Belleville Township High School - Bellevinois Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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ART AND MUSIC DEPARTMENT ■ The beginning course in art consists chiefly of gen¬ eral problems design and color, although a few of the designs thus created are applied to simple crahs. This practice in design furnishes a basis for subse¬ quent units such as commercial art, illustration, water- color. home decoration and costume design, and for the various crafts—jewelry and metal work, leather tooling, weaving, carving, batik and block printing. ■ This year a new unit of work—clay modeling—was offered. Vases, bowls, and a variety of ceramics were modeled from the wet clay, glazed and fired into pot¬ tery. ■ Often the art classes work on projects for other de¬ partments. This year an entirely new set of inter¬ changeable stage scenery was planned and painted Sometimes the costumes used in plays are designed by the department, and posters and stickers are made for many additional events. THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT ■ The courses that are offered in this department are theory, harmony, history of music and music appre¬ ciation. In applied music, instruction is given in the woodwind, brass, string and piano. ■ Edwin H. Peters directs the band, orchestra, clari¬ net, saxaphone, French horn, flute, and cornet quar¬ tets. ■ Besides playing at all of the home football games, the band took part in many parades and civic func¬ tions. The band played assembly programs and also presented a successful concert on the night of March 13, featuring six of its members as soloists and also the clarinet, saxaphone, and French horn quartets. ■ The Belleville Township High School Band tied Cen tralia for first place in the Southern Illinois Band Con¬ test, held at mghland March 25. Forty bands com¬ peted in the contest. ■ At the Southwestern Illinois Solo Contest held in Edwardsville, April 4, the band soloists made a fine showing, fourteen placing first, fourteen placing sec¬ ond and eight winning third place honors. ■ The orchestra has given several programs during the year, including the Operetta Score Lantern Land ' ' and also furnisshed the music for the school play. JEAN SNYDER, B. Ed. Illinois State Normal Belleville, Ill. CORNELIA FRITZ, BM (Voice) Diploma—Piano—Cincinnati Con¬ servatory of Music McKendree College MacMurray College Washington University Mascoutah, Ill. EDWIN H. PETERS, B Mug., M. Mus. Strassberger Conservatory of Music Chicago Music College Webster University Snyder Fritz Peters

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BOARD OF EDUCATION Dr. S. W. McKelvey Dr. C. R. Hough F. E. Merrills H. H. Ehret L. R. McKinley Dr. E. L. Rauth A. Buesch A O. Spoeneman ■ THE CLASS OF ' 36 EX¬ TENDS TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION THEIR SINCERE THANKS AND APPRECIATION FOR THEIR EFFORTS WHILE MAINTAINING THE HIGH STANDARDS OF EDUCATION TO LOOK AHEAD FOR THE NEEDS OF THIS GROWING SCHOOL-

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BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT Mueller Friedli Tabor Glover Cross ■ LOUELLA L. MUELLER, B.S., M.S. McKendree College Illinois University Chicago University (Biology) Lebanon, Ill. ■ F. I. FRIEDLI, B.S., M.S. Head-Biology Dept. Central Weselyan McKendree College Illinois University (Athletic Director) (Biology, Botany, Zoology) Belleville, Ill. ■ H. B. TABOR, B.S. University of Illinois (Biology, Football and Track Coach) Belleville, Ill. ■ T. HAROLD GLOVER, A.B., M.S. Greenville College University of Michigan Washington University (Biology) o O. H. CROSS, A.B. DePauw University (Biology) Belleville, Ill. °» The Biology department offers courses in bi¬ ology, botany, and zoology. The course in biol¬ ogy is required by all Freshmen and botany elective to Sophomores and zoology to Juniors and Seniors. Each course extends through¬ out the year. ■ These biological subjects are of great cultur¬ al value as well as of wide practical applica¬ tion. There is no person who does not come in contact with them daily in some of their phases. The home, the farm, the wayside, the wood, the lake, the steam and even the air contain living materials which are both interesting and in¬ structive. Our furniture, our food, our clothing are largely of a biological nature. Our gar¬ dens, our lawns, our orchards, our field crops, our ind ustries and our health are indespens- able adjuncts of everyday life. Not only do they possess cultural and aesthetic values, but at the same time they represent much wealth. So significant and universal are the applica¬ tions of biology in education and life that a study of these great branches of science has unusual educational importance.