Sheridan High School - Bronc Yearbook (Sheridan, WY)

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SELENA MORGAN Office Clerk S. H. S. 1930 KOSAL RKDLK S. II. S. Registrar S. H. S. 1929 Sheridan High School Office One of the most important and busiest places in the entire high school is the high school office. Here both teachers and students are served and advised. The office girls, Selena Morgan, clerk; and Rosal Redle, registrar, have many varied duties. Some of the general duties are the making out of transcripts, Mr. Skinner’s correspondence, checking in and out of supplies and text books, lockers, the filing of petition cards, pink slips, excuses, and the checking of eligibility for football and basket ball. A lost and found department is also located in the office. Here all lost articles ranging from fountain pens to wrist watches await their owners. A place is also kept for lost books. Six senior girls assist in the office. They run errands, file cards, make announcements and do other general office work. All mimeograph copies are run off in the office. Selena Morgan has charge of all the mimeographed copies of examinations. One of the office activities for this year was an attendance contest staged between the Casper and Sheridan high schools. A large banner worked out in black and orange, Casper’s colors, and blue and gold, Sheridan’s colors, was retained each week by the school having the largest attendance percentage for the week. At the end of the year the school having the highest average attendance percentage will receive the banner. For the week November 16 to 20, Casper won the banner by an attendance percentage of 96.7%. Sheridan’s attendance percentage for the period was 95.9% . Sheridan won the banner for the week November 23 to 25, with a percentage of 95.7%. Casper’s percentage was 93.6%. With a percentage of 97.3%, Casper won the banner the third week, November 30 to December 4. Our percentage was 96%. The banner also went to Casper the fourth w’eek, December 7 to 11. Casper’s percentage was 96.25'1, Sheridan’s, 96%. Casper and Sheridan tied for the banner the fifth week with a percentage of 95.7%. The banner was given to Casper the second week in January. This was the week of the flu epidemic in Sheridan and no attempt was made to figure the attendance. For the week January 18 to 22, Sheridan won the banner with a percentage of 94%. Casper’s percentage was 88%. The contest was temporarily discontinued the next four weeks because of the heavy work occuring at the end of the first semester. For the week February 22 to 26, Casper and Sheridan again tied with an average of 95.8%. —(23)—

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REBECCA MEGOWN MAUDE E. MURPHY English Q. E. Q. Sponsor University of Colorado. B. S. Slate Teachers College. Kirksvillc, Mo. University of California. University of Washington. University of Hawaii. ELSIE NORELIUS Commercial Commission Sponsor A. B. Grinnell College. University of Minnesota. Columbia University. Parks Business School. FLORA H. REES English and Mathematics Chairman Laramie Committee Group Council G. A. L. Sponsor A. B. Des Moines University. MARGARET TALSMA Home Economics Sponsor of Home Economics Club B. S. Iowa State College. University of Chicago. Iowa State College. BURK WHITE Assistant Football Coach Northern Arizona Normal School. U. S. Naval Electrical School. Mare Island. California. Colorado State Teachers College. University of Wyoming. Art Supervisor Blue and Gold Sponsor Missouri State Teachers College. St. Louis School of Fine Arts. University of Chicago. Boothbay Art Studios. MARIE PARSONS French and Spanish Sponsor of Class of January, 1934 Spanish Club Sponsor French Club Sponsor B. A. Grinnell College. Middlebury French School. Paris. F'rance. Centro de Estudios Histor-icos, Madrid. Spain. University of Colorado. OLIVE SINGER Spanish Sponsor of ('lass of January. 1933 Spanish Club Sponsor A. B. Colorado State Teachers College. University of Southern California. FRANCES VAN BOSK IRK F nglish and Debate Ocksheperida Sponsor A. B. University of Iowa. BERNARD WRIGHT History and Physical Training A. B. West Virginia University. West Virginia College. WILBUR WRIGHT Director of Physical F'duca-tion and Adviser of Boys Davis-Elkins College. University of Illinois. American College of Physical Education. (22) —

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High School Objectives In the past few decades the objectives of high school education have undergone great changes. Inheriting its objective from its ancestor the academy, the old high school endeavored to train largely for college entrance. This objective is no longer sufficient. Though the enrollment in our colleges is much greater now, the percentage of high school graduates who will attend is less. The high school enrollment doubling many times has brought new types of students having new needs. These have been needs not only in the primary or mental values, but more in the concomitant values of social training and personality development and the like, imperfectly served by other social agencies. Training as it does a large proportion of students for whom it is to be the ultimate in education, the high school must offer new vocational opportunities. There must be social opportunities, for students to learn the all important art of getting along with people. Students must have opportunity to develop special talents, build initiative and responsibility. Sufficient freedom must exist that the individual student may have opportunity to learn to choose. While Aristotle said that experience is the teacher of fools, still there are many things we must learn by that means. High school activities must give opportunity for students to make some mistakes, where the cost will not be irreparable. Sheridan High School in its courses of study, its wide program of extra curricular activities and its administrative procedure, has endeavored to keep pace with the modern program of secondary education. Every year the normal training department graduates a class trained and ready for rural school teaching. Three full time teachers in the commercial department fit graduates for office and secretarial work. The manual training, home economics, art, and vocational agriculture departments send out students better fitted for work in these fields. Glee clubs, band and orchestra help provide one-third of the students of the high school with training for a leisure time occupation that will bring pleasure to themselves and others throughout their lives. Football, basket ball, base ball, track, hockey, tennis and regularly scheduled physical education classes for boys and girls provide physical development and teach cooperation, confidence, courage, and the ability to accept defeat or victory gracefully. Fifteen regularly organized clubs give opportunity for leadership training, social and avocational development. The general administration, home room organization and the splendid spirit of friendliness existing between teacher and student conduces toward the ideal of freedom under guidance. In all, Sheridan High School strives to be a place where boys and girls of high school age may have opportunity under the best environment to achieve for themselves mental and physical attainments and skills and to build habits and ideals of worthy behavior. —(24)— —R. W. Skinner.