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

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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

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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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udjc Jfaffz pawea Do, re. mi, fa. Come ong everyhody sing! Make the rafters ring!! Such has heen the spirit with which the vocal music department has made itself heard during the last year as peppy, widefawake hoys and girls have given vent to their happiness in singing. School days have always heen a time for indulging in the simple joy derived from good music. As for actual accomplishment, twice this year groups of Union singers perf formed over the air waves of W.L.A.V. and the Senior Boys' Glee Cluh sang at the M.E,A. Convention in the Civic auditoriumg while the lvladrigal Sing' ers entertained audiences at the Grand Rapids Art Gallery and at the St. Cecilia. The vocal music department also had complete charge of the annual Christmas program, which, unlike precedf ingChristmaspageants, consisted wholly of singing. The season was roundedfout hy a vocal concert which was pref MR. THEODORE FRYFOGLE MISS FLORIENCIE BEST 'S , . X . WAITING FOR THE SIGNAL First Row: Richer, Phillips, E. Lovett, Petersen, Fuller, Hnhcr, Ynlacki, Root, Saunders, R. Hansen, Pirnk, R. Mmilder, Mohr-ig Second Row: Dewey, Burkholder, Robinson, Armstrong, W. Munlder, Visser, Blum, Otter-en Vet-hey, Gutos, Wolfson Third Row: Cederquist, Marvin, Schudern, Vander Molen, wrlI!kl3lIES, DeGraff, C. Hansen Zylstrn, Schroeder, Sehoen, Meyer, W. Lovett, Iiwing Ringelberg, at piano sented on April 29. Besides such features as singing hy junior and senior high school groups, and hy the Teachers' Ulee Cluh, the whole program was highlighted hy a cantata, written hy Paul Hindemith. GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHESTU Sitting: Voss, Peterson, Witczak, Sedam, Beardsley, jnhury, Gill, Carter, Clark, and others Kneeling: Vander Molen, Fletcher, Olejniczak, Burns, Lundberg, Weller, Nnrdin Cathedral Choir 17