Fort Dodge High School - Dodger Yearbook (Fort Dodge, IA)

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Top-Beatrice Strom, Mildred Keil, Everett S. Cortright, Lucy Winter, Adeline Sharon, Bernadine Kenison. BottomwMary Cruikshank, Ruth Goodrich, Ralph Nichols, VVilma Hastie, Mary Boxwell, Vesta Likins. FACULTY SERVICE never quite paid for in student interest and appreciation comes from a staff of forty-five experienced men and women who direct us not only in the many curricular branches of study but also in innumerable activity projects. The English Department undertook this year a progressive step. Under Miss Ruth Goodrich, department head, the teachers, with diagnostic tests, examined tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades for English ills, drilled on weaknesses, and retested to note achieve- ment, comparing class medians with national medians. ln credit bonuses for magazine and newspaper clippings the Latin Department, headed by Miss Mary Boxwell, stressed the relation between current life and Latin. French was added to the curriculum. Educational projects enlivened the study in history of which department Dean Sigurd Jorgenson of Junior College was head. Through intensive work this year, mathematics teachers compiled for Miss Ethel Shannon, department head, typewritten Workbooks to save expense for students. Lynn Bloxom, Norman Cooper, Elvin Chapman, Katherine Mauthe. page ourfcen

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CLARENCE 1iRAL NICKUZ BUT the straw didn't break the camelys back! The camel just nibbled a bit of it for strength and carried off the entire load! If what people call achievement is marked by the overcoming of obstacles, then a man who can, with fewer facilities and with more limitations, still keep a complicated organization up to non-depression stand- ards, is a man who has achieved. This accomplishment has been Principal Clarence Eral Nickle's. Students and faculty members can also add to his credit that his directorship even under aggravating difficulties has been touched with little pessimism. Faced with the stress of increasing the teacher load, of managing On lower funds, and of educating the largest student body on record, he has maintained the efficiency of the school at a high level. In ten years of service Principal Nickle has seen the establishment of many organizations for student interest and welfare, among them three of the high school's most important governing bodies, Student Council, Athletic Council, and Forensic League. page thirteen

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Top-Ingeborsr Hinhland, Walter Weiss, Orpha Cheney, Marie Wright, Margaret 0'Keefe, La Rue Guernsey. Bottom--Dora. Holman, Elizabeth Fry, Ethel Shannon, Nona Moss, Fern Fitzsimons, Margaret Miller. FACULTY IDEAS deeply essential to practical living have been instigated this year by Miss Kath- erine Mauthe, Science head, who has attempted to create individualism by fostering interest in some phase of the course, and to give each student a hobby. New in the Commercial Department, of which Miss Mabel Snoeyenbos is head, was the requirement that each member of the Shorthand IV class work at least one week in the principal's office for practical experience. Home Economics classes under Miss Jane Crow and her assistant, Miss Neva Houk, utilizing old material flargely old band capcsj completed seventy-six childrcn's dresses for the Welfare Association. Training for sure-handed thinking, the slogan which the Manual Training Depart- ment, under Mr. W. M. Phares, took this year, showed its influence in completed projects. There was effort to combine the different vocational plans with an emphasis on the practical side. Carrie Longfellow, Vivian Peterson, Mabel Snoeyenbos, Ione Helgrason. . N. page fifteen