Argo Community High School - Argolite Yearbook (Argo, IL)

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Successful completion of recent strenuous building program .... Board of Education now ready to turn attention to the weighing and determining of educational policies .... members of present Board thus carrying on fine tradi- tions established by predecessors. Board anxious that community receive full enjoyment and return of new building .... new and enriched program of activities, facilities, and space now available to non-student groups .... Evening Trade School of increasing im- portance in Argo High educational scheme .... frequent complimentary com- ment from W. J. Thompson, state director of vocational education .... extension of physical education department .... gym used by non-high, as well as high groups, every evening of winter months .... Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls, a part of the swim cl.1ss program .... groups enjoying gym facilities: Holy Name Society, C. P. R. basketball team, Health Club, Nazarene Church quintette, Argo Metros S. A. C., Merchants Art Club .... wider use of school auditorium for civic and charitable purposes .... auditorium always available to groups following Board specifications .... programs drawing community participation: Patrons, Night, Thanksgiving program, Christmas sing, operetta, junior and senior plays, home making style show, band concert, honor society induction programs, weekly Friday assemblies, programs of commencement week .... beautifully developed high school park with participants, old and young, in fall and spring sports programs .... increasing numbers enjoying park facilities . . . . always a welcome at A. C. H. S. BCDARD CDF EDLJCATIQN MR. CHARLES J. BULOW MR. HARRY L. STONE MR. JOHN GINALICK MR. CHRIS DINEFF Sc'rrclury U57

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MBU EUMMUNITY HIEH SEHUUL 1939 T I-1 E Aux. Q11AR1,1is li. WINGO MR' HERB1?T.f'i SWANSON Prilzcipul HM in

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MR. BEN GIBBS MR. WALTER LA VAHN 1 C147 HEEMUHUEHL HHNIUNS EVENING TRADE SCHOOL Argo Community Evening Trade School . . . . reopened September 6, 1938 . . . . two semesters of fifteen weeks each .... work under the supervision of Argo Com- munity High School board of education and Principal Charles E. Wingo .... cooperation of local industries. Eighteen classes, with an enrollment of 243, organized during the school year .... classes conducted as parts of practical courses .... adapted to needs of local occupations and industries. Persons composing the faculty: R. F. Van Eman and D. W. J. Brown, Shop Draftingg Emil Adamec, H. S. Williams, A. M. Krattebol, and Jerome J. Hein, Jr., Shop Mathematics, Dr. R. W. Kerr, Dr. S. M. Cantor, Dr. Wm. F. Henry, C. E. Williams, and H. E. Bode, Chemistry, E. W. Wilson, Practical Steam Economy, G. M. Hafer, Trade Electricity, Joseph J. Zbornik, Comptometryg Walter B. Hughes, Public Speaking, E. G. Laughery, Practical Industrial Bacteriology, Amos Flint, Factory Management, L. E. Trexler, Trade Electri- city, Applied Mechanics, and Supervision. Much interest shown in scho-ol work dur- ing year .... average attendance 8072, of total class enrollments .... spring semester over April 21, 1939. GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Practical industrial procedures .... Ben Gibbs, personnel and employment director of the Corn Products Reining Company, and Walter La Vahn, the same, Electro Motive Corporation, La Grange, Illinois .... How to Look for a Jobn .... acceptance of the co-editorship in final publication of general education series . . . lectures and dramatiza- tions of vocational problems .... repre- sentative pupils visit employment offices .... first hand experiences to complete theoretical study of vocations .... reciprocity between the Argo school and local industry. 144 interpretations of problems of youth . . . . completion of a four year guidance project .... faculty committe: Principal Charles E. Wfingo, Harriet Hendershot, Ruth Broom, Ruth Reynolds, Grace Steadry, Fred Johnston. Floyd T. Curl .... Toula Lymperopolous, secretary .... materials dealing with manners, morals and ethics, education, vocations, and citizenship .... lessons published in four books, one for each year, to be used starting in fall, 1939.