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

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Our Houses . . • Then there are the houses of Willkie High. Here the boys and girls spend much of their time learning new and better ways to improve tomorrow. The library is perhaps the most colorful house of them all with its brightly colored books lining the walls. The students come here during their study hall periods using the hundreds of books for information and help in their studies. The next house we come to along the busy streets of Willkie High is the typing room. Here live the students who wish to take up secretarial or business training. Many times during the day you can hear music playing with the clicking of every typewriter keeping time to the rhythm of a familiar march. There are some other interesting houses in our town, five of which are used for shop where only boys work. In one of these there is a mechanical drawing class; in another, the supply room, is kept everything from toothpicks to two-by-fours. The next room is the study room where students are given instructions before they start a project. The other two rooms contain all kinds of machinery and tools. In our math rooms the students learn everything from A to Z about mathematics—from simple addition to trigonometry. In the history classes the student learns of the past and present of his country as well as that of other nations. This study shows the student the mistakes and hardships, and the ambitions and dreams of those who came before him so that he may profit by their examples. Page Six

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Our lockers really are much simpler than the parking meters of an ordinary city. For example, instead of paying five or ten cents every morning, noon, and evening, you pay seventy-five cents for a lock when you are a freshman. This enables you to park” four years—or longer, if necessary. As in any well-regulated city, our school must have its traffic regulations and rules which are enforced by our teachers. Any infraction of hall rules can be punished by detention slips which cause you to linger in the libraiy for forty-five minutes after school. These extra study periods are supposed to make an offender think twice before committing the same error. We also have our street department or janitor's system which works all day keeping our halls and rooms clean and in repair The many comparisons and examples which have been pointed out, all prove that our city has the most unique streets in existence. Page Five

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English also occupies several more houses along the way. Here the student is taught how to use his own language correctly. He gains an appreciation of good literature. He learns the spellings and meanings of many new words that he had no idea were even in the English language. He learns the fundamentals of letter writing, speech, and oratorical work in front of classes. He learns parts of speech, capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, and abbreviations from AAA to Y.M.C.A. If the student is further interested in languages, he may take up Latin or Spanish. This gives him some idea of how people live and speak in other countries. The girls' houses are the home economics rooms where they learn the art of home making in a beautiful modern kitchen and an up-to-date sewing room. (Some man will be lucky to marry one of these girls.) The last house is perhaps the most pleasant of them all; here at least three times a week students gather to sing their favorite old and popular tunes. The band also plays a leading role in our town's musical program Almost everywhere you go you can either hear some eager singer or a talented youth trying to improve his voice or his ability to play his musical instrument. In these rooms or houses are produced every year, the men and women of tomorrow who will try to make the future a much brighter one. Page Seven