Richburg Central School - Quill Yearbook (Richburg, NY)

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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.

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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.

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Tirst row: Harold Bowker. LyIlian Moses. Richard Jones. Loretta Green. Second row: Virginia Hale Jack McCrea. Norman Austin. Jean Wilcox. Doris Cowles. Robert Hardman. Third row: Arlene Monahan. Dorothy Lewis. Carl Kuhn. Harry Paul Hardman, Lewis Feeley. Fourth row: Philos Burdick. Bernice Burrows. Gloria Maxson, Robert Dixon. Walter Peterson. Standing: Helen Cole. Donald Kuhn. Elmer Shannon. Beverly Harriger. Arlouine Dorrett. Richard Hosmer, Wilford Burdick. Miss Marian Updike (teacher). Floyd Jones, (holding chart). Absent: Richard Weidman. Fifth Grade I N this picture the students are studying a bird unit in science. The fifth grade science course sharpens one’s attention to the world of interesting things around him. There are six courses of study which includes: 1. Different ways in which plants get their food. 2. Causes of the change of seasons. 3. Substance changes. 4. The earth as a member of the solar system. 5. Changes in living things. 6. Conservation of natural resources. There have been two tadpoles, two turtles and two goldfish to observe daiiy. Occasional visits of pet rabbits help in the study of the care of pets. An interesting spring unit is bird lore. Here one studies about birds from pictures and charts, learns to know some by sight, builds bird houses and gains appreciation of nature. One of our extra-curricular activities during the year is the rivalry of the fifth and sixth grades for a health banner. The highest scorer keeps the banner. The grade which keeps it the greatest number of weeks receives a prize. The rules to observe and the points received are: head cleanliness 2, hair combed 2. clean arms 2, dean nails 5. clean ears 2, clean face 2. clean neck 2, handkerchief 5, shower 5. change underwear 5. The total for each day is 29. except Friday's score, which is 39.