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

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ATHLETICS MR. BOGUE MISS GILPIN GIRLS ' ATHLETICS Our Physical Education Depart ment stands for correct physical development and strives to perfect this in the normal high school girl. Our two periods a week are spent in general gymnastics, games, folk dancing, calesthenics, and correcting physical defects, which are found. In addition to this work, state tests are given and recognition in the State League Athletic Association is given to any of our girls who pass these tests. Closely related to our school work comes the voluntary work, which any girl may enter. This work covers all the sports taken up during the year. Fall brings hockey and soccer, winter with its basketball. Spring brings track and baseball. In this work we endeavor to bring out true sportsmanship along with the knowledge of the game. BOYS’ ATHLETICS The purpose of Boys ' Athletics is to furnish athletic training to every boy. In order to accomplish this there are activities suited to each season. In the fall we have football and soccer, in the winter the chief sport is basketball. Class teams were organized and a tournament held. In the spring there is even a greater number of activities open to the boys. The outstanding ones are track and baseball. We offer athletics to all boys in hopes that some day they will be athletes all. Page T wenty-nine

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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

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LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT The teaching of languages in the high school has certain aims in common with all — such as the development of memory, judgment and imagination, and a better grasp of the English language. Learning to use the language of any people develops a true appreciation of the part they have played in the history of the world and their contributions to civilization. Through the study of Latin one becomes familiar with the great nations of antiquity which furnished western civilization with ideals of government, laws, literature and language. In the French classes one learns to use the language of a nation which has played a leading part in the advance of western civilization and gains a sym- pathetic understanding of their life and customs. Our present relations with Latin-America have given a new and practical value to the study of Spanish. South America is today the land of promise and we are so closely united economically that to maintain friendly relations with our neighbors we must learn to speak with them in their own tongue. There are 270 students enrolled in the language classes. Latin — Mens sana in corpore sano. French — Tout comprender c’est tout pardonner. Spanish — Saber es poder. Page Thirty