Calumet High School - Temulac Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Ethel Hyman Catherine Mullenbach Sophia Patterson Wilda Phillips Clare Rooney Cecilia Schoenfeld Mary Sheridan Mary Todd Vinette Waska Ruth Weeks ENGLISH DEPARTMENT scholarship examinations given annually at the University of Chicago, and the third provides a survey course in literature, designed particularly for students intending to continue their English training in college. Finally we try to become familiar with the various types or forms of expression that have been created from time to time to carry to us human experiences of times gone by and. of our own day. We try to understand how and why they have come to be and what position they occupy in the world of letters. Not a small task, we grant-one which can be realized only to a certain degree by high school students, but in Browningis words: A manis reach must exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? Many of the teachers in the English Department have spurred forth into the field of writing. The Calumet, an Indian pageant which was recently produced on the stage of Calumet's auditorium, was written by Mr. Verlyn Ault. Miss Charlotte Dutton and Miss Catherine Mullenbach helped consider- ably in producing the pageant. Two other plays were written by Mr. Ault and performed before Av and Bn session assemblies. One was written for the clean-up campaign and the other to stress courtesy in high school. Miss Dutton, head of the English department, has written many short articles for periodicals. One was recently published in the Chicago Schools Journal . Miss Ruth Russell, who is faculty adviser of Calumet's newspaper, has written Lake Front, a novel dealing with the early history of Chicago. Mrs. Frances Donovan has had the pleasure of having two books published, The Salesladyv and The Woman Who Waits. Many of Mrs. Sophia Patter- son's poems have been published in various magazines and newspapers, and an article of hers is to appear shortly in the Chicago Schools Journal. gg! an 1, J' . ,l'Pugc19 .x

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Verlyn Ault Jennie Austin Frances Donovan Charlotte Dutton Helen Fitzgerald Harry Frieda Harriett Hagen Mary Hennebry Maude Hill ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Since the cultural attainment of an individual is most commonly judged by his skill in the use of English, and since the use of the English language is quite inescapable, the department of English is always an important one in any educational scheme. It is important further inasmuch as it touches every student in the school for the greater part of his attendance and because it presents in itself so diversified a program for the development of the individual. In its technical aspects it deals with grammar, spelling, word study, good usage, good form, and the acquisition of an adequate vocabulary, in its creative aspects, with effective use of the language-with clear, forceful, ar- tistic expression of one's ideas and experiences. Courses in grammar, com- position, public speaking, journalism, and drama, clubs such as the Writei's' Club, the Thespiansg and publications such as the Crier and Pipings oifer students opportunities for development. The courses in literature help us to understand life better, to live more fully, more joyfully, more wisely. We attempt to make at least an intelligent beginning in becoming acquainted with the best in our literature-a task for a lifetime. We attempt to develop the critical faculties, so that we may be able to choose the good and to throw away the worthless. The classes in laboratory English and special English provide opportunities for students to receive individual guidance in learning to write correctly or in any other phase of English in which special training seems advisable. Students derive great benefit also from the special preparation which they are given in the English 8 classes. One of these classes prepares students for the Normal entrance examinations, another trains for the competitive Page 18

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john Beckerman Queen Cheadle Florence Davies Susan Gorman Mary Green Inez Keepers Vera Miller Claire O'Reilly Evelyn Pearson Vesta Reaver Frances Whelan Lowell Whitman SOCIAL SCIENCE In these difficult times the public schools must assume new responsibilities in the education of the citizens of our country. Schools are attempting to meet this situation by extensive courses in the social sciences. To the task of training citizens the content of history and civics is especially adapted. The sole pur- pose of these courses is to develop in the student intelligent civic and social attitudes. The civilizations of the past have conditioned the life of today. The signifi- cance of the continuity of the development of our institutions should be appre- ciated. A knowledge of earlier times helps to view the difliculties of the present in their true perspective. The individual who has delved into the past cannot help but go forward with fresh confidence in the future. Civics courses are given to make plain the forms and functions of govern- ment. The intelligent voter of the future must be made to feel an individual responsibility in the conduct of our government. The thoroughly enlightened citizen will demand that the ideals of the present become the practical politics of the future. Page 20