Fort Madison High School - Madisonian Yearbook (Fort Madison, IA)

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M ness men They realwe the nnpoxtance of the school nn tlammg workers and co operate heartlly wlth Mr Wlrt They place at h1s dls posal posltlons 111 the office for commercml graduates and posltxons of less 1mportance for the boys who get tlred of school and RDXIOUS to get out mto the world and earn thelr own lnvmg Although the 1n1t1a1 cost of tlns system 18 greater lts mamtenance IS no l1Cd.V1CI' burden than that ol the regulal svstem Fewer teachers and bunldmgs are requxred Much epa1r1ng may be done by the puplls m the trade cl lsses and much of the school furmture made It IS a plan pr1Ct1Cal lor almost any clty ll1e Gary system has been 1 successful expenment Ihe schools htve made Amerlcan c1t1zens out ol these llttle lorelgners and have re ponded to the call for tramed workers lhey are trammg thelr puplls to eaxn thelr llVlIlgS wlthout entermg the ranks of unskmlled laborers and to l1ve a better and broader hte And IS not tlns the true end of all CdllCdtlOll ' 'si E UIQ WT 'l 'lllll1nnsvrCV,! 'Q.'-A K, fxll 1505 , , Q- lZ' 'I' H li H113 H S LI ll 0 Q l. 'l' I I-Q S 27 f 1 .- I ,X L V A . N . , +3-.:f' T3:..'ff 3 .., , u,- if fx. 7 V 1 -r.f K TS R - ' ' XS 4 Q: 3,4

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If HICH SLI-IOOL TIM chemnstry teachers have all the necessary apparatus The xnstructors nn llterature have a branch of the pubhc lxbrary m the bu1ld1ng The musxc teachers have pnano players and vxctrolas and there are stere opt1can lanterns and motxon pxcture machmes The teachers plan thexr work so that relatnons between thexr subjects may be seen For 1n stance those xn charge of Chemlstry and Domest1c Scnence plan that the g1rls may work wzth fermentlng materxals nn both classes In the pr1 mary classes the chxldren learn geography and readmg from the same game and from keepmg the score they learn addxtzon The prlmary rooms are placed next to the hlgh school rooms and there are long glass doors between It IS the old theory of the younger puplls learn mg from the older ones Mr W1rt reahzes that lf the vocatnonal work ln hxgh school 1S to be practxcal nt must be recogmzed by organxzed labor So at the head of the trade departments he has workmen who are regular members of thexr trade umon When a boy leaves school the tlme spent 1n the school shops IS counted off hxs apprent1cesh1p Phe head of the manual tramlng department makes has work very practncal I stead of g1v1ng the boys pleces of wood of the exact shape and sxze needed for the artxcle they w1sh to make he glves them rough blocks of wood In most manual tralmng classes half the work IS done before the pup1ls begun Thus class makes a great deal of the school furmture There 1sa class nn pamtmg and varn1sh1ng The puntmg office as a very busy place for here all school papers and pamphlets are prmted Many of the boys and some of the gnrls w1ll follow prlntmg as a trade The commercxal classes are m charge of an expert Graduates from th1s department usually get posxtxons at once The Domest1c Sc1ence gnrls serve lunch every day and the gxrls prepar1ng and servmg the lunches are paxd a share of the profits There IS a store IH the bunldmg run by honor puplls wh1ch keeps all kmds of school supphes lhe bank has a set of real officers and check books and deposxt books and It does a good bus1ness nn real monev the money bemg depos1ted xn a cxty bank each day For older people the school IS open from seven to ten each even mg Some come to use the gvmnaslum some the readmg roo1ns and others who have not learned the Enghsh language or who have not had educatlonal advantages early nn l1fe attend the n1gl1t clas es Appxen t1ces often spend an hour or two of the evenxng 1n the shops lhe school IS the soc1al and xntellectual center of the commumty Another thmg wh1ch helps the school IS the lthtude of the bus1 26 T H 1 1 l , E S - ' V - 1 ' ' 1 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 . ' , I . . . . I n- ' . - v s I . 1 1 iv I D . . , ' V H I n - 1 ' S , . ' - 'K Q . . . I . .

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HVHSISQFY or me Class gr lj l..j,. Lrl :annum MARIF BODDI-KPR ROBABLY the most eventful tlme 1n the hfe of each of the members of tlus class was the day upon whxch he or she first entered thls assembly room In spxte of the fact th it xt has not changed lts dunen slons It seems four txmes smaller than It dxd then QV 'gi Our hue too has materlally changed smce that first day of September 1910 The shade of the Emerald Isle would have been pale ln comparlson wlth the breen that marked our youthful appearance Fverythmg seemed to go wrong at first Our feet li were too bxg our hands always Ill the way te zchers names and faces were confused and we entered the wrong class room all much to the amusement of the upper classmen But xn tlme we began to get our bearmgs and only now and then dxd some unoifendmg Freshue call forth merrxment from the older mem bers No lOltCI'l1'1g m the halls or strolhng as down lovers lane was seen those days A dlrect headmg was made for the assembly for per haps Mr Mathews our Prxnczpal mlght accidentally say a word to us makmg a dewdrop trmckle down the cheek of some httle lad or Iass1e Some of the teachers who helped us on our way were Mxss Byram as Latln mstructor whose motto was Venr V1d1 VICI M155 Cooke so dearly loved by all Hlstory Mlss Cummmgs Enghsh and MISS Knoepfler Deutsche Lehrerm We sang ou1 do re mn wlth M158 Welch as she waved her baton above us Mr Repass gmded the blow of the hammer and the cut of the saw for xt was that year that Manual Frammg was mtrocluced and many of the boys enthusxashclly took up the work MISS Garrett taught us the langulge of x plus y 'md also how to use the awful compass Mxss Okell was Engllsh teacher md Mr Duck had charge of the Scnence dep lrtment Parly 1n our career we oxgamzed unto a class and chose our 2 l l l r ll: l l l l l r r r fi.. 1- Ml l r , r , H' lu M rl Y H , U ' ,.,, , u r, 1 1, ' ,N ,- , ,,, pf! H, ,1 I, Q, R v , 51- gf' fl It :A f V L...n..l Q.: - ua ul -al ' ui ' ' ff Z -e f L. ...- ...l l - N - r . - 1 - - f I ' 5-.Ev x 1 . ' all .., X Q , . , f' 1 4 2-Lf A I 0 D I l fx 3 4 . . M gr, 6 . . . Q , , : : - - V - . Il V x ' , ' . .: x , N ,- N . ' K Z. ..' I , , . if - - f l ' - 1 1 X ' 1 2 7 1 . ' ' V ' C . . . . .Q , ' ' , ' I Y I . I 1 . . ll . . . . . ',, , V 1 Y I v - v 3 - v I Q ' Y ' ' l 1 I I l I lex u C . . f . - I . l ' , , 5 Z 1 , k - - 1 K h- 2 . ' ' ' 2 .