Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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Hickory Stick of TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS FOUR When x meets y, sometimes the answer is z A divided by b might be “c. In this alphabetical game played daily in the classrooms of Miss Maurine Johnson and Miss Kathryn Hartman, the student learns how to paper walls, how fast a bird flies, how many times he has to go around the track in order to run a mile. He learns that the shortest distance 1 ween two points is a straight line u. -.ugh he doesn't always think so. Two plus two equals four, but sometimes these algebraic and geometric ladies make it five. ATOMS AND MOLECULES If you smell something bad, it's the chemistry department. If you hear a loud crash, someone has dropped a flask. If someone has had an electric shock, it may be the static machine in the physics lab. If some senior is scratching his head over a problem, it might be physics if it isn't math. When Miss Mary Huntington isn't taking care of beakers, flasks, and bunsen burners, she is supervising work in photography like the sepia print we see on the front of this book as well as many snaps on various pages. Mr. Freshman, meet general science, a nibbling course to teach you a little in science and everyday living and help you decide which science you might want to study later. Miss Huntington and Miss Kathryn Hartman are the Edison and Muir of the upper floor. 'Way down in the basement 'mid the snakes and the rats (in cages), Miss Hnouuledge Mary Cochonour does her dissecting of frogs, lizards, and such. The world today recognizes the great place science plays in both the understanding and appreciation of life, and so does Casey High. Mary L. Huntington Harlan E. Lance Walter A. Newlin Virginia Troughton Kathryn Hartman E. C. Gordon 13 FLAME

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T. C. Tade Bertha Heetland Mary Cochonour J. O. Hawkins J. E. Rose Ruth Watts AMO, AMAS, AMAT . . OUI, OUI When Caesar crosses the Rubicon, and the gerundive takes its place beside the dative of possession, it's Latin time in room 12, with Miss Emily Kelley holding the floor. The day is gone when the Latin teacher was plain, hard-boiled, and dried-up. With which left-handed compliment to Miss Kelley we pass on to Miss Madeleine Anderson teaching French next door. Here the bonjour's and the oui's are mingled with a background of France and the Frenchmen. Sometimes the They Wield the French isn't so idiomatic as it might be, but the students make up with their hands and shoulders what they lack in vocabulary. NOUNS. VERBS, AND SPEECH Here they are swaying to a swing version of The Congo ; there they are taking dictation planned to help students learn to spell, punctuate, and write legibly. Here we see people reading silently for interpretation ard speed; there the teacher is stress correct usage. A debate rages wilaiy in one room; a play is being practiced in another. Book reports, character sketches, American literature, English literature . . . these make up the work of the English and speech department. Miss Madeleine Anderson, Harlan Lance, and Miss Bertha Heetland are the instructors. A survey has been made of speech defects of the students. Remedial work is being carried on in one section of freshman English. It's a far cry from the day when written work was given first, and sometimes the only place. Today oral English is emphasized though the written certainly has not been forgotten. 1492 (AND BEFORE) . . 1940 Here's the place they learn their dates, states, and fates . . . the dates of wars, the states of the Union, and the fates of many great men. With Miss Emily Kelley in ancient history, }. E. Rose in American history, and K. B. Rawlinson in modern history, civics, and economics, the history department sees that Johnny Casey takes a trip from 'way back when up to today. 1940 12

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They fire Our friends, Too HAMMER AND SAW The curtain opens upon a scene of great activity. The stage looks like a shop. There is music in the air . . . the buzz of saws, the bang of hammers, the thud of metal striking metal. The characters are the high school boys. The player who holds the spotlight is a man in overalls, who passes from table to table. Here he gives a bit of advice, there a word of praise. He warns this lad to beware of the machinery and suggests that that one correct his design. It's manual training time with Gene Gordon in the leading role. He's third in number of years of service among the faculty. Safe to say, there are few homes in Casey but what bear evidence that some lad in that family took manual training with Mr. Gordon at one time or another. It is amazing to think that the oddshaped pieces of board, jthe screws, bolts, nails, paint, and varnish that we see about his shop will one day be brought together so that Tommy Casey will have a project to display for his proud parents on Exhibit Day. NEEDLES AND PANS When the sisters of the skillet get together in Miss Ruth Watts' foods lab- oratory, you never know what they may be cooking up. This is the place where the girls learn that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. They serve dinners from soup to nuts; at the same time they learn how to keep those schoolgirl “figgers by eating more of the soup and fewer nuts. In clothing, their eyes are on the latest fashions from gay Paree. They were just about to try one of the newest wasp-waist styles when a report came that the wasps were out. With a sigh of relief the girls and their teacher went back to good old American comfort. How to Win a Husband, Keep Him, Furnish a House, Keep It, and Look After Junior : this sums up home management in a nut shell. In addition, the home economics department turns out some mighty fine banquets for the rest of us. DEBITS AND CREDITS To the clicking of keys and the scratching of pencils, that make queer signs and symbols, the commercial department under T. C. Tade and Veairnell White gets off to a merry start. The electric adding machine is a joy to the heart of every bookkeeping student. Courses in business English (Continued on page 76)