West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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English Passengers are encouraged to use better grammar, to study literature, and to enjoy outside reading on the English deck. It offers such studies as poetry, plays, novels, and short stories, not merely as a list of enumerated facts to be absorbed by the passen- gers during the voyage but as their potential interests after crossing for the last time. Tracy Ellis and Donna Jean Francis survived thirty-nine debates to become school champions. The Parent-Teachers Association wit- nessed the semi-finals, and the finals were held at the Lions ' Club. Clarence Block, senior passen- ger, interviews Miss Crump con- cerning the subject of an English 8 theme. Miss Stockdale gives aid to struggling intellectuals. Charles Hlad demonstrates the effectiveness of his miniature guil- lotine constructed to illustrate A Tale of Two Cities. Students employed in library research find the library shelves a fruitful hunting ground. Donna Jean Francis ' ingenious sugar castle illustrates her concep- tion of Arthurian castles in Idylls of the King. Norma Heasley and Don Rae take their turn at the mike to entertain a speech class and try their voices and materials on an audience. Dick Redfern and Evelyn Rabi- deaux contribute to the literary supplement of the Arthur Hill NEWS. Leaenda 59

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c ommercial On the commercial deck, passengers acquired skill in typing, shorthand, book- keeping, commercial law, salesmanship, advertising, and transcription for use on the business sea. Leading the typing 4 classes are Marion Frisch, with 65 words a minute; Helen Bilsky with 64; Doris Fischer and Jacqueline Kretz with 63; Olga Stanko with 60; and Lorine Geyer, Dorothy Niederquell, and Alice Fleischmann with 59. Shirley Thurlow, typing 2 passenger, made the score of 60 words a minute. Ann Baskow, Elvira Bierlein, Grace LaFlair, Ellen List, Betty Markey, Genevieve Markey, and Madeline Railling were the first passengers to pass the 120 word theory test in transcription and to receive certificates. Rachel Quackenbush, transcribing her shorthand notes. Passengers interested in commercial arithmetic spent time every day on deck working problems in auditing, averages, fractions, decimals, and aliquot parts. The Student Union candy store is manned by advance bookkeepers. This voyage Gottie Bieri, Donald Detwiler, June Mackie, Betty Markey, Helene Nagel, Marion Prinz, Betty Specht, Elfrieda Gremel, and Marjorie Stenroos doled out candy bars in return for nickels and dimes. Ruth Kile, center picture, works at her book- keeping set. Ten salesmanship students left the old tub Annex to gain actual experience in Saginaw stores. During the last laps of the voyage, thirty to fifty minute sales talks and demonstrations could be heard in the salesmanship stateroom. Bette Wigen, right picture, is typical of shorthand enthusiasts who learned to take dictation rapidly and accurately. Certificates were awarded to passengers passing tests with a minimum amount of errors. 58 193 3

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1101 a Dramatics A well-rounded dramatic season included three plays and a pageant. Ellen Flelschmann, presi- dent; Ariel Wood, vice- president; Margery Hem- meter, secretary; and Frank Muehlenbeck, treasurer; manned the Arts-Dramatics Club this trip. The presentation of the three-act play Little Wo- men set a new precedent with the group. In the cast, standing, are Frank Putnam, Catherine Gaus, Robert Sauve, Frank Mueh- lenbeck, Maurice Lock- wood, and Ariel Wood; seated, Reva Hoag, Ellen Fleischmann, Emma Neu- wirth. and Eleanor Mc- Wethy. Eleven juniors staged Lewis Beach ' s The Goose Hangs High. Players in- clude, standing, Barbara Tillson, Frank Putnam, Har- old McCray, Florence Car- mell, Marvin Cooper, Em- ma Neuwirth, Robert Sauve, Arlene Nikolai, Claude Pound, and Edwin Hender- son; seated, Mary Louise Smith and Jane Louise Brown. The cast for the senior play, Mr. Pirn Passes By, included Betty Cobb, Je- rome Brenner, Ariel Wood, Frank Muehlenbeck, Wal- lace Plonta, Ellen Fleisch- mann, and Reva Hoag. The finale of the Christ- mas pageant, Why the Chimes Rang, which was given at the Temple The- atre during the Christmas season. 60 193 8