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

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INDUSTRIAL ARTS DEPARTMENT Upper picture: Roy Fowler, Nathan Clow, Ernest l-lintz, Oliver Schade, Claude Middleton, Irvin Carney - Lower picture, at left: Power hack saw operated by boys in machine shopg at right, eighth grade boys in mechanical drawing class. The industrial arts courses are required of boys during their first three semesters in junior high school. Courses are offered in machine shop, mechani- cal drawing, printing, home mechanics, woodwork, and automotive shop. These courses are planned with several purposes in view. Since during his three years in iunior high a boy may become acquainted with six different types of shop, he can decide which one he wishes to pursue in senior high school: he learns whether or not he has the mechanical ability to permit his pursuing one of the trades for his life's work: he gains in his appreciation of the mechanical age in which we are living, and he receives training which will afford him much pleasure when put to use during his leisure time. lt is no wonder that the courses are popular. Many boys choose shop courses as an elective in their eighth and ninth years of school. Although these courses are only one semester in length, they provide practical training which the boys are ready to put into service on numerous occasions. l17l

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Q HOUSEHOLD ARTS DEPARTMENT Z, gffzilule tug q Upper picture: Vivian Westring, Alice Olander, Zella Evans, Nell Hall Lower picture, to the left: A Foods ll class is preparing a luncheong to the right: these Clothing fl girls are making pajamas for themselves. Household Arts is required in seventh grade and in the first semester of the eighth grade. Thereafter it is an elective subject, one which is most popular among the girls of Lincoln. The first semester of work in Lincoln is a course in sewing in which the girls make a variety of things, including aprons, towels, and caps. ln the second semester the course is one in preparing and serving simple foods. The last required course is entirely different, this one being a course in good manners, in budgeting, and in other problems related to the successful running oi a house. The first elective course is one for eighth grade in which the girls may choose either sewing or knitting. In the latter the girls make sweaters, purses, and other useful things for themselves: in the former, they make belts, embroidered jackets, and have a little knitting. In the ninth grade there are two elective courses offered, Foods I and II and Clothing I and ll. Here the girls are able to produce work of a grownup standard. These are very popular courses. f15l

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Upper picture: Clarence Polaski, Florence Brouse, Harold Gordon, Wilma Tracy Lower picture at left shows a girls' gym class with an exciting game of volleyball in progress: the right hand picture shows a class in boys' gym practicing some gymnastic exercises. The gymnasium is the most popular place in the school for many of the boys and girls. The program is most varied with games in season, with drill work, and with swimming. During the fall, football, with its school variant, pass- ball, is in favor. Gym classes are held out of doors whenever the weather per- mits, and usually four fields are in use at the same time. During the winter, when the Weather forces theml inside, the classes are enjoying basketball and volleyball. As soon as the first mild days come in the spring, the classes are out of doors, limbering up their pitching arms ready for the baseball season. The girls are equally enthusiastic about sports, with baseball, basketball, volley- ball, and kick-ball as their favorites. Swimming is offered to the eighth grade classes and much enthusiasm is developed as a result. After school classes are held in both swimming and games: these are always full classes both of people who take this chance of making up work they have missed and of those who come because they enjoy the sports. Winners of after school tournaments are shown in the athletic section. llftl