Kokomo High School - Sargasso Yearbook (Kokomo, IN)

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wc VVIGHTI cc w1Tl1 The NDELITQ Ages,n l While I947 was a greaT year Tor us, iT was also a rnomenTous year Tor The enTire world. AT- Ter several years oT war, The TighTing counTries had Tinally ceased To Tire Their guns. This was broughT home To use more clearly by The Social STudies DeparTmenT, which was supervised by Miss Gerlrrude ColescoTT. While deeply engrossed in pasT world aT- Tairs, we did noT allow up-To-daTe happenings To pass by unnoTiced. We lcepT accuraTe Track oT presenT Times by our sTudies in currenT evenTs. Our excursions inTo AncienT, World, and UniT- ed STaTes l-lisTory, Government and Sociology Top: Mr. Joseph Powell and Miss GerTrude ColescoTT. Middle: Mr. J. Warren Muncie and Mr. ForresT Roe. BoTTom: Hisfory sTudenTs learn aboul' The STaTe LegIslaTure.

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Mr. J. P. Jones has been Dean oT Boys aT Kl-IS Tor The pasT nine years. The goaTience and general undersTanding he has displayed in his dealings wiTh ThaT complex mechanism . . . The boy . . . is known and appreciaTed by all Those who have come in conTacT wiTh him. STricTly a rnan's man, Dean Jones was a well-lcnown baslceTball sTar in a region where This sporT reigns supreme . . . Indiana. AT BuTler UniversiTy, while working Tor his AB. and A.lv1. degrees, Diz, as he was called by all his Triends. was chosen as an All-Ameri- can CenTer in baslceTball. Since he came To Kl-TS in T93 I, Mr. Jones has TaughT physical educaTion, maThe- maTics, and has assisTed in coaching our bas- lceTball Teams To Their yicTories. When The AdminisTraTion decided To creaTe The oTTice oT Dean oT Boys, Mr. Jones was selecTed Tor This posiTion. As parT oT his worlc wiTh boys. Mr. Jones creaTed The Boys' Legion, which has accom- plished greaT Things under his supervision. lT's noT hard aT all Tor us To realize The debT oT graTiTude ThaT we in general and The boys in parTicular owe To Dean Jones. Tlle road To TuT:u1'e success as X Dean J. P. Jones. Pc

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Boer War, and maTTers historical. Mr. E. W. Phillips, Miss Elizabelh Mc- lnfosh, and Mr. Earl Wilson. Mr. CurTis Lesier, Mr. Earl UTTerback, and Mr. Fred Muslard. did much To make us realize our sTakes . . and possible misTakes . . . in The TuTure. ln order To obTain a workable know-how oT The naTional, sTaTe, and local governmenT, The hisToryclasses sponsored a mock elecTion which was held ThroughouT The school This year. Sample balloTs were used, voTing booThs esTablished, compleTely equipped wiTh elecTion boards and all The regular poli- Tical paraphernalia. In co-operaTion wiTh The Visual EducaTion DeparTmenT. many inTeresTing Tilms were shown To The various hisTory classes This year To enable hisTory sTudenTs To learn The TacTs by seeing Them insTead oT iusT reading Them as was done beTore This deparTmenT was es- fablished. A special course included in Social STud- ies was Sociology which has been a parT oT our curricula since I943. Being The sTudy oT human relaTions, problems oT marriage, Ti- nance, personaliTy, and sTraighT Thinking were discussed. OTher problems such as ju- venile delinguenTs, alcoholics, and Teeble- minded people were also discussed. We realize how imporTanT The sTudy oT humaniTy and governmenT is in preparing us To sTep inTo our posiTions in The world as successiul, law-abiding ciTizens. Pug 7