Calumet High School - Temulac Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Carrie Barlow Elwood Smith Sybel Beach Arthur Booth john Deegan Harry Fuller Marian Kious Harold Metz Walter Overholser Amerigo Sansone William Seabrook Leonard Teuscher Helen Tobin Glenn Worst TECHNICAL DEPARTMENTS The technical department is one of our most rapidly growing departments. An average of one shop teacher each semester has been added to the technical staff, since we became established in the new building. This department now offers work in machine or engineering drawing, architectural drawing, Wood shop fincluding furniture, carpentry, and a study of building constructionj, electricity, auto mechanics, aeronautics, and printing. Students other than those taking technical courses may take electives toward graduation, both major and minor, in any of the courses named above. The home economics department offers the following courses: food, clothing, and home management. The girls in the clothing courses learn not only how to construct attractive and becoming garments, but also how to judge fabrics and buy clothing intelligently. In the cooking classes the girls learn to choose food wisely and to prepare healthful and tasty luncheons at a low cost. During Open House Day, May 13, the parents who visited the home economics depart- ment were served tea in the dining room. Page 23

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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

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James Churchill Margaret De Vine Christine Drennan Lois Flood Sigrid Johnson Eleanor Kelly Royce Kinnick Irwin Knehans Bertha La Coste COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT It was around the turn of the century that Calumet opened its commercial department-a department which made the high school truly democratic, for it served not only the boys and girls who wished to prepare for college, but also those who wished, upon graduation, to fill a useful niche in the business world. Later developments widened its field of service, for the two-year course was begun for young people forced to leave school early in life, and the college com- mercial course was started for those who wished to learn a vocation during preparation for higher learning. Time had been when wise folk raised eyebrows at the mention of shorthand and bookkeeping in an academic school, but people soon learned that the effort in taking a trial balance was as dignified as that ex- pended in working a theorem. Most high schools had two standard commercial courses: shorthand and book- keeping. At Calumet, however, we realized that still another group should be provided for-those who wished to have a knowledge of the fundamentals of bookkeeping and of the operation of such office equipment as the calculating machine. Since an overwhelmingly large number of office workers hold some other position than that of bookkeeper or stenographer, we feel that we have provided for the needs of all. Nor are these needs filled when a skill is learned. A business worker wants an intelligent knowledge of the business world so that, instead of being a mere cog in the machine, he will be a thinking entity, understanding the why of that which surrounds him. For this reason we have the social sciences of commerce: commercial geography, business administration, economics, salesmanship, ad- vertising, and commercial law. With these for equipment, the young worker can Page 24