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

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.x' 1 ti .zwsm ., sieve. -. a W'-.ut M. HIGH SCllHt'Jl,. 1013 ing, ctmkitie, uutrketinq, wrying, or t'lt':tniuq as they tlesire .-Xt presvnt threw' ltuiltlings near the lrligh Selttml, tht' lltty .-Xpatrtinvnts for etttnitterriztl antl ztezttletnit' work, the lflwtttitl ltottst- for eeotimuies, :tntl the Haeker ltuiltliug for the shop work hztyt' lit-vii utilizetl pentlingf the ereutimi of further .ttltliti-tus to tht main littiltling ltther eyenin: flats-es similztr in pttrpost- to tltttst- of tht- tlzty twvntinttzttiuti scltmtl, yet lirtvzttler in prtttrtiee, are tlioke t'outlut'tt-tl in the .-Xiuerieitnizzttittn selitttil, m.tint1tini'tl lty tht- lrloitrtl of litlttczttioti titving to tltttse wltost' etlttczttittti was unftirtttnxttely tit-glt-vtt-tl in their vztrly lift' ztntl ltm our foreign horn popttlzttitin, a witlt- range ul euttrses inelutling instruction not only in the elt-mentztry regul- :tlstt in the funtlamt-ntztls tif local, state ttntl nzttitwual goyerttttietit, it hats liecotue :tn iutptir- tant factt'-r in tht' etlttcational systt-m of the city Owing to the witlt- ratnge in tht- tug-ntztl tleyeloptut-nt, the prt-yitttts t-tluczttion :intl the varying ages ttf the pupils, it has lit-t-u net't-s- sztry to tliyitlt' thent into groups heginninf: with tht- pritu.try stutlies .tml ranging upwztrtl to history, qt-tturztplty :tntl goyerniuent. This, however, tloes mit entirely solve the proltlem for tht- tvxtvltt-t', who must tleal with st-ores of tltsttnet pt'r:otigtltt1es trtuu perhaps nys or six tlifft-t'ttttt tmttntrit-s, The grt-attest t:tsk is to offer hesitles an uutlvrstxtntling tif our lang'- uztett :intl t'ttstttt1ts,:t ueltwttue to their atloptetl lztntl, Ann-rirzt, :tml to strc-ss tht' nt-ed of a proper respect tlut' to that country frmn them, .'XllL'IltlSll1L't' :tt this selttml ztntl tliligent :tp- plittttion tu the work lirings the stuflents a uliztnve uiore ttuiekly :tntl easily to liecotne rertl .-Xuit-rirztn citizt-ns. Dipltatnzts, issued to tlltwsy' who pltss it N2lll5l2lt'1Ol'j' test Ill CIYICS :tnvl lfnglish after their serontl papers have lit-rn ztpplititl lor, will iuatlct' it unnet'c-ssary to tztkt- an t-xzttninzttitwn in Ciyics :tntl English in the C-'tttrt Htutst: when tltt- fittztl papers are olttztinetl l':t!:' 'llwelye 'lhrouglt the first term of this school, the t-urtvllntent was inert-:tsetl from 170 to 325 and the attemlattce througltout wztstnost excellent, C01Iililt'l'll1Qlllllllllllllj' of the men worked nights tin :tltt-rnatc weeks ztutl hence were ing :tntl writing of the linglish languztge, hut ztlvsent almost Fifty per rent of the time At tht' contplt-tion of tht- first yc-ztr's work, nine- tt-en men were presentetl with Diplomas , while thirty-nine rt't't'iVetl L't'rtlliezttes of Ef- ticit-ney whieh may he applietl in the same m:tnnt'r its lDiplotnzts in securing nztturrtli- zzttitin papers, with the exception that they may lit- ztpplietl only in securing the st-ctmd papers. Ihr almost fifty years, the pultlit' schools in nearly all of the larger cities ofthe Country have tnztintttiuetl regularly organized voca- tional training courses in connection with their orflinztry :tczttletuie courses, hut ztltlttiugh this has lmeen fountl to provitle very valuable antl prztctieztl training in the manual or tlotues- tit' ztrts. it has not lveen sttffteient or extensive t-ntiugflt to allow any student following Such zt vtutrst- to enter into any pztrticttlar trade im- metliately upon grzttluation. lt was ft-lt that there was It greater neetl for zt srhool offering purely vocational courses :intl zttfttt-tlitig the student at practical prepar- :ttion in his chosen yoczttion. :Ks Z1 result such at school was estaltlisltetl within our own great institution. lts stutleuts are as much a part of the high scltool as those taking the regular ztczttleutic sttlijt-cts witlt the exception that tht-y nrt- specializing in :t certain chosen y'm'zttitut ztntl will spt-ntl :tn average of three hours it clay upon it. l'rat'tit'ally all of the following types of shop work are now offered: Machine shop, elec- trical shop, auto tueeltanies, pztttt-rn-making, eztltinet making, house carpentry, plttmliinq, sheet uit-tal work, print-ing, and ntechanical ztntl architectural tlraftingg autl it is planned with future ztfltlitions to the present extensive Coutinuerl on Page 13

