Washburn High School - Wahian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Beer and Pret7els? No. Milk and Sandwiches MODERNIZED EQUIPMENT liif Xl Balanced Curriculum LANGUAGES The French department was organized in 1927. Because of great interest in Spanish, however, there is but one teacher of French now. The teaching of German at Whishburn has fluctuated with the fortunes of Germany. Requirements of Eastern colleges make necessary the teaching of four years of Latin. Spanish began with Eve classes, but the number has doubled since the initiation of the Good Neighbor Policy. NATURAL SCIENCES ln recent years W'ashburn's science depart- ment has broadened teaching and extra cur- ricular activities. The biology department's capacity for displaying live material has been enlarged with the addition of several aquar- iums. Greenhouse conditions have brought considerable success to the schoolls botanists, who hold an annual plant sale. The physics and audio-visual branches have brought Wasliburn a more complete service in these lines. New projectors have been installed. Gas hoods are now under con- sideration for the chemistry rooms. COMMERCIAL Looking back twenty-one years to Wash- burn's infant Commercial department, we find it very different from the one we now have. Only bookkeeping, typing, shorthand, and a one semester course of office training were offered, as compared with our book- keeping, shorthand, typing, secretarial prac- tice, office training, senior type, and the work program, which was added only two years ago. 5 , r. George llalvorsnn, Nlr, Robert Krause. Nlrs. Gwen Kahlcr. Nliss Ruthie Olson. Nlr. Alvin Rader. Rigfvlr Xlr. Raymond Ross. Xlr. Geo 1 er, Miss Evelyn Bowen. Xlr. Yilhelm Larson, Nlrs. Vokaty. Mr. Harold Henley.

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FACULTY PLAYS IMPORTANT ROLE IN SCHOOL'S PROGRESS ENGLISH Every student at Washburn will be thankful many times for his English essentials and composition training. Any student passing the tests can be reasonably assured of a C grade in university freshman English The English department has set up a remedial English class where failures can catch up instead of having to re peat the work. Classes of Creative Writing, Modern Drama, and Speech have been successful. SOCIAL SCIENCES During the past twenty-one years history has enlarged its horizons and pushed away the barriers. Today less emphasis is put on each detail of history and a broader sweep of information is studied. Twenty-one years ago the students of Washburn concentrated on past history. To- day time is spent on the present as well as the past. The textbooks have been modern- ized. This makes the work far more interest- ing. Films and phonograph records are used in the classrooms as Well as magazine articles and radio broadcasts. MATHEMATICS Mathematics at Washburn ain't what they used to be, twenty-one years agofl Much formality and useless memorization has been replaced by up-to-date practical prob- lems and solutions taught in a more natural manner. In geometry classes pupils no longer have to memorize formal proofs for all the prob- lems. Instead. originality in reasoning and skill in making geometric figures are stressed. Algebra and trigonometry have changed mainly in the type of problems worked. Iloxv Green Wlls My Sulfate SIMPLIFIED INSTRUCTIONS sex lckson, Mr. Ray Smith, Miss Ethel Montgomery. Mrs. Agnes Mulligan, Miss Marv Alice SIIIUCV. NIV. Harrv Iulver ff Nlr. james Bolewine, Nliss Myra Goode. Mr. Roy Lindstedt, Nliss Marion Hanson. Nlrs. I-'Ha Keyes, Miss llorolhy Nash. Rigfll NI Hur T

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Artistic Appeal ARTS Through the years the art department has served 'Washburn in many ways. This department now in- structs over two hundred students in beginning sketch, design, fashion, advanced sketch, and painting. Every semester this department gives a scholarship to a student who in the eyes of the instructors is de- serving. This scholarship entitles the student to attend the Minneapolis School of Art on Saturdays. HOME ECONOMICS 'While Wfashburn has always offered its girls courses in home economics, these studies have been much improved in the past twenty-one years. The foods classes are now learning to prepare a full meal instead of individual dishes. Up-to-date gas ranges are in- stalled new every ten years. ln the clothing classes less emphasis is placed on the actual sewing, while design, style, grooming, and budgeting are taken up. M USIC Twenty-one years ago 'XVashburn's music depart- ment was divided into two large sections, that of instrumental music and that of vocal music. Two years later the band and orchestra were organized. The orchestra has dwindled from eighty members twenty-one years ago, to fourteen today. The band has grown larger and now meets in a regular class period instead of three times a week before school, as was the case earlier. Top: Mr. Henry W'ill, Miss Anne McCune, Mrs. Annette Be- langer, Miss lrene Rosliilly. Nmf: Mr. Russell Helleclison, Nlr. Fred Curtis, Mrs. Clara Basfortl, Mr. Lloyd Alwin. Third: Mrs. Sylvia Morrison, Miss Mary Laird, Miss Christina Gear, Miss Margaret Tupper. C0r71f'r': Architect at NWork. Below: Black Magic.