Elwood Community High School - Crescent Yearbook (Elwood, IN)

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THE CRESCENT is highly valuable for those who expect to enter the professions, and almost indispensable to an understanding of the mother tongue. Of all modem foreign languages French is the one which should be taught in High School if only one can be taught, because of the richness of the French literature. The History Department offers History, Ancient, Medieval, Modem and American, as well as an intensive study of Civics. No studies are better to the preparation for a good citizenship than these. The present is the outgrowth of the past and can properly be interpreted only by a thorough understanding of the past. The study of Civics enables one to know and appreciate our own democratic form of government, how it operates, and how to make it better. The Department of Vocational Agriculture is our latest addition, and was added because of a desire more fully to serve the interests of the surrounding farming region. Boys from the farm learn the latest and best methods of farming and in their project work put these into actual practice, while the number that can be accommodated in this department is not large the good that has already been done is very noticeable. Vocational Home Economics will be an equally good work among the girls, while the Commercial courses will give to both boys and girls an opportunity to prepare for a business career. In all of this thought and preparation for vocational training there has not been lost sight of the need for a broad cultured training. To that end are required the fundamental facts of mathematics, science, American history, civics, and a thorough study of English, our mother tongue. English should and does receive more attention than any other study. It includes a study of rhetoric, and composition, the history of literature, and selections from literature, English is our medium of communication, and by careful training it becomes an efficient tool. Through the study of literature the student is acquainted with the ideals of our civilization, and makes them a part of himself. One of our most pressing needs now is a gymnasium. Our local interest in athletics, especially in basketball, is such that we cannot be content to take a second place either in the district or in the state. We should look forward to the time when Elwood shall have made a record in the State Tournament. We should have adequate facilities so that we might entertain in our midst ore of the sectionals. These things are not impossible for us. In closing let me say as I said in the beginning that we thank you for your interest and support. Those are what have made us. We hope to merit a continuance of them. Sincerely Supt. A. W. KONOLD

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THE CRESCENT The Board of Education TO THE READERS OF THE CRESCENT: We congratulate you upon your interest in the Elwood High School and assure you of our hearty appreciation of your support. The High School has had a remarkable growth in the past four years, the enrollment increasing from 349 in 1917 to 439 in 1921. This growth is due mainly to two causes: the increased patronage from the surrounding neighborhood, and on increase in the desire of our own population for the benefits that come from a higher education. This growth has made necessary an increase in the teaching force and an expansion of work until now the whole of the new High School building is occupied and we long for space for further activities. The curriculum has been expanded so as more efficiently to meet the needs of the community. In addition to the departments of Latin, English, Mathematics, History and Science found originally in the secondary schools, instruction is now offered, in Domestic Science, Domestic Art, Mechanical Drawing, Woodworking, Commercial Arithmetic, Vocational Agriculture, and French. It is the intention to add in the near future a Commercial Department, Vocational Home Economics, and Physical education. A student now has the opportunity to choose his own course within certain restrictions. By exercising care he may take four full years of science work, Physical Geography, Botany, Chemistry, and Physics. With the increased emphasis upon Science in the world of trade and industry we trust that many will avail themselves of the opportunity. Since Mathematics has been proven of such value to the people, our High School makes it possible for one to have five to six years work along mathematical lines, including Algebra, Geometry, Mechanical Drawing, Commercial Arithmetic, and the Mathematics of Physics. In foreign languages there are Latin and French. The study of Latin

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ARTHUR W. KONOLD—Supt. Arthur Konold was born at Branch-ville, Perry County, Indiana. On completion of his course, he graduated from common school and began teaching in a district school, October, 1896. He entered Central Normal College at Danville, Ind., April, 1898. At the close of three years he graduated from the classic course. The following six years were spent in government service. In 1908 he accepted a position in the Greenfield High School, where he taught two years. He graduated from Winona College in 1911 with an A. B. degree. Then he very creditably filled the position of teacher of History and Psy-cology and Dean of Winona College, from 1911 to 1916. In the fall of this year he took up his work as superintendent of the Elwood schools, which position he still very ably retains. In addition to his duties in the schools he attended the summer sessions of the University of Chicago, as a graduate student, in 1917. WILLIAM F. SMITH, Principal. W. F. Smith was born in Johnson County, Indiana, near Franklin. He attended grade and High School; after graduation he attended Hanover College; he taught country school and later was principal of a Township High School. He graduated from Indiana University in 1906 with A. B degree. In 1906 he accepted position as teacher of Science in Bloomington, Indiana High School. He taught in Anderson ’07-’09; Decatur, 111. ’09-’ll In summer, 1910, he did graduate work in Chicago University. From ’11-18 he was a representative of D. C. Heath Co. In 1918 he became teacher of Chemistry and Physics in the Elwood High School. The following year he received and accepted the offer of Principal of Elwood High School.