Kenmore High School - Kenmore Eighty Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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wilt U9 H U lttllm The Junior High School We quite frequently hcin' the term Jnnior High School and we often hear thc queslion, nhvililt is a Junior High School? ln a few words we will try to nlake this subject clear. In the first place the Junior High School is composed of the seventh and eighth grades orofthc seventh, eighth and ninth grades, which have heen segregated .front the grades helow and from those uhove for thc purpose of better carrying out wi-tain czlucationul principles. ' It provides for ax certain innount of required work: QU to nu-et needs connnon to all pupils: L25 to provide for educational guidance through experinientation. The Junior High School provides for an separate curricula :ulapted to the vary- ing needs of pupils, vnrying in length and offering :L wide range of subjects and activities, It also provides for departnientul instruction, supervised study. proniotion hy subjects, definite provision ,for work in physical training. Kenmore Junior High School, as it is non' organized, includes the seventh and eighth grades. Many of the :shove features have been adopted and others are in the program for the coming year. Although the Junior High School is on trial it looks as though it has come to stay. 56

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will He I HSJ M LISLE M. BILl.I'l'ER Bliss Lisle ISI. liilliter received her eleuientary education in the Puhlic Schools of Iludson, Ohio. She graduated from the High School Department of that school with first honors. She hns completed one yenr of the two-year course of thc Kent State Normal College. Miss Billiter came to Kenmore as a teacher in thc Puhlic Schools in 1916. Her present position is that of History and Geography teacher of Junior Seconds in Junior High School Depart- nicnt. IIer love of music and school sports has made her a popular teacher. MISS OLIVE A. IRWIN Miss Olive A. Irwin, now at resident of Cuyahoga Falls. received her elementary training in the Cleveland schools, graduating from the Colchrook I-Ii. She attended Wooster Sunnner School and Kent State Noruml. Her teaching career began at the Green Centralized schools as Domestic Science instructor. Later shc taught at the North Madison Consolidated School. Bliss Irwin came to Kenmore in 1916 and shc has made at very efficient addition to our corps of Junior High Instructors. 58