Baraboo High School - Minnewaukan Yearbook (Baraboo, WI)

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J N EENHALGH H. W. HAWKINS MARlAN WIGHTMAN DAVID H WILLIAMS mercial Manual Arts Home Economics AQFICUIU-'fe VOCATIONS During the last decade, educators have come to reqlize that all education shoulc' prepare one for life. Our high school, in keeping with this modern trend, now has four vocational courses, namely home economics, agriculture, industrial arts, and commercial work. This year ninety-five girls took some sort of home economics course, and out of six- teen different ambitions revealed by these girls, it was found that ten are obviously connected with home economics. Sixty-seven per cent of them chose one of the four professions, teacher, nurse, beauty operator, or housewife. Only ten out of the entire ninety-five chose marriage as their aim. For many years commercial education was thought of as something apart from aca- demic training. But as society is now organized, business is a very vital part of life. With, this new philosophy of education in mind, our commercial course has been reorganized to meet this newly recognized social need. Our commercial course as now offered, not only prepares the student for a definite business vocation, but also gives the student who plans on entering college the privilege of electing those com- mercial subjects he wishes for his own personal use. Because of this modification in our course there has been a decided increase in the number of students choosing com- mercial work. This year approximately one-half of the student body in the senior high is enrolled in at least one of these commercial subjects. The need for high school training as a preparation for a life of farming is as great today as the need for training in most other vocations. The agricultural vocation course is designed to cover the entire field of forming in four years. lt includes the study of farm crops, farm animals, farm mechanics, and farm management. In addi- tion to this class room work, each boy has one or more projects on his home farm, the purpose of which is to give the student an opportunity to put into practice the teach- ing of the class room. The agriculture deparment was started at Baraboo in the fall of l93l, with an enrollment of 20. Enrollment this year was 60. Baraboo schools offer' five years of industrial arts. These subjects give the student experience in manipulative skills plus industrial and occupational information that nc other course offers. The advanced wookworking class always welcomes a group pro' ject, and in the past has supplied much needed equipment throughout the schools The mechanical drawina room has been equipped,and many teachers are enjoying desks made in the shop. This vear the students are making teachers desks for all the rooms in the third ward school.

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Af it B is Q , 3 -.Z 3 ,Lg Lg, 7 A ? HARRlET M ANDREWS FERN HACKETT MARGARET LOCKS RUTH VENARD English English English English Speech Speech ENGLISH The department of English aims to give each student a knowledge of the English language which will enable him to speak and write effectively, and also a knowledge and appreciation of some of the world's best literature, Three years of English are required of all students and a fourth year may be elected if a student so desires. However, freshmen with an average of eighty-five or above may be excused from sophomore English. A short course in speech is given in connection with sophomore English. This aftords some training in voice and greater effectiveness in oral English. Sophomores are also given library training in our own library under the direction of Miss Johnson. Seniors have their choice of English literature and practical English. However, students with higher averages are usually requested to take literature. Some students take both. ' Outside reading in the senior English courses offers much opportunity for those who enioy reading. Every student is requested to read 300 points. For those students who read SOO points a Maximum Attainment Degree is pre- sented, while those who read IOOO points or more receive a Superior Attain- ment Degree. ' if it l

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F fn - A if S- A r A A .li .. W . r it . ss- it - -- i J .- if .. il V ' A . . E A E. W 1 .F 1: - 'i'Y My 56 MARJORIE ENRlGHT LEONARD HALL DOROTHY MCDONALD DOROTHEA WAGNER FRIEDA WAREHAM B00kkeeping Algebra Latin German Arithmetic Geometry English English MATH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES ln the Tree of Knowledge pictured in the Hall of Science at the Chicago World's Fair, mathematics is placed at the bottom, as being the foundation of all education. This explains why four years of mathematics are required from seventh grade to the end of high school. Arithmetic, compulsory in seventh and eighth, is the science of numbers, the art of computation. Algebra, required of all freshmen, considers the representation of numbers by means of letters - in other words, finding the well- known x , Advanced algebra, elected by seniors, is a much more complicated study along the same lines. Geometry is required of juniors and deals with the properties of space. Commercial arithmetic and bookkeeping are electives offering practice in business transactions. Some of all of these studies are necessary for the engineers, as- tronomers, machinists, business men, and office workers who will be managing our world a few years hence. Baraboo offers two elective courses in languages, four years of Latin and two of German. Latin, the mother tongue of all the Romance languages, is the source of sixty per cent of our English words. This fact enables the Latin student to build up a large and usable vocabulary. English literature is filled with allusions to the Latin classics, and the reader's enjoyment is greater if he has studied the original. Latin is also im- portant as a basis for further study in modern languages. lt is interesting to note that approximately ninety per cent of o graduating high school Latin class goes away to school, as compared with the thirty-three per cent of the total enrollment who re- ceive a higher education. Because this is a German community, the study of the language should be practical as well as useful. A course in any foreign language furthers the understanding of Eng- lish syntax and creates good study habits of concentration and attention to small de- tails. Students who will need a foreign language for their college degree will find it advantageous to begin the study of German or Latin in high school where more time can be devoted to the intricacies of a new language. However, such a study is of value to all students and should not be limited to college preparatory work. J It-ffajg, g