Croswell Lexington High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Croswell, MI)

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Declamation and Oratory Our school, as is the usual custom, entered the declamatory and oratorical contests of the year. Declamations are taken up by the ninth and tenth graders and each junior and senior is required to write an oration. As a result of the preliminary contests nine declaimers and four orators were chosen to compete in the local meet. They were as follows: Declaimers, Alberta Chartier, Maree Derby, Carl Eckstein, Betty Emery, James Hill, Edith Hatherley, Vernon Lawson, Sheila Littleton and Arlene Long; orators, Marjorie McIntyre, Helen Bauslaugh, Eunice Westbrook and Margaret Leonard. First places were awarded to Alberta with her declamation, “The New South,” by Grady, and to Margaret with her oration, “Law Enforce- ment.” They represented Croswell High in the Sub-District contest at Bad Axe, each taking third place. This year the Detroit News awarded the winners of the local contests. Margaret received a Funk and Wagnall’s College Dictionary and Alberta a High School Dictionary. Each had the recipient’s name in gold letters on the cover.

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Commercial Department C ros well High School offers a very fine four year Commercial course for those who wish to specialize in this work. This year there are thirty-three enrolled in the department. In this course you are required to take during the first year, penmanship and commercial arithmetic, the second year, bookkeeping, the third year, commercial geography and commercial law, and the fourth year, typewriting and shorthand. The instructor in charge of this department for the last three years has been Miss Walker. Interest in typewriting is stimulated by working for the awards which are given by the various typewriter companies. Ap- proximately twenty pins, and thirty certificates have been received this year. The awards are given for increased speed and ac- curacy, and serve as an incentive for better work. About fifty percent of this year's penmanship class received first Palmer Certificates, the remainder receiving Improvement Cer- tificates. Every year the students enrolled in this Department look forward to the annual Typewiting and Shorthand contest. The 1020 district contest was held in Port Huron on April 24. The following were contestants in the Typewriting event: Margaret Leon- ard, Ruth Flynn, Mary Lovell and Ella Jarrett. Those who represented us in the Shorthand event were Georgia MacTaggart ami Thelma Perry. Margaret Leonard won first place in Typewriting ami Georgia MacTaggart first in Shorthand. The Typewriting team, consisting of Ruth Flynn, Ella Jarrett and Margaret Leonard, took second place. The two first place winners went to the State contest held at Kalamazoo, May 14, where Margaret brought the distinguished honor to Croswell High of taking first place.

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Academic Course The Academic Department is broad in its scope and fits the needs of those who wish a general education and those who are an- ticipating continuing their studies in our higher institutons of learning. The sciences, taught by Mr. C. R. Heemstra, are physics and chemistry. One year of either is required in fulfilling the Aca- demic course. The mathematics branch of the academic work includes one and one half years of algebra, and plane and solid geometry. Latin and French are the foreign languages taught. Each requires two years. The first year is reserved for grammar study, and (luring the latter year the principles of grammar and vocabularies are put into use in the translation of Caesar for the Latin students and French classics. Miss Fuller very ably handles the foreign languages and the first year of high school English, which reviews the fundamentals of grammar, the art of theme writing and vocation study and literature. Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth grade English are taught by Mrs. Laura Benedict. Under her guidance, the Sophomores continue the vocation work and theme study and narrative poetry both in creation and completion, as written by the best authors. The English course of Eleventh and Twelfth grades is an extensive study of the best literature of the English language since the time of Chaucer, to the present day. Book reports are required in all the English classes. The Academic Department also gives three courses in social science, World History, American History and American Problems.