Western High School - Westerner Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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IN APPRECIATION lvlr. William E. Priest R. W. E. PRIEST came into the District of Columbia School system in i889 and was transferred from Central to Western in l906. Mr. Priest's devotion to his subject, ancient history, and his love for the beautiful soon took material form in the furnishing and decoration of his room which became an inspira- tion and a lasting memory to the hundreds of students who took his course. Their feeling for their instructor was very happily expressed in letters received on his retirement last lune. To his fellow members of the Western faculty, lvlr. Priest was always friendly, always serene. But this does not indicate a supine' complacency in an evil world. On the contrary he was always ready to bear his testimony against injustice, and to stand with those working for human betterment. A lover of beauty in all its form, Mr. Priest was especially fond of Nature and it is a pleasure to think of him with leisure hours in his garden, with time to read and to write and to rest from his long and faithful service to the schools of Washington. ALICE L. WOOD. If l8l

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MISS P. EDNA Tl-IONSSEN Assistant Principal . ot Western High School fa Mina, 7 MR. NORMAN l. NELSON Assistant Principal of Western l-ligh School

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IN APPRECIATION Fraulein Emma von Seytried HROUGH the retirement of Fraulein von Seyfried, Western High School has lost one of its most popular and most able teachers. Fraulein von Seyfried had the ability to make her pupils deeply interested in her subject. This interest did not stop in the classroom but went on into the work of the German Club, Gluck Auf. It was the encouragement and help of Fraulein von Seyfried that kept this small but interested group together. Before coming to Western in l905, Fraulein von Seyfried had taught at the Cathedral School here in Washington, and prior to that at a private school on the Hudson. Fraulein von Seyfried has taught music, French, Spanish, and her native language, German. She spent a year in Brussels continuing her study ot music and perfecting herself in conversational French. Here in America, she studied French at Middlebury, Vermont, lvlt. Holyoke, and Wellesley. In lvlarburg, Germany, she studied German under the famous Dr. Vietor, an authority on phonetic speech. just after retiring she took a course on Goethe at Weimar, Germany. Diversity of talents and broad training made her one of our 'most capable teachers. Personal charm and sympathy endeared her to the students. RUTH MAGNUSSON, '33, I I9 I