Richburg Central School - Quill Yearbook (Richburg, NY)

Page 26 text:

First row (left to right): James White. Mary Lou Jennings. Donna Stohr. Max Hurd. Clyde Stead. Second row: Leona Kelly, Eleanor Wightman. Richard Funk. MarJean Raney. Kathleen James. Phyllis Austin and Junior Bailey. Third row: Lulu Wightman, Betty Ramsell. Billy Gibbon, Clara Jane Wells, Pauline Fisk. Ethel Borden, Charles Borden. Fourth row: Margaret Allen. Bernice Thurston, Clarence Allen. Robert Hale. Alan Harriger. and Wilma Jones. Fifth row: Robert Stuck. Harriet Young. Betty Stewart. Willett Burdick. Calvin Pangburn. Mr. Kohnken (teacher). Seventh Grade j”HE students in this picture are intent upon an arithmetic lesson. The new syllabus for elementary mathematics stresses the importance of thinking out every day problems. These problems are problems which the students are likely to encounter later in life. Examples concerning the measurement of the school room, reading meters, constructing miniature buildings to scale, bring out realistic problems to be thought about. Everyday problems in insurance, installment buying, and social security require new uses of elementary mathematics. Some activities in arithmetic which were like life situations were: measuring the circumference of the smoke stack to find the diameter, measuring the room, reading electric meters, reading gas meters and measuring sidewalks to find cubic feet of cement. The primary aim concerns problems which will be as natural and life-like as possible so that when the student goes to school no longer he will be able to apply these rules himself. Making students live in school from a practical standpoint is better than academic achievement.

Page 25 text:

Standing, left to right: Patricia Lyman. Barbara Bowen. Margaret Hardman. Bert Womer. Seated, fit desk: Mrs. Johnston (Teacher). First table, at left, left to right: Joe Saunders, Elizabeth Ames- tcry, Marcella Seager, Margaret Hardman, Virginia Champlin, Cecile Kline. Delores Peterson. Nor- man Brenneman. Back table, at left: Pat Childs. Lloyd Higby, Glenn Harris. Doris Drake, Freda Frost. Betty Dutton. Howard Moses, Seldon Jordan. Center table: Nancy Jandrew. Jean Marie Stafford, Helen Shannon. Stella Hale. Howard Dorrett, William Marsh. Eilene Wilcox. Lois Ewans. Helen Lamb. Table at right: Wanda Hurd. Robert Wilcox, Berdena Kinsey. Jacqueline Goodrich. Wayne Tyler. Mary Fisk, Richard Burdick. Eighth Grade “THIS picture portrays an eighth grade mathematics class. The curriculum of the eighth grade provides for intense training in preparation for high school courses. Rules set by the state and prescribed by the syllabus are exemplifying a definite improvement in this process of preparation. Mathematics is the embodiment of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry, reduced to the simplicity of the practical problems of daily life within the comprehension of the average eighth orader. Homemaking, science, and art, as presented are guides for determining the answer to the great question, What course shall I take in high school? Character guidance is aiding each pupil to understand the importance of build- ing for citizenship, which after all is each individual's rating as a person; and taken collectively, sets the standard of the whole. What better passport for high school could an eighth grader possess?

Page 27 text:

First row: Marcella Seager, Charles Keech. Clair Burdick, Jock Clark. Howard Burrows, Florence Burlingame, Roy Sharp and Don Elkinton. Second row: Leola Harriger. Bernard Bessey, Jock Dixon. Lois Allen. Frances Gibbon, Helen Wightman and Lois Harriger. Third row: Jean Wightman. Marilyn Womer, James Coyle, Ann Strickland. Carol Jean Kinsey. Dick Allen. Robert Lewis, Glenita foster. Fourth row: Lida Frost. Breadon Skinner. Maxine Milliman, Milton Pangburn, Audrey Peter- sen. John Kinsey and LaRue Champlin. Fifth row: Tom Allen. Robert Baldwin. Arrilla Pangburn. Richard Cline, and Ernest Jones. Miss Mason (teacher). Sixth Grade THIS class in English grammar has taken up, or will take up, the study of the parts of speech, sentence analysis, letter writing, story telling, punctuation, poetry study and correct word usage. The lives and works of Rudyard Kipling and Sir Walter Scott provide abundant material for the Literature course. The subject matter in science, a subject not always mentioned in connection with elementary grades is quite general, including such topics as electricity, the seasons, weather, the solar system, and many other topics. The new arithmetic syllabus has simplified the arithmetical processes. Arithmetic still involves the study and appli- cation of fractions to practical situations, the use of decimals, and the solving of complicated word problems. Our class has been organized into a club, entirely managed by the students. The purpose of such an organization was to solve class problems, to better any unde- sirable conditions and in general, to develop a wholesome, cooperative classroom atmosphere in which each child could do his best work. Officers were elected every ten weeks. In connection with the club, at various intervals of the year Good Citizens were elected. They were selected as exemplifying honesty, courtesy, cleanliness, cooperation, good sportsmanship and all other characteristics that typify a good future U. S. citizen. Those who have been elected as Good Citizens this year are: Helen Wightman, John Kinsey, Maxine Milliman, Frances Gibbon, Marilyn Womer, Tommy Allen, Ernest Jones.