Swanton High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Swanton, OH)

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MATHEMATICS MABEI. MILNES To most students. especially the girls. mathematics is one of the most difficult subjects they encounter while in high school. Any period of the day you can walk though the study hall and see a freshman. sophomore. junior or senior. struggling over the dayis math assignment. Although it undoubtedly tests our depositions more than any other subject, we could not get along without dear old math. and every student will remember the many valuable lessons learned in the math- ematics room. At present. the students are privileged to have Mable Milnes as their math teacher. We have yet to meet a student who had anything but good to say for thr- teacher who in our minds is simply a genius in math. tl wonder if that's what college does. or if she was just a born mathematician?j This year the math department offers four different types of mathematics: namely. general math. algebra. geometry and advanced math lwhich consists of one semester advanced algebra. and one semester of triginometrypt All of the freshmen are required to take either general math which is a review of all the math they have studied since the 6th grades, plus a few equations. or algebra: therefore. Miss Milnes has her hands full with approximately one hundred gen- eral math and algebra I students. There are twenty-seven in the geometry class. who daily struggle over the area of flat surfaces and try to prove that the equations they learned in algebra l are correct. The smallest class of all is the advanced math class. which consists of fourteen industrious students who labor over prob- lems which they will later encounter in their freshman year at college. In looking back through the preceding years. we find the names of many other teachers who have helped educate students into the mystery of mathematics: f.. U. liastle. L. W. Bates. Allan Trumbull, Mable Drcnnan. lialph Lindsay. W. A. Salter. Hart Swindler. Ralph Geer. Dale Vaughn. W. H. Shaver and Alice Cun- ningham. To all the teachers who have endeavored to teach with unfailing patience the intracacies of math. we. as students of Swanton High School. offer a salute. fllj

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ENGLISH EVA CAR PI-fNTI-llt ln passing room 32. one might hear any of the following remarks. for this is the room most students will remernher as the English room: Mrs, Carpenter. is this a quotation from Milton? t'l'hat's a seniort Please, Mrs. Carpenter. is this verlm transitive or intransitive? 'llhey look alike to mel Cllliat sounds as if it must he a junior! Uh, lVlrs. Carpenter. l didn't hear you assign that pagelu lOl eoursefffthat is a freshmanlt ln addition to room 32, room 32? is known to all sophomores as Miss Hall's ltnglish room. There the sophomores struggle over sentence strueture and Silas Klarnerf' More time is spent teaching linglish than any other suhjeet so it niust he the most important suhject. There are nine seetions of linglish daily requiring all ol' Mrs. Carpenterls time. two periods of Miss Hall's and one of Miss Curtis'. livery student is required to take three years of English. Two more eourses are tlective: Senior lfnglish and Speech.. These are popular elasses. for this year forty-one seniors Chose lfnglish IV and twenty-five chose Speech. During these fifty years Swanton has had many eapahle lfnglish teachers. namely. C. V. ljfaffman. L. W. Hates. Minnie lliddle. W. li. C. llrown. Marguerite liiery. Miss Minert. Faye Brunn. Helen Fiseher. Mildred Merrill. Bernice Carpenter. t.. C. Premo, Frank Prouty. l.ueille Lavenhurg tllvermyert. lilizaheth Kilhourn. lllaine Louden. ,leanette Carpenter lChapmant. Margaret Joslin lAllent. and at present. lfva Carpenter. Although years have made a great many changes. lfnglish is stll the suhjeet every student must major in. and according to the opinion of the lfnglish teaehers. it is the department most eritieized hy the puhlie. hecause the students some' time fail to use the knowledge they ohtain in the traditional English roomffrooni ill. lint in the hearts of all past. present and future students. there will he a warm spot in our hearts for room 32 and the teachers who taught therein. usp

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LANGUAGES M. L. HALL When the Swanton High School was first established. Latin was part of the schoofs curriculum. Une of the first foreign language teachers was fi. U. Castle. ln 1912 Margaret Biery' introduced a four year course of Latin. The first year was the study of grammar: second year. Caesarg third year. llicerog fourth year. Yirgil. Hope Curtis, another foreign language teacher. was the first alumna of this high school to return as one of its faculty. Following Miss Curtis, Miss Paige and Merah Gamble were instructors. ln l92l Mable Urennan changed the schtdule hy' teaching two years of French and two years of Latin. During the next years, Maretta jordan. Marguerite Williams. Mary iiaris and llelen Hennund were other teachers ot language. 4 llvelyn llahn. now Mrs. Edmund l'illiod. htld the magistrais rule for a period of six years. Her successor was Dorothy Harris Logan. now one of Holland High 5l'll0Ul1S faculty. Mary Louise Hall became a mcmlver of the faculty in I9-l-fl. She presides over a class of thirty freshmen and sixteen sophomores. 'fhe prestnt curriculum offers only' two years of Lating first year is grammar and second year. Caesar. The future aim of the de martment is to add S anish to the schoofs curriculum. 1'i 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 the students of Latin have completed several projects pertalnlng to the suhject. AIIIOIIU those were modcline' statues. coustructinf' notehooks and rosters of the ?-, rf 1 P v 1 1 Roman Gods and Uoddesses and studyinv models of weaions used llllfllll' this 1 1b C 4 r-l1 1 Q 1 ra period. the purpose of the projects IS to introduce the pupils to the religion and home life of the Romans. HU