University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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StuAesit ManaCfe il 'httdeA, the fli(j Vop - The student managing body of the big show at University High is known to the cast as the Senate. This group lays down the rules by which the performers abide. The Senate with its Ringmaster. Mr. George McCutcheon, meets each Thursday during the activity period. According to the constitution of the Managers, representatives and alternates are elected by the members of each class in May to serve for the following performance. Each of the Junior High classes is allowed one senator and one alternate. The sophomores are represented by two representatives with an alternate for each. The junior and senior classes, as the oldest and largest in the school, each have three representatives and three alternates. The officers are nominated by the new Senate each spring. The candidates give their campaign speeches during an all-school assembly program, amongst the dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters of the Natural History Museum. Following these speeches elections are held in which the entire student body chooses the president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer of the Senate for the next year. The officers of this year's Senate were Ed Briggs, president; Bill McGee, vice-president; Mary Emslie. secretary; and John Buchta, treasurer. This year the Senate was again active in the Northwest Federation of Student Councils. They sent two representatives. Ed Clapp and Mary Goepfert, and Mr. McCutcheon, their adviser, to the Federation meeting which was held at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis during the latter part of April. One of this year's major events was the Senate-sponsored Homecoming dance. Following the tradition of the Senate, vice-president Bill McGee was chairman of the Homecoming Committee. The second successful showing of the U. Highlites was given this year under the guiding hands of the Senators. To help the Juniors finance the annual Junior-Senior Prom, the Senate gave them the High-lite ticket-sale concession which carried with it seventy-five per cent of the net proceeds. By a new rule passed in the Senate this year, club charters were issued in May to expire next year. The purpose of these charters is to protect the audience from operators of unlicensed side-shows and exhibits. SENATE—4th ROW: Mclicr, Perks. G. Petraborg, C. Brown, Clapp. Noreen. 3rd ROW: Endrcss, McElrojr, J. Nelson, Lcvmsohn, Randolph, Harris. 2nd ROW: I. Bobc-g. McMcckm, Picper, Jean Cranston, Bouthilct, Goepfert. 1st ROW: Sporlcy, Briggs. Mr. McCutcheon, Emtlic, A. Brown, McGee. 7

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Jlixut atne iA. SCIENCE DEPARTMENT: Mr. Gordon Morlc keeps exhibits of exotic plants and animals in his biology classes. As co-adviser of the Seniors, he has led them through the schedule of circus triumphs. Besides being personnel director. Mr. Clayton Gjcrde teaches a fusion of physical sciences and advises the AVOC and the juniors. Mr. Morton Keston. piano player in the circus band, teaches eighth grade general science and acts as eighth grade adviser. He conducts chemistry, music appreciation, and that stupendous thrill exhibit, advanced physics. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT: The poise and diction of all our performers can be attributed to Miss Lome Seabury. who conducts the Dramatic Club and the speech class. Mr. Robert Carlson wields a huge, black whip to make his senior English students go through their paces. However his attention-getter proves more often to be quotations from Ogden Nash. Miss Margaret Day. who left U. High at the end of winter quarter to become Mrs. McDougal, was replaced by Mr. Theodore Long. She taught seventh and tenth graders to hang by their teeth from adverbs and was co-adviser of the tenth grade. Miss Bertha Handlan has her eleventh grade English classes walking the tight-rope in the main tent. She is also the adviser of the Acme girls. Miss Mildred Schmidt has lots of fun feeding the kiddies peanuts and popcorn, nouns and verbs in her eighth and ninth grade English classes. MATH AND COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENTS: Mrs. Lois K. Turner guides the feminine performers as girls' personnel director. Girls’ Club sponsor, and Acme adviser. Besides this she supervises the Pep Club, that famous trigonometry class, and Preflight Aviation. Miss Olive Prine this year has her geometry classes putting on a figure juggling act that is quite a thrill. Miss Phyllis Vanderschaegen has held two roles at U. High. First she was a member of the office force, now she teaches personal typing to students. Mac teaches his math students to make the big tent show a profit. The Senate. Chess Club. Freshman Class, and OPPOSITE PAGE—TOP-So«oec: Mofk. Gjerde. K««ton. H.itory: Well, Mcridcth, Wctlcy Cartwright. MIDDLE—Englith: Sc«burr, Day. C fl»«n (•Unding). Handlan, Schmidt. Art«: Helm, McCart. Nickerton, laging. BOTTOM—Math and Commercial: Turner, Prine. Vandeuchaegen, Me-Cutcheon. Language: di Giambattuta, Birkmaier (ttandmg), Marlowe. the football team also come under the guiding hand of Mr. George McCutcheon. SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT: Miss Edith West teaches social problems to the seniors and. as coadviser to the juniors, she has helped plan the big event of our show, the J.S. U. High performers swing expertly from one date to another in Mrs. Claude Merideth's junior U. S. History classes. The Bisbila Board receives her special attention during activity periods. Dr. Edgar B. Wesley, head of the Social Studies Department, has provided mental food for the U. High menagerie by writing and editing many of the textbooks we study in history. Mr. William Cartwright teaches the junior high history classes. The eighth graders maintain that he tells the most interesting tales of any circus story teller they've ever heard. INDUSTRIAL AND FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT: Over in Pattee Mr. Robert Helm houses the woodworking show. Mr. Helm teaches ninth grade science and is co-adviser of the tenth grade. Mrs. Thomas McCart. of the Home Economics Department, supervised the sewing of those glamorous costumes the audience whistled at in the U. Highlites. Mrs. McCart is also the co-adviser of the seventh grade. Mr. James Nickerson is singing star and leader of the circus band. His greatest success was the production of a bigger and better U. Highlites. The Art classes, under Mr. Duard Laging painted the advance posters for our shows. Mr. Laging is the co-adviser of the seventh grade and he is in charge of the Camera Club. LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT: Miss Ellen di Giambattista teaches Spanish and French students to toss nouns and verbs at one another. DiGi also helps the French club put on skits for the show, and is coadviser for the ninth grade act. Fraulein Birkmaier. or is it senorita. has added Spanish to her duties of teaching German. Miss Birkmaier also manages to advise the German and Spanish Clubs besides coadvising the senior class. Miss Eleanor Marlowe helps conduct two of the main foreign exhibits in the tent, Latin and Spanish. Also she sponsors the Latin Club. 9