Joliet Central High School - Steelmen Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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x vw ll l l l lllllll SUMO! ll.. 1882 size of the original liuiltlinpl. lfven then, until tht- gultlition of lgll-21 somcwliztt reliev- efl the nllllltlltvll, thc lwniltling wats enlirt-ly in- atlt-quaite. Result-N using thru- storage rooms, sevcrgtl xxztsli tmmtiis, the xx'oinei1's rest rmmii :tml three immiis ligglitcd liy girlilicixil light only, six ontsitlc lvtlilrlings including Clllll'Cllk , Hut lvuilwlings Qlntl un f'X'l7llNlll4'NS lvloclc were zilso pres-ed into service. Xxvillt Illm' l'4PllllYlL'llUll H14 Illc 1021-Jlznltlitiwi, nniny of the slums were inovetl into tln- nt-xx' lunltling, ztnil El lunch rnoin xxlth it seating cupucily of HHH und :i siipplenientury luncli ruoni for the tencliers wereincorporated on the fourth Hour. ln the very heart of the liuiltl- ing ll new gyinnzxsinni shines forth with at 1L'ZllillQ' czipzlvity uf 2,000 :intl of fflllll iinwt' by plzicinig l'llUYIlltlC scztts on the gymnnsiuin floor :intl on tln- running truck ztl-uve, thus creating ll coiwcntimi hull rich in acoustic properties, :Xluwc thc toiunnst scat of the iwrinzlnent lrlezicliere, is the intlom' running truck of fnnrtcen lzips to tht' mile, marking it one of the largest uf its kind in this section of the country. ' The erection ot the lust inillion and one- liztlt dollar ufld11n'n1 to our hugh scliool has lu-cn the lorwzirrl step to the realization of n vlrcuin of one gfrezit trtlticxition system, directed liy one Qwjuilw of executives :intl including Il Cl1iNlll1lElll1'll'l nf ziczulemic high school, ,lunior Cdllegle, night sclniol, ccintinuzitifui school, Antcriczuiizzxtion selmol, :intl voczitiunztl trzrle school. The acztclcniic high school hue grown from ll struggling, almost unknown institution to one ul mttimiztl TL'lfllll2ltlUl'IQ from Z1 school of- fering lint one general course to :L school offer- ing et dozen :ind several times that nuinlwer of variations of tht- regular courses lmesidus. lts English depzirtinent hus lveen liuilt up to include in the majority of courses, three years of rc-qiiired linglish with electives of English or American Literature or Publi: Page Ten Speaking in the senior yeztr, More than five liundrml students :ire llllillll fulvnntziqe of the foreign language study which is directed Ivy 11 corps of zilmlt- instructors, The mathe- inzttics clepurtmcnt offers three and one-lialf years of work, including cnminercizil ziritlnne- tic, elcinenlury and zulvztnced algebra, plane :intl solid gt-mnetry and trigmnoinetry. Its 4lep.irti'nt'nts of Home Economics und Manual :arts lmtli offer excellent courses of the inost ltI'2lt'llCIll vsilue to students, whilc the coin- inerrizsl courses, estzxlvlisliwl smut Lifter the re- intwal to the blelfcrson Street liuilding, are preparing scores of promising stenographers 211111 lnmk-keepers for the lwusiness world. All students :arc required In take fleciipatioiis and Civics, while the inzijorily must take a year uf world history und one-half yu-:xr of Ameri- can history. l'hysiczll education is neglected for neither boys nor girls, llfjlll being pro- vitlwl with 21 suitalvle gymnasiuin. The Science depztrtinent offers several one and two seinester chemistry courses, hotziny, Zoology, :ind hicvlogy, gcogrzxphy, physio- grztphy, and physics. As curly as 1901, snccizil advanced courses in some of these sciences, particularly in chemistry and zidvzmncecl physics were estab- lished :ind went to form the nucleus of the wlmle ,luninr College movement, These courses were folloxvcwl by others in higher mzithenifitics, including geometry, college al- Qelira :ind several additional chemistry cour- ses, literature and the modern languages. XYi1hin the next few years, the lfniversities :intl colleges throughout the North and Middle West were accepting students from the lun- ior College. Its name was officially estab- lished six years ago, and in 1920 the work was reorganized on 21 more complete and sufficient basis. Since then its prestige has so increased that it has lween recognized by the Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges as a successful enterprise.