Kewanee High School - Kewanite Yearbook (Kewanee, IL)

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Languages AccenTuaTe Good Neighbor Policy AT a Time when uniTy among The Americans is so necessary, The sTudy oT Spanish Talces on added imporTance. ln The Spanish l and ll classes The sTudenTs learn noT only The language oT our neighbors To The souTh buT also Their cusToms and TradiTions. This year, under The direcTion oT Miss MargueriTe Dunnell, The Spanish sTu- denTs have organized a Spanish club where They can learn sTill more abouT The oTher Americas Through Their games and songs. STudenTs in Miss DoroThy l-larrod's LaTin classes are learning abouT one oT The greaT civilizaTions oT The pasT. ATTer learning The TundamenTals oT The lan- guage, They are prepared To read The Roman classics in Their original language. Now, when we all have Triends and rela- Tives TighTing in lTaly, we are even more inTeresTed in Rome and her ancienT cul- Ture. The library oT Kewanee high school is well equipped wiTh boolcs boTh Tor pleasure and reTerence including many new ones which have been added This year. Mrs. K. B. Beasley, during her TirsT year as librarian, has shown herselT To be ready To help The sTudenTs whenever They need assisTance. AT The beginning oT The year she gave The Treshmen les- sons on The use oT The library. Foreign Language Teachers Froeliinen Latin Class Miss Nlargureite Dunnell, Nlss Dorotly H d 4 'xr' an l 3. . ,

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E ea Johnso IVI ss Ruth Knapp English Deparfmenl Sfresses Composlhon In a nalnon lnce ours where Ireedom ol speech IS encouraged we should lfnow how Io use Ihal rlghl Inlelllgenlly Mlss Jeanne Trovllllon a new Ieacher Inslrucls her sludenls ID publuc spealcang -Ihls course has been changed somewhal' lhls year Io provlde lor The sludy ol grammar durlng lhe second semesler Sludenls In Mass Eleanor Johnson s Iournallsm classes learn aboul Ihe con slrucl on ol a newspaper from lhe bol Iom up and galn aclual experience by worlclng on The school paper lhe K Chronucle Engllsh reaches Ihe sludenls Ihe lun damenlals of Ihe language and also Irles lo gnve Ihem an apprecnahon ol good llleralure Four years of Engllsh are re gulred bul speech or Iournalnsm may be subshluled for Engl: h IV The English deparlmenl headed by Mlss Frances I-lorler Includes Mlss Rulh Knapp Mlss Jeanne Trovllllon Mlss Lesah Jouell Mlss Marguerlle Dunnell and Mlss Eleanor Johnson e ft: College English IV. Upper right: In the Ilbrary. BeIow:EngIIsh department: IVIIss Frances Horler, Nllss Jeanne Trovilllon, IVlss I nor n, i . O I I - -I . ll Il I I , I . I I I , ., . . . .S i - I . . , . . . I ' I I I A . . ' I I

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Top to B tr J Ut ean Ar t Class: Z , Ar+ Depar+men+s The Creahve Arls D parlrrenls af Kewanee high include drawing crallr home ecoromics machine shop me chanical drawing building and Trad s Trades drawing and woodwork One of The mosl prachcal sublecls as allechng lhe preservahon of our homes is home economics Thi includes Three urs s homemalcino I ll and e oirls iw homemalcing I classes learn how lo sew and malce Their own clolhes homemalong II 'reaches abou? foods and Their preparahon Sludenls in home malcing Ill are insfrucled in The planning and managemenl of homes Two new members of The Tacully Miss Lucy While and Miss Lesah Jou ell leach The homemalqing classes The arl deparlmenl inslrucfed by Miss Dorolhy Gibson provides oppor- +uni+ies Tor Those giffed wilh drawing and o+her crafls. Pencil and inlc drawing and sl4e+ching painling wiln oils and Tempera and sillc scre ning are provided in The arf classes. Designing pollery weaving bloclc prinfing and iewelry slyling are laughl in The crafl classes. Leilers may be earned by sludenls in 'rhe arl and crall classs. An arf leller is very difficull lo earn. A piclure painled by one ol The arf maiors is presenled To The school each year. The sludenls also do a lol ol Red Cross worlc. Miss Dorothy Gibson Nil Home Ec. Teachers: Miss Lucy White, Nl ssah Joue Cooki Le ng Class