Clay County Community High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Clay Center, KS)

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NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN H idly unless there is-n't any chapel. Third hour is the worst hour of all. After this hour everyone hurries to lunch, some eat their lunch at school, some in their cars, some down town, and some at home. The fourth hour takes up at 1:00. If you have eaten a large lunch, one usually finds this hour the best of all to sleep. Fifth hour drags along-then sixth hour. School is dismissed. The ath- letes start their practice-the band learns a few new steps, the student janitors clean the building, the typists practice, the students loiter and play tag in the halls, that is until Mr. Frick quietly informs them that it is time they were leaving. By 6 o'clock the jani- tors are through, the students have left and the school doors are barred. Without a doubt each and every student is to be found at home working on his lessons or reading a book re- port. At 9 all will be sleeping soundly-the parents hope. So ends the school day life of an average C. C. C. H. S. student. For added information one will have to enroll. Study halls are carefully se- lected by the students at the beginning of the year. Many times they are picked because of an anticipated entertain- ment or because the gang will be there. Sometimes before hard subjects, sometimes for an aft- ernoon siesta, or because of dentist appointments, work at home, activities and numerous aah: a-an-5 I other reasons. The kids study- ing out in the hall are student proctors. It is their duty to stop a would-be skipper by em- barrassing him by asking him for a pink slip. Woe unto the student who is tardy or absent. He will have to reckon with the Mr. Frick or Mr. Unger. He will be admitted only after he has told his story. Some are excused, some are un- excused according to how good their true confession was. Grade cards are distributed every six weeks. Students mak- ing A's and B's are placed on the Honor Roll. v-gf English Every student is required to take at least three years of English. The English depart- ment is therefore the largest in the school. The English course consists of three year class rhetoric, oral English and jour- nalism. The English teachers are: Freshmen English, Fran- ces Myers, Sophomore, Ruth Raynolds and Mrs. Read, Jun- ior, Lillian Wiser, oral English, Ruth Raynolds, and journalism, Lillian Wiser. The rhetoric classes are divided into compo- sition and literature. The oral English class sponsors debate, gives plays and teaches oral delivery. The journalism class studies the art of newspaper editing and compiling. They issue a student paper every three weeks, the Promoter Our school has realized that the way its students will be judged in the future is by the English which they use. Therefore they have given us every opportun- ity to have a well polished lan- guage. We should appreciate their efforts. Music The music department is un- der the guiding batons of Miss Mary Lou Earlenbaugh and Mr. Faulkner. Miss Earlen- baugh has charge of vocal mu- sic, and Mr. Faulkner, instru-

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NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN mental. Miss Earlenbaugh has organized at Boys' Glee Club, Boys' Quartet, Girls' Glee Club, Girls' Trio, a Girls' Quartet, Mixed Quartet, and an A Ca- pella group. Mr. Faulkner has charge of lst band, 2nd band and orchestra. Both music in- structors gi've lessons. Miss Earlenbaugh gives piano and vocal lessons to some 56 stu- dents. Mr. Faulkner has under his guidance some 30 students. To make the band seem more alive and peppy, Smiley,' de- veloped four drum majors. The drum majors, the band, the glee clubs all have performed splcndidly. Clay Center won first place in the N. C. K. L, music contest which was held in Clay Center. Their success- ful year is due largely to the excellent leadership of the mu- sic directors. Home Economics There are 125 girls which learn domestic arts from Lindy Lindholm. The Home Economics course consists of cooking, sewing and home liv- ing and making. The girls learn to can, boil, broil, fry, bake, scallop, roast and 'burn' in the cooking department. In the sewing department they learn to mend, stitch, patch, seam and use a sewing mach- ine. The course in Home Living teaches the girls how to bal- ance the home budget, decorate the home, and the fundamental principles of home making. Boys, here's your chance if you want to be insured against the possibilities of marrying a girl that can't cook or sew, you better drop back to the Home Ee. room and pick one that you are sure of. Miss Lindholm will guard against failures. Language Two foreign languages are offered. They are Spanish fthe romantic dialectj and Latin fthe dead language of the Cae- sarsb. The Spanish course con- sists mostly of oral study and expression reading. The stu-- dents like Senorita Emerson a great deal. She is very witty, clever and e m o t i o n a l. Her class opens with everyone say- ing Buenos dias, Senorita, Come esta usted? She will answer with a gang of phrases which would stupify a Spaniard. The Latin course consists of much written work about conjuga- tions and d e cle n sion s. The Freshmen who have never de- clined anything harder than a simple English phrase have quite a difficult time tearing apart a sentence and turning it into polished Latin. Our Latin instructor, Miss Carter, has studied much Latin and she has also traveled in the former Latin speaking countries. She is well versed on Caesar and his troubles. IQQQ .ff l Lim i n . if 5 KLM? .lii:1 ,f at ff- l i 5 . lk I Manual Arts For boys who wish to become carpenters or cabinetmakers, Mr. Unger will show them the way. Mr. Unger teaches the boys to construct flower boxes, porch swings, wagon boxes, dog houses or what have you. The first year students learn the principles of manual train- ing. The second year students use the electrical equipment and construct harder pieces -of wood work. ln connection with manual training, mechanical drawing is taught. The mech- anical drawing course consists of forming plans, d r a W in g scales, and drawing plans to scale. The course is quite heavy 9 and extra work is required. Ask any of the manual arts boys how well Mr Unger can throw chalk or use a paddle. Normal Training If you want to have a touch of grade school in your high school Work, visit the Normal Training department. There the students study arithmetic, grammar, geography, history and reading all over again. The state exams are taken in the spring. Miss Crouch, the in- structor, who has been with the faculty for a long time, always sees the best in everyone and helps the future school 'marms' solve their problems. The Nor- mal Training course, however, is not all grind and study. They have dramatizations and visita- tions. The Normal group us- ually puts on several clever chapels during the year. This group is probably the hardest working group in school. Mathematics Every student is required to take a course in beginning al- gebra. Miss Emerson and Mr. Read introduce the subject. Those wishing to take geome- try under Mr. Read have much fun with theorems, corallaries, figures, and board Cboredj work. Commercial arithmetic is taught by Miss Carter. The students who take this subject are those who wish to continue in the commercial Field. Com- mercial students study book- keeping their Sophomore year. They learn the art of filing, ledgering, journalizing, billing. Those students who wish to go on with more math, complete the course by taking solid geo- metry and advanced arithmetic. Vocational Agriculture Vocational argiculturc is a three year course. The first year class studies animal hus- bandry. This study includes such things as animal judging and care of animals. The sec-