Abilene High School - Orange and Brown Yearbook (Abilene, KS)

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Che Aims of the Qzourses of Stub By PROF. J. NV. FRENCH HE curriculum of the Abilene High School given on the preceding page is seen to be divided into four Courses of Study. Each of these courses has a defi- nite aim and is designed to meet the needs of one of the four large groups into which the students of the High School are divided. A little over one-fourth -if the students take the College Preparatory Course and it is consequently first in point of numbers. .Its aim, as indicated by its name, is the preparation of students for college work. It includes the usual subjects for such a course and graduates from this course are entitled to enter any of the foremost colleges of the Middle West without examinations. The second course in regard to the number of students enrolled is the Normal Training Course. Its aim is the preparation of students for teaching in the grades. The subjects in this course are nearly all fixed by state law and graduates from this course who take the Normal Training examinations are entitled to teach in the grade schools of the state. The third course is the Industrial and is designed to furnish an opportunity for the student to become familiar with the various fields of human knowledge con- nected directly or indirectly with some of the comn1unity's most prominent indus- tries. It is a course designed- for the boy cr girl who neither expects to teach nor enter college. It offers Agriculture, Manual Training, Domestic Science and Domestic Art to students. When this course is as fully developed as it should be in this community it will include a more complete study of Agriculture, Stock Raising and llairying, as well as of household economic studies. At present it is as good a course for this type of student as the equipment of the school will permit. The youngest of our courses is the Commercial Course. If its present popularity with students may be a guide, next year it will undoubtedly provide for more stu- dents than some of the other three courses. This course is a training course for students who may expect to become clerks, stenographers, or who expect to attend some large business college and take up more advanced lines of work. The course is one year old this spring and so we have no graduates from it yet but when we send out students who have taken the four years' work of this course we expect them to be thoroughly competent to handle positions in our own stores and offices. Sl'1VlTlN'l' EEN

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Che Abilene Iijigb School Booster Daphne Swartz '16 Paul Hershey '17 Dudley Wyandt '18 Reporters Gretchen Rugh '19 Lesta Kauffman '17 Raymond Kehler '19 Earl Eisenhower '17 Laura Lucier '18 lllarle Davis '16 Lynn Wagoner '18 John Haskell '16 HERE appeared in the Abilene Daily Reflector, on the evening of October 29, a new section with a heading all its own, which attracted no little amount of attention. lt was the first edition of the Abilene High School Booster. With the exception of high school notes published weekly in the local papers, the Abilene High School had never had a newspapers-at least not within the memory of the present faculty and student body, so, of course, the first appearance of one could not fail to attract notice. This high school paper, for it was not as yet the Booster, came as a result oi' one of Prof. French's original ideas of which he seems to have an unlimited supply when something is needed to keep things moving. After the appointment of the editorial board, which was composed of three peoplefone from each of the upper classes-the next step was to decide upon a name. Finally, the editors decided that the name should be significant of the paper's purpose or aim, and so it became the Booster. The next task was the choosing of a staff, for no newspaper is complete without the reporters. Accordingly, a meeting of each class was held, and a boy and girl were elected in each to report class news. About this time Merle Thorpe, head of the Journalism department of the Kan- sas University, came to Abilene to give the first of a series of entertainments held at the High School Auditorium during the winter. In chapel, he related some of his experiences as a newspaper reporter4and real thrillers they proved to be. Then as a special treat, he gave an informal talk to the fourth year English class, which has this year taken up Journalism to some extent. ln this interesting talk he explained the underlying elements of the news story, the human interest story, and the editorial. Thus it came about, that the Booster board was duly in- spired, and three embyro journalists were started on the way to fame. The first copies of the Booster were far from perfect-the editorials seemed stiff, and the news stories were stilted. But there seems to have been a gradual im- provement. In some way, the words have overcome their tendency to refuse to fit in the proper places, and the whole paper is loosing its stuck-up-if-yOu-FIGHSQ 1112111- ner. Whether the Booster has boosted A. H. S. at the proper time and in the right direction, only time will tell. It is certain, however, that the Booster's reputation reached far and wide. Upon special invitation Mr. French spoke on the value of a high school paper of that type at the North Central Teachers' Association in Minneap- olis, and from all reports his spiel was an unqualified success. .lust to what extent the Booster will expand in the coming years, no one can tellg but there are strong hopes of a time when it will be an independent, self-sup- porting' newspaper published in the Abilene High School. EIGHTEEN