Kiron High School - Telic Yearbook (Kiron, IA)

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SPEECH This year in speech we have covered everything from parliamentary pro- cedure to debates to radio speaking When we were on the unit of radio speaking w gave news casts news commentary and a radio play, The Potato Salad King We debated the question whether or not we should have a student council It came out a tie We gave a pantomime for the assembly entitled The Duches Bounces In In another unit we learned about plays stage settings etc Everyone that took speech has learned something he will not forget We are a l glad we took it ENGLISH II The Sophomores have found that English is not only work but can be fun The first part of the year had to do with radio in which we learned many terms concerning it We had much work on parliamentary procedure and some on how to develop better paragraphs Next we learned how to analyze sentences and also studied about verbals phrases clauses and various parts of speech At the beginning of the second semes ter we read the House of Usher by Poe and made a notebook of words to enlarge our vocabulary Miss Byers our instructor enjoyed reading the House of Usher as much as her students AMERICAN GOVERNMENT Our government class consisting of the Juniors and Seniors was taught by also how to be good citizens ENGLISH I The Freshman English class during the past year learned how to communicate with the modern world by correct usage of words punctuation the technique of conversing with others practicing group discussions communication by mail studying the different parts of speech developing sentences and paragraphs using the dictionary and public speaking This course which we have successfully completed will be a great benefit to us in our future years of study and life JOURNALISM Journalism is a subject that has never been offered in our school until this year We studied newspaper writing publishing and advertising We published The Knromkle a weekly newspaper which we sent to all of Kiron vicinity Miss Byers was our instructor Z0 . e ll ' I1 l ' , ' - - - u on . . . . D Miss Byers, We learned that there are many forms and functions of governrnent and , . , . . . ' . . . . ' . . . , .

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GEOMETRY Although some of the pup1ls say Gxve geometry back to Omar Khayyam Mr Traxl has made the study of postulates axxoms and theorems very xnterestmg Some of the more 1ntr1gu1ng chapters were concerned w1th constructlons and locx parrallel l1nes angles and arcs and trlgonometxc ratzos WORLD HISTORY World Hxstory IS an interestxng study from the d1m past to our modern day and how man fmrst used the many convenzences we have today and how man began to become helpful to each other Tests were gxven at the end of every week SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS Socxology a semester course proved to be qumte mterestzng It was a study of soc1al problems and possxble solutlons The second semester we found ourselves mvolved 1n economlc pr1nc1ples Those tak1ng these courses were the Semors and a few Jumors Mr Franken was our eff1c1ent lnstructor ENGLISH LITERATURE Lady Macbeth once sand, Scrc our courage to the stlcking place and we ll not fa1l That IS exactly what we have done ln Enghsh Lxterature, hopmg for the best We have traveled far 1nto mystxc hterary dreamlands w1th such great authors as Chaucer S1r Walter Ra1e1gh Shakespeare, Pope, and Wxlham Wordsworth taking 1n our strlde thexr more somber moods as well as thezr fhghts of fancy Speakmg of fancy flxghts, thxs IS what happened one day the class had been told by Mr Franken to wrlte compos1t1ons 1n whlch they must not attempt any fhghts of fancy but should only state what was really 1n them The star product1on from thxs command was a composxtzon wr1tten by Donald B1lsten, who was both s1n cere and pamstakmg It went as follows I shall not attempt any fhghts of fancy but wr1te just what IS really in me In me there IS my stomach, lungs, l1ver, two apples, two cakes, and my dxnner TYPING Our f1r st year of typmg has lncluded the general rules of typmg and the klnds of busxness letters We had varlous speed tests mn wh1ch we all tr1ed to reach a certa1n number of words per mmute BIOLOGY We have found that Bxology xs a very xnterestlng subject The fxr st part of the year we studzed the 11v1ng and non l1v1ng thzngs and some of the factors necessary for lrfe Later we learned the c1ass1f1cat1on of 11v1ng thlngs and also the four plant phylum and the ten ammal phylum We dzsected var1ous ammals that we stud1ed and found It very helpful A un1t on conservatwn made us realxze how 1mportant It 1S to conserve our many resources Mr Franken was our help ful mstructor 19 ' ' vo 0 ' U n u ' v a . . . . , , , v ' I 0 l l 1 l . . . . . 1 ' I l . . O ' I n I I 1 - 1 . . . - . . . . . , Q 1 . , ' ll ,.-Q .- ' .'.v ' , , . ,, . . . . . a Q . . . . . I 1 0 . . . . . C . . . . . . . . . . . Q . . . g a . . U . . . . , 0 . . . ,, u . - . . . . 0 Q . . . . . . n . . . . . . . . - . . . . a V . . . . 4 . I . . . . - Q ' 0 o ' . 1

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JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS Presldent Dennls Goetsch V1ce Pres1dent C3-1'1'011Ska1'1l'l Secretary and Treasurer Joyce Fxnstrom Class Sponsor M1ldred Byers JUNIOR CLASS PLAY HIS UNCLE S NIECE The play takes place 1n the 1nter1or of Francls Felton s and Rlchard Tate s bachelor establlshment 1n Boston Franc1s It seems has an uncle who IS worth a m1l11on dollars The trouble IS that Uncle thlnks Francls IS a g1rl and plans for h1m to marry a young man by the name of Phllander F1lmore Dlck the lawyer real1z1ng the poss1b1l1t1es of a m1l11on dollars proposes a scheme whereby Francxs w1l1 1nher1t the m1ll1on and stlll marry h1s glrl fr1end Dora Al1ce Dlck s g1r1fr1end agrees to help carry out the scheme Mrs Mullen a c11ent of Dxck s gets xnvolved 1n a search for her long lost husband but f1na1ly locates h1m Then th1ngs turn out all r1ght for Mrs Mullen and Sxlas Smkelrnore the constable Txmothy Haye the hayseed of a gardner helps br1ng the play to xts happy endzng Z1 ....... .-.........-.....-............ -' lltilliiol 'lil . .. Q.. 1 ......... ..- 11 1 , . . . . , . , . . . . - 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . 1 1 1 , . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . 1 1 1 . . . 9 . . ' 1 . . . . . 1 . . - 1 1 1 1 .