Decatur High School - Decanois Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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THE DECANOIS TF A C lU lL T Y lluainguaigie Miss Lucy I. Durfee, A. B. from the Univer- sity of Michigan, M. A. from Columbia Univer- sity. Miss Durfee teaches Cicero and Caesar. The second semester of this year she has had two Spanish classes. 1938 Miss Mary M. Mclntire, A. B. from the Uni- versity of Illinois, M. A. from the University of Illinois. Miss Mclntire teaches the beginning Latin classes and two Caesar classes. Miss Mary Carroll. A. B. from larnes Millikin University, M. A. from the University of Illinois. Miss Carroll teaches Spanish. She has studied in Spain and in Mexico. Miss Carroll is the head adviser of the senior class. Miss Revcrrose Wallins, A. B. from fames Mil- likin University, M. A. from the University of Illinois. Miss Wallins left Decatur High School at the end of the first semester. She taught Spanish and English. Miss May D. Lcrrimore. A. B. from McMurray College, graduate work at Galloway College, Western Beserve, DeSauze Maison Francaise, University of l-lawaii, Sorbonne in Paris. Miss Larimore teaches French and advises LeCer- cle Francais. Cabinet Making classes served the French classes when they framed the large map of Paris to hang on the wall in Miss Larimore's class room. The picture of the map is shown with the complete little French library and the two librarians, fewell Snyder with her back to the map and Norma Ehman who is reading. These good looking boys and girls are the A students from one of Miss Durfee's Caesar classes. From all reports, it is very unusual to find so many students doing superior work in such a difficult subject. Those seated in the front row are Marjorie Hill, Barbara Neustadt, Bobert Webb, fean Iohns, and Isola Nelson. Behind them stand Merwyn Smith, lay Thomas, Barbara Gauger, and fed Tucker.

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THE DECANOIS J-.EQ '-0 Bose Kennedy is not the only girl studying trigonornetry but she was brave enough to have her picture made with some of the boys from her class. They posed with their transit which they used to make the measurements required in practical problems. The boys in the group are Billy Kennedy, lack Kuhns, Bay- mond Pinkley, Ted Allsup, Bobert Haan, Mar- ion Foley, and Vernon Hott. Miss Martin sends her trigonometry students out ot doors during some of their class hours so that they can learn to use a transit. The lower picture shows a group of Algebra 3 students. They are some ot the best students from Miss Fischers advanced classes. The graph shown in the background is from a set ot simultaneous quadratic equations and was mapped by these students. Burnham Wal- raven and Hal Montague are seated at the desk. Vxfilliam Britton, Ieanne Hanson, Bex- tord Elliott, William Stauder, Elzy Kirby, Guy Centner, Arden Gaddis, and Barbara Wood- cock are Watching Burnham and Hal Work. 1938 FACULTY lMIiith+em.autiiics Miss Ora Latham. A. B. from the University of Illinois, M. A. from the University of illinois. Miss Latham teaches geometry. Miss Margery Prestley, A. B. from lames Mil- likin University, M. A. from Teachers College, Columbia University. Miss Prestley teaches geometry. She is editorial adviser of the Dec- anois and an adviser of the senior class. Miss Lois M. Roberts. A. B. from the Univer- sity ot lllinois, graduate of l. S. N. U. For many years Miss Roberts has taught all ot the solid geometry classes. She also has classes in plane geometry. Miss Lida C. Martin, B. S. from the Univer- sity of Michigan, graduate ot N. l. S, T. C. Miss Martin is head of the mathematics department. She teaches trigonometry and has charge ot recording the eligibility of the school athletes. Miss Georgia H. Fischer, A. B. and B. Ed. from Ohio State University, M. A. from Teach- ers College, Columbia University. Miss Fischer teaches advanced algebra. She is in charge of Honors Day. QQ.

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THE DECANOIS Miss Marguerite Harper. A. B. from the Uni- versity of lllinois. Miss Harper teaches Zoo- logy and Botany. She is one of the advisers of the junior class. Mr. Ernst H. Westlund, Ph. C. from Purdue Universityg B. S. and M. S. from Purdue Univer- sity. Mr. Westlund at one time taught Chemis- try in the high school. A year ago he returned to the faculty after an absence of several years. He teaches Zoology and botany. Miss Mary Orr, A. B. from the University of lllinois. Miss Orr also teaches Zoology and botany. She is in charge of the entire junior class and has done a great deal toward organ- izing this very large group. Miss Charlotte Meyer, A. B. from james Mil- likin Universityg M. A. from the University of Michigan. Miss Meyer teaches Zoology and botany and has often taught physiology as well. Miss Meyer is president of the Decatur Teachers Federation. ln the upper picture Mary Pearl Hull and Martha Hicks are standing in the small con- servatory which opens from one of the botany laboratories. All of the seedlings used in the twenty botany classes can be grown in the conservatory and many plant experiments can be conducted here. The lower picture shows Mr. Bush seated at his desk. Since Mr. Bush joined the faculty at the end of the first semester he was not pres- ent when the other faculty pictures were made. He teaches botany and shares the physiology laboratory with Miss Earnest. With him in the picture are Helen Polkman, who has brought her miscroscope to his desk, and Arthur Gir- ard, who is having a laboratory exercise checked. 1938 lF A C U lL T Srciioimfcc Mr. Iohn M. Rush. A. B. from the University of lndianag M. A. from the University of lllinois. Mr. Bush became a member of the faculty in February. He teaches botany. His photo- graph appears at the bottom of the page, lil 1? 5, i 1? yt' 'B I