Lanphier High School - Lan Hi Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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FQWW 'ar' -FUR!!! m Vllwllu Euxmz COMMERCIAL The Commerclal Department offers to every student the elementary understandlnq of the legal and ordmary procedure 1n busr ness To Freshmen the commerclal department offers a brrdseye vrew of what IS lrkely to come m later l1fe no matter what freld of specralrzatron he may choose The Sophomores are QIVGH elementary trammq rn bookkeepmq They develop the abrlrty to keep accurate records of personal and busmess relatrons learn to 1nterpret f1nanc1al statements and should come to a d1st1nct understandrnq of respons1b1l1t1es to others The student experlences the work cf bemq a bookkeeper by workmq on several drfferent types of practlce sets The frrst year of Work rn shorthand and typrnq, offered to Tumors, enables them to master the use of the typewr1ter or the short hand method for thelr own personal use The contmuatron of th1s work mto the Senror year qrves a much Wlder vrew of what may appear later on rn actual busmess l1fe The student actually experrences the tralnmq of a secretary by takmq the secretarral course offered m shorthand and typmq Thrs course mcludes such buslness fundamentals as frlmq bllllflq teleqraphy and other funda mentals whrch QIVGS the student a broader outlook on busmess l1fe The commerclal trammq course IS so constructed that by the trme a student has reached 1ts end, he should have an under standrnq of how to meet and solve buslness problems that wtll arlse m later l1fe, and also to have a better understandrnq of the people wrth whom he w1ll come rn contact Robert M Cam Don T Anderson Ar1elSWordes Nell Plarn Q? T en' 1 ' ' .,, 75 w'Z'W'?' KH' -I . V , r Q ff 'K' L ' -1 11 QQ: 1. 'Q ,gl , ,L 3 - X . , ,ftwy ,ww ,, '7 3 at Lf , 1 f .-t W x . ., 4 Q, Q r 9 ' I , ,-5: --3, -ti, .ry 'f ew , t.- - gy I ..?, M V , ,mm ' I ldv, ifvwtififfv Q , , , we A 'rl:i?5:, Q' lou W fi 7 'V ' , I 6. 1 - ' ll - I If . I - ' I ' 1 . . . . I I I . , . I -I 1 I . . ,

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K-1944499641: S HOME ECONOMICS The Home Economrcs Department ha reached another mrlestone th1s year The freshman classes have been made a part of the State Vocatronal Homemakmg pro gram recervmg federal funds made avatl able by the George Deen Act Thrs makes 1t possrble for the teachers Mrss Ruth Wme man and Mrss Dorotny Kellar to v1s1t the homes of therr freshman students and to supervrse summer home prorects The enrollment IS greater than eve 354 and about 50 were turned away from a new Home Course rn September because there was no teacher trme ava1lable We beheve that the Work rn these home economrcs classes IS extremely valuable for there we learn to work on true to lrfe prob lems and learn to do by dorng Home eco nomrcs courses are a composrte of hvmg problems A real effort IS made to correlate the knowledge we ga1n wltn the act1v1t1es we do every day The freshman classes are carryrng on home practrces durmg the year and each g1rl w1ll do a summer home prorect Approxrmately half the ttme lS spent rn prac t1ce and half rn study The courses offered th1s year were lrlomemakmg Advanced Foods Advanced Clothmg and Tarlonng The courses 1n the d partment are bemg re organrzed so that rn three years we wrll have a complete l homemak1ng course only the freshman course was changed thts year and rt now mcludes Personal and Socral Relatronshrps Foods Art rn Evetyday Lrfe and Clothmg Next year the sophomore work w1ll lnclucle Fannly Relatronsmps Chlld Care and Tram mg and Foods We hope to have an enlarged enrollment ln future years we hope to be able to accommodate a much larger number of stu dents We feel that every hrgh school g1rl should take th1s course because the ambltron of the ma1or1ty of grrls IS merely to be a house wrfe rt does much 1U prepar1ng her for her future hfe lncrdentally we thrnk that many boys would benefrt from th1s course because there rs always a trme when the knowledge of home economrcs would be extremely use ful to them Dorothy Kellar Ru h E l meman 'Y . ty 4 ,1 ' , X X td l I' T et: QL! A ' - V x kk f f . 5, , . - J, I . 3 'ina' 2 A l x , -M . S . - f . ' . A 9 . , . re n

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MATHEMATICS We are proud to say that the students rr lanphler are realrzrng the value of the study of mathemattcs to tne extent that the growth rn t us department has exceeded the excepttonal orowth of our school From the l1TSl small algebra class 1n Lonverse a few years ago trll Pow 1n the lonph1er the mathematrcs departrrtent has shown remarkable progress ln add1t1on to the regular algebra and geometry the math department offers the sub Jects solrd geometry advanced algebra col lege algebra and trrgonomt try The former two sub1ects are regular college entry and the latter four are offered for the students who wrsh to study matnemattcs or SCIQHCQ rn college Although thrs course 15 not rntended for students who wrsh to go to college tt offers college entrance credrt ln the math department we have Mrss Haman a math teacher srnce Lanphler s la qrnnmg and Mr Goodwrn who was placed tn me math department when Mrss Raman s classes b came too large We realrze the great rmportance of math rn e grne rtrg and ch mtcal courses and 1ts p actlcal appllcatrons rn everyday lrfe ln leavlng thts department we hooe we ave shown that rrathematrcs rs nrt a sulatect for Just certam frelds but a subtect for every day l1fe ln geometry we have a sublect of great rmportance due to the fact that rt teaches one to reason Of course lt has 1ts value 1f one s gomg farther mto college flelds wh1ch requtre thrs Even though one rsn t an expert rn alge bra he should take geometry as 1t helps o much rn reasomng Everyone should take at least two years of mathematrcs due to 1ts rncreasmg value lf one applres math rn hrs everyday lrfe he wrll never regret the trme spent rn mastermg th1s subnect Those who heretofore have been afrard of math need fear rt no longer as our teachers are more than wrllmg to help you at all tlmes wrth parts wh1ch are drffrcult for you to understand -if I , . . . . . A . ,K . , , rr , . . , ' ' . l ay , , . Y . , , 1 ' ' - , . - Q . , , . . , -J . . l ' - r 1 ' ' . , -f A A . 1 k ' . . A 7 k Q- 1' , X, X . . . - . , - 1 . 1 . f A 1 A K D . . , o c . ll, 60 A fo 1- t e ' r e t l s Y . , . . . . . Il' . . T t 4 ' E :rt me Pwrxyz, lr'-I'?3fTT'!!l 5, G','f'l'.'f'lIL ,r.'y-:rtaf