Franklin Community High School - Kite Yearbook (Franklin, IN)

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MISS NETTIE CRAFT 1 Miss Nettie Craft spent her iirst school i days in the Vevay fSiwitzerland countyj schools. She then moved to New Albany and completed her school Work through the eighth grade. In the fall of 1884 she entered Franklin College. The following year she accepted a position in the Seymour schools, but gave it up after the nrst year in order to complete her college work. She gradu- ated from Franklin College in 1890, with the degree of B. S. The fall of the same year she began teaching in the Franklin schools, and was in the grades for seven years, teaching during that time in grades five, six, seven and eight. In 1897 she was elected to the department of science in the high school, which position she still holds. The department of science in the Franklin high school includes botany, chemistry, physics and physical geography, one year being given to each, with the exception of physical geography, which is completed in one-half year. The course of botany extends through the freshman year. The tevt followed is Bergen. Dur- ing the latter part of the spring term field work as outlined by Gray, is taken up. The class the second year take up the study of chemistry, with XVilliams's Ele- ments as the teXt. Each pupil is required to do individual laboratory Work. The principles of physics as found in Carhart and Chut's Elements of Physics are studied through the junior year. During the first half of the senior year the course is completed with physical geography, using Tarr's Elements,' as a text.

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C MRS. CLARA F. HANNAMAN Mrs. Clara F. Hannaman Was born in Indianapolis and moved with her parents to Franklin in 1861. Her early school life was spent in private schools, which were con- ducted at different times by diierent teach- ers. At the time of the organization of the public schools in Franklin she entered the seventh grade and completed the high school course in May of the centennial year. One year's experience as teacher in the Franklin township schools was followed by two years Work in the nfth grade of the city schools. Later she taught successively in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Having completed the four years' Chautauquan course she holds a diploma from that institution, graduating with the class of 1890. A three years' course in the department of history of Franklin College pa1'tially fitted her for a position in the Franklin high schools, which position she still holds. The department of history and rhetoric arranges for a year's course of English history in the first year, with Montgoinei-y's text-bookg the completion of Myer's General History for the second year's work: rhetoric, with a term of literature-, for the work of the third year: and Channing's United States History, with Young's Civil Government. completing the course i11 the fourth year. It is the aim of this departnient to furnish the pupils with a general idea of the rise and development of the civilizations of the earth and to awaken a desire for further investigation. 7

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MISS HERRIOTT CLARE PALMER Miss Herriott Clare Palmer is a home product, being born in ,Johnson county and educated in the Franklin public schools and Franklin'College. Miss Palmer entered the schools in the first grade and spent the regu- lation twelve years until her graduation. The fall after she graduated, there being a va- . cancy in the corps of high school teachers, she re-entered the high school as teacher of I mathematics and literature. After teaching two years she entered college and graduated with the degree of B. S. In the fall of 1891 she took charge of the history department in the Marion high school, remaining there three years, when she left to take a. similar position in the high school of Frankfort, Ind. Owing to illness Miss Palmer was in the Frankfort schools but a few months. In 1895 she re-entered Franklin College, and after spending two years in graduate work in literature. history and political' science she was granted the degree of Ph. M. In the fall of 1898 she entered the Franklin schools to assume charge of the mathematics and literature. the position being made vacant by the illness of her sister, Miss Kittie E. Palmer. The work done in mathematics in the Franklin high school covers three years. One year and two terms is given to algebra and one year and one term to geometry. plane and solid. Owing to lack of teaching force the work in English is divided. Miss Palmer has charge of the literature of the senior class. The historical side of the work is based on Pancoast's text, with especial emphasis upon the great periods of English literature. which are pronounced the outcome of the history and philosophy of the time. The study of the literature itself is largely that incorporated in the lists of required readings.