Calumet High School - Temulac Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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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

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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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Estelle Ashland John Coulson Joseph Dickman Mary Fisher Daisy Francis Ruby Fremont William Fulton Benjamin Hart C. Earl johnson john johnson Jane Parmelee Lawrence Peterson James Wilbur SCIENCE DEPARTMENT There are now fourteen h sics classes, with five teachers. Two interestin P Y S pieces of apparatus now under construction in this department are a device for hurlin ro'ectiles horizontall and a Tesla coil for makin s ectacular hi h S P 1 Y g P 3 frequency electrical displays. The importance of chemistry can not be over-estimated, since it is the basis of agriculture, engineering, pharmacy, and medicine. It is also of great import- ance in industry and is a subject of broad cultural value. The chemistry depart- ment at Calumet now has three teachers. The students in the biology department believe in doing things. Among their many activities is the rose sale for the beautification of the school grounds. This project is sponsored by the botany students. Many interesting field trips are taken. General science teaches the fundamental principles of all sciences, helping the pupil to solve the everyday problems of his environment, and developing an appreciation of the scientists, their lives and contributions. E and S students are elected to the Science Club. Page 22