Dekalb High School - Kalibre Yearbook (Dekalb, IL)

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MATHEMATICS T e true end ol mezlh mums leaehznu rx pouer and no! kmzeeleefqe Sehtlllle To dexelop the In ectual of reasonIng facultres show that thInkIng IS more effectwe than memorI1Ing to develop apprecIatIon f mathematxcs and of IIS contrlbutron to sclence Inveatxons and human a w1llIngness to accept and to glVL helpful crItIcIsm to develop specIal characterlstrcs among whIch are accuracy and orIgInal1ty these are the arms of the teachtng of mathematics The study of mathematrcs aIds the IndIvIdual to thmk stralght reason logrcally and be honest wIth htmself In hIs CIVIC e onomIc and avoca txonal lIfe He IS helped to gaIn the vItal thIngs of lIfe by learnmg to analyze and to dIscrImI nate and to reject that vshlch IS valueless and wasteful of tIme and effort Emally he becomes acquamted wIth the eternal rIghtness of all wtth MR HOPPE betterment to develop whlch he IS surrounded The need for provmg stat m nts loglcally and for assoclatlng one thIng Wlth another IS reme dled In mathematIcal precIs ness Raprdrty In applled arIthmetIc as IS taught In commerclal arIthmetIc courses proves elf not Immedlately at least In tImeJ very valuable to the student Neatness IS a practIcalIty requrred In mathe mattcs Mathematlcs IS Indrspensabl for the study of the exact scrences and no on wlthout mathe matlcal scholarshlp can hope to advance far as an Investlgator In them Hence Kant saId A SCICHCB IS exact only In so far as lf employs mathemattcs Our entIre pres nt cIvIlI7atIon says Professor Voss far as It depends upon the Intellectual penetra tron and utIlIZatIon of nature has IIS real foun datIon In the mathe matIcal scIences E gIneerIng archItecture navIgatIon rulroad butldlng Ind survey Ing Ire more or ess based upon mathem1tIe al foundatlons There fore any natIon that NIISS WOI F hopes to rIse to com merctal and IndustrIal supremacy must not ex clude scIentIf1c methods Consequently lf must develop IIS mathematlc MISS STOONN al resources Two years of mathematlcs are requIred mf every student who 19 graduated begmmng algebra and plane geometry Otl er courses In mathematlcs whIch are offer d ar advanced algebra trIgonometry solId geometry and com mercIal arIthmetIc DUf1Hg the school year the electlve mathemattcs cours classes make note books whIch they dlsplay at the annual Xhlblt each sprlng Algebra IS taught by Mrss Edna Wolf Mr E O Hoppe and Mr O I Leach geometry by MISS Dorothy Stookey MISS Edna Wolf Mr E O Hoppe and Mr O I leach trIgo nometry IS taught by Mr E O Hopp MATHEMATICS IN BUSINESS Precrsely as the student of geometry the busIness man has t conslder the varxous means at hrs dtsposal he has to examlne each to elImInate those that are unfit and to Welgh and to compare the others In all steps he must have a clear notIon of the SIIUBIIOD of the means to be adopted f the end to be reached Lonfusrng the data and random guessmg wtll produce In busIness no better results than IH math mattcs More than one busIness man has testIlied that he owes hlS success In lxfe to the hablts of exact thlnktng whIch he formed when studylng mathemlttcs MR l.l:AC.ll The earlIest Amertcan mathematIcIan of dIstInctIon was accustomed to remark God IS the great geometer Th1S statement was made because he saw so many examples of geometry as they 1ppear In nature Iroclu, tells the story of LuelIel s replx to lxmg Ptolemy who Isked whether there wls any shorter way In geometry than that of the Elements There IS no royal road to geometry Thzrteen ' h, , . ' L., ' , , V. I ' Q- 'vu - ur 1 ' , . I tell, . use the - - , . ., ' I I0 4 1 H 5 . I Q I i K ' D . . . , , , -- , an ' o ' ' Q. . I 1 - . 1 1 ' ' V ' Tv ' l w ' ' 1 x ,- v ! 1 I 1 1 Q Y 7 - I I 1 u l ' s L x ' ' V' ' ' ' I - I . ' V Q 1 . Q I L' v Y . . . , . . . .' 1 - 3 . 5 . 0 . . . . . . f . 1 ak ak X Dk ,F bk Y V Y v v ' , 1' V ' O . , ' 1 ' v , e . v V C l - 7 , O . . . . - . ,, s , , , , e . I - ff It - . . . . ,, ' - ' ' ' I O , ,Q A H ' , . . ev , ' ' L 4. . a n a A ' . , . l . 1 ' V 1 c x 3- C I X I x V T Y . . ' . . . . A L ee I v L lk s e '-- ' e L A 1 s L 1 .

