Dekalb High School - Kalibre Yearbook (Dekalb, IL)

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SCIENCE fln oulposl or fha! eeonelrous realm Wherern lonvorruu, .s Izrlzsons luu lounclulrons for undreannd uchretrnnnrs HE COURSES rn natural and physr cal scrences arm to grve the student a clear er understandrng of the composrtron of the drf ferent materrals of hs envrronment the rela tron of these materrals to each other the effect of these materrals on hrs lrfe some apprecratron of the rmportance of s r entrfic changes rn rndus try and an arm whrch rt shares wrth oth r scr ences the development rn some measure of scr entrfic method of thrnk rn MR EVERX to Junrors and senrors The laboratory rs at the drsposal of these stu dents and two perrods each week are devoted to experrmentrng rn the fields of physrcal scr ences The practrcal experrence garned by the students rn controllrng the reactrons whrch take place by varyrng the condrtrons adds much to MR STEPHENS an understandrng of the materral world M W T Emery drrects the chemrstry work Physrcs the scrence MR BEAUMONIT of matter and energy treats the study of me chanrcs heat sound lrght and electrrcrty The arm of thrs work rs to strmulate the student to rnterpret hrs experr ences rn the lrght of natural laws Mr XV H Beaumont has charge of the physrcs work The major arms of general scrence are to rncrease the puprl s ap precratron of hrs surroundrngs to develop the powers of observatron to trarn the student rn the screntrfrc or experrmental methods of reason rng to provrde opportunrty for acquarntance wrth such elementary laws of nature as are neces sary to the welfare of the rndrvrdual and of the communrty and to provrde opportunrty for exploratron resultrng rn educatronal and voca tronal gurdance To as sure these results rn a measure the students are allowed to experr ment wrth varrous ma terrals and to report therr drscoverres ln the report the materral used MR OBFRI rv rn the experrment the method of experrmentatron the observatron of the student and the practrcal applrcatron of the work are the all rmportant factors Mr J T Moss and Mr W B Beaumont teach general scrence Hrgh school brology arms to rnstruct the student rn gathermg valuable rnformatron re gardrng the plant and anrmal lrfe rn order that he may attam more precrsron and accuracy rn hrs observatron The puprl should be started to a screntrfic habrt of mrnd wrth a fearless rnvestr gatron of data and wrth a development of a love of the truth that wrll carry over rn hrs future judgments Mr W S Qberlrn and Mr E T Stephens teach brology bk Dk Pk Tongues rn trees books rn the runnrng brooks Sermons rn stones and MR Moss good rn everythrng Fifteen e I y . Q 'I 1 , . r ' v ' ' - I m x ' - , , . ' , - , , - ' i . ' ' x x , l ' . , r V ' - , e - r - , X . ' 3 3 2. , ' Chemrstry rs offered - , , ,- . , . . ' x ' e A . . . . , , . r. . . . , , 1 ' - . . - . y L L Y x ' . x ' i , ' Y ' A 4 ' . e ' .

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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

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,119 HDUSEHOLD ARTS Cxuculund man cannot lute Lculhoul cooks Our qnulesl lesson lb nu! how to make a lzuunq But hott to mah: a home EVER before has the world so fully realuzed the tremendous umportance of the use of the rught foods un the duet as at the present tume 'I lee study of foods theur prepa Way of servung them us now unuversally regard cd as a xutal part of the home makung traunung of gurls lt us the aum of thc study un foods and ratuon and the correct duets to guve the reasons for doung thungs un a sumple easuly compre hended way to guve durect complete unstruc tuons un the methods of manupulatuon f the materuals and processes and to guve ample op portunuty for applyung thus knowledge through the servung of meals at school and at home Guests are unvuted for meals un order that they may see the progress of the gurls and that the gurls may experuencc practucal work un socual lunes MISS PAL LINE JONIES Home plannung us the study of the problems unvolved un the organuzatuon and conduct of a well trauned home and uncludes the fundament al facts pertaunung to household finances house selectuon furnushungs and equupment fam ly health the care and traunung of chuldren and the socual and personal relatuonshups of famuly members That culture and socual traunung whuch are essentual to busuness and to modern socuety are unculcated unto the dauly habuts of the students Muss Paulune Jones trauns the gurls un foods and un home plannung The clothung course aums at the better devel Suxteen opment of knowledge habuts skulls attutudes and udeals Its objectuves are to develop the economuc hyguenuc and aesthetuc phases of clothung to cmphasuze those facts that wull make Wuse selectuon un rcady to wear clothung possuble to develop unutuatuve and the abuluty to form Judgments un sclectung clothung to establush good habuts of work wuth textules to establush good practuces un shoppung to develop skulls lle gurl to create a spurut of cooperatuon f open mundcdness of cheerfulness and of confl dence un the attutude toward problems as they aruse and to establush udeals that wull help the gurl luve her dauly lufe more ruchly more Wuse ly and more happuly un her home and un the s o c 1 a l and busuness worlds Each year an exhubut us made of the best work done by the gurls un thus department O n l y very practucal work us done and the degree of dufllculty un thus work uncreases as the qualuty of the work of the student umproves Mrs Sadue Raddatz unstructs the gurls un cloth ung work The beauty of the house IS order the bles sung of the house us contentment the glory of the house us hosputaluty the crown of the house us godluness MRS RADDATZ als Dk Pk bk elf A hundred men can make an encampment but ut requures a woman to make a home l , . !' T, . . . Av 5 Tu '-du , ,. ,... '. - uw ' uf u' I u u h 1- , V' . X X . I 1 Q ' 7 . . . . . commensurate wuth the needs and the abuluty of . . -' t ' : ' ' , o I . x , ' u V ' . ' I O . . - 1 ' ' , ' u v M ' ,