Herculaneum High School - Blackcat Yearbook (Herculaneum, MO)

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lJfPHllllllElllS ocial tudie ROY E. TAYLOR, Superintendent of Her- culaneum High School and the present American Problems teacher, has an enrollment of 35 pupils in class. He has been superintendent fora period of 27 years. When he was asked what he stressed especially in his classes Mr. Taylor said, l seek to achieve better understanding of problems concerning government and business. I hope to arouse a deeper interest in participating in affairs common to the average man. This also stresses a democratic way of life and attempts to moti- vate every pupil to apply the principles of de- mocracy in meeting the many problems asso- ciated with living. EMERY CHANDLER can be seen as either a world history or American history leader any hour ofa normal school day with the exception of fifth period. Mr. Chandler, who graduated from Southern Illinois University, has had seven years of teach- ing experience. He stresses knowledge of both ancient and medieval history. There are a total of l75 students in his classes. ...Z ,1 RICHARD CARTER, the government teacher, came to Herculaneum High for his first year of teaching. He is a graduate of Washington Univer- sity, St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Carter states, ln my government class I hope to help the students in better preparation for the democratic way of living . There are T45 students enrolled in the government c ass.

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,ff This year the study hall has been converted into o reading room . All magazines, dictionaries, encyclope- dias, and general reference books have been placed there so that the students may find them more easily and by their own efforts. The special references, biographies, and fiction books are in the library book room where studentlibrar- ians are on duty to assist other students in the selection and checking out of books wanted. Miss Crawford is chief librarian and supervisor of the reading room. She is qualified under the new Missouri State Law to act as a full time librarian. We are proud of our attractive library and reading room, which offers an ideal atmosphere for work. Mr. Frickes's sixth hour physics class consists of eighteen senior boys. Partof each week is spent on ex- periments in the laboratory. For boys considering future jobs in industry, the principles of physics are important. The first hour chemistry class, under the direction of Mr. Fricke, contains twenty students. Part of each week is spent in laboratory experiments, and each per- son is responsible for the care andcleaning of hisequip- ment. Early in the year some members of this class went to Monsanto Chemical Company on a tour. Al- though most of the students do not intend to go to college, theyfeel that any person today should have the knowledge of chemistry. 12 i nfvnmmfnis 1 0 9 3 Library ands Study Hall 1 S Science

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1.361-it wr- 5- Y T 3 ff: . . isis- SQ, ,,. This year Miss Robinson has two classes in English. Theyare both Freshman classes, consisting of about fifty-five students. They spend .part of their time studying parts of speech, writing themes, reading books, and giving book reports. 14 nwnnimfnrs Ellgli h Miss Lemen has five divisions of English, in- cluding her iournalism class. Her classes include only juniors and seniors, of which forty are seniors and eighty-one are juniors. The English classes have divided their time between grammar and literature . The iournalism class does the maiority of. the work on the school paper, The Black Cat Tales, along with the Publications Committee . This class also does speech work. Mr. Martin has five divisions of English which are made up of sophomore and freshman groups. He has one -hundred forty-four students in his classes. His classes spend a lot of their time on grammar and literature, which builds the students for senior English work. Speech is alsostressed in these classes . Lui