Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Nurse Wilna Nash is shown administer- ing to a student in tho first aid room. SICK BAY STAFF DOCTOR, NURSE, SPEECH CORRECTIONS Realizing the value of good health in doing the best work and in securing the best grades, the sick bay staff at D. H. S. keeps tab on all students who are sick for more than three days, who need their vision or hearing tested, or who have speech defects. Before any student enters high school, he is given a phys- ical examination and it is filed in the nurse's office for future reference by teachers and counselors. For those who are about to wash out of training, the nurse gives them a vision and hearing test to see if they have some defect that can be causing the low grades. In the speech correctionist’s line of duty are those students who have slight defects in their speech. They are trained in the correct pronunciation of the vowels and con- sonants in order to get a clear-cut speaking voice. Lip read- ing is also offored for those who have a definite hearing loss. In the fall all sophomores are offered the tuberculin test. Sixty-four per cent of the sophomore class took the test this year. If their skin reactions were positive they were x-rayed. With the war training program in the Industrial Arts Building, many minor accidents occur to the boys working with the various machines now installed. It's all in a day's work for Miss Nash to treat cut fingers, splinters, nose bleeds, or toothaches. Miss Margaret Ken- nedy, director of spooch correction, in- structs Robelt Walton, loft, and Gcorgo Dor- dorian, center.

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Pat Foley hands her excuse to Harvoy Voris, counselor, while in the background, left to right, Kenneth Buttgen, Betty Groonloe. Do Vote Houston, Robert Folsom, Margaret Garms, and Paul Bohn- sack wait their turn. COUNSELING SPECIALISTS COUNSELORS Miss Loona L Soehren, director of counseling Members of the counseling staff are, left to right: C. W. Hach, Miss Mabel Johnstone. Miss Lu- cille Burianek, Miss Elinor Bcin, counseling secretary who resigned in February; and Wallace Evans, who rosignod his counseling duties in January and was succeeded by Harvey Voris. When entering a flight school for the first time, the cadets need counseling specialists to help them get ac- quainted with the routine of the school and to help them with their personal problems. At the beginning of their high school careers all new students are assigned to one counselor, who is a teacher also. This teacher keeps the same group of students through- out their high school training, until they receive their wings. In this way the students can rely upon some faculty member when they have problems, and the teacher gets to know most of his counselees as they progress through high school. Acting as flight officer, Miss Soehren, director of counseling, supervises the counseling set-up. The counselor's general duty is to take care of absences, whether it be tardiness, truancy, sickness, or working; talk over schedule planning problems; help in the selection of a college or future plans for after-school years; or talk over any problem which makes a student have a better adjust- ment in school. Persons who tie together school and home and teacher and pupil—our counselors. 10

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. PREPARATORY English instructors aro, loft to right: Frank L. Madden, Mrs, Janice Howos, who substituted the first semostor; Miss Josephine Mirfield, and Miss Elsie Wallace. Membors of Miss Mirfield's I2B college prepara- tory English literature class presont a scene from Macbeth. They aro, loft to right: Walter Hum- mel. Don Shawver, Jeanne Gillon, and Jack Barloon. Looking into the future is the cadet who realizes the value sound English courses in preparation for flight school training will have on his final place in the fight for victory. English in wartime still contains the basic fundamentals, but much emphasis is placed on reading which can bring to the prospective inductee attitudes and understand- ings which will lead him to accept the privations of war as a necessary part of the fight to preserve American ideals and ways of life. As Lieut. John R. Rackley emphasized in his talk to the boys in the spring, Learn your English well, so you can give fast and accurate locations of enemy fortifica- tions and movement. Someday your knowledge of good English may save your life. But there are many more advantages that English brings to the prospective flight school trainee. Orderliness, one of the first attributes of a good serviceman, can be developed through English — in the arrangement of a letter on a page, in taking of notes and assignments, in clear and logical argument, and in well-planned compo- sitions. A man’s success as a soldier, his chances for promo- tion, and his opportunities for leadership depend upon his ability to carry out oral orders promptly and efficient- ly — upon his ability to listen carefully and attentively. In this duty the listening skills are analyzed, carry-overs from the English classroom when simple instructions were given and only those with ears wide-open were able to carry them out correctly. 12