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

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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

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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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M, MR. BERTON KEMP L18 A WOMAN'S WORLD: Carlson, Glass MISS MARIE McDERMO'l 1', Skotupskn MR. FORREST BARR MISS EDNA MAXSON MISS EDITH LE HEW MISS IDA WILLISON ' ' ci. 8 Practices of the past always give way to changes of the present, thus paving the way for a better life in the future. Keeping in step with the times is the commercial department here at Union. In past years, the usual commercial subjects were typing, shorthand, and bookeeping. Now, since the trend is toward mechanization of office work, commercial teachers, although they still consider the aforementioned subjects necessary, have also taken to teaching their pupils filing and to giving them pointers on how to secure and keep positions. Among the office machines in use here are the dictaphone and ediphone. Another type of machine is the mimeograph through which a maximum number of letters, bulletins, and other brief notices can be run off with a minimum effort. Some Union students go to Davis Tech to learn how to use a comptometer. The retail selling classes, under the direction of Miss Le Hew, still have only one end in view: to prepare pupils for work in stores. During rush seasons, worthy disciples of clerking receive recommendations from their teachf er, with these in hand they apply for positions in downftown shops. In spite of the trend of change in the commerf cial department, the fact that good grades help the student to obtain a job and eventually to ORRES1 LP-W achieve success remains unaltered. -ARTHUR MR, F J. AVERY