Joliet Junior College - Shield Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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iii5| xg; rs- - HIGH SCHOUL, I ' Ji; the Board of whose educat in their oarh population ing. cooking, marketing , serving, or cleaning as tliey desire. At present three buildings near the High School, the May Apartments for commercial and academic work, the Elwood house for economics, and the Hacker building for the shop work have been utilized pending the erection of further additions to the main building either eveninir classes -.imihir in jiurposc to those of the day continuation school, yet broader in practice, are those conducted in the Americanization school, maintained by Education. Giving to those 11 was unfortunately neglected life and ti our foreign born ,ide range of courses including instruction not only in the elementary read- also in the fundamentals of local, state and national government, it has becoine an impor- tant factor in the educational system of the city. Owing to the wide range in the mental development, the previous education and the varying ages of the pupils, i t has been neces- sarj ' to divide them into groups beginning with the primary studies and ranging upward to liistory, geography and government. This, however, does not entirely solve the problem for the teacher, who must deal with scores of distinct personalities from perhaps five or six different countries. The greatest task is to offer besides an understanding of our lang- uage and customs, a welcome to their adopted land, America, and to stress the need of a proper respect due to that country from them. Attendance at this school and diligent ap- plication to the work brings the students a chance more quickly and easily to become real American citizens. Diplomas, issued to those who pass a satisfactory test in civics and English after their second papers have been applied for, will make it unnecessary to take an examination in Civics and E ' nglish in the Court House when the final papers are obtained. Through the first term of this school, the enrollment was increased from 170 to 325 and the attendance throughout was most excellent, considering that many of the men worked ni.ghts on alternate weeks and hence were ing and writing of the English language, but absent almost fifty per cent of the tiine. At the completion of the first year ' s work, nine- teen men were presented with Diplomas , while thirty-nine received Certificates of Ef- ficiency which may be applied in the same manner as Diplomas in securing naturali- zation papers, with the exception that they may be applied only in securing the second papers. For almosl fifl years, the jiublic schools in nearly all of the larger cities of the country have maintained regularly organized voca- tional training courses in connection with their ordinary academic courses, but although this has been found to provide very valuable and practical training in the manual or domes- tic arts, it has not been sufficient or extensive enough to allow any student following such a course to enter into any particular trade im- mediately upon graduation. It was felt that there was a greater need for a school offering purely vocational courses and afifording the student a practical prepar- ation in his chosen vocation. As a result such a school was established within our own great institution. Its students are as much a part of the high school as tliose taking the regular academic subjects with the exception that they are specializing in a certain chosen vocation and will spend an avera.ge of three hours a day upon it. Practically all of the following types of shop work are now oflfered: Machine shop, elec- trical shop, atito mechanics, pattern-making, cabinet making, house carpentry, plumbing, sheet metal work, printi ng, and mechanical and architectural drafting; and it is planned with tuture additio.ns to the present extensive Continued on Page 13

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HIGH SCH(K) Although the Junior 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, librarv and student regulations offering 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-Iegal, household administration, teachers, industrial adminstration, chemistry and chemical engineeriing, 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 25 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 Wilmington, 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 and Junior 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-washer in the Snider ' s Catsup Works to the President of the New York Central in thirty days. Our 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 field 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 fit them- selves for their respective industrial pursuits and for their places in society. It 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 wher e 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 five 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 subjects; machine shop practice, auto-mechanics, car- pentry, and electrical work, while the girls are offered home economics, courses in sew-

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Coinmencement Week Wli BACCALAUREATE SERMOX BEFORE THE GRADUATING CLASSES Sunday. June 3, 3 P. M. Invocation Rev. E. E. Ha tini;- Response Gluck High School Treble Chcir Scripture Reading As Torrents in Summer Elgar High School Chorus Prajer Response High School Chorus By Babylon ' s Wave Gounod High School Chorus Sermon Rev. Arthur . Hutinian Yea, Though I Walk Prolberoe High School Chorus Benediction Rev. E. J. Thomas IVY DAY High School Grounds Wednesday, June 6. at 1(1:00 .A. M. Procession led by J. T. H. S. Band The Superintendent Presiding . Ivy Day Poem Lois Palmer 2. Ivy Day Oration Jesse Carpenter 3. Presentation of Betsy Ross Flag President of Senior Class, Le Roy Wilhclmi 4. Acceptance of Betsy Ross Flag President of Junior Class, Francis Kenned - 5. Music High School Band CLASS DAY W ' ednesday, June 6, at 2 :oO P. M. Chairman. Bernice Lowery L Overture ]. T. H. S. Orchestra 2. Class Prophecy Frances Woodruff Lois Hodgson Class Histcrv Leila Hendrixson Edna Sclinielzer ilusi Addr Repb l ' res Clas ■ss to the Juniors Carl Braun • to the Seniors Richard Jonts ntation of Class Memorial Charles Saxon ■ntation of Hand and Orchestra Medals The Superintendent Song Class of 1923 Words by Edna Arbeiter AIusic bv Frances Wood COAIMENCEMENT Thursday. June 7, ,S P. M. America Audience Invocation Rev. T. DeWitt Tanner Sons of the Living Morn Verdi High School Chorus -Address to the Graduating Classes Dr. Kendric C. Babcock. Dean. College of Liberal Arts, L niversity of Illinuis. Recessional DeKoven High School Chorus Presentation of Junior College Students lor Graduation The Supernitendent Presentation of Diplomas to Junior College Students. .Mr. J. A. Ohlhaver, President of the Township High School Board of Education. Presentation of Teachers ' Certificates to Junior College Graduates. .Mr. Au.nnst Maue, County Superintendent. Presentation of the Scin ' or Class for Graduation - The Superintendent Presentation of Diplomas to Seniors Air. J. A. Ohlhaver, President of the Township High School Board of Educa- tion. Star Spangled Banner .Audience Benediction Rev. Irvin.g E, Putnam iik v.;; Continued from Pa.ge 12 buildings to ofifer 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 a pproval of the students. It grew rapidly from a very few to alinost four hun- dred students and so far exceeded the capa- city of the equipment that it w-as 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. The machine shops and the automobile de- partment are building the best of foundations for the work of their students by presenting actual problems, which they may later meet, for class solution. The printing department, containing that is said to be the most complete, up-to-date equipment of any public school in this coun- try , has already exhibited its value and abil- ity in the production of our school magazines and in continuing w-ill afford the finest prac- tice to its fortunate students. Thus, from an obscure existence, scarcely fifty years ago, has Joliet 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 be 315 or 301, you might be 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.