Lima Central High School - Annual Mirror Yearbook (Lima, OH)

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Faris Fishbaugh Guthrey Hauenstein Hclfner Foreign Language Department As language is the key to thought. foreign languages are the keys to a treasure house of the World's thought, literature, art. and music. The learning of a language is the formation of a new mental habit. It does not involve logic or reasoning power. A very young child forms mental habits readily: therefore he can lcarn any, or many, languages with equal facility. The older he grows the more fixed become the mental habits formed, and the less readily he forms new ones. Concentration of all the faculties, then, becomes an essential. Habits are formed only by performances many times repeated. The purpose of the modern languages, French and Spanish, is to give to each student a good working knowledge of the language such as will enable him to understand and make himself understood. Each course offers two years of the study. the first taking care of the grammar and the second providing selection readings. With Latin. the mother of romance languages, a little different purpose arises. lt is to show the relationship between Latin and present-day tongues. Lineal descent is traced. showing how susceptible the languages are to influence. Freshman Latin. Caesar, Cicero, and Vergil arc offered. TEACHERS Miss GUTHISRY, HEAD Miss Deputy Miss Drake Miss Jones

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N . xv vi Clark Cntes DeLong DeGrief Drake History Department Advancement for the most part is gained in profiting by the past experi- ences of others. Our knowledge of these trials is acquired through the stm of history. By the never-ceasing efforts of historians and teachers we arc fur- nished with the complete trends of events from the beginning of time. Besides the regular courses of Ancient. Medieval, Modern, and American History, a course in Civics is offered. Collateral reading is required in the study of the Springiield Weekly Republican, The Literary Digest, The Scholastic, Loose-leaf Current Topics, and library reports. The study of current events correlates the historical with the present and thus, contact with the problems of both periods is presented to every history student in the school. V' 9 TEACHERS MR. ROMAKER, HEAD Senior High Junior High Miss Chivington Miss Fishbaugh Miss Neuman Mrs. Smith , Mrs. Pence , Mr. Overholser Mr. Steiner Mr. Rnrnsdall Miss Stolfus Mr. Stott Miss Swickard

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Helle Howey Huber Kuville King The Commercial Department V X xx The Commercial department provides courses in bookkeeping, accounting. commercial law, economics. salesmanship, stenography, office practice, and other allied subjects. , It aims to offer the student enough general business information to enable him to meet the many situations that arise in the conduction of a business. The practice and the study of the subjects not only give the pupil a working knowledge of bookkeeping, accountancy. and stenography. but develop initiative, efficiency, reliability, and accuracy. The department sponsors a Commercial Club, founded in 1921, which is always one of the largest in ,membership and activities in the school. Every year there are district and state contests in typing, shorthand, and other commercial subjects. The Central Commercial department always places members in all events. Also under this department. the financial report is made to the Student Council, giving expenditures and receipts of plays, debates, musicals, lecture courses. and publications. s I TEACHERS N MR. DELONG, HEAD Miss Row Miss Snook Mrs. Swearingen G 7 I ,lu K at