Central Middle School - Ceejay Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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mMm mm m m m mm mm GEOGRAPHY CLUB Top Row: Bridges, Townsend, Presley, Brandon, McCoy, Lawson, Lisiecki, Vance. First Row : Hibbard, Burton, Frances, Korenke, Miss Kite, Patrick, Wilson, Weisberg, Hurst. The Qentral Junior Qeographical Qlub HERBERT LISIECKI HARVEY WOOLVERTON In 1923 Miss Ollson organized the first geography class in a Kansas City Junior High School. She had charge of this class until 1925 when Miss Kite took her place. During the first semester the class studied the Eskimos, the natives of the South Sea Islands, and the Pueblo Indians. In the meantime, Miss Kite was impressing the pupils with the idea that we are the result of our environment. Beginning with the second semester, Miss Connelly took the class. Under her supervision, the students made a study of Kansas City, the transportation facilities which include street cars, busses, the boulevards and the thirteen trunk lines of rail- roads which make Kansas City a great railway center. Later on in the term it is planned to study Missouri as a whole. The Central Junior Geography Club has the distinction of being the only geography club in the Kansas City Junior High Schools. Every Thursday a program is given by the pupils in the club. There are talks on subjects of interest, debates and geographical current events. While Miss Kite was teacher, the club took a field trip to the H. D. Lee Mercantile Company which was interesting as well as instructive. Mr. King has planned several more field trips later on in the semester. feii!;n :i ;!£i : is;i%rMfii !is Page One Hundred Three

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II IS SCIENCE CLUB Top Row : Cohen, Muzzy, Lower, Schwindler, Eisen, Salinger, Miller, Harrison, Stuckert, Boley. Third Row: Hogan, Smith, Adler, Ballinger, Sears, Gribben, Chapman, McConaughy, Roberts, Madrigal. Second Row : Osborne, Cockey, Allison, Parquet, Bullock, Dasbach, Fones, Hagland, Bailey, Hill, Lauer. First Row : Rosencrans, Leibel, Eby, Chapman, Mr. Cramer, Miss Kite, Brier, Ghormley, Lee, Snyder, Burns. Qeneral Science in Q. J. H. S. About six hundred pupils are enrolled in General Science. There are three class- rooms, two supply rooms, and a dark room, all of these chuck full of interesting apparatus and other necessities for a splendid course. Pupils are interested in General Science because they are allowed to study the interesting natural phenomena about them from a scientific viewpoint, without reference to any special science as such. Much experimenting is done at home by the pupils to try out the things learned in class or to learn new facts first hand. It is not unusual for a parent to remark on meeting a General Science teacher, John is certainly interested in his science. He is all the time experimenting at home, or Oh yes, you are the teacher Mary was making the fly traps for, or, I am glad you have finished studying electricity, for Albert blew out a light fuse and left us in the dark every night for a week. He did fix our doorbell though. Soon after Christmas, interest in science was such that it was decided to organize a Science Club. Mr. Cramer and Miss Kite were made sponsors, and there were thirty-five charter members. Programs of meetings consisted of demonstrations and talks by the members. Several meetings were given over to the study of astronomy. This culminated in a picnic and star gazing fete at Swope Park. The rest of the year will be spent by part of the group with Mr. Cramer in the study and practice of amateur photography, the other part will study flowers and birds under Miss Kite ' s leadership. ::. ' i iiA.i ' i.iir :!ir:;i- j- mw:,k?: w K-gE z« 3eraSSKus •ii .i:v}i;i,sii;«ji»:J :i Page One Hundred Two

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imim mm m mm m i iioioo typeotio Physiology What the Girls ' Physiology Classes Are Doing MAXINE SMITH The purpose of physiology instruction in our school is to teach the girls not only about their bodies and how to take care of them, but also to make them more nearly perfect and ideal girls, with strong characters, good health, and good education. Since we want ideal and perfect girls, one would naturally in- quire what are our ideas of such a girl. In the first place, she must have good character, she must be interested enough in her school lessons to do them to her best ability; she must have good health, and be capable of leadership. It does not matter whether she is beautiful, but she must obey the health rules and be attractive. Early in the year, the girls in the physiology classes are ex- amined by a woman physician, to discover defects. From this time on, these defects are corrected as far as is possible, and in May, the girls are again examined. The most nearly perfect girl is selected and the rest are classed as follows: A, B, C. At the last assembly all those in the A class will be awarded blue ribbons. The most nearly perfect girl will be presented with a silver loving cup, which will have her name engraved on it. It is then to be left in the school until the next year when the most nearly perfect girl will have her name engraved on it, and so on through the years. The Boys ' Creed Boys ' Physiology Classes I believe in myself. With my opportunities go responsibilities, which make the present the most important time of my life; and the trivial tasks I am now privileged to do become the most important things to be done. I believe in the great out-of-doors, in physical exercise, and in the true worth of manual labor; that physical perfection is worth striving for, and that good judgment and self-control will help attain it. I believe in self-control as the mark of true manhood; in my ability to be honest, as the test of what I really am. I believe that the boy is the man in the making and that what we are to be, we are now becoming. I believe in getting better acquainted with myself thru a study of personal hygiene and above all, to reach to my fellows a helping hand. My day dreams are of the future, not for self-pleasure, but air castles which I can strive to attain. I believe in looking at each day as a challenge to the best there is in me in order that I will not permit to go undone until tomorrow that which might have been done today. i ;iv..i ::is; ' -.i; ;:i.vi£;! .i , : :!!£;i; ! I ' age One Hundred Four