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

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The Powers That Be As he slowly relinquishes a file of paper and swings about in his chair, Principal Everest nods a pleasant greet- ing many times daily to some one of Union's twenty-two hundred students or teachers. A sympathetic listener and a helpful adviser, he turns each visitor away in a relieved state of mind. Under Mr. Everests guidance the lunch hour has become as orderly as any other hour of the day, new clubs have been formed to stimulate good citizenship, and one hundred per cent cooperation in all school undertakings, correct parliamen- tary procedure in all club meetings, and coeducational session rooms have be- come realities. Because Mr. Everest is skeptical enough to discard the extreme, and modern enough to accept the new after its worth has been proved, he is progressive and tolerant in the eyes of the students, the teachers, and the community. While her person is barely distinguish- able, a flash of her brilliantly hued, fash- ionable dress catches the eye and informs one that Miss Mann, assistant principal, is on one of her many daily rounds to check on the service squad, to try to ob- tain employment for some worthy stu- dent, or to remind disorderly students that study halls should be patronized during vacant hours. From the time she enters her office in the morning until she leaves at noon to act as principal of Sibley Grade School, her tinkling laughter penetrates the office at intervals, revealing a sense of humor. A respect for honesty, and a desire to pro- mote education, an inheritance, perhaps from her famous ancestor, Horace Mann, are the ruling passions of Miss Mann's life. a . I . eq, . f ug With- MR. CHARLES A EVEREST MISS BLANCHE MANN 'YYVU Q-ni., WE 259 'Gs

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l-lc-wwecit gratify' l c-Fanatianfc-66 i fu-mane ,Lt is ' that it have fwmmamf ' . - Harriett Martineau Americans all, representative of some thirty foreign countries and almost as many denominations ot religion are Union's twenty-two hundred students. Thus the school becomes a iunior league ol nationsi each 'nationality granting to the others the liberties and privileges it enioys and claims for itself. U Like our nation, our school has been a melting pot oi ideas, ideals. and customs. a school stronger and richer because it enjoys the gifts oi all lands. while it develops the self-reliance and self-confidence of cc true democracy whose citizens are Americans all. .

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Faculty A banana blossom is the center of interest at a meeting of the science department. The members are, from left to right, Mr. Keith Kennedy, Mr. Fred Voss, Mr. Clayton W. Bazuin, Miss Elizabeth l. Perrin, Mr. Henry H. Hornbeck, and Mr. Lemuel G. Holbrook. Mr. Bazuin, who is president of the Kent Naturalist Society and chairman of the Finance, Membership and Hospital Loan Committee of the Grand Rapids Teachers Club, has just finished a manuscript for a new textbook on nature study and its rela- tionship to conservation. Here we see the tryout of a dictaphone, an innovation in the business department. Commercial teachers are Mr. Forrest E. Barr, all-school treasurer, Miss Elizabeth B. Crotser, Mr. Berton I. Kemp, graduate of Union and a new faculty member, Mr. For- rest E. Lair, Mr. Arthur I. Avery, chairman of the department, Mrs. Ruby Haymer, Mrs. Clementine Wachter, Miss Marie McDer- mott, who is a member of the civic interests committee of the Grand Rapids Teachers Club, which sponsored two lectures the pro- ceeds of which made up a gift of four hun- dred and fifty dollars for the civic art gal- lery, and Miss Edna Maxon. Pictured from left to right are members of the mathematics faculty, Mr. William R. Pease, Mr. Floyd L. Early, who sponsors the lunior Kent County Conservation League and is president of the Wyoming-Beverly Garden Club, Miss lna A. Findlay, Miss Mary McLennan, department chairman, Miss Harriett Schroder, Miss Nelle Atwood, and Mr. Maynard Ellingson.