Dekalb High School - Kalibre Yearbook (Dekalb, IL)

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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 ' ,

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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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COMMERCE lersomfzeulzon of our modern Ilft These reall rramed devotees of commtrce HE objectlve of business educatxon ln the hlgh school IS a basxc understandmg of the general prlncxples underlymg the organlza txon of busmess together wrth tra1n1ng 1n certam techmcal skllls for lmmednate use T h e bookkeepmg course IS a two semester subject The Hrst part IS a study of busmess orgamzatlon as 1nter preted by slmple book keepxng records 'lhe econd semester develops a more extenslve under standlng of bookkeep mg techmque wlth the emphasis upon the ob jectxve of bookkeepnng as a tool for efliclent busmess management The busmess arlthmetrc course IS a one sem ester subject A thorough revlew of the funda mental processes Qaddltron subtractron multl pllcatron dxvxsxon and common and declmal fractlonsj IS followed by a study of typlcal busmess problems Actual performance of the dut1es of an office worker IS requ1red ln the stenographxc depart ment D1ctat1on and transcrlptxon constxtute the major portlon of the work Each student IS requxred to cut a stencxl and run nt off on the mlmeograph to make telephone calls and know the types of servlce offered by the telephone company to have a thorough knowledge of telegraph systems and the classes of service offered to be famlllar wxth postal regulatrons and letter forms to make out reports mlnutes of meetmgs and outllnes to tabulate matter correct from rough draft to know how to MISS BEARHOPE wrlte different types of letters such as 3ppllC'l t1on adjustment credxt collectxon etc Accu racy and speed 1n the performance of all work IS emphaswed T h e possxb1l1t1es ln dxfferent lxnes of work and the personal quallficatlons necessary to attaln success 1n each are dlscussed Students are grven opportunxtles to do practxcal work ln school and nn busmess offices m the e1ty The department apprecxates the coopera t1on of the busmess men of DeKalb mn ac Miss LARSON ceptxng IIS students Throughout the entxre department the arm of educatlng for busmess lS carrled out Two years of shorthand and typmg one semester of commercxal arrthmetlc one year of bookkeep mg and one semester of commerclal geography are gxven The enrollment ln the commerclal department has grown steadlly It was necessary to add another teacher thls year to satlsfy the demand for more classes There are approxlmately two hundred fifty students IH the department MISS Mlna Bearhope teaches shorthand typ lng and commerclal geography Mnss Etta Larson teaches typing bookkeeplng and com merclal ar1thmet1c MISS Madge Belts teaches typlng and shorthand MISS BELTS Seventeen ,l- ' , 1 ' , we ' 1 n n 1 x 1 x s . 1 1 . . . . . , e ' . , . . . . , , , . . . . . . . , , - Y . . . w - j W . . ' sf . . . J 1 1 . l - .. . s r . . , t. . . vv- - s . . . . . ' . . ' v 1 v ' . . . .. . ' L 1 v v y . 1 . e r v x x 1 - r Q . s v . Q ' , ss - f v Q r . ' v .