Athens Community High School - Athenian Yearbook (Athens, IL)

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T II E A T II E N I A N Jfacultp A great many things are necessary before a class can really do its best work. One of the most important of these things is tlie right kind of a faculty. Whatever else may have been against the perfect development of the class of ’23 of one thing they are certain and that is that it could not have had during all its four years better, more efficient or more willing teachers. The class of ’23 think themselves fortunate indeed that they entered A. C. H. S. just when Mr. Porter took charge of the institution and that they have been with him for four years of high school work. With the passing of time their admiration, respect and love for him grew. Now at the end of four years together they part with real regret. An untiring worker, teacher, advisor and friend is he and the whole school regards him as such and as such respect and admire him. The science teacher, Mr. Augspurger is one of the main cogs in the wheels that move A. C. H. S. By his cheerfulness and his happy smile he teaches a lesson as important as science and deserves the name “Happy.” Without Mrs. Willis, teacher of home economics, the basketball boys would be in a state impossible to describe. She cooks for them before tournaments and presses and patches and darns their clothing before a game or track meet and then, too, what class or club ever had a party without consulting her as to what to wear or what to eat? Wo shall miss her helpful ways as she is leaving us this year, but we send with her our best wishes. Miss Falkins, mathematics, public speaking and economics teacher, has a delightful personality. Her ability to hold the attention of her class, as she explains a social problem or a geometric truth is remarkable. She is also the director of the girl Sophomore athletics and a large part of the credit for their good basketball team belongs to her. Keith Peterson teaches our Freshmen English and Ancient History. To the Sophs and Juniors he performs the miracle of expounding to them the evils of the French Revolution or in other words he teaches Modern History. To the Seniors he gives American History and Civics. He loves to argue and many discussions take place in his classes. He also has charge of the Boys’ Glee Club. He helps in the Orchestra by playing the piano. Our foreign language teacher, Miss Thomas, explains to the Latin classes how to conjugate verbs and to translate Caesar understanding . In French 1 they learn all about France and to speak some of the language. In French II they learn enough to translate several classics. She is instructor for the Freshman girls gym class and has charge of the Girls Glee Club. English is one of the most important subjects of the high school course. The Board of Education must have realized this when they secured Miss Drinkwater to teach English. She has shown the Sophomores how to write themes, lectured to the Juniors on the merits of Carlyle’s “Essay on Burns,” and directed the Seniors in the study of Democracy Today, so that it was almost interesting. That is saying a great deal. She also had a special class in Algebra and was exceedingly successful in teaching the Freshmen the fundamentals of factoring, simplifying and graphing. She has been prominent in coaching plays, readers and in other school activities. And now, for Miss Harper, the commercial teacher of A. C. H. S. She has taught the students of bookkeeping all the processes from the opening of transactions in the books of original entry to the closing of books. From her the students of stenography have learned the proper procedure to be followed in taking dictation, typing the letters in an artistic way and so on, until the letters are mailed. Her delightful personality makes more effective her teachings and serves to make her a favorite of the students. 5

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Jfacultp Mrs. Willis, Domestic Science Miss Harper, Commercial Miss Drinkwater, English . E. M. AUGSPTTRGER, Science Miss Falkins, Mathematics Miss Thomas, Language K. A. Peterson, flistory 4

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