Hirsch High School - Maroon Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Social Science Department lfim' 1: Cornelia Ryan l lm'e11ce jel'fc1's Helen l'll1lJll2lI'Kl Katlilecn Hrirmlnei' lfllzi KVKQ-cfs lileimor Ross lfuru 2: .Xllmcrt C. Russ ixlZl!'5I?lI'L'f Slizmnon Social Science Department The social science subjects lead us, unprotestingly, from the prehistoric times to our own day. We understand with what patience the Caveman chipped off his pieces of stoneg we admire the courage and the intelligence of the founders of civilizations in the Orient as well as in the Occident, although it has always puzzled us how they managed to invent the innumerable languages that Hll the world. We long to re-live the beautiful life of the ancient Greek citizeng we really respect the genius for government and law which the Romans possessed. The age of chivalry makes our romantic hearts skip a beat or two. In the renaissance period, that era of discovery, invention, and love of life and learning, we realize that our modern life began. From our study of economics, civics, and American history we begin to have glimmerings of what it means to be citizens of America. Mapwork is featured in all history classes, often to illustrate our ignorance of the world's geography. Rome is just about here, declares Lester Johnson in Miss Jeffers' world history class, as he hesita-ntly points to the location of the eternal city. 18

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Mathematics Stalrdilzgl: john Taheny Harold Billings Vlfilliam Kooistra Scared: Dorothy Boch Charles YVatson Xvilletta Stapleton Harriet Blair Albert Arenrls lirlna Feltgzes Mathematics Department In the mathematics department we learn to think in terms from A. B. C. to X. Y. Z. Do you remember If X can work twice as fast as Y, and Z half as fast as X, how much did each do? We learn to reason from one theorem to another and include all the corollaries and problems under each. A little more algebra and an acquaintance with cubes and spheres carry us on through another year. In our senior classes we grapple with what used to be called college algebra, and eventually attempt to distinguish between the sine and the tangent. Almost all Hirsch students spend at least one year in the math department, and some gladly depart from the realms of reason. Others cannot get enough of it, and take all the courses ofered, from algebra through trigonometryg they also join a club which has been named for the man who argued that the square on the hypotenuse of ia right-angled triangle was equal . . . equal to . . . well, we were talking about Pythagoras, werenit we? M, Aren't the students in the pictultmllgt the bottom of this page tryfng to prove that old, old theorem of his, or are they? At any rate, we know that they should be demonstrating some geometric tru

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Commercial .S'I11ml1'Hgf.' l7l'2kl1CL'4 Kelly Alfliitllll Mclivoy .Xlfrwl l'rntsmzni Vllrlllcl' l'ioli-k .Yl'11l1'lf.' Lcuuri Klrycr Jennie Huglls llorterlse Klein AlIlI'5I2ll'Ql llurnu Ruth Kuhn livrillzl Vick Commercial Department For some unusual and doubtful reason, the commercial department has become one of the most popular in the school. It is the general opinion of the students that this course is one of Hirsch's easiestg and although the teachers vigorously deny it, this fact may help to explain its large enrollment. Students really love to type, and to learn about salesmanship, office organization, and commercial law, but they are not so enthusiastic about bookkeeping, and they know that only the strong-minded master stenography. The commercial course prepares the graduate to take his small part in the business world. Many students of other courses-not so Spartanic as their fellows-find commercial electives both interesting and useful. The young men and women in the picture at the bottom of this page are not telephoning to each other as they type, they are not broadcasting as their fingers stumble over the keys, they are not plugging up their ears to keep from hearing the teacher's instruction, nor are they being gagged and made to exercise their arm muscles, but they are wearing the ordinary earphones and mouthpieces for dictaphone work. 19 Mzirtlizi lilumentli xl