Calumet High School - Temulac Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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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

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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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Howard Bechtolt Mildred Berleman Ethel Davison Cornelia Drolsom Elsie Flersheim Catherine Harrison Rebecca Hey Margaret Jackman Ethel Mealiif M. Frances Smith Catherine Starheck Albertine Wetter Florence Wolf The German department has done such successful experimenting with teach- ing reading by the direct method that Miss Melody allowed the department to make its own course of study. The results have proved to be extremely gratifying. The Latin department has an unusually large number of students in ad- vanced work, since there are four classes studying Cicero or Virgil. A few years ago Cicero and Virgil had to be taught alternate years because there were never enough students for separate classes. Five teachers of the French department are trying to make the young idea shoot in that language. Besides grammar rules and irregular verbs there are Le Cercle Francais and interesting French books to read and French plays to attend. Nos interesa todo perteneciente a la raza espanola-los libros, la pantalla, las representaciones escolares, el radio, cualquier cosa que nos explique el idioma y las costumbres de los espanoles y los hispano-americanos, nuestros vecinos simpziticos. F Page 21