Kewanee High School - Kewanite Yearbook (Kewanee, IL)

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CulTivaTe CiTize ns The English deparTmenT has done iTs share in lceeping alive The Things Tor which we TighT by conTinuing To Teach our language and liTeraTure. A ready command oT The English language will be oT uTmosT imporTance in The posT war world. To wriTe a iusT peace will be The business of The TuTure years, and a iusT peace cannoT be lasTing unless all have The abiliTy To undersTand The prinTed pages. EducaTion oT The sTudenTs in The appreciaTion of The ideals oT democracy is anoTher oT The purposes of The English class. Teaching English l classes during The pasT year has been Miss RuTh Knapp. Miss Frances l-lorler TaughT English III and IV. Classes in English ll and journ- alism were TaughT by Miss Eleanor Johnson. Kewanee's library is aware oT iTs war- Time responsibiliTies and has endeavored To meeT Them by lceeping iTs boolc col- lecTion abreasT oT The Times. This year The books mosT in demand were Those on The armed Torces and vo- caTions. ATTracTive displays around The room aTTracT inTeresT To new boolcs and lceep sTudenTs informed on currenT evenTs. Miss Clara l-Tagerman, a new Teach- er, is The librarian. l-ler personal inTeresT in The sTudenTs has made her popular. The TirsT oT The year, she gave lessons on how To use The library To Treshmen. Top. Speech Middle: Sen or E Below: Span sh Class Thirteen

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English, Languages PromoTing inTernaTional good-Teeling and undersTanding is The sTudy oT Tor- eign languages. Spanish has inTroduced us To Pan-American counTries and given us an undersTanding oT our l.aTin-Amer- ican neighbors. The Spanish class is TaughT This year by Miss Eleanor Miller. IT is noT sTrange To hear a Spanish greeT- in The halls, Buenos dias. LaTin acguainTs sTudenTs wiTh The clas- sics and The culTure oT The Romans. In LaTin I and ll The sTudenTs. under The in- sTrucTion oT Miss DoroThy l-larrod, gain an appreciaTion oT ancienT culTure. Through l.aTin The sTudenT has a glimpse oT The hisTory and oT The Tamous men oT Rome. Freedom oT speech is anoTher oT The Things we TighT Tor. Never has speech been more imporTanT. The privilege oT Tree speech demands The obligaTion oT inTelligenT speech. Miss Florence Drake, a new member oT The TaculTy, Teaches The sTudenTs To appreciaTe good public speaking. AT The beginning oT The year The sTudenTs oT speech classes were TaughT The principles oT conversaTion in preparaTion Tor a re- cepTion held Tor our new principal. STu- denTs were Then TaughT play producTion and They presenTed Three one-acT plays. Speeches oT persuasion and enTerTain- menT, TundamenTals oT parliamenTary law, and scenery consTrucTion are also emphasized. I M EI J h VI R tl M Fran H I 1 DP ddlez Miss Clara H 9 Iw: Miss Florence D k M D thy od, Miss Eleanor M II

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In Art Class Ar+s Sfress Democra'ric Ideals Conlinually al work on some Red Cross or war proiecl. l'he arl deparl- menl has demonslraled ils ulilily as well as decoraliveness. Crall classes work wilh woodcarving ceramics, weaving and baskelry, lealher fooling, block prinling, and slenciling of lexliles. Sludenls in drawing learn lo use pencil, pen, ink, charcoal, paslel, wafer- color, oil, and lempera, as well as air brush, and lhe silk screen. lvliss Dorolhy Gibson 'reaches be- ginning and advanced drawing and cralls, and supervises grade work. Anolher arl, household arls, is con- cerned in a very praclical way wilh al leasl one of lhe Four Freedoms . chiefly freedom from wanl. Besides sfudying lhe homemaker's problems in caring lor lhe home in days of ralion- ing, girls in home economics learn lhe skills of home managemenl. Miss Weimer and Miss Summers Fourteen Three courses are offered: home- making ll, which leaches lhe funda- lhe principles of foods and homemak- ing lll. lhe advanced problems of bolh. Miss Anna Weimer leaches home- making II and lll. Miss Wilma Sum- mers who is new lo Kewanee lhis year leaches homemaking l. Home economics girls have done much lo assisl in Red Cross work. Girls have made hospilal slippers and ulilily bags.