Hemingford High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Hemingford, NE)

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CCMHECfUl DEPARTMENT Among the factors contributing to success in life, native qualities— physical, mental and moral—stand first, and training at home, in society and in school can do no more than to build a super structure upon a good foundation. And yet, in these days of high standards and keen competition, native ability alone, without training, can accomplish little. The object and task, then, of Commercial Work in high school is to give its students such general and special training as will best fit them to become successful and useful business men and citizens. Hemingford High School has one of the largest Commercial Departments in western Nebraska. It is no question that, in promoting better business and citizenship, they will return to this community and our state many times the cost of their education. The thoroughness of our department is such that stu- dents graduating from it are going out to fill positions of power and trust.

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Tllr. Clifford L. Jlshburn Athletics, Historic DHySICAl EULCAIICN. DEPARTMENT Realizing the wholesome benefits cf Physical Education, that it is as vitally important to the girl as to the boy and to the student who has the least desire and cpportuniiy of making the first team as to the one who has the greatest physical prowess, we are gradually adjusting our program in order to meet this as well as other needs. Our elementary school play grounds are super- vised by some teacher every period of the day that they are in use. In addition to the supervised play and exercise conducted by each elementary teacher, every boy and girl in our school system above the third grade is encouraged to take part in some form of physical education. We plan to have next year’s program so arranged that each boy and girl above the third grade and up to the Senior high school take two periods of organized physical education each week. Our high school furnishes the needed equipment and fields for all forms of athletics. All equipmen is owned, repaired and kept sanitary by the school. Each boy and girl has the privilege of hot and cold showers after practice, and the use of metal lockers fitted with post-office combination locks for the proper care and keeping of equipment. Girl’s and boy’s showers, locker rooms and en- trances into the gymnasium are in a separate part of the building.

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N EAiAI TI AININT DCI 4I1HCN1 The Normal Training course given in our high school makes it possible for ambitious young men and women of high character to prepare for teaching in the rural schools, without facing the necessity of leaving home to prepare for such teaching. A study of the training given teachers by the teacher-training Institutions of the state readily concedes that the higher teacher-training in- stitutions are not actually preparing teachers for the rural schools, and as a result, those who go from these institutions often lack proper understanding of rural conditions and rural needs. The training given in high school Normal Training cirriculum is given by no other institution in the state. It is coming to be a recognized fact that in the near future the man or woman who aspires to be a teacher but who is net a Chris1 ian person and lacks Christian training and leadership will have small opportunity of teaching in Nebraska schools. Normal Training students in our school have the privilege of organizing a modern, standard, rural one-room school and developing the problems con- nected with it under the supervision of the Normal Training instructor and the superintendent of the city schools. Normal Trainers graduating from this department and having passed the state teachers' examinations receive a diploma which qualifies them to teach in rural schools.