Kokomo High School - Sargasso Yearbook (Kokomo, IN)

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ENGLISH go 22 LEFT: Miss Helen Ross, Mrs. Lena Coombes, Mr. MiITon Green, Miss DoroTI1ea Pohlman, Miss Clara Edna Berry, and Miss Irene RuI'Ty use The resources of The library. RIGHT: Juniors sTudy The sTage of Shakespeare's day. This language is heap diTTerenT Trom mine. l undersTood Davy Fos- Ter, buf To undersTand These modern people, I invesTigaTed The English course. ln grammar classes beTuddled pupils learn The proper use oT pro- nouns, commas, clauses, and senTences. l.iTeraTure sTudenTs live again wiTh The immorTal characTers OT Dick- ens and Shakespeare and meeT The new characTers creaTed by modern prose wriTers. They also learn To appreciaTe poeTry oT all ages. ln grammar They learn The mechanics oT wriTingq in liTeraTure They sTudy The Torms oT Tine wriTing. ComposiTion combines These Two and adds a biT more. Public speaking develops selT-conTidence. PracTical applicaTion came This year wiTh The radio broadcasTs given by The sTudenTs. Anyone wiTh a nose Tor news is aTTracTed To The iournalism class, Tor here The work oT The news geTTers is explained. The Twelve Teachers, wiTh Miss I-Telen Ross as The head, do Their besT To help each sTudenT pracTice and enioy his language.

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Nurse and Medicine Man Guard Against Evil Spirits Nurse Barbara Scl1warTz assisfs Dr. Will J. Marlin apply The Tuberculin paTch Tesl To a group of sTudenTs. As I came ouT oT Dean Pearce's oTTice my Toe caughT in The door, and l sTarTed howling Tor The medicine man. One oT The dean's helpers senT me To a woman called The school nurse who had her oTTice nexT door. l-lere was a brighT, cheery, and clean room noT aT all like The medicine man's Teepee oT my Tribe. While Nurse SchwarTz bandaged my Toe, she explained The TuncTions oT her oTTice. This year she TreaTed minor ail- menTs and cooperaTed wiTh Dr. MarTin by adminisTering Tu- berculin paTch TesTs and physical examinaTions. Besides her regular duTies she Tound Time To insTrucT all would-be nurses belonging To The Pre-Nursing Club. Sm, My , F Q ff Thanlcs go To lvliss Barbara SchwarTz who lcepT The school in working order. 5-I4' Pag 2I

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2,1 ENGLISH LEFT: Inspired by Miss Ross's infer- esfing coIIec+ion of old Ie++ers, freshmen pradice modern mefhods of correspondence. UPPER RIGHT: While Miss Elizabefh Handley and Miss LiIiI'h Farlow read from Ivanhoe, Miss Fay Cover, Mr. George Shewmon, Miss Mary E. Sfranburg, and Miss Dorofhy Thorn- burgh Iisfen. MIDDLE RIGHT: Members of a speech class prepare 'Iheir briefs for deba+es. LOWER RIGHT: Mr. Milfon Green delighfs some journalism siudenis as he discusses proper page makeup, Page 23 ,Mi .