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

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The teachers of art and music consult the librarians about new books and magazines of special interest to them. Those pictured are, from left to right, Mr. Theodore Fryfogle, Miss Florence Best, Miss Lucille Ralston, Miss Florence Parsell, Mrs. Alice Peckham, and Mrs. Frances Linn. Miss Edith Barker, not in the picture, is also a member of the art faculty. Mr. George Guy, Mr. Merle Howe, Mr. Paul F. Marckwardt, Mr. Frederick A. Kuhn, Mr. Ernest F. Vreeland, and Mr. Dee A. Reynders, industrial arts teachers, look on while Mr. E. G. Bengston shows them how his new jig saw machine operates. J The 'leaching Stall The exponents of physical fitness at Union High are discussing recent changes in the basket ball rules. lviembers of the athletic staff are Mr. W. Maynard Ellingson, Miss Margaret E, Mac Donald, Mr. john Hess, Miss Esther Vander Broek, and Mr. Elmer Liskey. The merits of a new gas range are under discussion by the home economics teachers, Miss Maude A. Traut, Miss Elizabeth Doc' keray, Miss Marie C. Neuman, Miss Laura L. Rowson, Miss Anita Holland, and Miss Lura V. Sipe.

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The Teaching Staff x ls the social science department planning a vacation in the South? Pictured from left to right are Miss Lucile Ellen Meyering, Miss Emma Zur Meuhlen, Miss Evelyn Eos' ter, Miss May E. Conlon, Mr. Richard L. Marousek, Mr. Edward Henry, Miss Gerfy aldinc Masters, and Miss Edith Van Wick' len. Miss Lucille Dunn, not in the picture, is also a member of the social science faculty.X A reforganization of the content of various courses is the problem before these English teachers. They are, from left to right, Mr. C. Dwight Packard, Miss Esther E. Eby, Miss Elizabeth De Jonge, Miss Lillian Thomas, Miss Clara B. Smallidge, Miss Valora Quinlan, Mr. Leonard Meyering, Miss Lavina A. Laible, and Miss Mabel E. Allen. Here you see a meeting of a consultation group of English, speech, and language teachf ers. They are, from left to right, Miss Olga Pershbacher, Mr. Stanley Albers, Miss Grace Thomasma Miss Dorothy J. Farr, Miss Dorothy S. Blake, Miss Myrtle Heseltine, Miss Ruth Carpenter, and Miss Ethel Scholes.

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QUT Busy -l-ZGCIWQYS Representing Union on committees choosf ing new books is an extra task for some of our faculty. Miss Mabel Allen is helping to choose new English texts. Miss Mary Mac Lennan is the city chairman of the mathemaf tics committee who will select an elementary math book. On the committee for the selecf tion of a physics text are Mr. Lemuel Holf brook and Mr. Fred Voss. Mr. Clayton Bazuin was the first person to discover the nesting place of the Arkansas king bird in Michigan. He also won the Grand Rapids Audubon migration prize for the year 193 7. Recently he was elected chair' man for two years of the finance and mem' bership committee of the Michigan Education Association. Miss Florence Best is the author of an arf ticle, Experiments in Student Directing, which appeared in the Music Educators Jour' nal for OctoberfNovember, 1937. She has also written the music for an operetta which was put on in Ann Arbor March 13 and 14, 1938, and is chairman of the music depart' ment of the fourth district of the Michigan Education Association. Miss Elizabeth Dockeray and her clothing classes proved to be real Samaritians when they provided Christmas cheer for sixtyfiive at the Juvenile Home. Refreshments and new and renovated presents were distributed to the children. Once Glorious Galena, an article written by Miss Esther E. Eby, was published in the Journal of the Illinois Historical Society, in July, 1937. Miss Eby also acted as super' visor of the 1937 Aurora, which won All' American rating. Winning of the regional tournament was the achievement of the Union basketball team, coached by Mr. Maynard fDocj Ellingf son. Hard work and perseverance have made Union city champion three times in three years and have given us thirty straight victories over city teams. The Union band under the direction of Mr. Theodore Fryfogle won second prize at the Tulip Festival at Holland in May, 1937. Early. last December an original skit was broadcast over Station WCOD by Miss Myrtle Heseltine's journalism classes. The skit, Deadline, showed typical publications staff work and proved a huge success. - Girls in Miss Marie Mc Dermott's session room labored diligently to get enough money to attend the concerts of the Grand Rapids Symphony orchestra. Where there's a will, there's a way was proved once again when the girls, aided by Miss Mc Dermott, through food sales and the sale of rags and paper Hnally raised the necessary money. Miss Valora Quinlan represents the high schools on the city Junior Red Cross board. Miss Grace Thomasma was one of the quickfwitted participants in a discussion group dealing with the question, Curriculum Revision on the Secondary School Level, at the fourth district convention of the M.E.A. last November. Miss Maude Traut is president of the Past Matrons Association, York Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, and acting secref tary of the Grand Rapids Home Economics Club. Among Union faculty travelers is Miss Lucille Dunn, who made an extensive tour of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Poland, and Germany last summer. Miss Blanche Mann, assistant principal, has given many lectures on her recent trip to Bermuda. Sun' ny Bermuda was also the place chosen by Miss Geraldine Masters for her last vacation trip. There is probably no more widely' traveled teacher at Union than Miss Florence Parsell, who has gone to Alaska by boat and traveled Hfteen hundred miles down the Yu' kong enjoyed a camping trip through the West, visited Mexico, painted at Cape Ann, Gloucester, and Provincetown, Massachuf settsg and made two trips to Europe. Follow' ing her last summer's trip to Germany, Miss Emma Zur Meuhlen has given many lectures, on that country including one to the Grand Rapids unit of the American Association of University Women.