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

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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.

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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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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.