Dekalb High School - Kalibre Yearbook (Dekalb, IL)

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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 ' ' , .

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And now shall we peer into Miss Mi s Dorothy Stooltey IST ROW Louise Cooper Mary Lou Hiatt Elna Ruppi ZND ROW Dorothy Boch Eugenie Donnelly Bernice acobson Ruth Tobiason Vivian hlatson 3RD ROW Richard Boyes Erwin Evans James Malone Albert Sakalauski Margaret Pesut 4TH ROW Mary Louise Cone Nellie Goff Evelyn McDermott Martha Myllynlemi STH ROW George Masilunis john Greenacre Mark Masterson Thomas Crooks As we wander around, suppose we snatch a glance at Miss Dorothy Stool: eys geometry class Upon entering the room, we Hnd Miss Stoolcey industrious ly explaining a difficult theorem out of the text New Plane Geometry by Hawkes Luby Touton to the puzzling pupils Upon investigation, Miss Stoolcey dis closes a few interesting facts concerning her class in geometry She tells us that geometry IS a very practical study, ln that geometric principles are fundamental in architectural designs and in decorative problems We are told that in this course, the class adheres closely to the text The material within it has been carefully selected and so graded so that the pupll can pass from the introduction to real constructive work of his own as smooth ly as possible On the various students deslcs we per ceive the text used in this course Muz zeys The Amerlcan People We are informed that the class also indulges in collateral readlng as well as having special reading days in class We learn from Miss Ady that floor talks on assigned topics are given and biographies are read outside of class Current events are discussed, especially as they fit in with the daily discussions During the nrst semester of this American history course, called the 4B history, we are told that Miss Constance Fogarty, a student teacher from the Northern Illinois State Teachers' Col lege, conducted the class for a period of five weeks During this time the teacher acts as a critic supervising the worlc of the student teacher Page fourlefn IST ROW Marvin Cochran Donald Busse VND ROW Lillian Wlheeler Clara Darin Harriet Anderson Richard Eckhardt BRD ROXX Miss Gertrude Ady George Kahilus Helen Hayes Rodney Fuller Arnold Colvin 4TH ROW Erro Michelson Dale Martha Margaret Klemm 5TH ROXV Helen Peter son ens Panula Irene Nehrmg Milton Mont gomery 6TH ROW Alfred Rich Lucille Pyper Herbert Plapp William Phillips 7TH ROW Robert Danielson Helen Wrublasky Harry Condon Grace Spacie Miss Gertrude Ady 1 J , . O Gertrude Adyls American history class? - s 7 rr ' 3: W - 7 - r' , .T . ' ,J j ' .Yj V 1