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And the enlure ohne! of e duealmn rs lo n people no! merelu DO the rzghl thmqs bul INJOX th rzqht Ihmqs These words of Rus k1n state one of the major objectlves of the Engllsh courses IH the DeKalb Hrgh School to develop the deslre on the part of the student to read good lxterature Taste must have as 1ts background a knowl edge of what IS good and why rt IS good The cultlvatlon of thls background IS the goal ln the teachmg of the hlstory of Englrsh and of Amerlcan literature and rn the study of the types of lnterary work The student 19 urged WW CLWWM5 to read books vs hlch exercrse hrs mmd just as MRS DAX X the athlete goes through a course of tralmng vshrch QXQICISQS hrs muscles Engllsh courses arm to tram the student 1n correct h3blfS of oral and wrrtten composl tlon and to enable hlm to meet wlth some de gree of porse the ordx nary sltuatlons of busl ness and soclal llfe In the tirst two years grammar and composl t1on are stressed m the last two apprecxatlon IS the mam Obj2CI1VC Fl he freshman Englrsh course alms to teach the fundamentals f correct Enghsh Sen tence structure IS taught by dxagram rn the hope that every student may have a mental prcture of each sentence he uses rn speakmg or ln wrrtmg If the student can v1su ahze the sentence many of the old bug bears such as who and whom w1ll cease to be enemres Miss MARK Mlssl AMPION 1 welue ENGLISH If a student knows why he should say between you and me We ex pected the man to b hzm E v e r y o n e should brmg hzs book and other expressrons commonly mxsused rt IS hoped that he w1ll make a consclous effort to speak correctly The composrtron arms to bring about clearer and more loglcal thmk 1ng correct and more NI S SOHNER formrdable expression Partlcular emphasls falls on the sentence and on the elaboratlon of the paragraph Attentlon IS gxven to the handlmg of problems of frxendly and busmess correspondence The course IS arranged so that lf nt IS neces sary that the student take a second or thlrd semester ln order to do satrsfactory work he doesnt have to repeat that whxch h already knows hence there IS not the feelrng of fallure that endless going over the same materral brrngs Three years of Eng IS are requlred fourth Amerlcan lrterature electlve Mrss Gladys Mark Mrss Dorothy Bordwell Mrss Ellendor Lampton and Mrss Jeann Sohner teach freshman and sophomore E n g l 1 s h Mlss Charlotte Cum mlngs Mlss Ellendor Lampton and M L C Colvln teach jumor English Mrs Harrlet Davy teaches semor Englrsh Text books used are Hermans Studles Grammar and Tressler s Engllsh ln Actron Clas s1cs studred are Ivan oe Sllas Marner Slr Roger de Coverley Papers Merchant of Venlce Jullus Caes ar Macbeth Ham let and Tale of Two CIUES MISS BORDWI- Ll MR COLVIN tru' e ' x wk: , A- 'A ' .H H ' 1,1 ' V, - ' T T ' vv 4 A S. 7' - ' ' 17 I . f s 3 1 1 . . ' . ' ' .Sf ll r . . . V I . , . . , . 1 , ' U x . . j I l . . r I , . . y x . . . X 1 L . .. . . 1 , , Y X ' ' ' , n a x ' A x . . ' L s . . . ' D X 3 . . . ' V Y . 1 J - s s y , Y . . , r K I .. , .. , , , , , . I'. . Y V - - .l b H .l - H v e p I V 7 , - fl AA , - ,Y .1 . Y Y - H l. H l. V Y 4 ' ., el ' v ' ' H - - n

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HREE and one alf years of soclal sclence are offered to all students An ele mentary course 1n c1v1cs M155 ADH IS grven enterlng fresh men One year of world hrstory and one f Amerlcan history are requlred of all students who wlsh to be gradu ated Electxve courses rn economlcs and A merlcan government are offered for semors Mlss Gertrude Ady and Mr Merlm Raddat7 mstruct ln CIYICS Amerlcan h1s MR RADDATZ SOCIAL SCIENCE tory world hlstory and economlcs M Paul Rutledge teaches Amen can history and Mrss Jeann Sohner teaches world hlstory I-llstory should b taught to flx the hablt of wexghlng h1stor1cal evrdence to glve tram mg ln the use of books to set up for conscxous xmltatlon xdeals of con duct of patrlotrsm of socxal servxce to mculcate practlcal knowledge that can be turned to account rn the daxly on cerns of lxfe It should persuade the student to lrve the life that makes for the welfare of hlm self and of the world MR RUTLEDGE ECREIGN LANGUAGES Two drstmct classes of language are repre language department romance languages and l.at1n Mss Edith Wentworth and Mrs Wxnlfred Stewart have charge of the Latln de partment T h e fundamental reason for studymg Latm IS to g1ve the stu dent a greater understandrng of Engllsh In con nectlon wlth th1s langu age comes the acqulsmon of a knowledge of hrs tory geography myth ology and many other by paths In llterature the orlgmal language renders the work more colorful and xt expres ses a meanlng that the translatxon cannot con vey The ultrmate objec MRS STEWART MISS VJEYTXVORTH Fourteen uve m offermg a course ID l atm rs to make one and understandmg for the c1t17en IS more valu able because culture augments lntelllgence The arm ln the teach mg of the romance language IS to acquamt the students of each language W 1 t h t h people who speak II and wlth what rs fmest students 1n these classes carry on an actxve and personal correspondence wlth students of Eng lxsh ln other lands MISS Mmme Jones mstructs German and Spamsh Mlss Mar guerlte Carnal teaches French and Spamsh Mlss Irma Wlttke teach es French Miss JONES ln thelr culture Fll'e MISS CARNAI h ' f ' . r. m x 1 f, ' e . 3 'I p . O ,. . . . p , ' I D U ,: . 1 I 1 7 J I I . A 7 i D I . sented in the foreign broader in his attitudes 1 3 I ' 1 . . . 1 u D . - . 7 n 1 e ' g M in in