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

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i ll l A l U A rn .nerr student days iuuuuuxxxs and dramatics interested many ot our iaculty. Debaters were Lura V. Sipe, Maude Ann Traut, Anita Holland, Mary I. MacLennan, Merle H. Howe, Oren D. Stiehl, Henry N. Hornbeck, Lemuel G. Holbrook, Maynard Ellingson, Fred Voss, Stanley Albers, Geraldine F. Masters, Lavina A. Laible, M. Blanch Mann, and Charles A. Everest. Among those who participated in dramatics were Maude Ann Traut, Anita Holland, Floyd L. Early, Marie Al. Mc Dermott, Elizabeth B. Crotser, Merle H. Howe, Oren D. Stiehl, Lemuel G. Holbrook, Maynard Ellingson, Fred Voss, Valora F. Quinlan, Lucile Ellen Meyering, Grace Thomasma, Esther E. Eby, Edward T. Henry, Ruth Car' penter, Lavina A. Laible, Elmer 0. Liskey, Geraldine F. Masters, and Glga Perschbacher. First row: Lavina A. Laible, English: Ruth Carpenter, Spanish and English Second row: Dorothy S. Blake, Latin: Ethel Scholes, French: Clara B. Smallidge, English and public speaking Third row: Mrs. Margaret Gavin. assistant librarian: Mrs. Alice Peckham, librarian: Althea Ditmar, clerk: Esther E. Eby, English: Lillian Thomas, English Fourth row: Mabel Emily Allen, English: Myrtle S. Heseltine, English and journalism: Leonard Meyering, English Fifth row: Stanley Albers, speech: Doris Dunham, English Sixth row: Lura V. Sipe, English: Grace Thomasma, English: Olga Perschbacher, English: Valora F. Quinlan, English V

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Aides-cle-Camp Thirtyfseven universities and colleges are listed as being the Alma Maters of Union faculty memf bers. Thirtyfone of our teachers are alumni of the University of Michigan, fourteen are alumni of Columbia: eleven are alumni of Western State Teachers College: eleven have attended the Uni' versity of Wiscoiasiiig eleven, Michigan Normal College: five, the University of Chicago, eight, Grand Rapids Junior College: and four, Northf western University. Cther schools which our teachers have attended are: the University of Rochester, the University of California, the University of Montana, Michif gan State College, Kansas State College, Hope College, Calvin College, and the University of Toronto. Among the seventyftwo members listed on the faculty, fortyfnine hold bachelors' degrees and eleven hold masters' degrees. Members of the faculty who have received diplomas from foreign universities are: Ethel Seholes, from the Sorbonne in Paris: Emma 'Zur Muehlen, from the University of Berlin, where she also received the llBrunner Crderng Grace Thomasma, from the Japanese Language School, Tokio, Japan. Miss Thomasma was an instructor in English and assistantfprincipal at Plumfblossom Girls' School in Nagasaki. Leaders on the scholastic front during their high school days were Henry N. Hornbeck, Margaret E. MacDonald, Lavina A. Laible, Maude A. Traut, Mary l. Maclsennan, Oren D. Stiehl, and Nelle Atwood, each valedictorian of his class. Second line defenses in high school scholarship were womanned by Dorothy Jane Earr and Myrtle S. Heseltine. ln the ranks of honor students during their school days were many members of our faculty, including Mabel E. Allen, Charlotte M. Randall, Geraldine E. Masters, and Stanley Albers. Top row: Arthur J. Avery, commercial: W. R. Pease, mathematics: Forrest E. Barr, commercial: Floyd L. Early, mathematics: Clayton W. Bazuin, biology Center: Lemuel Holbrook, science: Keith Kennedy, science: Henry N. Hornbeck, biology: Forrest E. Lair, commercial' Oren D. Stiehl, science: Mary I. Mac Lennan, mathematics Bottom row cial: M : Nelle Atwood, mathematics: Charlotte M. Randall, retail selling: Edna E. Maxson, commer- arie Mc Dermott, commercial: Elizabeth B. Crotser, commercial: Berton J. Kemp, commercial

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Vernice Pruitt, the Teacher Wliii Docs, an article written by Florence C, Pzirsell was published in the Fchf ruary issue ot School Arts. Two compositions of Florence Best have been accepted by Ginn and Company, music publishers, to be used in a forthcoming music hook for junior high. First row: Florence Pai-sell, art: Edith F. Barker. art Second row: Florence C. Best, vocal music: Theodore F. Fryfogrle, instru- mental music Third row: Alice Munger, sight conservation: Marie C. Neuman, home economics: Maynard Eilingfson, mathematics: Edward T. Henry, social science: John Hess, science: Fred Voss, science: Elmer O. Liskey, physical education Fourth row: H. M, Dexter. metalcraft: Anita Holland, home economies: Laura L. Rowson, home economics Fifth row: Maude Anne Traut, home economics: Elizabeth Dockeray, home economics: Esther Vander Brock, physical education: Margaret E. MacDonald, physical education Sixth row: Ernest F. Vreeland, mechanics: E. G. Bengston, woodworkinprg Paul Marckwardt, cabinetmaking: Merle H. Howe, electricity: Dee Allen Reynders, mechanical drawing: George Guy, printing: Charles M. Raver, machine shop: Dorothy J. Farr, sigrht conservation 'fin itifwj 'WZ if VIZ? We ' fi' . .k