Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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work. The most noticeable improvements in the shop are the new power saw and lathe. These two machines are both worked by electric motors and were installed so that the students could get some actual practice for work in bigger shops. Both the machines are of the very best type and are worth a great deal to the shop. The building is heated by steam from the smoke consuming furnace. This kind of a furnace is especially adapted to heating large buildings. Aside from giving out more heat it consumes about one-third less coal than the other kind. Frank Florer, the janitor, is a fine man for the job. He keeps the' rooms heated at an even temperature, keeps the whole building in fine shape and is a chum with all the students. On the first floor of the building will be found the superintendents office, the auditorium, the botany and agriculture room, the domestic art room, the Eighth Grade room and the teachers' cloak and rest room. The auditorium is one of the most appreciated fixtures of the High school. It takes up all of the first floor of the new addition. There are four hundred opera chairs in it, and each chair has a metal drop desk on the back. During school hours this room is used as a study room, also for a general assembly room on chapel days. Twenty minute chapel periods are held on Mondays and Thursdays and in accordance with the recommen- dations of the' State Department of Education on the other three days these twenty minutes are used for supervised study period. In the front of the auditorium is a stage, sufficient in size to accommodate all school plays, re- citals, lecture course numbers, etc. On each side of the stage is a dressing room. The superintendent's office consists of two rooms and a good sized store room for school supplies. The teachers' cloak and rest rooms join the superintendent's office on the west. A The Botany and Agriculture classes are held in the southwest room on this floor. The room is especially equipped for these two classes. The equipment includes the labratory tables, botanical and agricultural labra- tory equipment, and a' slide lantern, which is used to show on a screen- en- larged drawings of the different stages of plant development. Principal A. R. Loop teaches these two subjects. The Domestic Science department is under the supervision of Miss Francis Daily. This year this department was moved from the basement to the first floor and the room has been especially arranged. This room is much better than the basement room because the light in the basement is poor. Nine Westinghouse electric stoves, accommodating eighteen students at a time, have been installed to take the place of the old gasoline stoves. Two years or four credits are given in Domestic Science. ' The Eighth grade this year consists of fifty-seven pupils. The class is located in the northwest room of the old part and is very much crowded. The room is filled with seats just as full as the fire rules will permit. Miss Mary Green taught the grade up until March, when she resigned on account of the illness of relatives. Miss Bess Evans is finishing the term for Miss Green. On the upper floor are located five regular recitation rooms, the Com- mercial room, the Physical Science room, the Library and Reading room, the Principa1's office and the Domestic Art room. There is a large hall running

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ness funded and ample school room provided, placing our school upon a firm and enduring basis in a financial point of view at least, which was gratify- ing to all concerned. In 1878 the old First Ward school house, known. as the Whittier building was built and plepared for occupancy. In 1886 bonds were voted for the erection of the Second Ward build- ing, which when built consisted of four rooms, two upstairs and two down- stairs. In 1906 an addition almost as large as the old part was built onto it. The building as it now stands has eight rooms and a principal's office. When the new addition was completed the First Ward building was sold, and the pupils went to the Second Ward. The Field building, the old two-roomed stone building, which served its purpose for so many years in the Third Ward, was built in 1884 from the material obtained from the old brick building when it was torn down. The Field building was too small for the increased population and in 1910 525,000 bonds were voted for a new Third Ward school house which cost S30,000, 55,000 of this money was already on hand. This building is modern throughout, having metal stairs, forced ventilations, etc. It has ten large rooms, and is a beautiful brick structure. It is located in the center of a large block, and there is a large and well improved campus all around the building. The citizens of Beloit on February 24, 1914 voted 825,000 bonds for the erection of a large addition to the Beloit High school building, which had been too small for the accommodation of the students for a number of years. The new addition was completed and ready for school at the beginning of the second semester last year. At the present time the Beloit High school is classed as one of the very best in this part of the state. This applies to the course offered as well as to the building. O. B. Slyster, one of the State High school inspectors, after visiting the Beloit High school for a day said: You have the best ap- pointed High school with the best balanced courses and the best controlled discipline of any High school that I have visited. In the basement of the building there is a large gymnasium, a recita- tion room, the boys' and girls' toilet rooms, the boiler room and the manual training shop. The gymnasium has made it 'possible for a fine school spirit to be worked up among the High school students during that part of the year when the out-door sports cannot be indulged in on account of the weather. In the center of the gymnasium is a fine basketball court, and there are bleachers around it sufficient in size to comfortably seat about 350 people. The gymnasium has a fine lot of equipment, such as traveling rings, horse, horizontal bars, tumbling mats, climbing ropes, dumb-bells, parallel bars, etc., also two dressing rooms with shower baths in connection. Classes are held in- gymnasium work during a part of the year under the direction of Athletic Instructor Forrest A. Dunn. The boys and girls are both given the advantage of these classesg the girls are given one period a day and the boys one period a day. During the present term the Manual Training department has made some very noticeable advancements. Under the instruction of Forrest A. Dunn the students were able to turn out a big lot of exceptionally good

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the full length of the building, and at one end of the hall is located the prin.cipal's office. On the north side of the hall are located four of the re- citation rooms. In the room on the west Miss Clara Carpenter, assistant principal, conducts her English III and I classes. Miss AraMinta Carhill has her mathematics classes in the room next to Miss Carpenter's, and Miss Bess M. Bozell conducts her history and civics classes in the room next to Miss Carhill's. The room on the east is occupied by Miss Mayme Conroy, who has charge of the Latin classes. Miss Elizabeth West hears her Eng- lish II and Psychology classes recite in the west room on the south side of the hall. E The Commercial Department is located in the second room from the west, and is one of the strongest departments in the school. Miss Amanda Gansel, a lady who has had considerable commercial experience outside as well as in business colleges, has charge of this department. The Commer- cial course consists of four years work, which is equivalent to an ordinary term in. a business college. In the course are offered all the subjects of a regular business course, including bookkeeping, stenography, typewriting, commercial law, commercial geography, commercial arithmetic, penman- ship, etc. The commercial course here surpasses that of many of the smaller colleges. , The Domestic Art room is under the supervision 'of Miss Francis Daily. It is equipped with sewing machine tables, sewing machines, electric irons, and other modern improvements found in an up-to-date domestic art room. The Physical Science room, over which Miss Mabel D. McHendry presides, is one of the best equipped rooms in the building. It has an- up- to-date instructor's experiment table and a large amount of physics labra- tory material. There are eight labratory tables of the very best grade in the room. The physics classes are divided, the girls taking a course in Household ,Physics and the boys a course in Practical Physics. The Fresh- men take Physical Geography and General Science in this room. The Library and Reading roomlis a greatly appreciated improvement to the school. The library is open all afternoon to the students who may go there at any period they don't have classes and do their outside reading or they may, wait until four o'clock and check a book out over night. Miss Clara Koch is employed as librarian. The Beloit High school has a print shop, which is, however, a minor part of the school. It is located in the small room in the southwest corner on the second floor. Forrest A. Dunn presides over it, and several of the boys are taking printing, for which they receive one-half a credit a semester. Small bills, report cards, etc., are printed there. -A. B. D.