Hickman High School - Cresset Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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4-,gk We-I Classes HOME ECONOMICS It takes a heap o' livin' in a house to make it home, and also painful hours of hard work. After spending a few weeks in the Vocational Home Eco- nomics Department. we be- gan to realize for the first time in our lives, the nerve- racking responsibility that is heaped upon our mothers. Our instructor, Mrs. Elsie Duncan, taught us the prop- er way to hold a needle, thread a machine, care for the sick and prepare a digestible meal. PHYSICS Way out west in Kansas. where Captain Hand did roam, so goes the ditty in the Purple and Gold, by A. L. Yes, Cap'n Hand frequently alludes to Kansas, or to the Kansas students, who, of course, don't com- pare in the least with us. I'll bet Mr. Hand is certainly glad to teach such excellent students as we are. Really, physics is a mighty absorb- ing subject, one which next year's seniors shouldn't miss. Since his introduction to Hickman High last year, Mr. Hand has proved himself to be a live wire teacher who knows his stuff. MANUAL TRAINING The manual training class enables students to become proficient in the use of tools. Said Carlyle: Man is a tool- using animal. I-Ie can use tools, can devise tools: with these the granite mountains melt into light dust before him: he kneads iron as if it were soft paste: seas are his smooth highways, winds and ire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without tools: without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all!

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eoURT MR. FRED DIXON Miss NELLE KITCHENS Personnel Probfems, Vocational Guidance Ggometryl Algebra MR.AJ, E. IVICCLARY IVIISS HAZEL VVIALLINGFORD HOFFMAN BIOIOQV- Hyflleflef Algebra World History, German MR. RIJSSELL MURFIN MISS GERTRUDE POE Typing, Salesmanshzp, Commercial Law American History, World History MR. J. C. COLLINS' MISS FRANCES RUMMELL Commercial Arithmetic. Bookkeeping, French, English Typing, Commercial Law MISS HERTHA EITZEN IVIISS CHLOE JORDAN Latin, Mgfhgmgfllgg Shorthand and Typing MISS PEARL KERN MR. WALTER HAND Attendance Ofhcer and Nurse of Physics Public Schools MR. HARRY ZENGE Biology Teachers,-We, the Senior Class of 1936, wish to express our sincere appreciation for your patience, kindness, and helpful attitude toward each of us as We have journeyed through these three vitally important years of high school education. Pointing out dangers to be avoided and hopes to be realized ineplans which We are to carry out, you have faithfully guided us along the path of achievement. Aye, 'tis true our Senior Class is in debt, not in mere coihs, but in a larger, more significant debt. Prom the lessons learned at Hickman it becomes our duty to lead lives which exemplify the high ideals that have been set before us. '

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1 At Work TYPING Prom the hunt-and-peck system we soon advance to the touch system by en- rolling in one of the typing classes under the expert rule of Miss Jordan, Mr. Murfin, or Mr. Collins. At the first of the year as we sat behind one of those strange black machines, it seemed almost an improbability to look into the future and imagine our- selves real typists, but after sitting there day after day trying to think that practice makes perfect our lingers gradually loosened and were soon flying over the keys, though still making many disastrous landings. GIRLS' ATHLETICS This year a new sport was added to the girls' gym classes, field hockey. Al- though a few insisted they liked soccer better, it proved very popular with the classes as a whole. Volleyball was greeted with enthusiasm, per- haps because of the relief it afforded from the more stren- uous hockey. During the winter months basketball was played and even though this game requires a great deal of agility and skill, it is well liked by our athletically in- clined girls. Baseball is sched- uled for the warm spring days. PUBLIC SPEAKING The subject is vegetarian- ism, and the students are girding themselves for verbal battle. Joel Dinwiddie rises, addresses the chair CMrs. Williamsl, and makes a breathtaking exposure of the evils resulting from meat- eating. Lowell then takes the HOOK, grinning expansively. After eloquently denouncing vege- tables and loyally defending the status of meat, he retires with flying colors. Yes, everyone is given a chance in Public Speaking: many personalities are de- veloped, and more than one modern Cicero has been dis- covered.