Granite City High School - Warrior Yearbook (Granite City, IL)

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ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT MR. MARTIN MRS. SCHNEIDER MISS SEWING It is the aim of the Administrative Department to unify the workings of the school. One of the big duties of this department is the planning of the curriculum and the making out of all the students’ programs. This in itself is a large task, satisfying the requirements of the state and the desires of the pupil. This department keeps an accurate account of all records, such as records of attendance and records of grades and all county and state records. It is here that the difficulties of teachers and pupils alike are met and solved. Thus it is that the office tries to keep the machinery of the school moving smoothly. Page Nineteen

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FACULTY W. F. COOLIDGE, Principal No school has been more wonderfully blessed with a principal than Granite High. Principal W. F. Coolidge, born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1876, is a graduate of Galesburg High School, has two degrees (A. B. and A. M.) from Knox College and a degree in Education (A. M.) from University of Chicago. He taught first in a little school in Lockport, Illinois, just outside of Joliet where only sixty-two pupils were enrolled. For two years he coached athletics and instructed mathematics at Galesburg High School. From there he went to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he taught mathematics for four years in the State Normal. After one year at Michigan Military Academy and two years at Natchitoches, Louisiana, State Normal, he taught at Shurtleff in Alton. In 1913, he became principal at Granite High. At that time only one hundred thirty-one students were enrolled. The wonderful effort and patience shown by our principal has been one of the greatest forces behind the sure increase in enrollment, and the high standards of scholarship and athletics are due to his undying interest and excellent judgment. His ability has been recognized by others and for that reason he was made Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Southwestern District of the State Teachers’ Association. Page Eighteen

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT To make the individual appreciate the best in life, to help him to take his place as a cultured citizen in this great nation, and to show and teach him the beauty of his native language, has and will always be the aim of the English Department of the Community High School. The course of study as outlined in this department is divided quite definitely into two types — composition and literature. The courses in composition, including the proper use and construc- tion of words, phrases, sentences, which make up all types of both written and spoken composition, constitute four semesters’ work in English. The courses thus offered are Rhetoric, Commercial English. Grammar. Public Speaking, and Themes. The courses in literature, including the reading of some of the greatest masterpieces in English and American Literature, also constitute four semesters’ work in English. The works of great literary artists tend to raise the ideals and standards of high school students. We offer to the student such classics as Hamlet,” “Macbeth,’’ “Idylls of the King.” “Lady of the Lake,” Silas Marner,” “Ivanboe,” and many other equally as interesting and uplifting. Besides the regular class work in English, the Department also has some extra-curricular activities which tend to create interest and enthusiasm among the students of the high school. The English Department has under its direction Page T weruy