Buchanan High School - Pines Yearbook (Buchanan, MI)

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8 SCKOOZ, Bom A group of citizens that is heard from very seldom yet holds a great deal of influence over the student body is the board of education. These persons spend a great amount of time in order that Buchanan schools may be operated more efficiently and economically. This board renders, in a commendable manner, a worthwhile service to the community. The members are: M. L. Hanlin Ida S. Rice J. C. Strayer Lowell Swem John Russell

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l10l apartments With an enrollment of 525 the English department takes honors as being the larg- - est department in t h e acade- mic school sys- tem. English is the basic sub- ject for all oth- er courses, the one a r o u n d w h i c h t h e wheel of edu- 4 cationrevolves. F i n d i n g it necessary to meet the needs of our community, last year a new organi- zation of the program was made in both the junior and senior high schools. The addition of a class in remedial reading was made to the seventh and eighth grades, having this together with the study of the technique of writing and speech as the chief task of the junior high school English classes. Miss MacNeil did research work last summer at Washington Uni- versity in St. Louis, Missouri, to be qualified for the work of teaching remedial reading. Emphasis upon reading over a broad field is made in the ninth and tenth years together with intensive Work in normal speech situations and a greater perfection in the individual's style in writing. To make it possible for the college preparatory group to receive suf- ficient work in American and English literature, a year's course in the junior year is given, required for those entering colleges and universities and elective for those who love literature. Semester subjects open to juniors and seniors are journalism, business English, speech, dramatics, creative writing and world literature. The school page in the local news- paper is the work of the journalism class as is the publication of this book a development of the creative writing class. Eleven former students of the creative Writing class have had Work accepted for publication in the national Scholastic magazine, and a number of our English students have been excused from a freshman course in English upon entering universi- ties. Mrs. Dunbar, who heads the department and teaches senior high school English, creative writing, and literature, spent last summer as a member of the Institute for Higher Studies in English at Northwestern University. Miss Cernahan, who teaches freshman English, journalism, and business English, has charge of the library. Miss MacNeil teaches junior high school English, speech, and dramatics, The study of magazines is a distinct part of the work, the Readers Digest being read by the sophomores and the Scholastic by the juniors and seniors. The library of Buchanan High is not all in a centralized room be- cause each class room has its own bookcase of books pertaining to its own particular subject. The central library has approximately 1,982 volumes of which about 130 books were introduced this year. The library room is small and accommodates six people at a time. The bookstands for ordinary reference books as encyclopedias, yea.r