Hirsch High School - Maroon Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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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

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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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Industrial Arts Left to Right: New 1.' Homer II. Geyim-x' Myer Natlmn lllargarct Coghlziu Harry Isllerwnml Fatherine llays Clyde Eehelxzlmrri' ,lolm Gleason Industrial Art Department Enjoy a little physical activity with your school work, and take some of the subjects offered by the industrial arts department. There you will find work that is easy and fascinating, and that satisfies that inner craving of yours to do something that requires dexterous fingers. You can make your own Christmas cards in the printshop, your own bookends and footstool in the woodshop, a doorbell in the electric shop: in the mechanical drawing class you can learn to letter neatly, and to draw up your own plans for a sink in the kitchen or for a summer cottage on the lake. While the boys fuss around the carpenter's bench, the typesetter's font, or the wiring in a car, the girls design dresses Qldave you seen those good-looking clothes that are hanging i-n the display cases on the third llo0r?j, make cookies and puddings, and concern themselves with the order and the beauty of the home. Besides the view on this page of certain clever-fingered boys in Mr. Gleason's printshop, you can find elsewhere in this book other scenes closely linked to the industrial arts department.