Austin High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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In our English classes, in addiTion To our work wiTh The sTandard classics, many passages in which Took on larger meanings in The lighT oT war-Time siTuaTions, we used arTicIes dealing direcTly wiTh The war. Reading assignmenTs, class discussions, and Themes were based on arTicIes from Time, I3orTune, Readers' DigesT, and oTher magazines, or on news Trom The Tror1T lines as Tound in The daily papers. We read abouT changing world condiTions and discussed Them as well as problems OT The Peace and reconsTrucTion. We became acquainTed wiTh The ouTsTanding miIiTary Tigures like Ivlarshall, MacArThur, Eisenhower, PaTTon and NimiTz, and wiTh The ouTsTanding poIiTical Tigures like STaIin, Churchill, I-lull, Eden, and oThers. We read war-Time books: Guadalcanal Diary, Berlin Diary, See Here, PrivaTe Hargrove, VicTory Through Air Power. Burma Surgeon, ThirTy Seconds Over Tokio, Mission To Mos- cow, Bombs Away, BeTrayaI From The EasT, Paris Underground, Under Cover, TargeT Germany, I-Iere Is Your War, D Day, and many oThers, as well as war-Time TicTion in books and magazines, is T '5h,,,,4w'-0 , I ' MW! ,ig-T sz fifhg 7, . Q II I 35 , Ti llligg, I mil-M: 3: I Q f iii, sm ' 7 THE LIBRARIES AusTin I-ligh led all The Chicago high schools This year in The circulaTion oT books: 47,334 books, besides many magazines and pamphIeTs. ATTend- ance in The libraries was I I6,265. During The year a Third library was added Through The conversion oT rooms ZOI and 202 inTo one large library room, primarily Tor use oT Teach- ers and oT The Evening College. A large group of sTudenT helpers give service To The school in The library, and, as They do so, be- come Tamiliar wiTh books and auThors, learn To shelve books, and acquire oTher library knowledge. IN THE LIBRARY IN THE ENGLISH CLASS

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PANEL DISCUSSION EN MISS MRS. MISS MISS GLISH MABEL ISER, CHAIRMAN RUTH ALMLOF HELEN ATWATER ALICE BAUM MR. H. A. BERENS MISS MRS. MISS MRS. MISS MISS MISS MISS MRS. MISS MRS. MRS. MRS. MISS MISS MRS. MISS MRS. MRS. MISS MISS MISS MISS MISS MISS MISS MRS. MISS MISS MRS. MISS MRS. MRS. MISS 1 21-YD 6' XX , X 5 I-lere are some ol our war-lime aclivilies in English classes: Exchanges of ideas on currenl condilions and prolfalemsg panel discussions: simulaled radio broad- caslsg Iown-meelings-of-Ilie-air: aclivilies forcing us lo 'rlfiinlc aboul wlial we have read rallier llien Io give mere reporlsg lisleninig Io news commen- lalors and bringing in Iimely inlormalionq sludy- ing and evalualing imporlanl documenls like Four Freedoms, AIlanlic Cliarlerf' and wriling lef- lers lo soldier relalives and friends. 40- X L.. ELLEN BURNAP RUTH CARLSON CLARA CARMODY OONA CORCORAN OLIVIA COX LUCILLE CURRENT CECILE DORE RUBY ELSAM EVA DRUMMOND MADELINE GLYNN BERNICE GOSSETT MARY ETTA HAAS HELEN H. HELSING VERNON HORN ALICE JOHNSTONE BELLE JACOBS FRANCES KENNEY MARGARET LINCOLN MARY M. LOWRY SUE V. MAHER AMY M. MARTIN DORIS MEAD JANET O'BRIEN ALICE RAPE HAZEL RYLANDER HELEN SAFFORD HORTENSE SCHLADER HELEN SCHOENBECK FLORENCE SHEEHY K MARION STONE n ELLA M. STOTT X- ETHEL SUNDERGARD ' IRENE WHITE HELEN WILLIS . u I, I A

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MATHEMATICS ln no deparImenI has Ihe impacI of Ihe war upon Ihe curriculum conIenIs and meihods been lelr more slrongly Ihan in Malhemafics. In response Io Ihe requesis of frhe war and Navy Deparimenis and oi Ihe Air Forces, marhee maiics requiremenls for all boys in high school have been made more slringeni, and in Ihe courses Ihere has been a Ienclency Io emphasize ariIhmeIical compuialion and simple miliiary ap- plicaiions. Among oiher Things, Ihere has been siress upon decimals, common Iraciions, graphs. scale clrawings, maps, proieclicles, elemenlary surveying, mariner's compass, greal circle, rhumb line, mil and rodian, spherical Iriqonomefry, square roof, aviaiion problems, and war savings prob- lems. MR. ORLA R. SPITLER, CHAIRMAN MRS. MILDRED BAIER MR. STANLEY BRISTOL MISS MAUDE BRYAN MR. LESTER M. BUTLER MISS BEULAH R. CLEWORTH MR. RAY CROMWELL MRS. NONA W. DAUGHERTY MISS RUTH FUNK MR. ALBERT H. HEIBY MR. ARMIN KREBILL MISS DOROTHY LANDERS MISS JULIA MOLONEY I MISS WILMA PARKS I MISS LOUISE ROBERTS MISS FLORENCE SHEEN MISS ALTA STUBBLEFIELD MISS BLANCHE WALKER