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

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HOME ECONOMICS MISS GIBSON MISS JORDAN Foods. The Foods Department includes two classes of one semester each. The beginners are taught the fundamental principles of food preparation and simple meal service appropriate to the average home. The girls first learn to prepare the foods appropriate for breakfasts and then serve group breakfasts in the dining groom. The luncheon and dinner are treated in the same manner. Each student is required to prepare meals in her own home, similar to those prepared at school. One large project is carried out each semester. This year the girls served a Christmas dinner to the Faculty. Woman ' s Club. In the Spring the girls celebrate Mothers’ Day with a Mother and Daughter Banquet. The second semester course is divided into three units including financial management of the home, dietetics, and service of meals for special occasions. The aims include. Respect for the Job of Home Making.” Habits of Right Living.” “Skill in Household Operations and High Ideals of American Family Life.” Clothing. The aim of the clothing course is to teach the fundamental prin- ciples of sewing and to teach the girls how to become more intelligent consumers of textiles. This course covers two semesters and the needs of the girls and what they can afford are always taken into consideration. The first semester is divided into several units: The first unit is the making of a dress in wool or silk or a sport coat. The second unit is a special study of textile fabrics used in the home. Trips are made to the downtown stores for the studying of textile fabrics, rugs, linoleum, congoleum and furniture. The third unit is a short course in Home Nursing, which includes the care of sick room, personal care of the patient and lessons in bed making. Page T wentg-seven

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MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT MR. JOHNSON MR. SHOEMAKER According to the National Committee on Mathematical Requirements. ‘‘The primary purpose of the teaching of mathematics should be to develop those powers of understanding and of analyzing relations of quantity and of space which are necessary to an insight into the control over our environment and to an appreciable insight of the progress and of civilization in its various aspects, and to develop those habits of thought and of action which will make these powers effective in the life of the individual. In our Algebra classes we aim to enable the student to understand its languages and use it intelligently, to analyze a problem, formulate it mathe- matically and to interpret the results. In the Geometry classes the students first work with the given proposition and then a list of practical exercises covering similar problems. The organization of the trade school has made it necessary to add special courses covering the mathematics used in electrical, pattern making, drafting, and machine shop courses. The conventional methods used in former years have modified in the interest of greater comprehension, compelling motivation, and more practical applications. Page T Went y- six

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HISTORY DEPARTMENT MR. KRUMSIEK MR. HAIGHT It is the aim of the social science and history department to bring out for the student, the outstanding events of those nations, which have been an influ- ence upon the development of our civilization. By acquainting him with the failures and with the successes of these nations; by showing him why the nations rose to great heights; why they fell, we believe that we can better prepare him to take his place as a citizen of tomorrow, who must help in determining the destiny of our country. It is the further aim to so acquaint him with the social, economic and erne problems of life that he may be able to get a fuller conception of the problems in the years to come, fully realizing his rights and his responsibilities toward his country, his fellowmen. and his God. LIBRARY Our library is a sunny room with four tall windows. It has open shelves that reach half way to the ceiling on two sides. It contains seven long tables and two desks and has two sets of book ends, the work of former pupils. There are pennants and trophies on walls, also four pictures, three are gifts of Mr. Graham, one of Mr. Robbins to the school. There is a fine bulletin board made in the manual training department. At the table next to the librarian s desk, a girl or boy presides at each hour of the day. They charge and discharge books and keep them in repair. They are very clever assistants. We have over two thousand books and a tall magazine rack filled with rod binders that hold many of the best weekly and monthly magazines. MRS. CAROLYN CONNORS. Librarian. Page Twenty eight