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

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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

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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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. . I Whitt part of Union High School was the noisiest during the 194041 year? Yes, that's right f the hasement floor of the huildingl But talkative students vaerenlt responsihle for all this racltetg on the contrary, the groundftloor elatter was created hy the husy turning of lathes and the hum of machinery. Crafts and craft supervision as a regular part of the school program were unknown thirtyffive years ago. Union now maintains an excellent shop prof gram which can provide for all hoys interested in learning a trade. ..- v The American drive for National Defense has set the wheels of industry turning on a scale never dreamed of two years ago. For this reason, thousands of new johs l have hecn opened. The training that students receive in wood shop, cahinet making, metal shop, mechanical drawf ing, electric shop, ma' chine shop, and print' ing helps to prepare hoys for future johs. Some of the vocations open to students who have had a preliminary training in these crafts include tool and die making, welding, car' pentering and drafting. Xa .......-9 I Q . MR. C. ANTHONY VAN KAMMEN MR. H. M. DEXTER MR. liRNliS'l' F. VRISIELAND MR. GEORGE SILLING MR. GEORGE GUY L16 BASISMENT BARITONES: JABURY, MR. PAUL MARCKWARDT MR. CHARLES M. RAVER MR. DEE ALLEN REYNDERS