University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Personnel: Mrs. Julia Mr. William ('arisen. Aim. Something new has been added to U. High. An official chorus and orchestra are being ottered for credit. Mr. Joe Jung, music instructor, feels that activities like these give the students a chance to work together. Not only the students participating, hut everyone in the school will benefit. To stimulate more interest, an award is being given to the students in orchestra or chorus who have made the greatest contributions to music at U. High this year. Another class not quite so new, hut still unusual, is the combined English and social studies course. This year the course was only being given to these v c n t h a n d eighth grades, hut plans are being made to include the twelfth grade in the program. Next year the senior class will be divided into three sections. Miss Edith West will teach one of the classes and Mr. Dwight Burton will teach the second. The third group will have separate classes as in the past. The math and science departments also have a combined class for the eighth grade. They feel that the students will be able to make better use of their mathematical knowledge when they can actually sec how it will apply to daily situations. Since most of the students at U. High plan to attend college, there is a greater demand for college preparatory work. A general four-point plan is used in all classes: first, to develop computational skills; second, to solve problems in daily life as well as in math; third, to develop analytical and reasoning powers; fourth, to apply learned knowledge to everyday situations. Each spring an award is presented to the student who docs the most outstanding work in science. The language classes this year have stressed culture. With a good basic understanding of foreign nations, one world will Ik- a closer reality. Miss Emma Birkmaicr is taking a group of sixteen language students on a tour of Europe this summer. There they will see foreign culture first hand. They sailed from New York on May 2} and will return to the United States on August t$. Miss Birkmaicr hopes Office Stuff: Mrs. Ruth Wood, Mrs. Helen Hillman, Miss Edith Nyquist. that trips to Europe and other countries will become an annual affair. Physical Education: Mr. Oiva Pesoncn, Miss Mary Bcrming-ham.

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DR. MINARD STOUT Dr. Minard Stout has been at L High for two years as principal. During that time lie has attempted to stabilize staff policy by securing | crmanent department heads. In line with his efforts to make U. High a leading laboratory school. Dr. Stout hopes the College of Education will build a new high school with money recently appropriated by the state legislature. In addition to directing school curriculum. Dr. Stout is chairman of the Executive Committee. He is also an instructor in the College of Education. MR. STERLING MITCHELL Sterling B. Mitchell, who has been assistant principal for three years, has a big job at U. High. He is in charge of passes, admit slips, excuses. and discipline, and he schedules all of the classes and rooms, lie-sides this, he has the important job of advising the Senate. Like many of our teachers, he is also a graduate student in the College of Education. Mr. Mitchell came from Syracuse University in New York, where he took his graduate work. During the war he served in the Navy. C-»3

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Miss Mary Lynne Connor. Mr. Ralph Matthews, Mrs. Janet Sc h roe tier, Mr. Dwight Burton, Mrs. Julia Aim. Absent: Miss Jean Fair. ARTS Mrs. Margaret Proshek. Mr. Carlisle Anderson, Mr. Charles Smith, Mr. Joseph Jung, Mr. George Olson. LANGUAGE Mr. William Sehleppegrell. Miss Emma Birkinaicr. Miss Gertrude Fried than, Mrs. Dorothy Michalson.