Freeport High School - Polaris Yearbook (Freeport, IL)

 - Class of 1932

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Bovn GARNS FOREST BRADEN Ricrumn N1c1cLAs MANUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT ERHAPS one of the most educational departments, from the practical point of view, is the manual arts department. Courses in drawing, automotive-mechan- ics, machine shop, and electro-mechanics comprise a most complete training course. Headed by Mr. Garns, the drawing classes start from the Freshman year and con- tinue throughout the four years. The Freshman year gives the student a very com- plete elementary drawing course. The Sophomore boy takes an elementary course learning the fundamentals of machine and shop drawing. As a Junior, the student progresses to advanced courses of machine design,'or he may branch into archi- tectural drawing work. The Senior year is taken up with more advanced drawing in the chosen field of the student. Another important branch of the manual arts is the wood-working department. Headed by Mr. Nicklas, the wood working students start with elementary wood study, advancing to cabinet and pattern making. At the beginning of the school year, there were about thirty members in the woodworking classes. The second semester saw an increase in members until the classes have an enrollment of ninety. In order to take a course in woodworking, a boy must be taking or have taken one year of mechanical drawing. The first year of drawing is a prerequisite to all manual arts courses. The machine shop is an attractive course to many boys. Headed by Mr. Braden, the boys are taught the trade of a machinist. While one of the ideas of the course is to prepare the student for a college engineering course, it is so complete as to en- able a high school graduate to secure employment as a machinist. Many projects are included in the course, such as the study of automotive-mechanics, foundry work, and practical shop instruction. The first year the student learns to operate the ma- chines that make up the shop, and to make such objects as clamps and bolts and nuts. The second year student gets into a more varied course in mechanics which enables him to make wrenches and wood vises. Third year students turn out such projects as pressure cookers and wood-turning lathes. Seniors are allowed to make parts for machines in need of repair such as countershafts for the lathes. A course for the students electrically inclined is electro-mechanics,which is taught by Mr. Porter. Most of the work taught in this course is of an experimental nature with the students learning about the power and uses of electricity, the making of electric motors, coils, radios, and doing some work with generators. Most of the boys in this course have had other manual arts courses as it is offered for only two years and preferably to advanced students. Its purpose is to give the student a back- ground for later work in electrical engineering and to prepare him for college work in these fields. 4 , Page Eiglffeefz

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Qx EDGAR HOFF PAUL SCHRADER HARLAN PORTER THOMAS SPRING SCIENCE DEPARTMENT ODERN science and modern social and industrial life are so closely linked together that anyone should proht by choosing a science course. The science department of F. H. S. is composed of four courses- namely, general science, biology, chemistry, and physics. General science, which is taught by Mr, Schrader, intro- duces the student to the principles of science and covers several different branches of it, The purpose of this course is to make the student more scientific minded and to enable him to choose in which ofthe sciences he wishes to continue his study. Biology, taught by Mr. Spring, is a study which always arouses the enthusiasm and sincere interest of the students. It covers a very wide field including botany, zoology, and hygiene. Biology has several major aims: to increase the pupil's appreciation ofthe factors of his environment, to develop his powers of observation, to teach him how to preserve health and to develop character. The growth of in- terest in the biological department is shown by the increase in enrollment from fifty students in 197.8 to over one hundred in 1931. The chemistry department, in charge of Mr. Hoff, had a decided increase in enrollment. Chemistry unlocks the secret to progress in modern industry and civil- ization, with practically every other science dependent upon it. Retardation in the department's growth had been due mainly to the old tradition that chemistry is dry, dangerous, too technical, and overly difllcult. To experiment this year, a wide deviation from the regular course routine was instigated. The results were so re- markable that next year's course will be still more generalized. Some of the policies carved out this year were as follows: a passing grade guaranteed to anyone who honestly tries, complete liberty in laboratory work, the requirement being honesty and application, a-new humanized type of test, a liberal consideration of the student's viewpoint of the course, and wide application of the honor system. The purpose of the physics department which is headed by Mr. Hoff and Mr. Porter, is to enable the student to understand many common machines which are used today, such as the automobile, the radio, and the telephone. The work is divided into live divisions: mechanics, heat, sound, light, and electricity. It is of special interest to boys. Page .Yezicfzleefl



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ALMONT LINDSEY DAVID BROWN HOWARD WEBER HISTORY DEPARTMENT ISTORY is an account of man's progress, his achievements, and his blunders. To its students it gives an idea of the vast importance of the past as the heritage of the present. lt teaches us how to escape the blunders of our forefathers, and to accomplish more than they accomplished. At the same time, it gives us an appre- ciation of the things those same forefathers have handed down to us. We are given some idea, necessarily brief, of the history of nations other than our own and of the changes in the world as a whole. During their Sophomore year, all students, except those taking a straight com- mercial course, enter XVorld History classes. World History traces man's course from the old stone age down to present times, telling of his wars and his treaties and the various stages through which he has passed. All Seniors are required to study United States History which, beginning at the earliest attempts at coloniza- tion, traces the history of our own country down to the twentieth century. In addition to the regular study in a selected text book, each student reads weekly from some other volume and hands in notes on what he has read, thus getting several different slants on the same situation. The student also draws free hand copies of maps appearing in the text: a map of Europe in the NVorld History course and one of the United States in the study of American History. He draws cartoons depicting any situation he likes, and during the present era of hard times, many of these cartoons have dealt with the famous Qor infamousl depression. He writes themes containing a minimum of five hundred words dealing with a 'variety of subjects from the biography of Andrew Jackson to the history of the'Ku Klux Klan. He reads at least one historical novel or one appropriate book of non-fiction each semester. His own book is supplemented con- stantly by helpful notes. In order to keep abreast of the ever-changing times, he reads weekly from a current newspaper, The American Observer. Mr. NVeber and Mr. Lindsey teach classes in both World and United States History, while Mr. Brown's time is devoted entirely to the former. Page Nineteen

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