Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Camera Snaps Teachers, Pupils Off and on during the year, the candid camera addict caught a few snaps of classes in session (mostly when the teachers weren ' t looking.) Here are the results. They are representative and typical of scenes that take place every day. First we see Mr. Pauley and one of his chemistry classes mixing evil smell- ing concoctions in glass test tubes. Chemistry is a favorite among the science subjects, which also include physics and biology, as the absorbed looks on the faces of the students testify. Mr. Pau y, one of the rulers of the upper hall, also teaches physics, algebra, and trigonometry. (He fires the gun at the bas- ketball games.) Here, in their machine shop at the junior high school, with the co-opera- tion of the school and local industrialists, boys learn trades first hand. The course, new this year, is steadily growing in facilities and popularity. A dozen boys came out for it the first semester. Under the training of their instructor, Mr. Jenkins, they decide what trade they like and then become adept at it. Under the strict and critical observation of their fellow classmates, nine girls demonstrate their skill at executing a forward roll. Standing on their heads and turning flip-flops or flop-flips is all in the day ' s work — or fun — for this gym class. Besides tumbling, basketball, baseball, track, and Miss Harrison, the in- structor, new this year, are some of the excellent sports that make girls ' gym interesting. While their teacher. Miss Helen Miller, looks on smiling, a class in general math — or is it algebra (?) — listens with strict attention to their classmate ' s ex- planation of the problem on the board — if x plus y equals s, what does (7 minus b equal (?) — (take algebra if you want to know the answer.) Geometry and trig- onometry are the more advanced courses offered to students who are mathematic- ally minded. Mr. Pauley supervising chemists ' research. Girls toss, twist, and turn while tumbling. Back at Junior High — in the machine shop. Class watches Byron, Miss Miller watches class 12

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Faculty of Valparaiso Hish School LEATHE C. PONADER — Art; Ball State Teachers ' College, B. S.; Art Institute of Chicago; Booth Bay Harbor Studios. Has an ar- tistic temperament. Tries to im- part her ability to budding Mi- chael Angelos. If she doesn ' t succeed, it ' s not her fault. RALPH E. SCHENCK— Commer- cial, History; State Teachers ' Col- lege, A. B.; Valparaiso University, B. Acct.: University of Chicago, M. A. Efficiently organized to the nth degree. Tells us about how the bayonet carried him around over in France. MARY EDNA STONER— Latin, English; Valparaiso University; University of Chicago, A. B.; Uni- versity of Chicago, M. A. Red- headed and cheerful, she has re- turned to her alma mater as a teacher. Looks after the hic- coughs of the Latin Club. RALPH POWELL — History, Physical Education; Hanover Col- lege, A. B.; Franklin College; University of Iowa; Indiana Uni- versity, M. S. Manages to squeeze in a little ancient history between basketball and track. FRANK G. REID— Social Science; Indiana University; Purdue Uni- versity; Valparaiso University. B. Sc. in Ed.; Graduate work, Butler University. Keeps an alarm clock on his desk to stop himself from talking too much. Likes all forms of exercise, especially walking. HAROLD ROGERS— Music; Illi- nois Weslyan, B. M. E.; Syra- cuse University, graduate work. Wiggles a wooden stick and lo! the music comes out of the band, orchestra, and boys ' glee club. AUDREY SHAUER — English, History; Valparaiso University, A. B. Far from ancient herself, she dispenses ancient history with a smile. Also looks after the daily good deeds of the junior Girl Re- serves. VERA L. SIEB— English; Uni- versity of Wisconsin, A. B.; Val- paraiso University; University of Chicago; University of California; Columbia University. A person- al friend of Noah Webster ' s, she teaches pupils not to say have went. Also suppresses the junior class with a firm hand. DOROTHY SMITH — School Nurse; Methodist Episcopal Hos- pital of Indianapolis; George Peabody Teachers ' College; Iowa University; Indiana University. Not a doctor, only a nurse (self diagnosis), she checks up on our general health and chases away germs. EDITH WEEMS— Home Econom- ics: Valparaiso University, B. S.; University of Chicago; Ball Stats Teachers ' College. Keeps track of the school ' s money. Teaches girls to sew on buttons. Has the nose of a bloodhound, can smell chewing gum a mile off. OLIE W. WELTY— Latin; Val- paraiso University; University of Chicago. Softhearted, she pre- tends to be stern, but non est. Helps Latin students get Caesar out of Gaul. Has a half dozen sets of money to count every noon. JOHN E. WIGGINS — Athletics, Commercial: Ball State Teachers ' College, B. S.; Indiana University, graduate work. Knows his stuff when it comes to football, and manages to get it across to the team. When he isn ' t showing boys how to perform gymnastics, he ' s teaching pupils finger gym- nastics — on the typewriter. athc Founder ra L. Sieb Ralph Powell Frank Eeid Dorothy V. Smith Mary Edna Stoner Harold Rogers Edith Weema Ralph Schenck Olie Weltv Audrey Shauer John Wiggins

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Workshops, Classes Ever Busy In this picture the boy in the foreground is carefully and nicely turning out a table leg on his lathe in woodworking class. In this popular class, every year boys fashion useful articles from wood — checkerboards and end tables, sewing boxes and bookcases, knicknacks and pieces of real furniture — which line our halls each spring at exhibit time and then are carried away to grace the craftsmen ' s homes. Mr. Joseph Brown, the boys ' teacher, is conspicuous by his absence in this picture, but we see him just below, surrounded by one of his mechanical drawing classes. These future architects and draftsmen, boys whose talents in design and drawing run to mechanical art rather than the reg- ular art course, make plans and drawings which yearly win them red, blue, and white ribbons or certificates at the state contest at Lafayette. These departments are sacred to boys, but the girls have retaliation in their well-equipped home economics — cooking and sewing — laboratories. The sew- ing laboratory is pictured in the upper right hand corner. Miss Edith Weems and her class in home nursing take great pride in the fact that their baby (it ' s rubberized) is well clothed. Here we see them busily engaged in stitching its trousseau — or do you call it a layette ( ?) — (Later the clothing goes to real needful babies. ) Miss Weems also guides the industrious fingers of freshmen girls learn- ing how to sew, when she isn ' t out campaigning against her pet peeve — chew- ing gum. And here, last of all, is a class in Deutsch, watching their friend at the board. She is about to decline a verb — in German, of course — and seems somewhat at a loss as how to begin. Perhaps her teacher, Mr. John M. Koch, will give her a hint if she gets stuck. German and Latin, offering three and four year courses respectively, comprise the foreign language element of our school. Let ' s see if we know any — oh, yes — ave atque vale and auf wiedersehen, of course! ibles and rolling pins in the making. r. Brown watches carefully while his boys ' draw. V. H. S. trains future home makers. Herr Koch explains intricities of declension. 13