Calumet High School - Temulac Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Annual Number TEMULA Cf By One of the Faculty As the graduation season and vacation approach, the feeling comes over us that this has been the most successful year of all, that this graduating class is the best we have ever turned out, and that our next graduation cannot fail to find us, if not actually occupying a new and palatial school building, at least with our feet on the threshold. That we have had the same thought for many years in the past does not dampen our enthusiasm. We have forgotten past disappointments in the rosy aspect of the present. We appreciate the good work our seniors who are leaving us have done, and in the fullness of happiness at the successful culmination of their High School year we forget the mischievous pranks in which they sometimes indulged and which they no doubt fear we still harbor against them. The Faculty has S'l1H9l'9d few changes this Semester. I should not have used that unfortunate word suffered We are the gainers, in that we have taken into our Mathematics Department a colleague of great ability and force of character, Mrs. Gregor, though Mrs. Hibler is still kept at home by the illness of her mother, Miss Hickey is managing to keep our girls up to date, sartorially speaking. The fact of the matter is, that we of the Faculty are having some difficulty keeping from resembling Old Cranford, since none of us has either courage or convictions to follow up the Straight bobs, Tut dresses, Staycomb locks and the galaxy of style changes that swim before our eyes as we attend our classes. Is it to be longer skirts? Watch our girls. No need to consult the fashion guide. They are it. Miss Allen has taken the place of Mrs. Aiken, our previous matron. Though we are not perhaps in the race so far as styles of hair dress are con- cerned, let me mention one way in which we are distinctive. Each of us is confident he knows which is the best car on the market. Just step out in the backyard almost any day and We will demonstrate. You will find that all your modest Principal Wants is the Moon, while Wm. Seabrook can convince you fas his coat tails Hy past youj that Lizzie sure has pep. That our Faculty is a hard-working one, never question, but that Work increases the weight is an undisputed fact. Ask' me of our new members about that. And for the sakie of one of the older members use your influence to have the aisles in room 27 widene . One other suggestion is the adoption of a Faculty police dog to pick up lost keys, to hunt a frequently mislaid gold Elgin watch, to scent out ice cream sandwiches surreptitiously moving up to the third floor and to Wag his tail furiously when we crack some of our too-often musty jokes. That we are happy under the leadership of Mr. Beebe, that we enjoy our asso- ciation with each other individually and as a whole, and that we are heartily anxious that Calumet be the best High School, not in the city, but in the whole world, and that We shall continue to make our every effort to bring this end about is a brief state- ment of the status quo of the Calumet High School Faculty. Page Five

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TEMULA fl' Annual N umber A Letter from the Principal A, great many people are apparently afraid that our form of government is not going to survive, and their argument is, that there are many people in this country who do not believe in the American ideals of conduct, loyalty and justice. The statement is made that while the American people make more laws than any other nation they have the greatest disregard for the laws, after they are made. There is a constant stream of criticism in the papers and elsewhere to the effect that an attempt is being made to curtail the liberty of the people of this country. The suggestion is made that we need fewer laws and more law enforce- ment. It is the principle of a democracy that the people shall make the laws and having made them live up to them because they are convinced that such laws are necessary for the Well being of the people as a. whole. It may seem that this question may be very far away from the boys and girls in High School, but there is really not one of them whose life and actions is not very much affected by this' attitude in regard to law and its enforcement. To mention a particular instance, the recently enacted Compulsory Education Law compels all boys and girls to be in school until they are 16, or if they are at work they must put in a certain amount of their time in Continuation School. It has also been suggested that the course of study and variety of work offered in the High School are expensive, that they should be reduced, and the exact studies which any boy or girl may take in High School should be prescribed by law, and that they should be obliged to take those studies whether they liked them or not. The work in the High Schools represents an attempt to give the students those studies which experience has shown to be the most valuable, and at the same time to give them an opportunity to choose some work for reasons of their own. The question of what kind of work a boy or girl should take in High School is far more serious than most pupils realize, and if we are to continue with our present system of allowing pupils to choose a number of their studies, much more attention will have to be given to the matter than is now the case. I find that there are very few pupils who select their elective studies with the purpose of getting something which will help them in their school work, and after they leave school. The reasons that pupils give for their selections can be grouped in about the following order: 1. They like the teacher who is teaching the subject and this teacher gives good marks. The pupil's idea of a good mark generally means a high mark for little work. 2. They need a credit, and this subject is the easiest they can find in the course of study. 3. Their friends are going to take this subject and they wish to be in the same class. 4. This subject has something to do with other subjects they are studying and they expect that they will be more successful with their work after they leave school because they take it. Page Six