Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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M. T. JOHNSON, A. A. M. J. W. CORY MATHEMATICS The Mathematical Department of the Emerson High School claims nearly every student for at least two years, as this is the amount of work required for graduation or entrance to the standard university. A great number of the students, realizing the benefits accruing from training in mathematics, are electing mathematics in their Junior and Senior years. Fifty per cent of the Juniors this year have elected it as a part of their program. The mathematics of the Senior year, comprising Trigonometry for the first semester and College Algebra for the second semester, is of such a character that students who enter college or university receive credit for it there. Nine of our graduates have already re¬ ceived credit in entering Cornell, Illinois, Iowa University and other colleges. HILDA STIMSON, A. B.

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M. E. SNYDER DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC One’s first impression of the Gary Schools is that the athletic is better developed than the aesthetic, but upon close inspection he will find that the aesthetic is indeed well developed, considering the amount of time allotted. Many times students who thought they had no music in them have been taught to love and appreciate it. This is what the Music Department of Emerson School is striving to accomplish. The first step in this work is to teach the boys and girls to read music, for without this ability much in the realm of music is as a sealed book. The quality of the voice is improved and softened, and most important of all, the love of the beautiful in music is nurtured, and the capacity for appreciation and enjoyment is developed. Music develops a spirit of fellowship and team work, not only in singing, but in all things that make for fine community spirit. The greater the team work, the greater the musical development, and hence the greater reaction on the individual character. We are all influenced by this activity, whether we will or no. Wordsworth understood this when he wrote: “Our eyes, they cannot help but see, We cannot bid the ear be still, Our bodies feel, where’er we be, Against or with our will.” PRINT SHOP The Emerson Print Shop was established in the fall of 1910 in Room 107. Later, more space being required, the partition between this room and an adjoining room was taken out to make the shop its present size. By equipping a print shop, the opportunity to learn a valuable trade was not only offered, but enough productive work could be produced to make the shop a paying one. Blanks of all kinds, school papers, and various other publications have been produced in first class style by student labor. Students from the grades and from the High School enjoy the type-setting, presswork and other activities which go to make the Emerson Print Shop a regular one. FLORENCE BEST Twenty

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GERMAN The course in German offered in the Emerson High School consists of three years’ work. The first two years are optional with French or Latin, and the third is elective by students. The aim of the course is three-fold: (1) practical, (8) technical, (3) cultural. It also aims to teach students to read and understand German intelligently. Through the reading of German classics the student gets a glimpse of fine culture and appreciation of great writers which will help to enrich his life and develop his character. To a person of German descent, the course gives a better command of the mother-tongue. THE WOOD-WORKING DEPARTMENT With the Emerson School came the regular Manual Training shop, which con- MRS BERTHA CHILDS sistec of the wo °d-working shop and the wood-turning shop in rooms now occupied by the forge shop and foundry. Later, when vocational training was introduced in our schools, cabinet-making was among the first shops to be adopted. As this idea grew and developed the reg¬ ular manual training gave way to the new order of things. The wood-working equipment was moved to other buildings, while the wood¬ turning equipment, with the necessary machinery, was added and located in room 214, which constitutes a pattern making shop. The cabinet shop has long since been moved to the second floor, and is now run in connection with the pattern shop. These shops form the wood-working department, and while there have been many changes and additions, they still rank among the first. They are no longer an experiment; they have stood the test and are established as a part of our school. Their true worth is appreciated best by the boys who have worked in them. The boy in the grades becomes familiar with his surroundings, and as he advances to High School and continues in the shops he develops skill and forms habits that will be of value to him as a man and citizen, as well as a tradesman, should he G. E. WULFING choose to be one. Director of Vocational We feel that if in our humble way we have helped someone along the rocky Department road, our efforts have not been in vain. R. S. COFFMAN Twenty-two