Fostoria High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Fostoria, OH)

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Miss BOURQUIN Miss ZAHM Miss MCCORMICK Miss EGER Miss REESE The Junior- -High School Principal, Miss Mabel Bourquin English- Catherine Snyder, Frances McCormick, Mabel Bourquin Social Science- Carlotta Zahm, Hazel Stubbins, Oneita Whiteman, Katheryn Griffith Mathematics- Vera Eger, Ethel Reese Vocations- Annabelle Graham, Kathleen Doster, George West Health and Physical Training- Ina Sponsler, Myrth Hosler, I.. R. Hirt, Lucille Knable Fincflrts- Grace Thompson, I.. G. Jones, J. VV. Wainwright On the whole, the year has been a busy and profitable one, in spite of much sick- ness among pupils, and the serious illness of two teachers. During the past year, Fostoria junior high school has steadily pursued its two-fold aim-academic on the one hand and social on the other. It has tried to bridge the gap between the ele- mentary grades and the senior high school academically, in order that freshmen stud- ents will make easy adjustments to their surroundings. Students are taught a sense of responsibility individually as they fit themselves into the schedule and the mechanical details, not much different in essentials from those in the senior high school. Twenty-Six

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Physical Education The particular service that physical education must render is to provide for all, opportunities for participation in na- tural, wholesome forms of activity. Physical education is for the sake of mental and moral culture and not an end in itself. It is to make the intellect, feelings and will more vigorous, more sane, more supple, and more resourceful. The attainment of the ends of physical education implies not only control of the ends of physical environment of the child, but the deliberative formation of habits, the imparting of knowledge of hygeinev and the stimulation of the better ideals of physical efticiency. The school supplies, including the text books for the entire public school system are handled through the superintendents office, and the administration of these activities as well as the solution of the thousand and one problems that occur in the daily school routine falls to the secre- tary to the superentendent, Miss Cham- berlin. Mrs. Hess, the truant officer for the city and whose ofhce is in the high school building, is largely responsible for the high attendance rate that prevails in our schools. 1 l l l 1 Twenty-Five MR. HIRT MRS. CHAMBERLIN Miss HOSLER MRS. HESS

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This teaching of social adjustment is most difficult, as the technique must be interwoven with regular work constantly as opportunity arises, as an integral and pervasive part of academic procedures. It takes teachers of fine sympathetic insight to perceive strategic situations and to mold growing characters. Fostoria junior high is fortunate in possessing such, not only in its regular corps of ten teachers, but also in its special teachers shared with the senior high school. Nearly all our academic teachers are expe- rienced in teaching grades both younger and older, as a necessary background for understanding traits and tendencies com- mon to their students. As young folks are often a law unto themselves in the school and in the home, the paramount needs of both parents and teachers are sympathy and patience, with close co- operation between school and home. Fostoria junior high school is a labora- tory in which teachers reverently study their pupils in order to aid them in making happy contacts with the life about them, both academic and moral. Their general aim is to instill in their pupils reverence for the things about them, reverence for the things within them, and reverence for the things above and beyond them. Twenty-Seven Miss WIIITEMAN Mlss SPONSLER Miss SNYDER Miss GRIFFITHS Miss STUBBINS