicago, Ph. B. Esther Vander Broek' Physical Education Mirhigan State Normal College, B. S. 4Leftl Edith Van Wicklin 'f-f Social Science Western State Teachers College, B. A. Fred Voss - Mathematics, Senior Adviser, Session Room Hope College, B. A. Ernest F. Vreeland--Auto Repairing University of Mir-higan Russell Waters- Physical Education Western State Teachers College, B. Clementine Williams- -Retail Selling University of Michigan, B. A., B. S. Emma ZurMeuhlenf German, History Uiiitvegity of Michigan, B. A.: Mitldlehury,

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'Find a way or make one, To live up to its motto, the senior class ot 1937 tioids a session to determine the Ways and means to do so. Gathered in a body, seniors tind the school auditor- ium an open forum on the question ot the day, be it a discussion on gradua- tion costumes or on tlio disporzat ot an unaccounted toi titty cents: iii time :aviiioi treasury. Teamwork, a byword witti time class, makes ttie seniors' route a pious ant one, However, when a stone walt is reached, Miss Ttiomasma and Mr.