Wethersfield High School - Elm Yearbook (Wethersfield, CT)

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Before thus year Wethersfueld students have been greatly handucapped by the lack of a gymnasuum where they could work We now have one xaxhueh guves us all the opportunuty to work and enjoy the equupment that has been furnushed for us It can be converted unto two smaller gymnasu ums xx here the bovs and gurls classes can be conducted separately and ta the same tume or ut may be used as an audutoruum by placung the chaurs on the floor It has all the advantages of a large audutoruum a large stage and many exuts all of xx huch can be reached easuly wuthun the space of a few seconds from any pount un the room As a gym ut us ultra mod ern contaunung a complete supply of apparatus xnuth vxhuch to xnxork Thus uncludes ropes rungs stall bars parallel bars poles mats bucks horses and adequate basketball and baseball equupment In the basement are the two showtr rooms vxhert the pupuls may take showers at any tume after gym vtork There us also a correctuxe gymnasuum wuth specual apparatus The Praetucal Arts Department also offers a new opportunuty for the young people of the student bodv to learn home makung and the manual scuences Thus uncludes sewung and cookung for the gurls constructuon work wuth wood and metal pruntung and mechanucal drawung for the boys The equupment un thus department us of the latest and most progres suve ty pe obtaunable The cafeterua a large vuell lughted room serx es both the faculty and the student body wutlu good nourushung well balanced meals each day The menu consusts of hot dushes salads sandvuuches deserts fruut mulk on Wednesday a W H S specual us served The pruce charged for all dushes except the specual us Hve cents The Scuence Department has a complete supply of modern scuentufie equupment un both the chemustry laboratory and the buology laboratory Thus uncludes unduvudual sunks and gas and electruc fixtures at the desks Thus factor enables the students to do theur work more satusfactoruly and to get a better understandung of the pruncuples unvolx ed un theur experu ments We also haxe a new and more complete lubrary than exer before whuch us beung added to constantly bv the varuous clubs un the hugh school At the present tume ut contauns a large collectuon of scuence books hustory books encyclopeduas poetry buographues travel tales and novels Thus lubrary enables the student body to look up outsude reference work and to reap a full enjoyment from the best books and classucs Durung the past year sex eral new appluances have been added to our Commercual Department enablung the students takung that course to learn to run the mumeograph Eduphone mumeoscope and the calculator The number of typewruters has been unereased greatly durung the past year these are all of the Rox al and the Undervx ood make and each pupul takung typevx rutung must learn to operate both kunds The xuxhole buuldung us well lughted and well heated The telephone serxuce connectung the varuous rooms wuth the office sax es the secretary much tume xx huch vxas prexuouslv spent un the runnung from one room to another We haxe here a progressuve unstututuon vxell buult and well cared for by those un charge It us up to the students to do theur part and to take adx antage of the opportunutues xxhuch are beung offered them F P 29 V . . . Y y ' 1 i 1 I ' 7 . . . a f 1 V ' , ' ' . . Y . . - - . I , r r v ' , . a s ' 9 v s 1 1 1 1 u y 1 ' . , ' 1 r v . ' ' If ' ' ' . , ' , , ' , r - - s 9 r ' r -' r 1 1 s s u ' 4 ' . . Y. . . . 9 9 a s a v . . , . Y . . .- r r v w - w , . Y . . x s a a 1 - . . 7 - . Y V - 1 a v u - . . V . . r r ' 1 . 9 . V.. . 7 . . . -. Y - . V .... Y . Y . Y V. . . V .... Y - . - Y s f . , ' Q -'a. ., .

