Morton High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Morton, IL)

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W yW7 M1ss Grote teaches Home Economlcs I II III advlses FHA and IS a co ad vlsor of the Human Relatlons club She IS also a newcomer th1s year and was greeted by a hard case ot mumps Dur mg MISS Grotes absence her classes xx ere taught by the two student teachers from the U of I Mlss Woodburn and Mlss Samelson After teachmv the re qulred number of hours MISS bamelson too took to her bed XV1th mumps Thls amuslng course of events was com pleted when Mlss Woodburn awoke on Chrlstmas mormnff xx 1th you guessed THE MUMPQ' The glrls 1n Homemakmg I learn the fundamentals of eooklng and sewlng ThlS year all the glrls began by makmg blouses by the same pattern Thls en abled the class to work together on thelr garments They prepared an Easter luncheon and 1IlV1tEd the woman facul ty members The decorated table set tmgs and the good food made the lunch eon qulte a success Earller 1n the year thls class made several very clever posters on manners and good groommg and for some txme to follow they brlghtened the class rooms and hallways Mxss Smlth and Mr Whxtaker share the advlsory dutles for both the senlor class and the Cauldron Mr Whltaker also mspxres and supervlses the act1v1 tles of the Sclence Club whlle the Latln Club IS MISS Srnlth s responslblllty M T H S felt honored last sprmg when Mr Whltaker was chosen for a fellow sh1p by the Case Inst1tute of Technologv at Cleveland where he subsequently spent the summer Sxnce thls was a Gen eral Electrlc Felloushxp perhaps lt IS appropr1ate to descrlbe Mr Whlt3k9TS experlence as an xllumlnatmg one'

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IWISS Ahce Jones mstlucts the fresh man 1emed1'1l xeadlng class sophomox Engllsh semor Fngllsh and 19 1 'tud ent Councl 'xdxlsox She IS tlso co ad NISOI to the JLlI'll01 class NI Prlchaxd anothel new come1 teaches Junlor Engllsh and dlrects and adxlses the band and choruses The Phllosopher IS the Jomt proje of the commerce and Engllsh depa1t ments These tx o teachers ther or together w1th Mr Furkln supervlse the preparatxon of copy by the ed1to1s and reporters who worl on the b1 weekly pubhcatlon ,Z hu-.X Sph W W ABQ The pxcture 1llustrates only one phase of Home Economlcs III Th1s year the glrls started w1th food preservatlon and then moved on to sewlng cooklng bud getlng planmng a career plannlng home and plannlng a famlly The glrls also spent three weeks ln the shop where Mr Zwanzlg taught them a few thmgs about buylng furnlture repalrmg electrxcal apphances and workmg w1th wood Two of the garments made by the glrls 1n thls class were modeled at the FHA Rally at San Jose h Four members of the Engllsh II class are learmng to collect data fo1mulate an op1n1on and glve expresslon to It ln MISS Jones class As 1n the other Eng l1sh classes one semester IS spent study 1ng grammar and the other studylng llterature The Enghsh classes are en llvened by the use of the tape recorder The use of recordlngs seems to brlng out the beauty and meamng of Macbeth and Juhus Caesar Other classes also prepare panel dlscusslons and wrxte themes and essays The semors 1500 word research theme 1s one of the1r last fond WJ memorles of hlgh school days P 5 -. 'C I - ' V X x L Y 5 -O . , A . , . Z -.J - I L ' .' '. .N Z .N - - yin' H . . ' s A 4 A ru. h 1 v 1 1 v 1, . ' L I . ' , ef 3, v D Y ' Miss Alice Jones, Englishg Mr. John Prichard, Englis , Music. . , M ! ! . , . - Y - 1 R , .' . 1 his -7 1 fe! 4 film strip projector, and phonograph. ,, . 1Q'f. ,a 1 Y . ' . F-f ' . L V 143 'lg ix 5 , y Q . I Tx , . , . . . . I , w ,V .gt A 9 omore pcnel - M. McHenry, S. ood, ' L b ' J. enninger, . rig s. B. Bluhm, E. flederer in Home Ec. III . V. . 7. 1 1 ' , ' , ' a , . 7 y v 1' 1

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The forelgn language requlrement fox college entrance IS met by Morton stud ents xx ho take the txxo years of Latln of tered under Miss Smlth s lnstructlon Students flnd that these courses are of lmmedlatv. value ln lncreaslng their vo cabularles and thelr understandlng or Engllsh grammar They also dlSCOX0l much of lnterest and beauty in the his tory and mythology of the anc ent Po mans Latm I class members keep scrap books Latm II does projects Both ex c1te much mterest generally The cl1 max of course IS reached ln the annual Latm banquet xx here senators gods and goddesses eat xvlth thelr fmgers' Mr Whltaker thls year lb teach1ng third semester algebra plane geometry and trlgonometry 'Vhss Smlth s mathc matlcs classes are all freshmen alge bra practlcal math and remedlal arlth met1c Thls last named class IS nexx n the currlculum belng part of an effort to brlng to the mdlvldual student the partlcular portlon of mathematics that seems hkely to meet h1S needs and tastes Thus college bound students are enabled to take advanced courses wh11e those with other plans may take a m1n selves to the1r chosen llne of study The physlcs and chemlstry classes mampulate a great deal of mysterlous look1ng equlpment and produce at ln tervals strange fragrances or IS that too strong a word In Mr XKfhlt3.k91 classes they are taking f1rst steps into the mysterlous and fasclnatmg xx orld of laxx and order xx h1ch both thc scxentlst and the mathematlclan knoxx Interests thus axx akened may lead some at least of these students to dlscoverles of great xvorth and into l1ves of servlce to man kmd lg b w um Abb uc . . . , . . . . H . . . . V - . L ' v ' A ' 3 7 Y Y Y l ' ' ' ' ' Latin I class relaxes from amo, amas, amat. I 1 . . . , - v -v ' X 7 . . . . , ' - ' l I Y . ' - . . ffl ' lmum of mathematlcs and devote them- -4 ' ' Collaboration in c e ra - . man, ' - Jane Ackerman. ' ' The new gravitational theory? Well, no-iust f ' ' - their own. J. Heiniger, Mr. Whitaker, C. Arnett B. eighin. i 1 - s , . ' . . V i JS 7 Y i Y A -