Clay City High School - Claytonian Yearbook (Clay City, IL)

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The Library The library is located in the southern part of the study hall. It has three tables, nineteen chairs, a reference shelf, book shelves, and a large magazine rack. The room is so arranged as to enable students using library or reference books to sit at the tables, and those using non-library books to sit at the desks in the study hall. There are 48 magazines, and 1 800 books in the library, listed under twenty-five department groups. These departments are: American. English, French, and Miscellaneous Literature: Poetry and Literature: Critical Works on English and Grammar: Drama: European and American History: Biography: Autobiography: Sociology: Economics and Government: Industrial Arts: Home Economics: Agriculture: Natural Science: Commerce: Chemistry: Physics and General Science: Mathematics: Physical Education: Education: Philosophy and Geography. A list of new books were purchased this year. Some of these were: a complete set of Encyclopaedia Britannica: Who’s Who In America. 1918-1939: eight volumes on Nations of the World: one hundred books distributed among English. Agriculture. Science. Industrial Arts, and Home Economics. There are eighty picture rolls in the library. There are three catalogue indexes for title cards, author cards, and subject cards. Eleven librarians take care of the library, each one working at a certain time during the day. These student librarians are Mary Frances Wilson. Kathryn Hohlbauch. Wilma Lutz. Orpha Lee Kelley, Lois Pierce. Maxine Pierce. Ada Fern Stanford. Evelyn Holmes. Bill Shock. Genelle Pearce, and Ines Sanders. The ('laytonian—Paye ten

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Food Preparation Center Because the homemaker prepares whole meals rather than parts of meals, it seems only right that the future homemaker can learn best by following her mother's example. For this reason family groups are formed in each class so that we may more nearly have a home situation in the class room. In the Food Preparation Center there are four family-size kitchens, complete with stove, breakfast table and chairs, sink, linoleum top working surfaces. and cabinets, which house cooking utensils to serve a family. The two gas and two electric stoves are four different makes so that the student may learn to operate more than one make of stove, and so that she may discover the advantages and disadvantages of more than one fuel. Larger cooking utensils and additional chinaware are housed in a storage room behind the kitchens where also there are cabinets for storing canned foods, and illustrative materials. There, also, is a cabinet for keeping the student's uniforms and a cabinet for miscellaneous supplies. The cabinet file in the foreground of the picture is for bulletins and recipes which the students may use as reference material. The electric refrigerator in the center of the laboratory keeps perishable foods fresh: staples are stored in the cupboards in the background of the picture. I'aye nint 7 hr Claytonian

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Science Room Here work is done in Chemistry. Physics. Biology, and General Science classes. The above picture shows the Chemistry class at work with Mr. Shafer as instructor. The class is performing many different kinds of experiments such as: preparation of hydrogen, preparation of oxygen, making different kinds of solutions, and filtering solids from liquids. Many different kinds of experiments can be performed in this laboratory, such as: electrolysis, crystalizing one substance from another, and testing solution to find whether or not it contains certain elements. The room is ideally equipped for cither demonstration, group, or individual laboratory methods of performing experiments. The demonstration method is employed in two large General Science classes. In the physics class most of the work is performed by the students in groups of two. There are gas and running water at each desk. Articles of interest may reach the classes by means of the bulletin board. We also have an aquarium containing goldfish. Magazines and reference books are on the shelves for use in the four Science classes. Biology class, instructed by Miss Harris, has been trying to learn the different kinds of trees and bugs and examining small organisms through the microscope. They have gone on a few field trips and brought back specimens of fungi, plants, leaves, and bug collections to be studied. Vayt rlerrn—Thr Clay Ionian