Dekalb High School - Kalibre Yearbook (Dekalb, IL)

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IST ROW Ella Rose Lalley VND ROW Ella Seppanen Elnere Keeler Helen Hart essle Allan 4TH ROXV Molly Nlahel Helen Kal her Victoria Hansan Eva Alm Helen XX rubl1slcv Eva Reed Saxma Lahti ucllth acohson lander Slgne ohnson To begm the days act1v1t1es, everyone goes to h1s asslgned home room, where the dally announcements are made They are arranged so that there are gxrls home rooms and boys home rooms Let us take a look lnto one of them and see what the students are domg Some are frantxcally attemptmg to cram a few more h1story dates mto the1r heads before the exammatxon whlch comes flrst hour Others are studlouslv re vlewmg some of thelr other subjects We are told by the teacher that we happened to be v1s1t1ng the home room on the day when there IS no speclal program The home room perlod on two days a week IS devoted to varlous types of programs which may consxst of short tallcs by students, book rev1ews or other types of entertamment We hear from the students that on the last day before Christmas vacatlon, almost every home room, especxally the g1rls', had some lclnd of Chrlstmas program They contamecl short tallcs on Chrxstmas traits and customs of other lands, Christmas carols and exchangmg of mexpenslve g1fts Page Eleven fi ' l ai F 1 '- s - v I. 'JJ .MJ -- lwurg. KRD ROXV7Ald1na Sodouskl. Nlargaret Peshut, Mildred -Cottoln. STH ROW-Ellcxa Yrjanainen. Nina Rx- . . , . . , . . . . , , .

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the t1me to v1s1t Mlss German classes It IS now M1nn1e ones In the first year of study1ng the Ger man language, most of the work 1S based upon the drlllmg of grammar A thorough study of the vocabulary and ldlOmS 15 especially stressed 1n thus class Durmg the beglnnmg year ln German they strxve for read1ng knowledge, and after that year of work IS completed, the students should be able to read any moderately d1fl 1cult materlal In the second year German class, the students contmue to read and drlll on the grammar In the class perlod they read storles and classlcs, most of whlch have real l1terary value A German club IS orgamzed by the second year students They learn the terms and phrases 1n parhamentary pro cedure and they partxcxpate m German games and songs IST ROW Rodney Anderson ean Rltzman Kenneth Anderson Curtis Adkms Anna Adkins ZND ROW Ralph Gunn Marie Gulheck Elmer Elliott Evelyn Browman lVl2l'lOh Babcox ZRD ROW Elden Mosuman Helen Matson Franklin Htland Fred Klages Thomas Hazard 4TH ROW Mary Smuth Hllllam Sapavtch Lola Schull Don Rrley Ann Swanson STH ROW Robert Woodard Fred Skoglund oyce Swanson ames Brlggs Mxss Next let us look lnto a Latln class, as fascmatlng as hlstory ltself, for If relates storles of the hves of ancxent Greeks and Romans and of the famous battles fought by famous men of that tlme The class v1s1ted was a second year group which makes a study of Latln grammar The out standmg objectlve of this course IS to get a background of Latxn llfe, gxvlng the students a plc ture of the people about whom they read By study1ng the customs of the Greek and Roman people, the materlal ln the Latin book w1ll become more attractive A new ldea lntroduced to the Latm classes this year was that of having book reports on such books as Ben Hur and The Last Days of Pompeu , the storles of wh1ch dlrectly applled to the type of work whxch the class was dolng The second year classes 1n Latm, durmg the second semester, devote the prmclpal portlon of thelr tlme to the study and translatlon of Caesar They also spend some txme ln the study of Latm and 1ts relatxonshvp to Engllsh IST ROW Emily Tal bot Enleen Heller Mlrxam Brown Mary Fitzgerald ZND ROW Carol Ole son Betty Storm Lauralee Peterson Alfred Rich SRD ROW Charlotte Corey Charlotte Wasted Mildred Cotton Evelyn Snvder Stanley Gramstad 4TH ROW Wilma Cochran Vergene Fisk Lucllle McCartney John McCormick STH ROW Floren ce Montavan Anna Marne Nlullen Marv Fmery All s Fdlfh W entvo rth Page Tfnrteen ..J , 9 W ,1,' , . , ' . .J -J . '. QQ 97 Q? H ' ' ' ' ' ' ' Q! 97 ' ' , .