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

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ii Mes 84144 ' Wp Time marches on! And in so doing, changes are made, some for the worse, but the greater share for the better. So it is with education, though even when Union was a small brick building wih few accommodations, there were already art classes and clubs, The art students of today have advantages which are almost beyond comparison with the oldfstyle provisions, The wellflighted, large rooms and excellent supplies are real enticements to the future Georgia G'Keefes and Grant Wcmcvds. The few media and materials that were formerly appropriate have increased to such an extent that many cupboards and shelves are needed to house them all. Over twenty different grades of paper are being used in contrast to the two or three of 1912. While former art enthusiasts had only chalk and crayon, now oil paint, water color, clay, and colored pencils are additions to the media used. Exhibits of student art create interest and encourage merit in addition to providing decoration for the halls. The Grand Rapids Art Gallery has done much to stimulate interest among art students by exhibiting their work and by offering classes and scholarships. AMERICA THE BEAUTIFULU: Velte, Heimerdinger, Sirney, Juntunen, Versluis MISS EDITH BARKER Cextreme tight, UNION'S ZORACHS: Wisse, Wood MISS FLORENCE PARSELL WITH STUDENT HARRIS FINISHING TOUCHES: Smith U41

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BALLOTS, NOT BULLETS: Johnson, Wysocki, Joswiclz, Quigley, Zylstra To heconie wise voters students study civics, where they learn the fundamentals of government, and ahove all, develop into thinking voters. .ws-s Into a large sunny room on the third floor of Union High School came Principal Everest, accompanied hy Miss Dunaly, a visitor. A teacher, hent over a dictionary, looked up and walked toward the visitors with a smile on her lips. i'This is Miss Dunaly, a teacher interested in our special classes, Miss Farr, announced Mr. Everest. As the two women exchanged greetings and took their seats, Miss Farr hegan to explain the work of the sight' saving classes. Although there are sightfsaving classes in various grade schools throughout the city, Union has the only high school class. This makes it necessary for the students to come here from all parts of the city. The grades range from the ninth to the twelfth. All the students attend regular classes, hut any work that might cause eye strain, such as reading fine print hooks, Miss Schroder or I do for the students. We do have largefprint copies of algehra, general math, geometry, Latin, French and Spanish hooks. The students also use railroad ehalk hecause the marks it makes are easily seen. The desks, hlackhoards, and other furnishings have dull finishes, and the desks have adjustahle tops. The type' writers, which every student is taught to use, have extra large type. lsn't it splendid that help is furnished to prevent further harm to childrens weakened eyes? commented Miss Dunaly as she rose to go. MR. IEIDWARD HENRY MISS EDITH VAN WICKLIN, MISS ELIZABETH PERRIN, MISS LUCILLE DUNN MISS DOROTHY FARR, Crane THE EYES HAVE IT: Schictel MISS HARRIETT SCHRODER 13

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i . .....MM. ..M.N.. , Nl.. 404 Alamefb If you should happen to he up on the third floor, you might find yourself vaguely aware of the faint smell of wholesome food, the low clatter of halting dishes, the steady hum of a sewing machine, and the hushed voices of girls. If you followed your nose to the door of the foods classroom, you might peek in and see girls in perky white caps and aprons peering cautiously into ovens or husily arranging tahle decoraf tions. If you came in another time, perhaps you would find these same energetic girls planning menus or one of those lovely teas for which they are noted or, most important of all, learning which vitamins are necessary to huild strong, healthy hodies. Determined to prove that really palatahle dishes can he prepared from Nsurplusffoodu products, the Foods ll class invited social workers from the West Side to partake of a meal with these products as the only source of food. ln the room adjoining the foods lahoratory, you would find the personal regimen class, where prohlems of personality, grooming, social poise, and etiquette are studied. Girls cutting, sewing, fitting, studying line, color, and style! All this and more you can see hy merely passing the door of the clothing class room, where girls can take a piece of goods, a pair of scissors, a needle and thread and in a short time, with a little effort on their part, work true magic under their very fingerf tips in completing their own spring ensemhles and school clothes. To ease the suffering in warftorn Europe, clothing students made layettes for the Red Cross. In the nursery school, initiated this semester under the ahlc direction of Miss Bessie Spratt, child specialist, a nursery was improvised in Room BSOA, where neighf horhood youngsters three or four years of age got a taste of kindergarten. These children, associating with others their own age, were taught essential health hahits while their mothers were relieved of their responsihility for several hours a day. Each noon appetizing lunches were served to the tots. Trips to coldfstorage plants, dress shops, and heauty salons were on the schedule of the home economics classes this year. As this hook goes to press, word comes of two home economics awards: five dollars to Jessie Brown, given hy the Teachers Home Economies Cluh, and the same amount to Lorraine Ann King, given hy Mrs. Elizaheth Slaght, former foods teacher here at Union. MISS LURA V. SIPE MISS ELIZABETH DOCKERAY MISS MAUDE TRAUT MRS. ALICE J. SHUILING MISS MARIE C. NEUMAN TESTING AND TASTING: Brown, Mrs. Wiest, Walters, Mrs. Smith Mi 5