Calumet High School - Temulac Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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La Vada Armstrong Margaret Blood Agnes Fenerty Dorothy Gordon Gertrude Herbert Martha Swing James Thatcher Emily Waggoner MUSIC AND ART No longer is music looked upon as one of the extra subjects, but as a subject which in some schools is a major. The pupils are being- trained in technique, appreciation, and the power to perform beautiful compositions. The orchestra, band, Mixed Chorus, and Glee Club, as Well as the regular music classes, have as usual given programs for various school occasions. The pupils in the different musical organizations Worked on some dirlicult music for the yearly contests and participated in the All-Chicago Annual Music Festivals. Calumet is proud to have among its laurels numerous honors Won by the music department. There are at present six teachers in Calumet's department of music. The art department, with an enrollment of twelve hundred students, and under the supervision of six teachers, is doing superior work, according to art authorities of Chicago. There are more than one hundred fifty pupils taking advanced art, and many of these are enrolled in the Art Institute lecture courses. The advanced art pu- pils of the Temulac staff helped to Win the All-American rating which the an- nual won in the National Scholastic Press Association Contest. Art trains the hand, the mind, and the eye, says Miss Dorothy Gordon, head of the department. The results of this training can be seen in some of the recent achievements of several of our art students. The 1931 September and October cover designs of The Chicago Schools Journaln were made by Marion Peer and Jean Miller, respectively. Charles Magers illustrated the story, Air- mindedf' for the American Leaderf, Some of the best artists of Calumet have contributed their work to this annual. Page 26

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Catherine Mulcahy Raymond O'Brien Agnes O'Donohue Irene Powers Marie Pressentin Anne Rosenberg Nourmahal Rowden Lillian Sattler john Bayston COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT think in the terms of his employer and is so enabled to make himself indispensa- ble. Even with such careful planning, the commercial department now responds to the demands of further evolution. The proposed new curriculum will abolish the two-year course, for it is no longer possible for very young boys and girls to work. Those who do leave school before the completion of the four-year course, though no longer acceptable for positions as stenographers and book- keepers, will have been so trained by the new, full courses in business practice that they will be useful junior workers in any office. Since Calumet wants all abilities exploited, if the advanced student does not fit in the two time-honored vocations-stenography and bookkeeping-he will be sure to find rich possi- bilities for him in the new course. There have been a number of changes in the faculty of the commercial department this year. The new teachers in the department are: Miss Ruth Palmerton, who used to teach in Joliet and is now teaching typing and commer- cial civics at Calumet, in the position formerly held by Miss Addie Mealiffg Mr. Elwood Smith, who came from the commercial continuation school and is teaching bookkeeping and arithmetic, Mr. James Churchill, who previously taught nine years at Harrison High School and is teaching bookkeeping hereg Mr. Royce Kinnick, also a bookkeeping teacher, and formerly an accountant. Mrs. Helen Keleher, who left Calumet for about two years, returned recently to take the place formerly held by Mrs. Alma Davis. Miss Irene T. Powers is head of the commercial departmenigiwhich numbers twenty-eight teachers and about two thousand three hundre? students. - Page 25 X, fc?-'

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Gillman Carle Helen Davidge Agnes Fletcher Isabel Gorgas Marie Johnston William Morris Marie O'Leary GYMNASIUM The girls' gymnasium department of Calumet sponsors the Girls Athletic Association, a city organization for the awarding of major letters to girls of the Chicago high schools. In the fall a captain ball tournament is held, with iinals played before and after school hours, to determine the winner and runner-up of all the girls' gym classes. In the spring a volley ball tournament is run off the same Way. Each semester two swimming meets are held, one for lower class girls and one for upper classes. Other activities awarding points toward letters and directed by the girls' board of sports are tennis, golf, hiking, roller skating, ice skating, dancing, apparatus work, horseback riding, and ping pong. All the girls in school participate in some form or other of these activities. Not only does the boys' gym department train football, basketball, baseball, wrestling, swimming and gymnastic teams, but it also encourages those boys who are not capable of making a varsity team to appear in inter-class sports. Inter-class swimming, basketball, and baseball meets are sponsored by Albert Paulson and George Boyle, assisted by Edward McMahon. On the whole, the boys have had a very good seasonf' says Coach Albert Paulson. The students of Calumet are to be thanked for the loyal support they showed throughout the season.', In the swimming classes the boys are not only taught the Various strokes and dives, but are given the Red Cross Life Saving Course, which offers invaluable instruction to the boys. Those boys who are not registered in the gym department take R.O.T.C., which is supervised by Sergeant Carle, or band, which is part of the R.O.T.C. and is directed by Captain William Morris, bandmaster. Page 27