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

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3.4.5 op. Faculty Preparing a new course of study to be used in home economics classes occupies the minds of the home economics teachers, who are, from left to right, Miss Lura V. Sipe, Miss Elizabeth Dockeray, Miss Marie C. Neuman, Miss Laura L, Bowson, Miss Anita Holland, and Miss Maude A. Traut. New books on art and literature are of special interest to the art teachers and librarians. Pictured from left to right are Miss Edith Barker, Miss Esther Noble, Miss Flor- ence Parsell, and Mrs. Alice Peck- ham. H Posed and ready for the shot are Union's physical fittersf' Members of the physical education and the .' athletic faculty include Mr. Elmer Liskey, Mr. W. Maynard Ellingson, Il Miss Margaret E. MacDonald, Miss Esther Vander Broek, and Mr. Iohn Hess. Members of the industrial arts faculty look on while Mr. Paul F. Marckwardt demon- strates the use of a lathe. From left to right are Mr. Ernest F. Vreeland, Mr. E. G. Beng- ston, Mr. Merle Howe, Mr. Dee A. Beynders, Mr. George Guy, and Mr. Charles M. Raver. Mr. Harvey Dexter, not in the picture, has charge of the metalcraft shop. Miss Florence Best, popular voice teacher, recently had an article entitled Mastering Skills published in the Educational Music Magazine. She also has had twacomposi- tions, Trail Song for men's voices and The Cloud, published during the past year. Mr. Theodore Fryfogle, band and orches- tra conductor, frequently leads group sing- ing in assemblies. u A l 12a

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Faculty Looking over material for use in their de- partment are members of the English faculty. Prom left to right, they are Miss Mabel E. Allen, Miss Valora Quinlan, Miss lane Albee, new at Union, Miss Olga Persch- bacher, chairman of the department, whose hobby is gardening, Miss Lavina A. Laible, Miss Dorothy lane Farr, Miss Myrtle Hesel- tine, recording secretary of the Michigan Scholastic Press Association and associate editor of a booklet on health, distributed in all the city schools, Mr. Leonard Meyering, and Miss Grace Thomasma, member of the public relations committee of the Teachers Club. Interesting yearbooks hold the attention of members of the speech, foreign language, and English departments. From left to right are Mr. Stanley Albers and Miss Clara B. Smallidge, teachers of public speaking, Miss Lillian Thomas, Miss Doris Dunham, new to Union this year, Miss Ethel Scholes, Miss Ruth Carpenter, whose major vices are her dog and her shack, Miss Dorothy S. Blalce, member of a National Education Associa- tion committee on the preparation and certiv fication of teachers, and Miss Esther E. Eby. Miss Scholes, Miss Carpenter, and Miss Blake teach French, Spanish, and Latin re- spectively. Events in the European crisis are the sub- ject of a discussion among members of the social science faculty. Pictured from left to right are Miss Lucile Ellen Meyering, Mr, Richard L. Marousek, Miss May E. Conlon, department chairman, Mr. Edward Henry, Miss Evelyn Foster, a member of the Board of Education committee on character train- ing and of the program committee of the High School Women's Club, Miss Lucille Dunn, Miss Geraldine Masters, Miss Edith Van Wicklin, Miss Emma Zur Meuhlen, who contributed material for 'an article called German Assembly Programs: a Panorama published in High Points for April, l938.

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Class of l9Q-39 ln one of the most heated election campaigns of their high school days, the class of '39 chose for its president dark horse Edward Sosnowski. Pinch-hitting for Ed when he was ill, was Allen Waivo, vice-president. Athlete Bill Sneathen served as secretary, while Martha Euhring and Lyle Martz handled the class's financial problems through their positions as girl and boy treasurer. Nor were the purse strings of the seniors Lyle's only financial problem, for in Martzian fashion did he handle the ' of the Aurora, and maintain scholastically his finances ' ' ' kin senior boy. Versatile Bobs Iohnston was a member of the Assembly Planning Committee for Special Events and proved her efficiency by tending to numerous details attendant upon every assembly. position of highest ran g Geraldine Fil: and lohn Shackleton, co-chairmen of the W 'ner and William photograph committee, with Sonia ei Borgeld, chairmen of the play committee, have served the class untiringly. Earl Millet has successfully combined a year of legisla- tion with one of culture by serving as president of both the Student Council and the Latin Club. With music by Frances Szekely and lyrics by George DeYoung, the class song this year is one of the finest produced at Union. Mildred Orwant and Evelyn West were managing editors of the Reflector for the first and second semesters respec- tively. Evelyn was one of the four local contestants for a scholarship at the University of Michigan. . Prominent seniors whose pictures are appearing else- where in this Aurora are Sylvia Castor, who has the high- est number of activity points among the seniorsg Lorna Goosmann and Howard Van Oosten, winners of the Dill- ' ham Cup Awards and leaders in extra-curricular ac- f ing tivities, and Mary Anne Mentzer, Union's candidate or the DAR. trip to Washington, Senior Cfficers