Manual High School - Mirror Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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r 'i.'ttS..a tttttxtw tzjsta John Voss, M. S. Robert M. Cahail, B. A. Knox College, University of University of Iowa. Chicago. Physics. V Biology. Ruth Stacy Secretary. Zilla Stickley Clerk. Lucille Yunker, A. B. Bradley Polytechnic Institute. Clerk. Courses Offered at Manual ANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHCOL is not, as its name might seem to imply, strictly a school for the training of hand workers. It offers five distinct courses of study: the Academic, the Commercial, the Manual Training, the Home Economics, and the Sheet Metal, thus providing training which meets the needs and desires of students of various interests and capacities. The Academic course provides a solid foundation for college entrance, besides giving a fine opportunity for general cultural development. English, mathematics, science, Latin, and three modern languages, French, Spanish, and German, are offered. Besides the required units, there are various electives which may be selected. Public speaking, music, and art gain their quota of students. The Commercial course is a strong one, providing a thorough knowledge of the business world and a complete training for entrance into it. Besides shorthand and typing, splendid courses in bookkeeping, business arithmetic, junior training for busif ness, commercial geography, salesmanship, advertising, commercial law, and economics are given. There is an opportunity for electives in this course also. The Home Economics course gives the student valuable training in the art of selecting and making of clothing, the selection and preparation of foods, the care and furnishings of the home, and dietetics. The first year's work in clothing is elected by freshmen, the second year's work by seniors, while foods is an elective for sophomores, and home management for juniors. The Manual Training course is a fourfyear one providing woodworking and mechanical drawing for the freshman year, and machine shop, cabinet making, archif tectural drawing, and other advanced courses for the three upper classes. The work done is essentially practical, and many of the students are thus helped to the choice of an occupation. The Sheet Metal course is the newest of the courses given at Manual. Realizing the importance of sheet metal work in industry, the School Board in 1925 established this course. While the work does not make thorough mechanics of the boys, it aims to develop workers fully qualihed to solve the sheet metal problems that arise in every shop. It is a timefsaver, for the boys in the shop gain in two years knowledge and experience which an apprentice ordinarily must spend four years to gain. , T -1- 'Pas . .,. '4 'f 2 . 0,-'2 1, wemy li, fi f azi te 1 alle X ,...-5?-v-- f'f'4t54H'-' '

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Dorothy L. Sprague, B. A. Beloit Collegeg Syracuse Uni' versityg University of Illinois. Latin, Spanish. Genteel in personage, conduct and equipage, Noble by heritage, generous and freef, it Virginia M. Stein, A. B. Bradley Polytechnic Institute. French, Spanish. The fairest garden in her lo'o.' , And in her mind the .wi st books. I 'X Glenn Schwartz, A. B. Bradley Polytechnic Institute, Civics, Salesmanship, Adverf tising. As quick as lightning in a race, And an earthly singer in this case. Walter W. Thomas, B. S. Knox College. Chemistry, Geometry. 'lHe says a thousand pleasant things. Nineteen Q 1'i-its iriiareiisa ' L : ir I. 1 4 gi get Q it M a 'Vit'-Wk l 4 T f -3 an Myrtle E. Travis, A. B. Bradley Polytechnic Institute English. Radiant her smiles, and en' couraging her tones. Kathryn Welsh, A. B. University of Illinois. Clothing. An encouraging word will lift a heavy heartf, Florence M. Wescott, A. B. Illinois State Normal Univerf sity: Bradley Polytechnic Inf stitute. English. A sweet attractive kind of grace. Adelaide Wyatt Bradley Polytechnic Institute. Librarian. Come and take choice of all my lihraryf' li Ap fi-175, if 3- '. af, .e -J if , f wit., .rw 'g gf ' vs . ....Y .iif:1X.dim-wwgeihn.-...

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HB' 5 'Y ,S J We My I 'G QW V V Q' And not by eastern windows only, XVhen daylight comes, comes in the light In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly But westward, look, the land is bright -Arthur Hugh Clough,