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

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PROPOSED ENLARGEMENT Clearing Industrial District showing en- thusiastic interest in trade school and other educational facilities of Argo Community High School .... special dinner on May 18, with industrial executives of Clearing Dis- trict, Corn Products Refining Company executives, and other civic leaders, the guests of board members and Principal Charles E. Wingo .... informal considera- tions of proposed enlargement of District 217 to include Clearing industrial area, District 110 and District 111. Civic leaders present: Douglas P. Wells, Superintendent, Clearing Industrial District, Inc., Harry H. Pratt, Murphy Varnish Company: W. T. Brady, Manager, Corn Products Refining Company, C. J. Alger, Chicago office, Corn Products Refining Company, Wm. 17. Gurrie, School Auditor, Sam Frankland, President, Argo State Bankg P. T. Barrct, Land and Tax Commissioner, Belt Railway Ctmpany of Chicago. School Board, District 2175 Herbert C. Swanson, President, Charles Bu- low. Secretary, Harry L. Stone, john Ginalick, and Chris L. Dineif, Charles E. Wingo, Principal. C153 GENERAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE CHARLES ll. NVINGO. Piirlvilmf HARRIET HENDILRSHOT, Cbizirmim GRACE STEADRT RUTl'l BROONI RUTHI REYNOLDS FRED JOHNSTON FLOYD CURL TOULA LYMPEROPOLOUS, S i't':'i' fury CoNTRIBU'i'oits iiiiom lNUUSl'KY BEN GIBBS, Cori: P!'0lfIll'fV Rtjining Culiipiiuy WALTER LA VAHN, ljlvclru Mollri' Corporuliuu

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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.

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1- ' '.g we YU t 1'. V 1, Y my i --el ,xx I QR' , , x J NN T . .L -xx,i:Vlll: i pcwxslll i 1 Nl A 1 J 4 XL 'ixxwllx ' it is s QV' A. 9 FHEUHY Nllll ENUM lmprovement in quality of instruction .... de- velopment of methods in keeping with modern trends . . . . professional leadership at monthly faculty meetings .... representatives at state educational round tables .... attendance at annual meeting of Illinois Educational Association at J. Sterling Morton . . . . teachers' professional library expansion . . . . graduate work .... continuance of diagnostic and prognastic testing of incoming freshmen .... spon- soring of weekly assembly programs ..., pupil leadership encouraged .... noteworthy speakers .... active part in Argo Community Evening Trade School. Rapid strides in development of guidance activity . . . . publication in book form of guidance p-atterns worked out by faculty committee over four yea period a 1938-'39 accomplishment. K U65