West High School - Senior Occident Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Faculty West High possesses a teaching staff which has at heart the interest and welfare of the students. Wc feel that the ISM2 Senior Annual would be incom- plete if we did not here acknowledge how much we owe to the faculty, and how much we appreciate their efforts in our behalf. W c trust sincerely that we shall show ourselves worthy of the work they have done for us. Mr. Bennett is principal and head of the Mathematics department. I he other members of the department arc Miss Crennell, Miss McMahon, Mr. Fultz. Mr. Sumner and Mr. Wile. Theorems and logarithms still ring in our ears, and will continue to do so for some time. The discipline which comes from unravelling a knotty problem is a thing which everybody should strive to obtain. We have tried our best to get something out of mathematics and I think we have succeeded a little. Q. E. D. Mr. OTIern is vice-principal and head of our English department. The other members of this department are Miss Allis, Miss Caring, Miss Crippen, Miss Curtiss, Miss Dunsford, Mrs. Ellis, Miss Felsinger, Miss Kates, Miss Purcell, Miss Wells and Mr. Sias. Our English classes have meant more to us than the learning of Shakespeare’s ages of man or Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. We have not read Macbeth to become acquainted with a deqj-dyed villain, but rather that we might have a glimpse of Shakespeare, one of the world’s gigantic minds. Milton’s sterling defense of virtue will furnish us food for contemplation for many years to come, not to mention our friend Burke. The department of Ancient Languages is headed by Mr. Holmes. He is assisted in this work by Mr. Anibal, Mr. Bezant, Miss Bryan. Miss South worth. Miss Young and Mr. Robinson. We have diligently schooled ourselves to get away from the idea of Latin and Greek being “horrid stuff.’’ We have most vehemently disagreed with a certain English king who in an unguarded moment exclaimed, A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. ’ Patiently we have learned our paradigms. Breathlessly we saw Caesar slaughter the Nervii. We helped Cicero transfix that arch-evildoer Cataline, and we fol- lowed sympathetically the persecuted Aeneas through all his wanderings. A classical education is a good thing. Quo usque Catiline abutere patientia— and so on world without end. Mr. Stowell is head of the History department. Miss Melville and Miss Munson are his assistants. The story of the progress of the world forms an exceedingly interesting and instructive study. If you are casting around for a good elective study, try history and you will be amply repaid. Mr. Ford is head of the Physics department and Mr. Page is his assistant. Mr. Carpenter heads the Chemistry department with Mr. Littlefield and Mr. Coon as his assistants. The teachers in the Biological department are Miss Wetmore head, Miss Milliman. Miss Roberts and Mr. Thomas. Patiently we have tried to master electricity. Ionization was a mystery to us for a long time, but “wc have met the enemy and he is ours.’ A love and appreciation of nature in all her aspects is the most important thing we have acquired from the study of science. The teachers in the Commercial department are Mr. Nichols, head Mr Jaffray, Mr. Cook, Miss Klein, and Mr. Smith. Mr. Wcet and Miss See have helped us in making a sensible-looking reproduction of an object on paper Miss Hogan tends to our Musical department. Mr. Gray and Miss Manches- ter take care of our physical education. Miss Underhill maintains order in the office, and Miss Weaver encourages us to read more widely. $

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