James Whitcomb Riley High School - Hoosier Poet Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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One of the purposes of an education is to equip the individual to secure a livelihood for himself and those dependent on him. Riley offers to every pupil the opportunity to get the training necessary to start him on his vocational career. The aim of this vocational education is to give to the student a background of the knowledge of his trade and to develop skill, initiative, and self-reliance. If the Business Education Department is one which you have avoided, you will discover that you missed some interesting and valuable training. In the Business Education Department, the various classes in Shorthand, Bookkeeping, Salesmanship, Re- tail Merchandising, Typing, Business Correspond- ence, Commercial Geography, and Office Practice are sufficient to give the student a broad knowledge of the business course he is pursuing. The class work is only a part of the general education he re- ceivesg held work and practical training being as important as the hook learning.

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w l Y X I at icmotics . Our notebook of memories could not possibly be complete if we failed to give recognition to those men and women who guided us through these happy years. The ability of the faculty is best described in terms of their achievements. They have worked with the same spirit that characterized the founders of education in South Bend, and under their direction Riley has advanced and expanded to maintain its position among the leaders in the field of high school education. The Mathematics teachers have worked hard to impress upon their pupils the value of their Arith- metic, Geometry, Algebra. and Trigonometry, and have succeeded in turning out some excellent 'wizards of the figures' At anv rate, the Mathematics De- partment. under the able direction of Miss Clark, works untiringly to make their difficult subjects more understandable to their bewildered students. They have done. and are doing, a marvelous job on a big scale, and we remember them for itl

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If you are happily married to a Riley girl ten years from now, and if your home is a model of per- fection, your fond wife probably majored in the subjects offered by the Household Arts Department. Household Management, Jr. High Household Arts, Clothing, Fine Sewing, and Foods round out a com- plete program. If you want examples of their results, just visit a Foods Class some day when they are preparing a tasty dinner. The girls buy and prepare their own food, arrange their own tables, and altogether have a grand time learning, in a practical way, how to run things smoothly. The sewing classes show their skill too-by giving a style show each semester. Every girl models her own creation, and the outfits are judged as to their workmanship and attractiveness. The girls show their enjoyment of these projects by the large number who elect the classes, and the teachers show theirs by continually hunting for new ways to interest their attentive pupils.