Washington High School - Scroll Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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SYLVIA BROOKS Senior Clerk. Office NORMA ZARTNER Library VIOLA MOLKENTIN Office Junior CUrk. THE TEACHER ' S CREED I BELIEVE in BOYS and GIRLS, the men and women of a great tomorrow; that whatsoever the boy soweth, the man shall reap. I BELIEVE in the curse of ignorance: in the efficacy of schools; in the dignity of teaching; and in the joy of serving others. I BELIEVE in wisdom as revealed in human lives as well as in the pages of printed books; in lessons taught not so much by precept as by example; in ability to work with the hands as well as to think with the head; in everything that makes life large and lovely. I BELIEVE in beauty in the school room, in the home, in daily life and out of doors. I BELIEVE in laughter; in love; in faith; in all ideals and distant hopes that lure us on. I BELIEVE that every hour of every day we receive a Just reward for all we are and all we do. I BELIEVE in the present and its opportunities; in the future and its promises; and in the divine joy of living. Edwin Osgood Grover. Page Twenty-five

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■if ' l f ' LAUREN P. SPRAGUE Joinery. Woodturning Assistant Coach of Football: Direc- tor of Ticket Reservations; Director of Bicycle Club, ORVILLE M. STIFFNEY Bookkeeping Bookstore Bookkeepcc. INEZ H STROHM English ' .Vshington Players Director MARGARET THOMPSON English Lincoln Literjry Society Critic. FLORENCE VAN VLIET English Scroll Bi-VVeckly LitcrDry Critic ,„ CHARLES R, WHITE History BRISTOL E. WING Cabinet Making Mechanical Drawing Custodian of Athletic Equipment, GERDA P. WITTMAN English Scroll B. -Weekly Literary Critic. WILLIAM S. WOODS Bookkeeping Commercial Geography Bookstore. ILMA ZINNS English Scroll Bi -Weekly Literary Critic. Page Tivenly-four

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Louis X ' I roon Agitativc recitation A 7 ale of Two Cities ENGLISH AND SPEECH L ANGWIDGE was what it was called ' when our grandfathers attended the little red schoolhouse in the days of birch switches and half holidays. Today we politely term it English, because the schoolhouse is no longer red, and switches and half holidays have passed with the horses and buggies. In one of the most important phases of English — composition work — efforts have been employed to develop creative writing, devel- oping within the student the ability to write from personal experience and emotion as well as with an individual style. Consequently, some very fine work in all English classes in the shape of essays, short stories, and poetry has helped to make The Scroll ' s literary page the epitome of ths school ' s finest c re- ative work. Subsequent to th: study of Addison and Steele, individual Spectator satires were written by students in English 8 classes. A standard vocabu- lary test, also in English 8, proved an incentive for cxtend- Suppressed Desires ing vocabularies. Through the use of a model stage and settings made by Herbert Peters, Macbeth was very effectively presented. In Miss Orma Keuper ' s English 5 group a com- pilation of letters from successful men and women was made as a general project. Gram- mar essentials were given due emphasis in rela- tion to the creative writing. Hand in hand with English walks Speech. While someone has said that speech was given to man to disguise his thought, pub- lic speaking has a less enigmatic aim — to give poise, skill in conversation, training in reference work, as well as ability to de- bate well. Very fi ne work was done in after dinner speaking, dramatics, and debating. Through their very purpose the speech classes offer valuable training to the school leaders. Both departments ; ' - ; iiB BM M improve the medium of self-expression : one through speech alone, the other through ipcech and writing. America has turnished — Patie Tu ' cnty-s x