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

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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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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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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