William Chrisman High School - Gleam Yearbook (Independence, MO)

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MR O L. ATHEY MISS ADA FALLON Miss GENEVIEVE CRAVENS Miss THELMA MYERS Miss IESSIE P GL 11N1t'l'CL' C0m 1f 'ff C0f?1mf CC' Commcrcs, Boolqlqecping Tommy Faculty home? He binds books during the summer. Last summer Miss Fallon was knitting a dress of royal blue. It must have been a lot of hard work and have taken a long time. Her winter pastitme or sport is swimming, but she is not yet ready to attempt the Eng- lish Channel. Miss Cravens is one of our new teachers this year. Her hobby is horseback riding. Sports and traveling seem to hold the in- terest of Miss Jessie Page when her school worries are over and she wants to relax. Travling provides something new and inter- esting. Miss Myers says that she has no time for trees or brooks, but that she enjoys reading books. Reading is surely a delightful pastime. Manual training affords the boys an ex- cellent opportunity not only to gain skill in the use of various tools, but also to make useful and beautiful articles for the home. We have a real poet when it comes to Mr. Wininger. When we need a poem for some occa- sion at school, we ask Mr. Win- inger to write something in keeping with this occasion, and he does it very willingly. Mr. Wininger and Mr. Pigg play tennis equally well. Gymn and hygiene are re- fluired by the State of Missouri for graduation. In athletics Miss Bryant is E Mn. Hamm Manmr! Training well known. She likes basketball, football games, volleyball, and baseball, tennis, in fact, every sport. There is no way of mistaking Mr, French's hobby. It is various sports, but the most out- standing seems to be baseball. He managed baseball at the Campus nearly all last sum- mer, but he will be umpire this year. Mr. Huhn's hobbby is golf. Even though he is busy training for basketball and foot- ball, he always finds time for a game of golf. The introduction of the R. O. T. C. work in our school has given an added interest to many boys, and a splendid opportunity for disciplinary training. This year there are four companies of fifty members each. The highest oflicer is a colonel. V Sergeant Dean spends his spare time and holidays in hunting. This is good exercise even when the game is scarce. The Major or Major Pendleton enjoys both bridge and travel. There is a great art in playing bridge, and there are many interesting things to be seen while traveling. WININGER Mrs. Jessie Moore seems to have two hobbies. When school is out she goes to a friend's milli- nery shop and experiences great pleasure in helping her sell the merchandise. Mrs. Moore also enjoys going to the movies. She is an authoritty on all the latest pictures.

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Miss MARGARET CHILES Miss VERGIE MCCRAY Miss NEL1. E. SAMPSON Miss Ilissua SMITH MR. E. SCHOWENGERDT Domerlic Ari Home Econumirx Aff M -WC Mmm Faculty Furthermore, school art stimulates the imagination, fosters creative ability, and pro- vides a means of self-expression. There is no good reason Why graphic expression should be less beautiful or less understood or less appreciated than expression through words. In fact, the pencil or crayon has an advantage over the pen, in that it expresses a.language that is understood by all nation- alties, throughout the ages. Miss Sampson's pleasure is in her art. She enjoys doing art work while in school and also studying art in the summer. For the last two summers Miss Sampson has attended Columbia University in New York. The music department is well organized and covers many fields of musical develop- ment, offering orchestra, chorus, and har- mony. Each year an operetta is given. Great interest is taken in making its production successful. Elaborate stage sets are con- structed by the manual training department and decorated by art students. Antiques, or rather collecting antiques is the hobby of Miss Smith. Whenever she sees a pretty antique glass pitcher or bowl, she just can't resist the temptation to buy it. At present she is having a small walnut table rennished in the manual training shop. j Mr. Schowengerdt has a pleas- MR. L. E. MORRIS Mechanical Drawing ing voice and spends most of his spare time singing. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Chamber of Com- merce Glee Club, and sings solos at various entertainments. Mechanical drawing is always an asset for skilled workmen, Mechanics, draftsmen, engineers, designers, architects, window trimmers, sign painters, advertisers, elec- tricians, map workers, textile workers, metal workers, furniture makers, instrument workers, glass and pottery workmen, gar- ment workers, bookbinders, illustrators, car- toonists, chemists, physicists, biological workers, pharmacists, civil and mechanical engineers, housewives, and dozens of other workers need a knowledge of drawing, color, and construction. Q Mr. Morris says that his hobbies are farm- ing and running the printing press. He tells us that even if he had to run the printing press all day long, it would still be play. When school is out, Mr. Morris goes to his farm near Oak Grove, Missouri, and gath- ers a coat of tan. The commercial department offers the following subjects: shorthand and typing, I and II, and bookkeeping. Mr. Athey devotes much of his time to making furniture when he is free from school work. Is it for the baby or the

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.,,.. f-. .-- - Miss RUTH BRYANT Mn. RAY FRENCH MR. H. C. Hui-IN SERGEANT H. C. DEAN Muon HARRYTPENDLETON G lx Physical Education Boys' Phy.vicaIEzlucatio11 Hygifflfl 5050! Sfifnfi' R' O' T' C' R' 0' Faculty Such are the various hobbies of the mem- bers of the William Chrisman faculty. Of what use are hobbies? Who can estimate the real value of an individual's hobby? An effort should be made to interest every child in at least one hobby. He has a natural instinct for collecting articles, anything- campaign -buttons or even bottle caps. Why not direct this instinct toward collecting stamps, post cards, old coins, pictures or poetry on birds, flowers, trees, noted people, aviation, or upon any subject in which he takes an interest. Not only will this Work provide a whole- some occupation for his leisure time, but he can learn much of interesting places, both at home and abroad, from- post cards and stamps, and in later years he may even reap pecuniary benefit from a good collection of stamps or rare coins. ' fA1s0 teach him to use his hands in making bird houses, wagons, and other playthings. It has been said that Satan finds mischief for idle hands. Another Writer has said that idle hands are the devil's Workshop. Therefore if the cultivation of a hobby does nothing but keep a youngster out of mischief by providing an outlet for his natural activity, it is Well worth While. Grown people as Well ras chil- dren need to cultivate hobbies. 30 MRS. Inssis Mooma Librarian Pitiful is the state of an individual who has no resources of entertainment Within himself. A hobby provides change, rest, and recre- ation, a relief from the monotony of routine work. Not idleness but change of occupa- tion is rest. Many a man who has -sat all day at his desk in his office, meeting and dealing with various types of persons, likes, when his day's Work is over, to don his over- alls, retire to his work bench in basement or garage and make something With his hands. If an avocation cannot be incorporated With the vocation, so much' the better, for then it develops the personality and affords a Welcome relaxation from drudgery. Man's personality Would be stunted if he were engaged only in uncongenial work. The development of a hobby such as golf, chess, traveling, playing a musical instrument, may lead to the forming of congenial acquaint- ances who may later become lifelong friends. At least one could develop a Wider sphere of acquaintances and eliminate the fear of be- coming an introvert. Some hobbies have led to use- ful inventions. The pursuit of an avocation often leads to a better and more congenial occupation. Not infrequently what has be- gun as a pleasant pastime has become the real vocation and means of livelihood when the original employment has failed.