Independence High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Independence, KS)

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lt oPXANoEveuRcK I95I Page 20 Miss Underhil1's Class Supervised Study The split-period system has worked quite favorably in our own high schools. So for the benelt of the reader, We should like to explain this method of study in operation. By the ringing of a bell in the middle of the customary hour period, the student realizes that the first half or reci- tation period is over and the last half-hour may be devoted to study. A great deal may be accomplished in a half hour of in- tense concentrated effort toward the next day's assignment. And, of course, the privilege of supervised study is duly appreciated by all conscientious, industrious students Cplanning to attend a movie the same evening.D The instructor is enabled, to a limited extent, to enjoy a few leisure moments, which undoubtedly are appreciated after the completion of a strenuous thirty minutes of eloquent, argu- mentative lecturing. , So permit the management to sanction its approval to this type of study.

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we QKANGEWMCK 0 SENIOR HIGH ASSEMBLY Assemblies The latter part of the week is looked forward to by the student body be- cause of the assemblies, which are always good. Thursday the junior high holds its chapel, and Friday the junior college and the senior high have their assemblies. These assemblies are made enjoyable by the hard work of the as- sembly committee, which is appointed at the first of each year for each class. The senior high committee is: Miss Brown, chairman, Miss Gustafson, Miss Stewart, Mr. Jacoby, Mr. Parker, and the senior class chapel representative, Jacq Cowles. The junior class representative, Helen Mae Six, and Ruth DeVore, the sophomore representative. The junior high committee is: Miss Daxon, chairman, Miss Todd, Miss Burns, Mrs. Cash, Miss Perry, and Miss Lane. During the football and basketball seasons, some of the assemblies are given over to the different organizations to prepare pep assemblies. In these We find the Bulldogs chewing up Coffeyville, or burning Neodesha or Chanute to a stake, and sometimes we persuade some of the alumni to tell the boys of the time when they were on the teams, of how some of these Cities had given them 3 severe beating. At other times we find some person who has been called upon to show us the more serious side of life. During these we find some who are Hboredi' to have to listen to a talk of this kind, but perhaps the greater per cent of us profited in some way by our fine assemblies, even if we only made a friend of the person who sat next to us. Page 19

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me QPQRNGEVBLACK li I-Qi-Y Girl Reserves Activity Period The student body looks forward to activity period because it breaks the monotony of the week's work. Occasionally there is no resting time during the five days of study, and spirits fall to Zero. Everyone groans with disappoint- ment and looks forward eagerly to the next recitation hour. Not every high school has the privilege of having such a period, Therefore, We should be thankful to our teachers for the time they spend in planning material which makes it possible to have those hours. Between the second and third hours, on Thursday, the junior high chapel is held. While it is in session, senior high school organizations hold schedule meetings. Friday morning during the same hour, the upper-classmen gather in the auditorium for their assembly, at which time, the junior high students go to their respective activities. There is a hustle and bustle to arrive on time at the meeting places: boys and girls are on the run most of the morning. Another good factor, in the student's eyes, is the shortened hours or the activity mornings. -wg v- ,V All students who do not belong to the organizations meeting are supposed to stay in their second hour class rooms till the bell rings, signifying the end of a long hour. Usually only a few are left in their classes, and they are given extra work to do or permitted to study on any material needed for following hours. Page 21