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

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In no department has the impact of the war upon the cur- riculum contents and methods b e e n felt more strongly than in Mathematics. In response to the requests of the War and Navy Depart- ments and of the Air Forces, mathematics requirements for all boys in high school have been made more stringent, and in the courses there has been a tendency to emphasize arithmetical computation and simple military applications. Among other things, there has been stress upon decimals, common fractions, graphs, scale drawings, maps, projectiles, elementary surveying, mariner's compass, great circle, rhumb line, mil and radian, spherical trigonom- etry, square root, aviation problems, and war savings problems. What would we do without dear math? It has no charms like music hath. We learn that 2 and 2 makes 4, But that's a double date, no more. TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT it MR. ROBERT E. JELINEK, CHAIRMAN MR H. G. AGHTENHAGEN MR EDWARD BROEGKER MR RAYMOND G. GOLES MR WILLIAM DUNNETT MR JOHN DIX MR EDWARD H. FEDDERSEN MR CYRIL GARDNER MR EUGENE JARVIS MR HUGH JOHNSON MR AL M. LANGAN THOMAS O'DOWD MR. MISS LOUISE PELLENS MR. JESSE ROBINSON MR EDWARD SNIVELY MR DAN M. STUMP MR. GEORGE TONN MR. ERWIN D. WIRTH Shop classes this year again successfully overcame the serious handicap of scarcity of critical raw materials and tools. The foundry has reduced the number of brass and aluminum castings made, but has poured more iron. The cast iron was large- ly scrap iron derived from several obsolete machines which were broken up. Copper wire is impossible to get, and so the ad- vanced electric shop class did not wind any electric motors, but Mr. Statler through many hours of diligent shopping after school hours man- aged to purchase ma- terials for t h i r t y radio sets. gIlf,V'l:N1ifl'l f 1i,g134fj'l',gylZl iflwlll V- A i' me ill I ps Mlll, u f A 1 ill! 'UI' ll RAW .T 1 The Electric Shop- Q, 1, 'gy El 2 b o ys a r e very Q yl Wi, U X ! 1. Y ' 'A A x rA P proud of their new 'Lf if A Q ,d.Wwlf 5-tube super-hetero- Mlm I: ., , Wflllgllnl eYee feeeivefe' ' The Electric Shop- 1 boys were able to build transformers as before due to our large reserve stock of magnet wire of this size and electric sheet steel cords. The wood shop classes this year have built 200 leather working kits for the Red Gross to be delivered to Vaughan General Hospital to be used by convalescent service men. We also completed 200 Chinese checker games as our share of a very large Red Cross program of building recreational material for service hospitals sponsored by the Board of Education. Our industrial arts classes have made several hundred ash trays, small games, etc., which were donated to service centers and hospitals. The plans for enlarging and remodeling our Technical department are proceeding. We will in the near future have a new machine shop in the West building and our present machine shops remodeled. There will be a rebuilt woodshop in the East building with a new mill room. Com- plete gas and electric welding equipment will be added to the forge shops. The Me- chanical Drawing department has added a new photostatic copy machine and will soon have new blue printing equipment.

