George Washington High School - Post Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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f STAFF Editor . . . . . George Powers Business Manager . Robert Munshower Typist . . . . Ada Gooden Jane Fletemeyer Victoria Medjeski Edwin Howard Doris Meyer Helen Greeley Simon Brill Velma Tipmore Faculty Advisers Miss Martha Dorsey, Chairman Miss Frances Failing Miss Mary S. McBride Mr. Allan Stacy Mr. Ocal Muterspaugh Photography by Moorefield Studios, Inc. Engraving by Indianapolis Engraving Company Printing by George Washington High School Print Shop .fox 7Z'1??f T'S'2fj M em b er 5155 ASSOCNXQ f gag vw I3l KiO8275

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i CHOOLS exist in order that teachers may instruct pupils. So far as the relation of pupil and teacher is concerned no administration is required. When pupils move from one teacher to another, a course of study makes it easier for the teacher to find out what a pupil has studied. When several teachers occupy the same building, questions of schedule, assignment of pupils, promotion, and the like arise. The school also must have relations with the public from which it receives its support, its patrons, and the approval of its program. It employs workers and purchases equipment and supplies. These problems call for the administrative staff. In this school the administrative staff consists of the principal, who is responsible to the Super- intendent of Schools, and through him, to the Board of School Commissioners, the assistant principal, who acts in the principal's absence and who has direct oversight of attendance, tardiness, and discipline, the dean of girls who supervises extra curricular and social activities and does special problem work with both boys and girls, the chief clerk and bookkeeper who is responsible for office routine and also handles all money arising from the school's activities, the attendance clerk and registrar who keeps student records, and an assistant clerk and stenographer who acts as counter attendant, answers telephone calls, receives mail, and does stenographic work. During the seven years of the sc-hool's existence, the enrollment has grown from eight-hundred and sixty-three pupils to over two thousand, the number of teachers from thirty-six to sixty-five. The present building is seriously over-crowded and the need for building relief is imperative. Courses designed to meet all the important needs of pupils from this community have been incorporated in the curriculum. This school has become a community high school with a cosmopolitan curriculm. It has been granted a first class continuous commission from the Indiana State Department of Public Instruction and is on the accredited list of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Both ratings are the highest awarded by the standardizing agencies mentioned. The policy of the school is to so organize its work that it will give to each pupil the greatest return for the time spent in school whether he remain to graduate or with- draw at an earlier date. To that end, pupils are given the largest amount of freedom of choice and self direction compatible with their ability to assume responsibility for their actions. This freedom and responsibility are gradually increased as the pupils advance with the hope that on completion of the high school course they may be able to assume in society the positions of young men and young women capable of self direction and independant action. All the great fields of human interest are represented in courses offered in the school. Exact studies represented by the languages, science, and mathematics train in accuracy, and in rigorous thinking in addition to opening the doors to a vast dicipline in intellectual achievement. Music, the arts, and literature are presented both from th? standpoint of appreciation of the accomplishment of others who have excelled and from that of the novice who needs oppo1'tunity for creative endeavor either to discover or cultivate latent talent. History and social science offer an understanding of man's past attempt at the solution of' his great problems together with a modern interpretation of the application of their principles to present day citizenship. Commercial and industrial arts courses are designed to combine familiarity with fundamental skills and processes with an appreciation of the value and significance of the products of industry. Physical training, health courses, and athletics aim at the development and preservation of physical vigor, coordination and efficiency, and the f'ormat'on cf attitudes of sportsman- ship toward the difficult problems of life. itll