Logan County High School - Annual Yearbook (Sterling, CO)

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IJVHJ x-,LTT X t 5 L wiwvpt The muslc course offered by our school for the first time m the fall of l9l5 has been encouraged and has proved a success The success IS evrdent m the Increase of enrollment and the enthusiasm displayed by the members of both the classes and the student body The vocal classes the Clee Club and the mixed chorusl have grven appreciative numbers at community meetings and have furnished entertainment for the student body The audiences are not the only ones profitmg by the numbers grven by the classes The Improvement of quality and quantity of vorces and delivery shows that much consclen tlous effort has been clrsplayed ln this work and mastered by thrs enthuslastlc group The fundamentals of muslc the study of the opera and srght readmg are thoroughly studied by the muslc classes The arm of the musrc classes rs to ralse the standard of good music throughout the school and to encourage and develop the thrrst of muslc lovmg students Zll the defies, s sk ,ll .f I . l l F- ft 1 pf V xx gg xii- AW W . X dw I X xl! fff 'wx I 5 a 2 t to f e eeee 1 -e s - A :ri I as C . . I . .

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gf of JHEHSE 2 Z ,-,gd ' ' ft J Z X X4 ff I1 l0f W Lv W lllfd The umor Hrgh School which during the first two vears was largely an experl ment has during the year just past proved nts value and rs a success Its purpose was to bridge the gap between the upper grades and the Hugh School ln order to prevent the g eat loss of puprls from school at the close of the elghth year and to provide specral tralmng along elementary vocational lmes At first rt was llttle more than the seventh and erghth grades wlth special work but as time passed rt assumed an lndrvlclualrty of nts own untrl It has become a separate unlt unlllce either the former upper grades or the Hugh Schoool lts growth from the begrnnlng has been rapid From an enrollment of lrttle more than one hundred ln l9l5 rt has grown to more than two hundred rn l9l8 The faculty has been Increased to live regular Instructors rn addrtron to special teachers of art man ual trarnmg muslc and domestlc science At a specral electron held recently the crtrzens of Sterling showed their confidence rn the umor Hugh School movement by votlng to rssue bonds for the erection of a umor High School bulldmg to cost Sl35 000 Mr Groves the architect who designed the burldmg says that xt wrll be the hnest building of lts lund rn the state The umor Hugh School IS a success! It has come to stay x I lZ0l I gif' X , ,..r.... - 2 1 ,J Y 1 S rfffim ' ful Mfg, gi, ' an t f' ..-- 'Tr 1- Q Q' 5 9 -- 352. Q Q' Q Q Mc., rffr wir, J . . . '

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A NORMAL I 5, -, 1 gnu Pnor to l9l6 no work provrdmg speclal trammg for students expectmg to teach was glven ln Logan County Hugh School To meet the demand for such a course the Normal Trammg Department was established The department offers courses rn Psychology Revrews and Methods and Practice Teachmg Students are encouraged to carry theoretical courses and practrce teaching concurrently Actual teachmg IS provided ln the Sterllng Public Schools The department rs on a purely vocatnonal basrs wlth every member enrolled plan mng to teach rn the rural schools Last year eleven Normal Trammg Diplomas were granted to graduates of the hugh school and most of those holdmg these dxplomas are now teaching with marked success m the rural schools ol Logan county Their com bmed earmngs are far ln excess of the combmed earnmgs of any other group of grad uates taken from the same class Altogether the department has furmshed about thxrtv teachers to the rural schools of Logan county and districts m adjommg territory Durmg the current year about thirty different students have enrolled m th professronal courses of the department with a combmed membershrp for the three classes of over frfty The arm of the Normal Tramxng Department IS to raise the standard of rural school teaching ln Logan county I-221 .l M r , 4 dll i 572 A5135 ' A l ,. of ' ' ' K xl. D A-F a A E4 L1-'ia W. ? Y