Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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Sixteen TRAINING FOR INDUSTRY IS AIM OF VOCATIONS DEPARTMENT Zulu Z. Wright, E. W. Eveland. Stella Ri »er. Don H. Hamilton. Anna Marie Green. Mary A. Periaho. Harry B. Hunter. Vocations Department Our vocations department, with its seven instructors, embraces four different fields: commercial, agriculture, home economics, and manual training. Miss Wright, Miss Kisser, and Mr. Eveland have charge of the commercial courses. Bookkeeping and first year typing are taught by Miss Kisser, together with a special course in typing, open only to seniors. Miss Wright teaches shorthand and the advanced typing classes, two years being given to both subjects. Mr. Eveland and Mr. (Nottingham have charge of the junior business training. Mr. H. B. Hunter is the instructor in the two-year course of manual training. During the week his students work three days in the shop and two days in mechanical drawing. His hoys have helped with the construction and repairing of many things about the school. Mr. Hamilton has charge of a three-year course in agriculture. the work continuing through the summer. The F. F. A. win many prizes, thanks to Mr. Hamilton's efforts. The economics course is directed by Miss Green ami Miss Perisho; Miss G r e e n has charge of the clothing classes and one in foods while Miss Perisho has the remaining food classes. TYPING IV

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Fifteen OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE WITH LANGUAGES AND MATHEMATICS Olio R. Aritas, Margaret Steele, Leellyn Clapp. C. J. Little. Fannie M. Luckhaupt. Science and Mathematics Above are grouped the staff of science and mathematical teachers at P.H.S. Miss Steele, instructor in General Science, is a graduate of Paris High in the class of ’26, and has been on the staff seven years. Some of Miss Steele's objectives are: the acquirement of some basic principles which help us understand modern life better; tin development of wholesome intellectual interests which furnish a basis for vocational and educational guidance. Miss Luckhaupt, a popular zoology and botany teacher, has been a member of this staff for nine years. Her main object is to teach a pupil how' to solve problems by using facts, and on the practical side of the subject to teach pest-eradication and better methods of cultivating plants. Mr. Little, our expert chem-R. WILLIAMSON, SCIENTIST j8t, ig notefl chjefly for his scientific view' on subjects. However, he also teaches modern history and vocations. Mr. Clapp is an “old grad who teaches geometry and commercial arithmetic. Mr. Ariens, our instructor in algebra and physics, came to us in 1934. If any of the class stumbles on a problem, he finds Mr. Ariens an expert mathematician.

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Svtrnircn WHILE THE OBJECTIVE OF MUSIC IS TO DEVELOP THE AESTHETIC F.T1IEI, B. HOUCHAM Music Department Miss Ethel B. Hougham is the excellent anil capable supervisor of the music department of the Paris High and grade schools. Miss Hougham has received her B.S.B.E. from the University of Illinois, and she is now working on her Master's degree from Illinois Wesleyan, at Bloomington. During the years of Miss Hotighanrs supervision in Paris, she has sent several members of the music department to the all-state chorus. Until the last two years Paris has been host to a county music festival. The girls glee club was the earliest musical organization in Paris High, hut in 1928. due to the increasing interest, a new department was created, known as the girls’ chorus. Miss Hougham directs the girls’ and hoys’ glee clubs, tin? girls’ chorus and the orchestra. M iss Hougham always enters participants in the Eastern Illinois League Contest, and since she has been here the Glee Club has won this contest six times. Last year the contest was held at Paris, hut this year it was held at Charleston. Miss Hougham’s ten years spent as director of music in Paris schools proves her ability and efficiency in this very important work.