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we ' E .f , . A fi . L fa 1 t f -535 - . 'Qf 5i5i3i'i1'i ' i' 'I 5-54:51 i: 'f. fQfI1E'Q .'.. A .... ..V...... -,', i.. ,,.. , , .,,,A.A. ,,,. ' ..,.... , HIGH SCHt it iI,, llltjtt Although the ,lunior College is a part of the high school to the casual observer, its work being conducted in the high school building, it has its own assembly, library and student regulations olifering more privileges and greater freedom to the students than is possible in the high school. From an extended chemistry course, the college has grown to include courses of pre- commerce, literature and arts, insurance, pre- medical, pre-legal, household administration, teachers, industrial adminstration, chemistry and chemical engineening, electrical engineer- ing, railway electrical and railway mechani- cal engineering, railway civil engineering, municipal and sanitary engineering, and mech- anical engineering. its enrollment, last year, showed an increase of approximately Z5 per cent over that of the previous year, while an examination showed that about one-fifth of the enrolled Freshmen were non-resident, coming from high schools in Lockport, Plainfield, Manhattan, Morris, Providence, Pontiac and XYilmington, besides a number of students whose families have be- come residents of the city in order to take advantage of the unusual opportunities offered for securing a high school andt ,lunior College education. Our night school is a miniature resident type of those glorified correspondence schools which guarantee to double your salary or pro- mote you from chief bottle-waslier in the Snider's Catsup lfVorks to the President of the New York Central in thirty days. Gur school is much more modest in its claims, but it affords a chance for an extended meas- ure of specialization to the business worker or housewife. Most of the students enrolled have taken subjects relating directly to their work as a manner of improvement, and as a result the commercial course, mechanical drawing, and wireless telegraphy classes have usually been overcrowded, while all the classes in the do- mestic arts have been surprisingly well filled. For some time the State had felt the need to offer a part-time extension in various branches of the educational held to those of its children who were compelled to discon- tinue their education at an early age to go into the industrial world. it was seen that they would need not only academic work but vocational training as well, to better lit them- selves for their respective industrial pursuits and for their places in society, lt was also found by experience that evening schools did not fully meet the need, for it was only the Older and the most energetic and ambitious of the workers who would attend school after the day's work was finished, Thus, only a few were affected where the whole mass of the children from 14 to 18 years were expec- ted to benefit, and it was realized that if any- thing of any worth at all was to be accomplish- ed, attendance must be made compulsory and the time spent in school deducted from the time spent at work at the rate of eight hours per week and at a minimum of thirty-six weeks each year, between the hours of eight o'clock in the forenoon and tive o'clock in the after- noon on all regular business days except Sat- urday afternoon. So, at the 1919 session of the illinois Legis- lature, two laws were enacted that dealt with part-time or day continuation schools. In text these laws were elaborations of each other, but in substance they provided for the gradual inauguration of a system of compul- sory part-time schools until September 1921, but not to be outdone by six other cities in the state which had already established or were establishing such schools, the work was started in Joliet in September, 1920. From an enrollment of seventeen on the opening day, the continuation school has grown to include the part-time education of almost 600 students. Besides the academic subjects including reading, arithmetic, spell- ing, language, citizenship and geography of which all students are required to take four hours a week, the general commercial sub- jects including shorthand, bookkeeping, type- writing and rapid calculations are also offer- ed to both boys and girls. Specialization is offered to the boys in the industrial subjectsg machine shop practice, auto-mechanics, car- pentry, and electrical work, while the girls are offered home economies, courses in sew- Page Eleven

