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

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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

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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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Till; NEW CRESCENT SPEED and ACCURACY The commercial department consists of bookkeeping, typing, and shorthand. Bookkeeping, which is usually the first part of the commercial course taken, is very interesting and is really quite beneficial to the prospective young business man or woman. Especially valuable is this course to those who plan to take clerical work. Transactions such as might be found in the business of a large department store are worked out and thus the forms and the system used becomes familiar to the student. It affords ample opportunity for the student to brush up on his addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. This mathematical exercise is sure to bring to the student a lasting accuracy in figuring. Click, click, click, goes the typewriter as the students try for exactness and speed in depressing the blank keys of the practice machines in the commercial room. This noise is in the future to be of value to the person who causes it. Typing is not only a great help in all kinds of work but it is a pleasant pastime as well. One can type letters and other material, and find pleasure in it. In shorthand they learn to make all those odd little marks, and curliques that so stump those who have never taken the course in this strange and unbecoming manner of writing. To lay all jokes aside, however, we will admit that this way of writing is much faster than the old style, and recommend that it be taught in the grades; not that it is so free of complications, but that it would be of great help in the taking of notes and assignments. Practically all stenographers are required to take letters and other dictation in shorthand. This commercial course itself results in the acquisition of skill for personal use in high school and as a basis for work in business. The teachers are Miss Dorothy Kantner, a graduate of Ball State college at Muncie with an A.B. degree, and Miss Virginia McDermitt, a graduate of the same college with a B.S. degree. Just look at them; is it any wonder, with two such attractive young teachers, that so many of the boys are taking up commercial work ? Instructors: Upper, Miss Dorothy Kantner; Lower, Miss Virginia McDermitt. CLASSES: upper, Miss Kantner’s class; Lower, Miss McDcrmitt's class. P-tge Thirteen