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

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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

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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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