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Commencement Week B.'XCC.r1I.ACRFATF SIQRNIITN ISTQFURIL THI2 GRgXDCATING CLASSES Sunday. ,lime 5, 3 P. M. Invocation ....,........... Rev. E. li. Hastings Response ......,...,................... Gluck High School Trehle Clic-ir Scripture Reading As Torrents in Summer ....... ..,. l ilgar High School Chorus Prayer Response High School Chorus V By I3ahylon's XYave ....,.........,... 1301111011 High School Chorus J Sermon ,..... ...,,.,.. R er. Arthur XY. Hottman Yea, Though l 1Yalk ............. Protheroe High School Chorus Benediction .............,.. Rey. F. I, Thomas IVY DAY High School Grounds 1Vedncsday, Iune 6. at 10:00 A. M. Procession led hy I. T. H. S. Band , The Superintendent Presiding 1. Ivy Day Poem ................. Lois Palmer Z. Ivy Day Oration .......... -Iesse Carpenter 3. Presentation of Betsy Ross Flag ...... President of Senior Class. Le Roy 1Yilhelmi 4. Acceptance of Betsy Ross Flag.-...L... President of ,Iunior Class. Francis Ixvnnedr Music ................. High School Band CI..-XSS DAY 1Vednesday, -lune 6, at 2130 P. M. 5. Chairman. Bernice Lowery 1. Overture ............. tl. T. H. S. Orchestra 2. Class Prophecy .. .................. .. Frances XVoodrutT Lois Hcdgson 3. Class Iiistt ry .,....... Leila Hendrixson lfdna Scliinelzer -l. Music 5. Address to the -luniors... ..... Carl Braun fi. Reply to the Seniors ....... Richard lones 7. Presentation of Class Mt-inorial ......... Charles Saxon 8. Presentation of l-land and Clrchestra Medals ............,.......... The Superintemlent 0. Class Song .................., Class oi 1025 1Yords hy lfflna Arheiter Music hy Frances 11'ood Ct JM M IQNCEM ICNT Thursday. -lune 7, H P. M. America ............. ..........,. . -Xudience lnywcation .......... ..liey. 'lf Dt-XYitt Tanner Sons of the Living Moi-n'f. ....... . ..... Yerdi High School Chorus Address to the Graduating Classes.. ...... Dr. Kendric C. Babcock, Dean. College of Liheral Arts, University ot Illinois. Recessional ......., . ........,.,,.... IM-lioyeii High School Chorus Presentation of Junior College Students for Graduation ..... ....., ' llhe Superintendent Presentation of Diplomas to -lunior College Students. .Mr. -I. A. fllilhaver. President of the Township High School Board uf Education. Presentation of Teachers' Certificates to ,Iunior College Graduates..Mr. August Mane, County Superintendent. Presentation of the Senior Class for Graduation ........ . . . . .-, . . . . . . .. The Superintendent Presentation of Diplomas to Seniors ...... Mr. J. A. f-Jhlhaver, President of the Township High School Board ot liduca- tion. Star Spangled Banner .............. Audience Benediction ............. Rey. Irving 12. Putnam i Continued buildings to offer more complete and still more differentiated courses. A manual training course in woodworking was perhaps the fore-runner of the whole vocational system of our school. Such a course was introduced in 1910 and met with instant approval of the students. lt grew rapidly from a very few to almost four hun- dred students and so far exceeded the capa- city of the equipment that it was necessary to incorporate it .in the new woodworking de- partment of the vocational school, and it has come to include courses in patternmaking, cabinetmaking and carpentry. The plumbing and electrical departments are cooperating with this department in the most practical kind of work possible-the ac- tual erection of a modern home, the installa- tion of its complete plumbing system and finally the electrical wiring from service to fixtures. The mechanical drawing depart- ment, installed in large, well Lighted rooms, is also supplied with the practical designing of various kinds of equipment used about the school and in the work of the shops. fron i Page 1.2 The machine shops and the automobile de- partment are building the hcst of foundations for the work of their students hy presenting actual problems, which they may later meet. for class solution. The printing department, containing that is said to he the most complete. up-to-date equipment of any public school in this coun- try , has already exhihited its value and abil- ity in the production of our school magazines and in continuing will aiiford the tinest prac- tice to its fortunate students. Thus, from an obscure existence, scarcely fifty years ago, has .loliet Township High School risen to a position among the foremost educational institutions in the courty. From an existence as of a minute speck of propo- plasm it has developed into a complex struc- ture of many organs and many cells and whether the cells he 315 or 301, you might he compared to an insignificant, yet quite neces- sary little speck of protoplasm within its cell world. Now then, aren't you proud? Albert C. Hagmayer. Page Thirteen