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

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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

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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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THE NEW lux KYI NEEDLES and PANS Instructors: Left, Miss Esther Koons; Right, Miss Helen Grishaw. Classes: Upper, Miss Koons' class; Lower, Miss Gris-haw's class. Our high school is very fortunate in having in its Home Economics Department two teachers who have proven their ability in that subject by the outstanding success that has resulted from their teaching. Both Miss Grishaw and Miss Koons have received their B.S. degree in one of our state colleges—Miss Grishaw at Indiana university and Miss Koons at Purdue university. Sometimes the participants of the cooking class become the envy of the school, especially when they come around with a sack of fresh doughnuts or a supply of warm fudge. During the current year there has been a decided change in the Home Economics Department, for now we have a class of boys in cooking. Even our football boys are now mastering the art of preparing food. There are many problems which this boys' class has brought with it that are still to be overcome. For example, the girls would hardly be found throwing apples, oranges, or lemons, or drinking all the milk. But with the boys—well, what do you think? There is many a girl in our high school who will wear her sewing exhibit during senior week, and with sufficient pride. Of course, there are many others besides seniors who like to display their art, and perhaps they get just as much attention, too. Now the boys are wondering how long it will be before they, too, are to be permitted to try their hand at sewing. We believe there cannot be too great stress laid upon this portion of the high school curriculum. Here is training that will certainly be of value to every girl at sometime during her life. Rage Ttrelre