Eau Claire High School - Kodak Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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fstanfiingj Mr. Lewis, Miss Stumpf, Miss Newell, Miss Trewyn, Mr. Lawrenee, Miss King, Miss james, Mr. Skalbeck, Miss Regli, Miss Bottenselz, Mr. Halzanson. fsittingj Miss Elmgren, Miss Waters, Miss Nystrom, Miss Gower. ENGLISH Three years we must, four years we may go up and down the fields of the King's English. From story to theme we progress, from poem to drama, and from capital to period with all the hur- dles of comma and semicolon strewn between. Each year's reading is varied with books of fiction, biography, and travel. Newspapers and magazines are judgedg movies are criticised. We relate our reading with our history and our science,--even with our hobbies. We put our skills to work in writingg some- times it is an essay concerning individ- ual health or public safety or national Welfare. We may become ambitious to the point of trying to express ourselves in story, informal essay, and verse. How- ever amateurish our own efforts are, we appreciate more deeply the beauty and quality of the world's masterpieces be- cause we have attempted to create something and to find the fitting word for our own feelings. Much of this phase of our work should and does re- main a tender secret between ourselves and our instructors,

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M A If IH IE M AX If II IC If MATHEMATICS A mathematical mind is sometimes re- garded as a very accurate but unimagin- ative one. Arithmetic does teach accur- acy, but Wait for algebra, there is your chance to juggle with imaginary numbers. There corne problems which test your powers of reading and reasoning. Rea- soning, did we say ? Take geometry, then try to get by with a poorly wrought chain of hence's and thereior's . We go to Miss Otteson, chairman oi this depart- ment, and to Miss Iohnson tor geometry and advanced mathematics. Mr. Mathison, Mr. Alphonse, Miss Olson, and Miss Bur- lingame teach algebra. Miss Olson and Miss Burlingame also teach classes in ge- ometry. And when We have finished these courses, we shall very likely call for a transit, a sextant, or a telescope and offer to survey your land, pilot your ship, or measure space by light-years. At least We shall have the rudiments ot these sciences Well in hand. Top-Geometry Class. Center-Algebra C lass. Bottom-Mr. Alphonse, Miss Otteson, Miss ,lolmson Miss Olson, Miss Burlingame. .nn-ne,1mm.w'.ms-Q-quam m

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Jf III Il IE N IE IE Mr. Smith, Mr. Tlvorngate, Mr. Lystrup, Miss Stainer, Miss Baum, Mr. West, Mr. Alphonse. SCIENCE lt was by answering the questions WHY and HOW that our race has made the long trek from caves to Radio City. We can not keep up to modern civiliz- ation Without some understanding ot modern science. ' In our school the freshmen are given a course in general science, in which the elements ot the scientific thought processes are taught. Sophomores us- ually select biology, the science of liv- ing naturej Iuniors and seniors choose either chemistry or physics-chemistry dealing with the nature and composition of substances and the changes which these substances undergo, and physics, a study devoting itself to properties ot matter and of energy, the science ot mechanics, heat, light, sound, electric- ity and magnetism. A new and interesting course recent- ly added to this department is photog- raphy, taught by Mr. Smith, our chem- istry teacher. The students here are instructed how to take, develop, and print pictures. All the pictures which appear in this book, with the exception of the individual senior photographs, are the work of this class. Mr. Thorngate is the chairman of the science teachers and our instructor in physics. C enter-C hemistry C lass. Bottom-Biology Class.