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

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TIIE NEW CKESClvNT Instructors: Upper Left. Miss Mary E. Cox; Upper Right, Mr. Earl B. Forney; Lower Left, Mr. C. C. Hillis; Lower Right, Mr. Harley Ashton. Classes: Upper Left, Miss Cox's class; Upper Right, Mr. Forney's class; Lower Left, Mr. Hillis' class; Lower Right, Mr. Ashton's class. AWAY BACK WHEN Since history is one of our required subjects toward graduation, it was to the value of the school that the best teachers obtainable should be employed. That distinguished-looking gentleman in the upper right-hand corner is Mr. Earl B. Forney. Mr. Forney was raising a mustache at the time this picture was taken, but not enough foliage” had appeared to make any difference in the picture. Mr. Forney has an A.M. degree from Indiana university, and teaches history 1 and 2, which gives the student a general background of world history. We lay most of the blame of the losing of one of the beloved members of our faculty last year on Mr. Forney. Did you see the moon last night? About time to sow wheat, or isn’t it?” These comments on the weather, crops, and his jokes,” make Mr. Harley H. Ashton's classes very interesting. Mr. Ashton (lower right) has an A.B. degree from Indiana university and teaches history 3 and 4, which takes up the study of the history of the United States. Mr. Hillis, our principal (lower left), helps Mr. Ashton by teaching a class of history 4. Time is never so precious as when we have to pay for its loss. This and other sayings greeted us every time we went to Miss Mary E. Cox's classes. Perhaps we didn’t like to make notebooks but they were for our own benefit. Miss Cox has worked untiringly in her efforts to teach us. Miss Cox has an A.B. from Indiana university and work at Columbia university. She teaches civics, which tells of the workings of all of our government, and economics, the scientific study of how man makes a living. She also has one class of history. We remember Miss Cox as the little short woman carrying a market basket; and although she taught our parents, has kept up with modern methods of teaching and instructing high school students.

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mi; ckksckm ARCS and X’S People, people, let’s get down to work!” How many times, as freshmen in our first mathematics class, have we heard this? This is Miss Grosswege’s pet expression” and the student who heeds this saying of wisdom will reap profits beyond his highest dreams. Miss Grosswege is a teacher of all mathematics but has had only classes of arithmetic and geometry this year. She has an A.B. from Indiana university, an A.M. from Notre Dame, and also studied at Wisconsin university. Miss Grosswege deserves much praise. How many green freshies has she started on the right track? Too numerous to mention. We do not know how we could get along without her. Instructors: Upper Left. Mr. George Smith; Center. Miss Regina Grosswege; Upper Right, Mr. Basil Hosier. Classes: Top. Miss Grosswege's class; Lower Left, Mr. Smith’s class; Louer Right, Mr. Hosier's class. Now, if this line is 'parel’ to that and this one 'parel' to that one, doesn’t it follow that these two are ’parel’ to each other?” Although Mr. Hosier (upper right) disturbs classes on the floor above him by his loud talking, he nevertheless gets his points over to his pupils. He talks too fast sometimes with the result that he does not pronounce some few words distinctly (constructive criticism). He got a post card from a pupil one day and ever since has pronounced parallel” correctly. Mr. Hosier teaches geometry and algebra. He has an A.B. from Ball State and some graduate work at Indiana university. Some students learn easily and others never will learn this algebra, is perhaps the belief of Mr. George Smith. Even though he is hard on the freshmen at times, all in all, he is a good teacher of algebra. He has received his A.B. degree from Franklin university. To sum up this mathematic course, with such teachers as we have we can plainly state that even if our problems are difficult at the time, this course will prove more than important to us in later life. P S Nine

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ROAMIN’ FRANCE THE NEW CRESCENT Instructors: Upper Left. Miss I.ena Foote; Upper Right, Miss Clara Nuzum; Lower Left, Mrs. Mary Records; Lower Right, Miss Gladys McCammon. Classes; Upper Lejt, Miss Foote's class; Upper Right. Miss Nuzum's class; Lower Left, Mrs. Records' class; Lower Right, Miss McCammon's class. Our school offers to us two foreign languages: Latin and French. Beginning Latin, or Latin 1 and 2, is under the supervision of Miss Nuzum (A.B.). This course consists of declensions, conjugations, and the reading of short stories. Advanced Latin is taught by Miss Foote (A.M.). This course is the review of Latin 1 and 2 and the study of Roman life, Roman mythology, and the translation of Cicero’s Orations. The fourth year of Latin offers the study of Vergil’s Epic, the Aeneid.” Special emphasis is placed on the derivation of English words. A series of Latin contests in the four divisions of the work takes place annually in local high schools, counties, districts, and finally a state contest at Bloomington, where the winners receive gold, silver, and bronze medals. These contests have tended to standardize the Latin work throughout the state and to keep up competition between the schools. An incentive to pupils to continue their study of Latin, is the Eta Sigma Phi honor medal offered to those who have pursued the subject for four years and attained honor grades during their fourth year in either Cicero or Vergil. The second foreign language is French. Beginning French, or French 1 and 2, is taught by Miss Kantner (A.B.) and Miss McCammon (A.B.). This includes grammar and translation. Advanced French is taught by Mrs. Records (A.B.). This includes the reading of stories, which proves to be very interesting. French is a very practical subject to pursue, because it is widely used in foreign countries today. In a word, both foreign languages are helpful in broadening one’s mind, increasing one's vocabulary, and giving one a general knowledge that is helpful in all other subjects. Page Eleven