Abraham Lincoln Junior High School - Annual Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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WORK THAT IS PLAY-PHYSICAL EDUCATION Mr. Nutting, Mr, Gordon Miss Garde, Miss Brouse The course in physical education is a favorite with most of our school. It is quite unlike the work in any other classroom, for here the work is mostly play. ln the fall the seventh grade boys play out of doors most of the time. Such sports as foot ball, pass touch football, and running engage the classes. A home room league in pass-touch foot- ball is organized and adds much to the interest and excitement. The girls play kickball, bat ball, volley soccer, volley ball, and have tumbling and dancing classes, In the winter the boys have formal drill and marching, basket ball, tumbling, games, relays, hand soccer, and various games making use of basket balls. During the winter an intra-mural basketball league is formedg the playing oft of these games is an exciting experience. The girls continue their work which they started in the fall. They have contests between classes in the different games and work up a great deal of skill and en- thusiasm for team sports. . In the spring as soon as the weather permits the boys are again out of doors. Base- ball probably plays the most important part in their sport program with track events a close second. A home room baseball league is formed which produces as much interest as did the basket ball tournament in the winter. The girls also play baseball, at the same time continuing their games of kickball, basketball, volley ball, volley soccer, and their work in dancing and tumbling. The eighth grade classes all take swimming. Each pupil is tested when he enters the class to determine the degree of proficiency that he has already acquired. He strives during the year to improve from that place. VVork in swimming, diving, and life saving is given. The boys play basketball in class The seventh grade girls in pyramid nork l21l

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A VERY PRACTICAL PART OF LIFE-INDUSTRIAL ARTS Mr. Skinner, Mr. Hintz, Mr. Schade Mr. Clow, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Middleton The industrial arts program in our school offers courses in priming in 7B, mechan- ical drawing in 7A, home mechanics in SB, wood shop in SA, automotive in 9B, and ma- chine shop in 9A. ln wood shop and home mechanics units in carpentry and electricity are included. XVOrking with tools to build something useful is a desire that all boys have at some time. In building or making projects we boys acquire skill in the use of common tools which will later in life help us to enter and make progress in industryg this skill will also help us to perform many of the activities about the house, basement, garage, garden, yard, and motor car. The knowledge of materials and construction gained while making projects in our shops gives us boys an appreciation of good material and workmanship. This training later in life will aid us in being more intelligent consumers of the products of modern industry. Possibly the greatest benefit obtained by taking industrial arts courses is the experi- ence We gain while taking work in any of the shops. As we go through the program we should be able to decide for ourselves whether we like or do not like the work in any particular shop. It is just as important for us boys to Find out that we do not like a certain kind of shop as to discover that we are specially adapted to a certain work. These experiences will help us in selecting our shop courses at senior high school where we can specialize in the work we wish to contine after graduation. XVhen we sum up our work in industrial arts we discover we have gained the fol- lowing: a skill in the use of common tools, a pride and interest in our ability to do things, an appreciation of good material and workmanship. habits of orderly and methodical pro- cedure in a given task. aid in acquiring skill for our occupations in the future. a knowl- edge of the possibilities of various trades, an understanding and appreciation of the work' ingman and his work. A practical problem in electric shop- VVill she ever run again? wiring a bell These ninth grade boys thnlk she will E201

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FAMILIAR SCENES AROUND SCHOOL Dr. Quanclt gives ll heart examination The fiction shelves are always popular ,. I . . W6 XVe become very hungry by lunch time SA girls enjoy their swimming class The boys' swimming class develops some expert A foods class serves luncheon to some of the swimmers teachers l22l