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Nix Rrr r Irzrxr: Xl. ILLIAXIS Self rontamed and ronfidenl loo rrartrral for a Hrrzht through the clouds dur rm.: sthuol hour Myrtle nerertheless hop-r off rn her lersure trme Although our lady of the braids rs quarntly flemurc axratron holds no terrors for her he lrusls the prlut Her precr-non vwrll make her a goml stem: raphcr or housekeeper c rxrtre f lu u n Delratrng Club it Cnmmercral Club 147 Doreorrn jrxxrrrr ROBERTS Dor Hou. good 15 lzfe the mere lwzng Mental gwmnastrcs are as easy for Dot as izorm. oxer the buck for she has establrshed an envrable record rn both the yymnasrum and the classroom Her dr posrtron make her an agreeable companron her reaclrnyz and thrnkrngf make her an rnterestrmz one Attrxrtre f lee Club 41 Democracy C ur 4 Qrnmr Ba kethall Team 1-In Elm Board 1 11 nr rn mlled but fer gr! p VN at r rt rlront I-rannrt that r-x o appealing l rt hr srdelmarrl or those eye so soft and brown ' s harm to but me lrkf hrm anxway no matter hem many trme h goes Io up rn class A real athlete r-. Pldh rml we re proud of hrm Our good wr-.hes to xxrth hrm Actrxrlre-. homer 12'i4r Captarn 14h Basketball C nam 1ll Prue Speakrnrz ! Student C uncrl 17l Treasurer of Cla-.s 'Z Flm Board it Democracy Club and Play 143 THE FEATURES OF THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL Untrl the fall of 1928, XVethersHelds younger people had recerved thcrr educsatron rt the Center School on Marn Street For many years that school had served farthfully and vxell the purposes of the town, hovs ex er, durrng the past few years the torxn has grown as 1 resrdentral sec tron, rncreasrng the populatron to such an erctent as to vmrrant and neces srtate the burlclrng of :r new school Thrs burldrng was completed durrng the fall, makmg room for 1 large number of students There are 21 great many features about thrs burldrng that place rt upon 1 lex tl ruth the most modern schools through out the country H I.. . '.. , . ' . , A - O 5. A. 1 .. .. '. B. 5 l A 't' ' S 2 -- Cl I 11-2-3-Ang ' 1 1? : . ' V , , , , nl YY rr ,., '. ' ' ' rv , . - ' s I 1 : ' l l 1 lg . - ' ' 's' I 4b. J1lSl-lPll Frmxcrs Drxrrxfa . . . FMS ll g' 1 , 1 .9 ll . 'h 's ' z '- ' 1 s ' . s ' 'S . . S . ,V SY X. A. . 2 It'.' ' 'l I1-ll. ' A f ' ' ,' ' , ' ' ' ' . S E' ' ' slr- ' .' . ' 13-lu: ar ' - : '.- ' ' 1515 0 L : ' ' ,4 1. ng , 12-2 : -' ' . . , . f 1 ' ' . . . . '

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PARKS Not so many years ago the Idea of plannmg parks or playgrounds m Wethersfield would have been set aside as absurd The town xtself seemed hke a large park A great change took place when the farms were made mto streets now the town ns nearly all bullt up wrth modern homes Thls of course makes a demand for schools and parks Wnthm about ten years we have bullt three grammar schools and our large I-hgh School Hartford our nelghbor IS noted for nts beautlful parks some of ltS beloved cltnzens haung left thexr estates for thus purpose Many of these are ln the heart of the crty easxly reached by exeryone Wethersfield IS plannnng nts first large park whlch we feel sure wxll be a credit to us We saved our Green or Common as It IS called Both of these speak well for our town Kulhlren H0170 Grade 8 A AN APPEAL FOR A CLASSICAL ROOM We have a beautiful new school which rs m most respects almost Ideal but we have no room wh1ch can be called a classxcal room Many students th1nk of Latm as a dull and tlresome study Can you blame them? It may be nf nt has not the proper surroundings It would seem much more mterestmg and ahve rf we had a room equipped just for Latm In If we could have dxagrams of the glorlous conquests of Caesar pictures of Cncero dehvermg hrs famous oratxons and of the xllustrlous deeds of other famlhar Romans We mlght even have some small Images of these dlstmgulshed men These few detanls would not only tend to make Latm easner but also grve If a tmge of the enyoyment gamed from other subyects We arm to make Latm more deslrable to students so whv not take thls means of doing nt? That IS the reason that we make thus appeal for a room that we can call a classmcal room and one that mll be used for that purpose only Florence Murray 31 COOPERATION ns to get 1ll the members of the group to work together for the benefit of all It IS the same may IH hft you and your best frlend may do some thrng equally vsell but probably together you could both do better Co operatnon begms at home later If contmues at school At home you try to co operate synth the rest of the members of the family and w1th the frnends :round you At school you combme your efforts wlth those of the pupnls and teachers Often nn school durnng a studv perrod or during a rec1t1t:on 1 pupxl has somethmg he rushes to say to hrs nexghbor who sxts across from hum Such a commumtatxon vull dxsturb others co operation therefore ns necessary One must 1lso be attentxve Teachers put specnal work unto the preparation for the dav s program wnth the class Therefore they mll appreclate lt nf every one hstens closely Carry out the teachers mstructnons Even lf you cannot always see the purpose back of the nn structnons respect your teachers enough to do as you are told Co operatlon IS necessary Wnthout lt the world would fall Each person has a wnll of hrs own thus wnll should drrect htm to work smoothly mth others Alam Znmz 31 3 . . . y . y . . . , . , . , . . . . , . . ' ll 7, ' ' . . , . . T , - . Y , . . , . . . 1 . , I . Y. , .. P' y , Y The hardest task of an athletic coach. teacher, or an orchestra leader . Y Q . V Y . . he 7 V . V - l V - , . 4 ' - ,' ' T V Q ' 9 7 .lu 5 1 r . . 7 . v V' xx' A ' f 'I r ' . i , . Y ' ' , - l Y v v' -1 ' Y . ' - 1 '