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r ENGLISH DEPARTMENT t it MISS MABEL ISER, CHAIRMAN MISS HELEN ATWATER MISS ALICE BAUM MR. H. A. BERENS MRS. RUTH CARLSON MISS CLARA CARMODY MRS. OONA CORCORAN I MISS OLIVIA COX MISS CECILE DORE MISS RUBY ELSAM MISS MADELINE GLYNN MRS. BERNICE GOSSETT MRS. MARY ETTA HAAS MRS. HELEN H. HELSING MISS VERNON HORN MISS ALICE JOHNSTONE MRS. BELLE JACOBS MISS FRANCES KENNEY MRS. MARY M. LOWRY MISS SUE V. MAHER MISS AMY M. MARTIN MRS. LUCILLE McKOWN MISS DORIS MEAD MISS JANET O'BRIEN MISS ALICE RAPE MISS HAZEL RYLANDER MISS HELEN SAFFORD MRS. HORTENSE SCHLADER -MISS HELEN SCHOENBECK MRS. MARION STONE MISS ELLA M. STOTT MRS. ETHEL SUNDERGARD MRS. IRENE WHITE MISS HELEN WILLIS W' Our English classes at times this year brought us the reali- zation of how won- derful a thing is the spoken and written word, and at times the sad realization of tr ' how far we fall short of any sort of mas- tery of our mother tongue either in speak- ing or in writing, yes, even in under- standing. We have been the beneficiaries this year Q- iffffy if-f y Wi R gg 4 't'2.:.:g. ' r TF -- w 'iliilff --,.. .. 'iff y' 'il T ,ws J Z I fzf , w nf . I 4 . V, . ' fi' , E If Z X, Y I A f ' I in increased measure of the Chicago De- velopmental Reading Program whereby not only our English teachers, but all of our other teachers as well, have systemat- ically given us aid in increasing our read- ing and understanding abilities and skills, and in improving our habits and interests. We have been introduced to some of the great classics of our language, many passages in which took on larger meanings in the light of war-time situations. We also read much material dealing directly with the war. For many of us the reading of Time, News-Week, Readers' Digest, Coronet and other quality magazines will be a life-time interest thanks to the requirements of our high school days. This was the year in which our princi- pal, Mr. Sommers, personally furthered the progressive plan of having every Eng- lish classroom converted into a library- equipped reading laboratory where the student is encouraged above all else to read and read, and where he will find materials of all kinds available to entice him into pleasurable and profitable reading. Period, comma, semi-colon, dash, Gerand, subjunctive-all sound like hash g If English I cannot learn to speak, I might have moresuceess in Greek. MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT it MR. ORLA R. SPITLER, CHAIRMAN MRS. MILDRED BAIER MR. STANLEY BRISTOL MISS MAUDE BRYAN MR. LESTER M. BUTLER MISS BEULAH R. CLEWORTH MR. RAY CROMWELIJ MRS. NONA W. DAUGHERTY MISS RUTH FUNK MR. ALBERT H. HEIBY MR. ARMIN KREBILL MISS ELSIE LUHAN MR. ORLANDO OVERN MISS WILMA PARKS MISS LOUISE ROBERTS MRS. ALTA STUBBLEFIELD - MR. WALTER TAINTOR MISS BLANCHE WALKER

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S C I E N C E DEPARTMENT ii? MR. S. RUSSELL FOUTS, CHAIRMAN MR. FRED H. AKERS MR. HUBERT G. ANDERSON MRS. ROSANNE ANDERSON MR. AMER M. BALLEW MISS CORNEAL BARRETT MR. EARL CAMPBELL MR. ORVAL CATT MR. HAROLD COLLINS MR. MAURICE C. CREW .MRS. EVA DRUMMOND MR. WALTER ERNST MR. JOHN FINKBEINER MISS FAITH GAMBLE MR. CHARLES GOUGET MISS CHRISTINE HARTLEY MR. LEO P. HOPKINS MISS FLORENCE S. KAYE MR. JOHN C. MYERS MISS ALICE C. PETERSON MRS. ROSE N. RAMSEY AMR. WALTER ROBBINS MR..jOHN I. WHITAKER While the war has f f I I I ., M ' i f-2 , brought no funda- ' I l' mental changes 4 - I a,i?f'if'iI - - 5 , I I either m methods of em - teaching or in subject 4 'f tent of Biolo W H A . Con . SY, W1 W Physics, or Chemis- - lfffw try, th e national f tu .vtt e m e r g e n c y h a s LM-f-If placed emphasis on wider distribution of scientific knowledge and on raising the standard of attainment in the schools. This war is one of science as well as combat forces. Consequently, General Sci- ence and Biology classes not only dealt with such topics as blood plasma and poison gases, but also emphasized good health as a patriotic duty to relieve the shortage of doctors and of labor and to prevent the wasting of time and labor. Stress was put on regular habits of eating, rest, and exercise. Scientific aspects of transportation and communication were stressed. Studies were made of how, when, and what to plant in Victory gardens. , SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT it nf. The war and the ,f R, if X. . Khifyv efforts which are now f being made to avoid ' f f m future wars, have fo- i 'f ' 1 ' ' cused our major at- 'Y tention upon world I is problems and prob- . L.: , 5. - g D lems of foreign pol icy. All social science . classes, therefore, in- corporate the consideration of current events and current problems as an integral part of our curriculum. Regular reading of newspapers and listening to radio news commentators has increasingly become a part of our School work. The department has regularly provided war maps on first floor bulletin boards for the benefit of all students. Individual stu- dents have also participated in various radio and essay contests with credit to their school. MR. WILBER R. BOLLINGER, CHAIRMAN MRS. CLARA DAVIS MISS ELIZABETH GAYNOR MISS LOUISE HANNA MRS. VIRGINIA HEYSE MRS. REGINA Z. KELLY MR. ORA M. JENKS MISS ELEANOR LIBBY MRS. MARGARET RAUSCH MR. RAYMOND LUSSENHOP MRS. MARY M. MOORE MRS. JESSIE SCHLEICH MISS GRACE SMITH MRS. MARION SWEENEY MR. WILLIAM TIERNAN MISS BLANCHE C. TROEGER MISS MARY WADE MISS THELMA THORSON Through social science We have found just what makes The world go round.