Girls High School - Halcyon Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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- .i..l.... -1 ..l.. .- I. Miss Woolf, with Minnewil Storey, Marjorie Mar- tin, and Edith Stallings, notes this changing world. 2. Cecile Lovelace points to the places on the map, and Sylvia Brodkin takes note in one of Miss Carpen- ter's history classes. 3. Mrs. Taylor collects home- work from her European history class- Are all the papers in? 4. Marion Yancey and Dorothy What- ley discuss the latest world happenings with Miss Culpepper. By studying the different interludes of social science we blend a deeper harmony into our song. We get a better understanding of the composition of the world and become more intelligent in facing many everyday problems. In American history we learn the theme of our melody by studying the ideals of our forefathers. We understand and learn to love the memory of all the great men and the ideals they stood for. Today we can understand better why men died for Ameri- can freedom. Not only in American history, but also in political problems do we study the tempo of American gov- ernment. We hear this well-timed beat more clearly after we study it in detail. ln economic problems our minds turn to the necessary measure of the growth of business, labor, and like problems of the United States. We are better able to understand working conditions by pursuing social problems. of Department 65 Ethel Woolf Myrtle Rushin s i Barbara Chandler Claudius Taylor

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Maude Bolton Alice Gibson Kate Poole Mabel Neal Hunter when Miss Gregg or one of the other teachers of this course helps us with our radio play. We worl: hard on this composition, and when we are through we feel we have this refrain to be proud L01-IlS2 M6'Cl12WSOf1 of. ln senior litera- ture we fondly re- member the days we spent reading Macbeth. With Miss Fulton's guidance we sang together this pleasant chorus. Not only do we learn to enjoy the way someone else has expressed himself, but we learn to put our own thoughts down on paper. At first we write halt- ingly, but we enjoy our early compositions which we try to improve. Gradually, we learn more about life and about ourselves. As our knowledge increases, so does our slrill until we gain a love of the poetry of words and a beauty of expression which lifts our hearts to undreamed of heights. I. By conferences with her students, Mrs. Poole is able he help her classes improve in composition. 2. Miss Culpepper and Miss Mathewson help perfect the voices of Miriam, Sue, Frances, Sara Jean, and Jean in preparation for a radio play. 3. New plans for the newspaper have to be made, and here the staff is ably assisted by their adviser, Miss Parker.

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S In social problems we study American society, indi- vidual and public health, character, education and kindred subjects. These problem courses prepare us to go into the world, live there intelligently, and sing a harmonious song ot life. We must not only study the history ot America, we must join in the retrains ot the past and the songs of the old world. European history begins with an Egyptian chant and ends with the cry ot the Roman soothsayer. In European history ltwol one first hears the pluck of a medieval minstrel's mandalin and the melody dies out with a choral group sere- nading some English king. When we begin European history lthreel our spirits are roused by the trumpet calls before the Bastille in France, and we leave this course by the beat ot the drummer accompanying Napoleon at Water- loo, and we finish European lfourl in a modern tempo. This study ot the past and present helps us to spend many pleasant hours singing the melody of social science after we have been graduated. Louise Whelchel Mae Culpepper Bertha Carpenter OCIAL SCIENCE I. Miss Rushin straightens her desk after a play pre- sented by her class. 2. Miss Chandler smiles approv- ingly at a radio program given by her class. 3. Mrs. Whelchel's American history ltwol class relive their history at a George Washington Birthday party. 4. Miss Woolt, student government's faculty adviser, discusses plans for the dental drive with Conradine Fraser.